Going in, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is something of a known quantity. The first-person shooter series is a monolith, almost perennially the best-selling game of the year and a product of consistently high quality, but Call of Duty also seemingly possesses an inability to overcome its inertia. I played the original, World War 2-centered trilogy, but really cut my teeth on the series during the halcyon days between CoD 4 and the original Black Ops. Nearly two decades later, it feels like I’m still playing some souped-up version of Modern Warfare, with a fresh coat of paint courtesy of 2019’s soft reboot of the same name.