1. Copy + Paste = £££ - Nothing Changes
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War, war never changes."Infinity ward have taken this quote to heart. Whilst developers like Square Enix will give us angsty teens with wacky hairstyles year after year, they have the sense to mix things up a little. There is no real difference between Modern Warfare and Ghosts, there's an enemy that threatens the security of the world and a small special group of cover operatives must do everything to stop them. This is the main reason I'm just sick and tired of Call Of Duty now, the community you can just mute, the DLC you can avoid but when my local GAME is turned into a fortify bunker every November with various 14 year olds camped outside I can't ignore the franchise. The FPS genre doesn't allow a lot of room to wiggle on like RPGs do, however it doesn't mean fans should be subjugated to the same game year after year. Each new instalment has felt more like an expansion pack for Modern Warfare and doesn't warrant a new game title with a hefty price tag each year. People were probably getting tired of the same WW2 shooter being released each time, so it was a step in the right direction to take things down a more modern path as this allows the developer to write their own future in the game. That being said, Infinity Ward struck a goldmine with Modern Warfare and decided to stick with it, milking the franchise for 6 years. However with Ghosts having poorer sales than Black Ops 2 it seems that the bandwagon is finally coming to a stop. EA may be money grabbing devils, but they have the good sense to not over-work the mule and release a game once a year (something they fail to do with their other series I might add). I hope you an agree with me when I say I'm tired of the annual releases and tired of Call Of Duty. Nintendo, get on the line to your lawyers; you're the ones with a monopoly on beating a series into the ground with the same release after release. News corporations may have claimed that Ghosts made $1 billion in a day, but they fail to mention that this was a "sold-in", a lovely piece of industry jargon that allows Activision to fool the public when all it really means is that retailers around the world ordered $1 billion's worth of Ghosts. GTA V still remains the biggest entertainment launch of this year and hopefully this is the first nail in the Call Of Duty coffin. Do you think Call Of Duty can survive the problems with Ghosts? Share your thoughts below in the comments thread.