Why I Bought Them
I personally purchased 3 Call of Duty titles in my lifetime: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops. I was always a Halo man; Ill never forget my first time playing. I was at a friends birthday party and we had a nice 8-Man LAN going. My generated name was THE BEAR and he hissed it every time he fragged me. I bought an Xbox360 for the sole purpose of playing Halo 3; this begs the question, why did I ever purchase Call of Duty? Peer Pressure: Ill never forget the public schooling system. I never fit in, from grade three until I graduated high school the same gaggle of children followed me from classroom to classroom and they did not want to be my friends. It took me until about grade eleven to learn this unfortunately. I purchased Modern Warfare to play with a select group of classmates that all had the Xbox360 and refused to play anything else. There is no denying that Modern Warfare was an excellent game; it single handedly started a blaze that has persevered and continued to burn with an intensity rivaled and matched by seldom other titles in the gaming industry today. Much like the NHL titles here in Canada, many consumers will shell out year after year for what are little more than slightly updated versions of the pervious years model. I have a friend who will purchase each and every NHL title, hell say things like oh they have a new checking engine or there are several new features that add to the realism in a vain attempt to justify his consumerism. The NHL titles will update rosters, improve graphics and might improve one gameplay feature, maybe. This is extremely similar to the Call of Duty titles; Activsion and the chosen developers will sculpt a new generic single player, add new weapons, tilt damage tables and perhaps come up with a new mode or something, maybe. This year one of the big changes seems to be the swapping of kill-streaks for score-streaks, which seems to me like slapping paint on some cardboard and calling it a new house. Click "next" below for part 3...