5 Reasons Call Of Duty Could Soon Die

2. Call Of Duty: Same ol' Warfare

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Bear with me for a moment and observe the bullets below:

rugged white male protagonist begins the game either on the defensive, a routine mission, or in a stealthy, low-profile mission that ends in a bang, or unforeseen plot development protagonist goes from the original location to a new one, where a disaster, or catastrophic machinations are revealed that could have devastating consequences game shifts to the P.O.V. of a secondary protagonist low profile conflict escalates to high-profile conflict, or all-out war protagonist encounters psychological stress or moral dilemma that has them blacklisted by former allies now disgraced, or distrusted, the protagonist fights through a final few explosive set pieces to the climactic end of the game. So go ahead, tell me which Call of Duty title that is? Is it: A) - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare B) - Call of Duty: Black Ops C) - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 D) - All of the above E) - Every Call of Duty game in the PS3/XBOX 360 era, with the exception of Call of Duty: World at War The answer is E, although I wouldn't fault you for assuming it was D. While Call of Duty CAN provide a satisfying multi-player, and entertaining set pieces for their campaign modes, they don't offer much in ways of variety. The games largely mimic their predecessors, and this isn't a new trend. Outside of Call of Duty: Black Ops' evolution from Call of Duty: World at War, and Call of Duty: Black Ops II's evolution from it's prequel, there isn't much in the way of change - and the only real changes in those titles was time period, and as an extension, weapons. Now, I'm not saying that Call of Duty: Ghosts is going to have a predictable storyline, but at the same time, Activision over the years has offered little evidence that they'll actually be willing to, you know... throw us a curve ball. Offer us a deeper story. Even deeper characters, so that there's people to like other than the skilled protagonist and their foreign nemesis (it's been an Arab man, Russians, or in the latest entry, a Nicaraguan man, with General Shephard the only exception). Now, with all this being said:
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