On the whole, I think CoD4 is a shining example of the first-person shooter, but there is one huge flaw which has shot my K/D all to hell, and is infuriating whenever it comes up: why oh why can't Infinity Ward create a spawning system that doesn't put me right in the middle of a battle? Today alone, I spawned twice in the crosshairs of an enemy. Upon watching the playback, I could literally see myself appear out of thin air on the player's screen, just for him to shoot me immediately. And then of course there's the numerous times I have spawned on a live grenade, or underneath an airstrike. In no other game have I ever encountered such an abismal spawning system!

And while I'm ranting, I'm sick and tired of shooting at someone at point blank range, "missing" and then having the playback indicate that I got no shots off at all!