Veknoid_Outcast said:
Shadow1980 said: PROS: Kevin Spacey. Looks really nice, especially by COD standards. Kevin Spacey. New setting (further into the future than MW). Kevin Spacey. Cool futuristic vehicles and gadgets. And did I mention Kevin Spacey? CONS: It's still COD, and thus has the potentially to have a painfully boring and linear Campaign and horribly unbalanced multiplayer. I get tired of COD games very quickly, and I'm glad I've only ever borrowed or rented them. This too will be rent/borrow first. |
I gotta agree with Shadow here. Not necessarily that CoD is linear and unbalanced, but that it's STILL Call of Duty. If you're a fan of the series you have no reason not to be excited. If you're a Call of Duty detractor, you don't have many reasons to suddenly be excited. A futuristic setting and a voice actor are the only visible changes here. For all we know the game plays the same way it's played for the last 7 years.
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I never understood this argument. The game WILL play how it was played for the last 7 years. If it didn't, then it wouldn't be COD. If I'm buying a COD game, I want to play a COD game and not Halo or Battlefield or any other franchise.
Likewise if I'm playing a Zelda game, I want to run around with a sword and a shield and solve interesting puzzles with a variety of equipment. You wouldn't suddenly expect to have a gun and start mowing down zombies in Zelda now would you? Sure that would be "innovative", but it wouldn't be Zelda anymore. Then why would people expect to be skateboarding around while throwing boomerangs at enemies in a COD game?
The best they can do to innovate while still remaining COD is by giving a new setting, brand new equipment, new characters and in general just adding interesting features such as say wall climbing and mechs as seen in the trailer to keep things fresh in the tried and tested Call of Duty backdrop.
The real issue I agree with Shadow on is that they NEED to make sure that this COD addresses the issues of an unbalanced multiplayer and other major issues such as bad map design with overly large maps that plagued the previous title. That is something they have to address first and foremost before they can innovate anything; fix the problems with the previous game that people complained about.