Blackout, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s battle royale mode, expands the genre

In this week’s Quality Control podcast, we discuss the newest edition to the Call of Duty franchise, a battle royale mode called Blackout. It’s available as part of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. At a glance, it looks like many other battle royale games on the market. But, in motion, there’s a lot more nuance to the experience.

I sat down with our Austen Goslin. Between the two of us, we’ve spent thousands of hours inside PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite, but also precursor games in the Call of Duty series. You can listen to the entire conversation below or on your podcast service of choice. We’ve also highlighted a few parts of the show and broken them out in the edited transcript below.


Blackout is not like other battle royale games

Charlie Hall: I think the most important place to start is by saying that this is absolutely, 100 percent not PlayerUnknown’s Battleground and it’s not Fortnite either.

Austen Goslin: It’s definitely its own thing, which is…

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