Black Ops 7's biggest improvement is its most simple, finally giving us upgrades for its unique scorestreaks and equipment

Black Ops 7 largely doesn't aim to reinvent the Call of Duty wheel. In many ways, it's bringing together the best of Black Ops 6, 3, and 2, and stirring it in one giant pot to produce yet another potent brew that'll have me grinding Mastery camos once again.

But in a year where Call of Duty hasn't been so challenged in arguably well over a decade, largely thanks to Battlefield 6, it's the small changes that matter just as much as sweeping ones.

That said, a co-op campaign, an SBMM-free playlist, more Mastery Camos, Hybrid Combat Specialities, and double jumps are a pretty good list of sizable changes, even if it's not a radical reinvention. That's cool and all, but I'm more hyped about Overclocks, one of the few major upgrades to scorestreaks since Modern Warfare 3 (the first one) introduced point streaks—and it's a callback to the maligned Advanced Warfare of all things.