WORKINGONCRYING
1988
this game was the stepping stone into the current era of call of duty.. and to be honest it sucks. the soul and life that pumped throughout the classic games that we all knew and loved was seemingly sucked out of this iteration. instead of fast paced multiplayer gameplay we received sluggish and tactical-oriented gameplay. the multiplayer felt and played like shit. the only good things about this game were the campaign and the engine used to build up the game. the campaign was very good, one of the best in the franchise for sure. rebooting the story from the original MW trilogy worked so well and honestly the characters and story are a lot more gripping than the original. as for the engine, the sound, animations, and graphics were all huge leaps for the series as we’ve never seen anything like it before. in the end though, the main problem is that the main draw of call of duty turned out to be terrible and drags the game down a lot for me
2017
the definition of mid. the campaign was okay, the zombies mode was kinda bad, and the multiplayer started off bad but progressively got better during the game’s life cycle. i will applaud the sledgehammer team that came in halfway through and revitalized the game and made it a lot better. it’s a shame it took half a year for it happen but when it did happen it definitely changed the game for the better
this game gets a ton of hate for continuing the futuristic era of call of duty and quite frankly pushing it to it’s max with the sci-fi space setting. personally, i don’t mind any of it and i think the game is underrated. the campaign might be my favorite in the entire franchise and the zombies mode is the best iteration done by a studio not named treyarch. the multiplayer is where the game kinda fizzles out for me as it just tries too hard to be like BO3. honestly it just feels like a less interesting version of the previous game. it’s not awful but it definitely isn’t amazing
it’s a shame that it took me five years to finally complete this game. this was hands down the best game i have ever played. the characters, the story, the world, the soundtrack, the gameplay, the minor little details… all of it was just down right amazing. it took me 95 hours to finish and not a single minute felt boring or wasted playing it
2017
2008