Call of Duty: Warzone 2 has been on sale for less than a week. The game has already reached a major milestone, gaining over 25 million players in just five days.

In a recent comparison, Overwatch 2, released in early October, took twice as long to reach the same number of players (open in new tab); ten days is still no mean feat, but the fact that Warzone 2 has achieved such numbers in such a short time is

The fact that Warzone 2 achieved such a high number in such a short period of time shows how ridiculous it is.

It shows that even an erratic and buggy launch can't slow down the Call of Duty train. Noah Smith, in his Warzone 2 review-in-progress (opens in new tab), praises the new Al Mazrah map as "one of the best" battle royale maps he's ever played. Although the game is "significantly better than its predecessor," Call of Duty: Warzone 2 suffers from a rough launch and an "agonizingly clunky user interface."

Despite some annoying problems, such as a bug that locked players out of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 if they did not purchase it, people seem to be enjoying Warzone 2 quite a bit. Perhaps the biggest story of launch week came when Al Mazrah's hidden nuclear weapon was revealed to be real (opens in new tab), and thousands of players tuned in to see the streamer activate it for the first time. When not dropping huge death bombs, players carted each other around as wartime Uber drivers (opens in new tab).