8 Valid Concerns About 2019's Remaining Video Games

7. An Identity Crisis - Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare

To be totally honest, I'm here for the new Modern Warfare reboot.

The weightier gun physics, pitch black maps that force you into night vision - the whole idea of telling a story "ripped from the headlines" as to why soldiers both western and middle-eastern would sign up to a war that may take their lives.

All of this stuff is pretty bold considering the money riding on every word of that script, but then you have the "sandbox" approach to multiplayer.

Now, I'm not freaking out about the use of White Phosphorous. Full, genocidal deployment of nukes have been a Killstreak bonus in the series before, and it's no different this time. Either you're up for this stuff as entertainment or you're not.

However, it does point to a MAJOR disconnect between the single and multiplayer modes overall. The latter even includes a kill-powered tamagotchi that celebrates your frags with a cheesy soundbite - just about the furthest you could get away from a depiction of the realities of global conflict.

There's also the fact that Call of Duty has hit something of a fork in the road in terms of its core identity.

Where post-Jason West and Vincent Zampella leaving Infinity Ward, the series dovetailed into futuristic conflict as a way to compete with a promising Titanfall and Halo's past success, now we've got a return to how COD was at the end of the 2000s.

It remains to be seen whether this will satisfy those who bought into that half-decade deviation, as going forward, does COD just repeat the last decade all over again?