People who play COD only are not gamers, and they class themself as gamers? Piss off you're not. Play a RPG or MMO that has more of a challenge.
I loved the first one. Hated the second and loved the multiplayer on the third. Four wasn't bad and everything after that is awful. Black Ops especially. I can only put up with so much soldier in an interview room who doesn't remember exactly what happened.
Call of Duty 4 and Modernwarfare 2 are fantastic. I HATE MW3. Also hate, how everyone thinks it is a 'hardcore' game and that people take it way to serious. Also, also hate that there are advertisements EVERYWHERE for the damn game.
I'll have to disagree, it played a lot like Bad Company 2 to be honest, and BC2 isn't like COD at all. It's not about running into bullets and getting 20 kills in a few minutes. If you actually play BC2 with a competent squad, you'll realize that if you use strategy and stick together, you'll dominate.
I hate how every modern FPS is trying to copy Call of Duty. Seriously, what ever happened to health bars? I know CoD wasn't the first to do regenerating health, but it definitely made it popular. And it most instances, it doesn't even make sense. Regenerating health made sense in Halo even though it was technically shields that were regenerating, but how can some random soldier get shot, hide behind cover for five seconds, then feel perfectly fine and ready for action? Also, what happened to long single player campaigns? I'm currently playing Turok 2 on the PC, and I am fourteen hours in. FOURTEEN fucking hours, in a FPS made in 1998! And I haven't even started the last level. What the hell, modern gaming?
I have a story about MW3. I went to Gamestop the other day because I needed a new copy of MGS2 (my old copy was having problems). Little did I know, MW3 was being released that night. First off, I had to find the game. The guy at the counter said it was in one of the yellow sleeves, but he couldn't tell me where. They're not organized at all; they're just randomly placed together. So I had to just flip through them one by one until I found it, and there are hundreds of them. That took me about 20 minutes. Then I look at the huge line of people waiting to "register" for the game or whatever. I talk to the guy at the counter again and ask him, "Can I just buy this now? I don't want MW3." He says, "No, you have to wait in line." So I get behind this huge line which moves ridiculously slowly. I don't know what the fuck they were doing, but for some reason each person takes like 2 minutes, and there are about 10 people in front of me. So I wait in line for 20 fucking minutes. Several times it seemed like the cashiers were doing nothing - just standing around talking to each other or staring at a receipt. The whole time I have a look on my face of extreme annoyance, but that doesn't seem to bother the cashiers. The whole time I'm thinking of the most derisive, sarcastic way I can say, "Thanks a lot, buddy" when he finally rings me up. I get to the counter and decide to just buy the thing and get out of there without a struggle. It takes about 20 seconds to ring me up. On top of it all, even though there can be no doubt as to what's going through my mind, the cashier asks me, "So, do you want to buy MW3?" I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs, "No!!! I don't want to buy your shitty game. Just ring up the fucking PS2 game and let me get out of here." But I just say, "No thanks," and leave. The whole thing took about 45 minutes. 45 minutes to buy a fucking $3 game. I don't think I've ever been more pissed off in my life.
When I picked up Sonic Generations last week people were either inline to buy Skyrim to pick up 12 hours later or MW3. thankfully BOTH Gamestops had time to process my trades and give me Generations...FREE
The good part of that story is that the copy of MGS2 that I got, although not in very good condition, plays flawlessly. I also got Fantavision for $1. Also, I would never sell or trade something at Gamestop. Their prices are an abomination.
The reviewers are reviewing the game from the perspective of 13 year olds: they don't know jack about what came out before.
my roommate plays call of duty all night, all I hear is him calling 10 year olds faggots all night long, fuck call of duty
COD2 was a good game, it wasnt so over the top like current ones and it even gave you a history lesson COD4 was great, pretty long and with a story better than the average FPS But MW2, thats when things went to shit: it was a game made by michael bay, short as hell with the worst ending ever, retarded AI all the way and a difficulty so low shithead tweens had no problem going through the game, which is why they loved it MW3 doesnt looks any different to me: same retarded completely implausible plot, more explosions than gameplay, you can literally just watch the game and barely touch the controller at all If god existed he would bring HL3 once and for all.......and burn activision to the ground
For me, Call of Duty, Battlefield and Medal of Honor are like a Michael Bay movie. Lame, patriotic crap with lots of explosions and no real story or plot. The multiplayer will always be bugged as hell, so cheaters will love it. But don't worry, like all trends this will soon end. Just like racing games with "The Fast and The Furious" style, Music games, "GTA style" games and so on. Game devs always seem so desperate to cash in, that they flood the market with these things, that sooner or later people who buy it will get bored.
This is true. With the way Activision likes to milk their franchises (less than a week after MW3 came out, they announced a new CoD for 2012), I can't see this fad lasting into the Wii U/PS4/720 era. They already killed Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk, so it's only a matter of time until tweenagers and dumbass frat bros get bored and find another series to destroy. The people who genuinely like CoD will always play it, no matter the praise or hate, but the people who are just doing it because it's "cool" and they want to fit in will only play it until a new genre/series becomes the next fad. Then they'll kill that one, and move on to another.
