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Boredom and predictability are almost inevitable consequences for a series that has annual installments. COD isn't the only franchise guilty of this, but it's the only one that results in such phenomenal sales every time.

Activision ran Guitar Hero into the ground this way, but where the popularity of that series abruptly fizzled, COD doesn't look like it will suffer a similar fate any time soon, for better or worse.