Play the awesome new Call of Duty campaign while it costs $1

I didn’t expect to say any of these things to you when 2024 started: The new Call of Duty single-player campaign is great. And that is possible play it for $1.

A week before the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops6Microsoft has removed the option to try Game Pass for $1 for one month. However, the option has returned with a tweak: $1 now gets you 14 days and appears to be a PC exclusive. On console you can get a month for $9.99, which remains relatively reasonable for a new Call of Duty campaign. That means you can now play the full game BlackOps6 campaign this weekend for pocket money. And believe me: you should.

I’m not a Call of Duty fanatic. Despite an early obsession, starting with Call of Duty2 on the Xbox 360 my fandom fell apart BlackOps2 in 2012. And while I’ve played almost every campaign, I haven’t enjoyed that time since Infinite Warfare. That was eight years ago.

So when I say BlackOps6 campaign is a treat, I do this with the context of the entire franchise. Good and bad. I wouldn’t say this campaign is a return to form. Instead, the creators cleverly reimagine other great game franchises through the lens of COD. Each mission taps into a subgenre of first-person shooters, from an open-world map à la Far Cry to a science laboratory that reflects the work of Arkane Studios and the late Irrational Games.

Keep the different phases together? An abandoned mansion, where characters talk about their bizarre Cold War alternate history, while the player has the freedom to solve small puzzles and unlock perks and improvements that they can take with them to the next mission. Holistically, the BlackOps6 The campaign is like a Mission: Impossible movie, but instead of set pieces set in iconic international locations, they’re placed into an FPS 101 syllabus.