The Moment: With Sledgehammer joining the Call of Duty family and kicking off a new three-year development cycle, they revealed in mid-2014 that the latest title would be introducing Titanfall-esque verticality mechanics, allowing for a more frantic and unpredictable style of play than ever before. Why It's WTF: Though the various CoD games have introduced new modes over the years, the meat-and-potatoes shooting mechanics haven't really changed all that much at all, and for all the criticism the series rightly gets for playing it too safe, this was a pretty brave gamble to redefine what made the series so successful in the first place. Sure, it shamelessly stole from Titanfall and it can be argued that the game still didn't do enough to distinguish itself, but it was certainly surreal (not to mention insanely fun) being able to fly around in a CoD game.
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