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MP1st | Call of Duty: Ghosts Multiplayer Review – A Step Forward Here, A Stumble Backward There

MP1st - We sit at a crucial period in gaming when Call of Duty, as a series, needs to not only rise above its fierce and aggressive competition, but also prove that it is still worthy of leading the online first-person shooter into the next-generation of gaming. 2013, going into 2014, is the year that the franchise needs to shake things up or risk boring dedicated and long-time fans with more of the same.

miDnIghtEr20C_SfF4242d ago

Pretty harsh. Not sure how this score can be when you know what to expect from a COD game. It's like bad pizza.. it's still good.

Steelmanner4242d ago

Yeah but is that bad pizza still good after you have had it 3 times? The repetitiveness of these games is simply astounding. If they want to continue this series they really need to change things up.

Kleptic4242d ago

For a couple years; MP1st has been by the far best source of information for competitive multiplayer i've found...

so personally, i trust that site's opinion on stuff like this...I wasn't interested in ghosts to begin with, but its nice to see credible 'small' sites having the nuts to call out an uninspired redundant mess for exactly what it is...

more importantly...I'm tired of the CoD formula, and actively hope that ghosts does very poorly...because all it will do is hopefully create another CoD 4 phenomenon...remember?...CoD 3 was poorly received...putting pressure on the next one...and thats the last time the franchise was kind of rebuilt from the ground up...i want that again, a reboot of sorts...not the same thing since 2007...

miDnIghtEr20C_SfF4242d ago

Why does it need to change? Seems like they changed this one up to have bigger maps and now that's one of the complaints. Like when they ruined SOCOM with part 3 and made the maps way to big to fight in. It was a ghost town after that.

I want my COD the same as always with new maps and weapons and perks. Give me an all online only COD with no SP.. let me buy maps all year long on it. If I want something different than COD then I'll play my BF or Halo or KZ or any other FPS that isn't the same as COD.

Not sure why COD has to change it's ways when there are plenty of other FPS games to buy. When you have something that works, no need trying to fix it. Just upgrade things here and there.

Hell... Halo made itself more like COD.. BF has double xp weekends now and stuff taken from COD with TDM and such.

I'll still stick with the majority who enjoy their yearly COD games... just like people do with Madden and 2K Basketball, and MLB The Show and other yearly games.

I understand that some of you want COD to be different... but then that's not COD. Titanfall is coming... Killzone is coming.. Destiny is coming.. a new Halo is coming, BF is here.... plenty of other games.

COD is COD. It would be stupid to completely change something that millions and millions of fans love to play. The people who love the game way out number the ones that don't.

Nitrowolf24242d ago (Edited 4242d ago )

@Kleptic
"For a couple years; MP1st has been by the far best source of information for competitive multiplayer i've found..."

Thanks for the compliment!

@miDnight

We aren't the only site to give it a low score, and honestly a lot of places has accepted this to be the worst COD game this gen. We wanted to love the game like past COD games (look at our past reveiws). We were pretty hyped up for it, played Black Ops 2 to prep and got into this and it just isn't the same. I feel that as our review stated it's not a game about going into epic arcady fire fights anymore, it's a game about " who-sees-who-first". I remember rin past games being able to survive tough situation. Now it just seems that whenever i spawn there's a guy behind me ready to throw a stick at my leg so I can die instantly.

BigShotSmoov0074242d ago

Yeah, honestly since the have Destiny coming out, they need to do what other companies are doing and just have a cycle with there games. One year Destiny, the other year COD and try and make another game and just and that too the cycle. You see EA doing it with Battlefield, Battlefront & Titanfall or at least they said they was going to do it with those games and even games like Halo, Uncharted or Gear. They don't come out every year so people are really excited when a new one comes out. Having the same game come out every single year it because stale and dull, but activision has a track record of just running games into the ground so I don't expect anything less from this company. They are honestly the worst.

Matt6664239d ago

The most honest COD review I seen

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All Call of Duty Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "Call of Duty has to be the most recognizable franchise on the planet. They didn’t get that way by only making a handful of games.

