Why does it seem so cool to hate Call of Duty nowadays? True, the series has been around since 2003, where it started life as a sort of Medal of Honor clone. True, it’s spawned 9 titles on home consoles alone, and that’s not counting re-purposed titles for other devices. But the most telling signal to Call of Duty’s success is perhaps the fact that each new game, no matter how derided, is an almost guaranteed cash cow.
You’ll trash talk it all you want, but when the next game is released, you’ll be all over the forums speculating what that cryptic photo Activision just released is all about. People still love this series, and yet there are some who love to hate it. With only the first round of Map Packs heading our way, here are some reasons why it’s OK to stop worrying and love the COD.
10. The Ad Campaign
With the new map pack’s launch has come a new, rather hysterical ad involving character actor Peter Stormare as “The Replacer”. Hired to replace you during life’s many mundane events in the midst of your most intense Call of Duty sessions, The Replacer will go on blind dates, chat up girls in the office, even help your wife give birth. Honestly, there’s nothing he can’t do.
The ad capitalizes on Stormare’s well known tendency to be the hard case, and does so to an extremely comedic effect. This is already on top of Guy Richie’s equally hysterical launch ad which featured celebrities such as Robert Downey Jr. waging war upon each other with weapons of surprise. Just by the ads you can tell that Treyarch and Activision know their audience enough to provide them with a humorous counterbalance to the Modern Warfare series’ more serious approach to advertising their games. Black Ops means fun, Modern Warfare means business.
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You can like COD all you want, i don’t care but i just find it boring
Fair enough, but thanks for reading anyway. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I just felt like defending it a little bit against the usual detracters.
Die Rise isn’t a game mode, it’s the new zombie map. the new game mode is similar to infected as in you play as a zombie, but when you kill the human you trake their place.
Am I the only one here who never plays COD or BF in multiplayer mode, and only interested in the campaign? That’s why I prefer COD.
Never actually understand the fuss about all those COD vs. BF stuff. I only play Counter Strike.
The Call of Duty franchise got lucky with the immense success of the first Modern Warfare and hasn’t made anything as good since – they subsequently been riding that success ever since, I mean people are still buying CoD4 brand new for gods sake! Balanced, fun/manageable maps and no over complications with weapons and perks – MW2 was good but not the same. Decent read but I don’t think I agree with you, I hated this game :/
Basically what your saying is the Campaign and Story line was good. Ill agree with that but the other ones arent enough to save it.
This is the only reason buy and play Call Of Duty, and they messed it up completely.
Multiplayer: I havent been in a game once with people with mics saying how great this game is. I always hear how bad it is. Multiplayer wise. The Knifing, gun, spawn, server systems and maps are just terrible.
Knifing is IMPOSSIBLE i ran up so this camper yesterday and knifed him 5x dead on in his back, Didnt kill him to the 6th time. I can be running around and someone kifes me. I watch the killcam and they jump 5ft to knife me and the knife doesnt even touch me. When they panic Knife im not even in the kill cam and they knife me.
I went back again and unloaded my shotgun into him god hit markers everytime didnt kill him. Shot me twice in the chest with a pistol I died. Other than that I can run around the board all i want gunning people down with any gun but when I go head on with a try harder with a pistol I always lose even after i unload my clip into his face. It doesnt make sense that a Rpg cant kill you head on direct hit, Assult Rifles lose to Sub-machine gun, and sub machine guns lose pistols, and pistols win 85% of the time.
The servers are so bad i can have a full connection going on but the game insists on lagging me across the map or letting the other guy kill me after unloading a mag into his face With hit markers but on the killcamhe didnt get hit once. I was playing on Hijacked under the boat and I got killed by C4. I watched the killcam, the guy was on the other side of the boat inside throwing c4 and it killed my teammate but I got killed for it.
The Spawn is so bad they spawn me right in front of campers. They can run straight into our spawn and camp it. on the other ones once you do that your spawn moves somewhere else but not here. I got spawned between a guy and his riot shield he put down WTF.
The maps all are just full of places to camp and head glitch like Afthermath which is just Downturns slow cousin. NukeTown and Hijack are great maps for normal games occasional campers. Meltdown can be ok too.
One a final note I’d like to say we’ve been out of the game freezing by itself age for YEARS but this game freezes when migrate host, quit, or start a new game.
I had a ton of fun with Black Ops. They have a lot of fun multiplayer games. and the maps were good. particularly enjoyed nuke town. if its any good as black ops im for it
Let’s be real the only ppl that hate COD are ppl that never played it or they just suck at the game plain and simple. COD MP is the shvt!…I agree with one of these guy about the knifing tho. Sometimes it can be off. The only thing I HATE is when ppl always quit in Zombies
Can you blame people for hating the game? Especially the fact that they have totally allienated the PC Community. PC is the one platform that they are losing on check VGCHARTZ – BO2 – 830 thousand copies sold to BF3 – 2.31 million copies. These numbers speak for themselves. I can create a list of things that they removed from the PC since COD4/5 but it would take up too much space. I did not make this post to complain but I’m just stating the facts. If they would’ve stayed loyal to the PC then as a consumer I would’ve stayed loyal to them. See ya on the Battlefield!!!
@exCODPlayer How can you compare black ops 2 selling 830k to battlefield 3 selling 2.31m? it’s sbvious that bf3 would of sold more, it’s been out over a year longer. The only way you could compare that is to break it down to the month of release or averaging it out over the longth of time released.
Okamido, Do you expect BO2 sales on the PC to Beat BF3? I really doubt it. If you check VGCHARTZ again you will see that there hasn’t been a COD version on the PC that has beaten BF3 for sales. Battlefield offers a lot of the features that COD used to offer (rentable true dedicated servers…I could go on but i won’t). Don’t get me wrong I used to love COD back during COD 4/5. As long as Battlefield offers the options that are dear to the PC then the players will stay there. See ya on the Battlefield!!!