Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has arrived as players are working hard to learn the new multiplayer maps. With developer Treyarch making a return to the franchise, this new installment of the blockbuster shooter series has significantly retooled aspects of the COD multiplayer formula, with new maps to match. The COD franchise has been responsible for some of the most iconic multiplayer maps in gaming history (including the Black Ops series' own Nuketown) and Treyarch is expected to continue that legacy on the 16 maps available at launch in Black Ops 6.

The new movement system, called "Omnimovement," already been a significant topic of discussion among players. With this feature, Treyarch has revamped movement, allowing players to sprint, dive, and crawl in all directions. These innovations have led to new ways to both ambush and escape enemy players, leading to an overall faster and more competitive feel to gameplay. This newfound mobility adds a new dimension to gameplay and the way players navigate the maps.

10 Babylon Is One Of The Smallest Maps

Ancient Ruins: Epic Warfare

Babylon is one of the smallest of the launch maps, putting players in the middle of an Ancient Roman-style courtyard. This map delivers some of the fastest gameplay of the bunch, with Team Deathmatch, Free-For-All, and Kill Confirmed standing out as feeling particularly frenetic here. This is a great choice for players looking to hone those fast-twitch reflexes or level up their weapons, with Black Ops 6's time-to-kill feeling especially fast and adrenaline-inducing here.

The map revolves around 4 central pillars that players can climb on top of or take cover underneath. This central courtyard is where much of the action takes place during matches, with ample room to get some elevation or rush the center. This map feels in some ways reminiscent of Modern Warfare II's famous Shipment.

9 Red Card Has An Interesting Setting

Explosive Stadium: Intense Field Action

Red Card stands out for its setting, a large soccer stadium. Complete with an outdoor area and entrance, parking garage, lobby, and the field itself, this map feels immersive and multi-layered. There is plenty of room for long-distance engagements across the field, with cover provided by the stands and barricades, along with office spaces and bars along the edges of the field. The lobby includes trophy cases, concession stands, and escalators for cover and elevation, and along with the parking garage provide tense indoor firefights.

Hardpoint and Search and Destroy are natural picks for this map.

The outside of the stadium allows more space for sniping and a (relatively) safe place to get your bearings. Hardpoint and Search and Destroy are natural picks for this map.

8 Vorkuta Is A Familiar Callback To Longtime Players

Siberian Prision: Extreme Survival

Vorkuta will be familiar to long-time Black Ops fans, being set in the Soviet prison camp players rescued Mason from all the way back in 2010's Black Ops 1. This map feels large and sprawling, with plenty of elevation, cover, and pathways both hidden and in plain sight. There are both outdoor and indoor engagements to be duked out here, with a central mining building being surrounded by a large snowy courtyard, smaller buildings, and the scattered remains of derelict mining equipment.

This map lends itself well to Hardpoint, Search and Destroy, Domination, and Control. With its variety of terrain and engagement scenarios, it feels like strategy and teamwork are especially rewarded in Vorkuta in comparison to some other maps at launch.

7 Pit Is A Small Map Focused On Fast-Paced Gameplay

Underground Arena: Tense Pit Battles

Pit is another small map, focused on fast-paced gameplay and quick reflexes. As with Babylon, Team Deathmatch, Kill Confirmed and Free-For-All are great picks for this map. This map's flow feels similar to Babylon in many ways thanks to its central arena, a mining cave. Dark tunnels surround this central open area, funneling players toward the all-out chaos constantly brewing in the central pit. As with Babylon, there are opportunities to gain some elevation and survey the action from above, as well as plenty of cover down below in the form of abandoned mine carts and cave walls.

6 Gala Takes Place Inside A Building In Washington D.C.

Luxorious Casino: High-Stakes Shootouts

Gala puts players in a particularly unique setting among the rest of the maps available at launch, with the action taking place inside a federal building in Washington D.C. This map is also on the smaller side but feels different than Pit or Babylon thanks to its central arena being a raised platform. That platform is also open-air, with no walls to provide cover from the rest of the map. This means that players on the platform can both see most of the map and be seen by most of the map, leading to high-risk-high-reward gameplay.

5 Scud Is A Large Map Set In A Desert

Military Base: Tactical Combat in Open Terrain

Scud is a large map set in a desert, with an abandoned communications station serving as a central hub. This map promotes a strategic and teamwork-based style of play, being particularly suited to modes like Domination and Hardpoint. The giant central radar dish provides a 360 degree overwatch position for sniping, while surrounding buildings provide tighter engagement and plenty of nooks and crannies to omnisprint through. This map is somewhat similar feeling to the original Modern Warfare 2's Rust with its central elevated structure.

4 Warhead Is The Closest Thing To Nuketown

Nuclear Silo: Countdown to Destruction

Warhead is currently Black Ops 6's closest equivalent to the legendary Nuketown. This map features similar pastel tones and 50s-style architecture and vehicles as the original, but in a different configuration and with the added twist of being covered by a recent sandstorm.

This map is one of the smallest of the bunch with extremely tight spaces and a viscerally fast flow of gameplay throughout.

Players can either move through the central house or around the sides of the map to get clear shots at the team on the opposing side. This map is particularly fun in smaller 2v2 game modes.

3 Derelict Is One Of The Most Varied Maps

Abandoned Train: Deadly Forest Ambushes

Derelict puts players in one of the most varied settings of Black Ops 6 in of terrain. Matches are set amongst abandoned trains in the middle of a forest, with plenty of options for cover and elevation throughout the map. There is great tense fun to be had trying to peek around the corners of train cars and spotting enemies across the field, as well as within the train cars themselves. With lush greenery contrasting with the rusty browns and beiges of the train cars, this is one of the most visually appealing maps of the bunch and is a great pick for Team Deathmatch or Kill Confirmed.

2 Rewind Is Set In A '90s Strip Mall

Futurist City: Time-Bending Combat

Rewind is set in a 90s-era strip mall complete with period-accurate details like a video store. This map also includes a fried chicken fast food store as well as several other retail stores, along with cars littered throughout the parking lot for cover.

With both front and rear outdoor spaces for each store, there are plenty of opportunities for flanking and rushing.

This map is incredibly fun to run around in and explore, allowing plenty of space for strategic playstyles in modes like Domination and Hardpoint. With both front and rear outdoor spaces for each store, there are plenty of opportunities for flanking and rushing - this is a particularly good one to play with a group of friends in party chat.

1 Skyline Is Still One Of The Most Popular Maps

Vertical Metropolis: Precision Shots in the Clouds

Skyline was one of the most popular maps of the Black Ops 6 beta with players, set in a massive penthouse mansion. This map is hugely reminiscent of Black Ops 2's Raid, not only sharing the setting of a mansion but the color palette of red brick and concrete as well.

This map has it all: tight engagements along the smaller hallways, outdoor long-range encounters, and multiple floors for elevation. Not only is the map's flow and variety fantastic, but it looks fantastic as well. Most of Black Ops 6's modes work very well on this map and there are several ways to have some competitive fun playing matches on it. This complete package is one of the best of the bunch at launch.