COD is far too overdone. MoH was a far superior series in terms of their WWII games. Gears of War is one of the worst games ever made. Terrible art design, bad gameplay. But then I feel the same way about any console shooter and 3rd person makes me physically ill because of the 3rd person camera. Console narrow field of view for FPSes does the same thing. They just don't belong on there.
The obsession with modern warfare is going a bit too far, but at the same time, it's good that we are breaking away from WWII which is beyond stale. MW2 was pretty much the worst COD in the franchise. Treyarch used to be considered the crappy developer to Infinity Ward so we'll see how this one is. I do look forward to the setting which is supposed to be various time periods during the cold war which would be refreshing. I am hesitantly wondering how the new Medal of Honor "modern warfare" game will be but the rail shooter gameplay of COD is worn out with me. It's like they would rather make movies than games and the boundaries and overly scripted gameplay just forces you on a narrow path that feels artificial (along with the checkpoints you must reach to continue) that have been a hallmark of the COD series.
Some of my best gaming memories are from waking up early before school and playing games of Quake II jailbreak and Unreal Tournament. Those have been just as fun as the original Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, and the old Battlefield games were.
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