I used to be a big racing game fan until I bought my Xbox and my mate introduced me to Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare. As per I was utterly crap but with a lot of practice I got good at the game and fell in love with the franchise. Mw2/Mw3/Waw and Black Ops were the best but it just seems now that they're flogging a dead horse.
I like dropping back onto the older Cod's for the online multiplayer but Waw is ridiculous with the amount of glitches, flying soldiers and invincibility mods that gamers use. It just seems like they release a newer title and forget to maintain the updates for the older titles which many still prefer to play. The programmers aren't fussed about the fans of the franchise, they're just interested in milking as much money out of what was a great genre of gaming before the bubble bursts so to speak.
Imho I think they've run out of idea's the past few years on how to produce new interesting relevant stories for the games as I believe the appeal of Cod was always the true to life combat events that have taken place I.e. Black Ops with the Cold War era and the Vietnamese war, Waw harking back to World War 2, Modern Warfare 2 & 3 using hints of the Somalian conflict, Iraq and Afghanistan into it. Black Ops 2's direction of futuristic weaponry and storyline left the realms of realism and started to bring in an aspect of fantasy to the genre, which looks like what they've done with Advanced Warfare, the new release this year.
Cod: Ghost though for me has had the best storyline, remained realistic with its weaponry and period of time for when it's set and the online multiplayer has some of the best maps they've ever designed. I feel that Ghost had the most time and effort put into development over all the other titles in the Cod franchise.
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