After fifteen consecutive years of new releases, you might expect the Call of Duty train to be slowing down in 2020. Yet with PS5 and Xbox Series X on the horizon, game spending on the rise, and renewed enthusiasm for the series thanks to the breakout success of Warzone, Black Ops Cold War is positioned to be the series’ biggest launch in years. And that excitement isn’t merely circumstantial; there are tangible reasons to be optimistic about this year’s installment of Call of Duty.