Very true.Yeah, but CoD1 introduced iron sights to the main-stream, CoD2 lead to every modern shooter featuring health regeneration like Halo 2 and CoD4:MW1 is arguably THE most influential game of today's shooter market.
A couple of zany game-modes with zombies, purchasable weapons and controllable vehicles may be nice additions to the series (though hardly original...) but they're irrelevant for the genre. CoD4 IS the genre.
From Homefront over Medal of Honor to Far Cry 3, everyone is copying CoD4. And that's just outright clones. If we're also counting all the original franchises that let elements of IW's CoDs bleed into their newest entries we would have a list of pretty much every recent shooter.
Including Killing Floor and Red Orchestra 2.
Not that I think that's a good thing...
Tho I gotta say, I think the reason for CoD4's success lies in the fact that it had mod support and dedicated servers. That combined with solid game mechanics resulted in a game that had both a good competitive scene and lots of interesting things for more casual players as well (mods, custom maps, etc). Both MW2 and 3 lack those features and as a result are in my mind rather horrible games.
No.I'm not acting out. I'm just stating my honest opinion and when it doesn't fit into the classy elitist mindset those people are acting out. All I do is be open-minded and give hints that some people may be taking stuff too serious.
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