If all you want is a simplistic arena shooter, Call of Duty certainly scratches that itch. But there are so many examples of games that do the exact same thing but so much better. Hell, there are even games that do it better for free. To take just a handful of examples, Team Fortress 2 has far more personality than any of the Call of Duty games, Quake Live is still one of the best arena shooters in the world, and there's the upcoming Unreal Tournament that will be released for free. All of these games are free to play. Call of Duty games cost upwards of sixty bucks. A few years ago free to play was synonymous with low quality games, but these days free to play games aren't just taken seriously, they completely dominate the competitive gaming scene. And it's not just free to play games that have shown up the Call of Duty series over the course of 2015. Battlefield Hardline does everything the traditional Call of Duty multiplayer does, but better. Killing Floor 2 is everything that zombies wishes it could be, and games like Wolfenstein: The Old Blood and Splatoon show that shooters can still be innovative and fun.
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