There were several issues that concerned me in reading the reviews, not the least of which was the reality that 700 users had given it only three stars on Amazon.com.
Ultimately the game is fucking shit. Not the shit, just shit.
Now some might say that this statement is a little harsh, and well I don't much care. I really feel like I just wasted $50 for no reason. Because the reality of this game is that the ONLY reason it will sell is because of the name. I strongly believe that if it was released on its own merit and with another name, the sales would be 80% less.
The franchise is owned by Activision who had two companies creating alternate versions of the game. So each release to this point (and this is the seventh game in the franchise) has been created either by Infinity Ward (Modern Warfare 1 & 2), and TreyArch (World at War and Black Ops).
Modern Warfare 1 (CoD:4) was where I started playing, and certainly enjoyed that a lot, achieving my gold cross and various gold weapons. Then I tried World at War, which had some serious flaws and a few nice touches. Then Modern Warfare 2 came out and I spent many happy hours reaching prestige level 10. My score ranks in the top 2% of players.
I resisted the latest TreyArch offering since I was worried about the reviews, but eventually curiosity caused me to make a purchase. After an afternoon playing, I feel like TreyArch came and stole $50 from my wallet.
In any freeze frame, the game looks amazing. The graphics are lovely. But in playing the game it is horrifically defective. The engine does render some great images, but once your player is in motion he lumbers around like he has some kind of birth defect. And if the horrific movement isn't bad enough the sound effects of his feet on the ground are laughable. Is he doing a tap dance or fighting a battle? It's hard to say.
My first session left me cold and a little dirty. I feel like I cheated on my wife with a $50 toothless hooker, and now I wish it had never happened.
I don't care that the game has a great new way to buy weapons with their CoD currency, because the weapons sound like shit, and half of them take half a magazine to kill someone. It's so stupid when you start to shoot another player, and they turn around as their body is being riddled with bullets, and shoot you dead.
The maps are okay, although some are just too small. But if they could be loaded into MW2, I wouldn't mind playing them.
In reading the reviews I believe that the single player version of the game is very linear, and the bad guys have stupid AI, and keep re-spawning, making the game utterly unrealistic there too.
The bottom line is that this is just a very average, very ordinary game that doesn't deserve to wear the Call of Duty logo on its case. Activision should be ashamed of themselves putting out such a mediocre game and using the franchise name to sell such an inferior product.
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