It’s been a good year since I last set foot inside a Call of Duty multiplayer mode. While I’m no stranger to Activision’s immensely popular shooter series, a lot of my recent down-the-barrel action has been confined to Ubisoft’s tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Still, with the beta for the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare hitting this past weekend, I decided to dust off the bunny-hop and jump back into Infinity Ward’s brand of multiplayer mayhem.

My only real concern was that the methodical, psychological style of Siege might have hardened me somewhat, and that going back to the speedier shooting action of CoD would be a shock to the system. From a purely pacing standpoint, I expected my return to CoD to feel like going from walking to running. But in actual fact, it was more like going from walking to getting behind the wheel of a McLaren F1.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's breathless multiplayer heavily favours run over gun screenshot

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