Totally Rated: New Call of Duty season, Bravely Default 2 and the latest smart home tech

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Check out the second episode of Future's weekly review show

We're back with our buddies over at GamesRadar+, TechRadar and T3 to bring you the latest in gaming and tech news. This week, TechRadar and GamesRadar+ dived into Nintendo Switch game Bravely Default 2, being impressed with its approachability and calling it "top-to-bottom, quintessentially JRPG."

Our own Morgan Park took a gander at all the newness that Season 2 of Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops: Cold War has brought to the table, feeling that it's "pretty underwhelming" so far. Hopefully things will pick up a bit as the season finds its feet, eh?

In the meantime, TechRadar and T3 took a look at the new Echo Show 10, Amazon's latest screen-adorned Alexa device. Carrie-Ann Skinner called it "the most intuitive smart display Amazon has made," but noted that there's still no native YouTube app. C'mon, Amazon.

You can find new episodes of Totally Rated across Future's websites every Wednesday.

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