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>> Looks ok, but all they've done is turned COD into GRAW/Rainbox Six - only
>> time will tell...
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> You say that like it's a bad thing.
> GRAW and RS are very popular games on LIVE. More popular then COD.
> Maybe this is what Activision needs to move the series forward.
> Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
This is not what they needed to do to move the series forward. They are
simply going from one "safe" setting to another and copying GRAW, R6 and BF.
There are tons of things they could have done to "move the series forward"
that would have been breaking new ground for shooters, like setting it in
the Pacific during WW II (MOH: Rising Sun was crap) or going to Korea or
Vietnam. The Korean war has never been done before on consoles and Vietnam
has been done twice, neither of the quality that COD has brought to previous
games. Instead Activision decided people wanted modern shooters and gave
them one. The video game industry is an industry largely of copycats and COD
4 is going with the flow. Now we have a glut of modern shooters and some
people will be saying the same things about modern shooters in a year or two
that they said about WW II shooters.
Also, why did they have to make this a fictional war? I have a problem with
video game companies refusing to push the envelope even a little bit.
Instead of GRAW, Splinter Cell or R6 going to Iraq or Afghanistan, they're
always set in some "future" conflict that doesn't exist. Six years after
September 11 we have ONE game that features Al Qaeda as the enemy, that
stupid PS2 game where you fought Osama kung-fu style at the end. COD could
have pushed the envelope there and actually done something totally new even
as a modern shooter but chose not to.
This isn't moving the series or gaming forward, it's moving it laterally.
Hell, the only game that might be doing something to move gaming forward is
that WW II shooter due to be released in 2008 where the background changes
as you liberate the town as a fighter in the French resistence. Hopefully
that might stimulate developers to use the surroundings and background in
their games in new ways.