YOU CAN TELL a lot about a game by the things it makes you sit through before you actually get to play it. Launch the 2022 iteration of Modern Warfare II for the first time, and you have to scroll through endless license agreements and privacy policies, remember your account password to log in, then wait for the game to restart if you choose to play the campaign rather than the multiplayer.
There are even multiple developer and middleware logos to enjoy—it’s an Infinity Ward game, but the studio had help—and you are left looking at a desert cliff while the shaders pre-compile on the first run. Birds circle, but you’re there long enough to
