MMGN: For a long time readers have been sceptical about reviews, previews and features written on the backs of these trips, and I think that’s fair enough. No publisher is ever going to offer a bribe, but they do take care of the press, and it’s not unreasonable to think that maybe, just maybe, critics aren’t doing enough to divorce themselves from their surroundings on these trips.
The reviews on Call of Duty: Ghosts are a relief, not just because critics are starting to recognise more of the complaints the community has had for such a long time, but because they are proof of a turning tide, a suggestion that critics are increasingly aware of the need to divorce their privilege from their judgement of these games.
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales
Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
Why is the media acting like something unexpected has happened? Call of Duty hasn't been a critical success since Modern Warfare 2. After that game it dropped below 90 and never looked back. But guess what? People didn't care. Sales still kept on climbing. Hell, Black Ops 2 got an 83 on Metacritic. Those of us who played it can tell you that the game was much better than MW3 which got an 88.(Ok that was an opinion)
So I hoped you guys learned something today. Reviews Scores don't necessarily translate into sales and review scores themselves are entirely subjective.
There is no backlash on COD Ghosts. For every person saying the maps are too large and empty, I hear another say they are awesome. For every person saying they have lag or frame drops, I hear another say the opposite. It's the internet. Sales for the game seem to be good. $1 billion shipped to retailers. Whatever internet chatter or negativity you've been hearing...its launch issues. Check back on COD Ghosts a year from now and I guarantee the game will have a healthy community.
(DISCLAIMER: I have no played COD: Ghosts so I can not attest to its quality or lack there of. This comment only exists to mock the article above.)
I'm not a fan of COD but I can say without question that their hands will now be forced to create a new engine if they want to continue the franchise.
Even my most extreme die-hard COD friends have all agreed that the latest one is complete rubbish & the ones who didn't buy it on current gen & waiting for their next gen copies are now deciding whether to cancel.
I got the game for my stepson and i just wasted $64.87 the mp sucks they try to be like battlefield, the maps are too big and the token formula is crap. Back to gta v
I've not played it but from what some of you are saying it sounds like they were trying to create battlefield and then stoped and made it 6 on 6 on a battlefield size map. Like part MW3, and part battlefield 3 is that the jest of it?
Nothing happens since people are still eating it up and we already know another is set to release the same time next year.