10 Video Games It's Cool To Hate

Essentially, Call of Duty is to the FPS genre what Fortnite is to battle royale titles. Doom was the franchise that really introduced the world to the potential of first-person shooters (and a lot of the mechanics that continue to define them today), but Call of Duty has really come to define them.

Activision’s mega-hit series has some serious clout in the industry. Commercials for the games have included all manner of celebrities (Robert Downey Jr. made an appearance in one), there are movies in the works… there’s just no stopping Call of Duty.

This does not mean that it’s universally popular. That’s simply impossible, and the franchise attracts its fair share of hatred too.

The way some gamers tell it, Call of Duty is the scourge of the industry, with cheap clichés like foul-mouthed preteens rapping down the mic abound. As with Five Nights At Freddy’s, too, the fact that supposedly samey sequels keep being pumped out is also a point of contention.

Series like FIFA attract a lot of snarky comments about their failure to innovate - their tendency to 'release the same game over and over every year' - and Call of Duty is another target of this sort of thing.