COD has a long and storied career. Launching as a PC WW2 first-person shooter, Call of Duty has gone through numerous makeovers and been on just about every system. The series has gone through some serious highs and tragic lows. I’ll be looking at each Call of Duty game, the good the bad, and the ugly."

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UnSelf1221d ago

Vanguard better be at the fkn bottom. Can’t believe ppl haven’t eviscerated that game with all its lacking

Minimoth1221d ago

Yeah, it's close to the bottom. There are a couple of worse ones. Infinite Warfare definitely deserves its place.

KyRo1221d ago

There's a number a lot worse than Vangaurd. It's also a lot better than that car crash Treyarch released before it.

XbladeTeddy1221d ago

World at War is my favourite. Didn't know the N-Gage had a Call of Duty.

MadLad1220d ago

Same for me.
I was never huge into Call of Duty, but I sunk a lot of time into WaW.
Both the campaign and the multiplayer are on point. Wouldn't mind a remaster.

I quit on CoD for a long while. Though I'm the odd man out that actually really enjoyed the campaign for WWII, being I got it through Humble monthly way back when.

TheLigX1221d ago

I really enjoyed the Infinite campaign. Multiplayer... not so much.

Yppupdam1221d ago

I agree, The Infinite campaign feels more like it's own thing that they slapped the CoD name on. If it stood on it's own, (sans the CoD name) I think it could have been it's own scifi franchise. And a damn good looking game, to boot. I never bothered to play the multiplayer.

victorMaje1221d ago

MW 2019 apart from the desastrous file sizes is way better than AW.

MadLad1220d ago

That was one I grabbed for Playstation because it pretty much just came out during the Redbox purge of videogames, and I got it for dirt cheap.

It was great coming home to an update every night, and watching one game eat up almost half my console's memory.

Amplitude1220d ago (Edited 1220d ago )

Will get disagrees but Infinite Warfare campaign was really good. Decent story, set pieces were amazing and if it didn't have the CoD game on it I'm sure people would have been more into it. Advanced Warfare was alright too. Titanfall 2 was just 1000 times better than both but I enjoyed them for their campaigns. I literally barely gaf about the story I'm in it for the set pieces and 5 hours of being stoned watching cool nonsense happen if I'm in the mood to play a CoD campaign. If I'm looking for a deep plot I'm gonna go somewhere else.
Ghosts was the worst story-wise though lol that cliffhanger ending was so bs.

Also MW 2019 was sick and is one of the best CoD games in yeeeears not sure why it's so low on this dude's list. Campaign was great, multiplayer was great and Warzone was fun for a while. Over it now but shrugs.

Beat the Vanguard campaign too but I can't even remember a single thing about it other than that it felt like it was 45 minutes long. Might be the most forgettable thing I've ever played lol just fully erased from my brain

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Call of Duty Multiplayer This Decade Ranked (2010-2019)

Call of Duty multiplayer ranked from worst to best! 2019 is coming to a close and MP1st ranks the best COD multiplayer games this decade.

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Ray Tracing in Monster Hunter World, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Watch_Dogs 2, COD: Ghosts & more

DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s members Benchmark PC Tech, Jose cangrejo, WillTalksTech, Zetman and MissinInAction have published some videos, showing Monster Hunter World, Black Mesa Xen, Watch_Dogs 2, Call of Duty Ghosts, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, The Sinking City, Remember Me, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Dishonored 2 with the ray tracing/path tracing effects that Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod introduces."

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Pyroxfaglover2182d ago

Wore implementation I've ever seen,.. guess it just does not work all that great on every engine

MarkyMark892182d ago (Edited 2182d ago )

Agree, but this gives me hope that one day Ray Tracing can be a software based feature and not require some type of proprietary hardware to achieve. Software will always outpace Hardware so it could happen, but I feel like its going to take a lot more time to achieve the same level that RTX has already shown glimpses of so far. Really just waiting for Cyberpunk to see if RTX is actually something viable. I think if anybody can truly showcase RTX Features it would be Projekt Red.

zeal0us2182d ago

Too bad it doesn't make Mankind Divided a better game.

starchild2182d ago

It doesn't need to, the game was already fantastic, imo.

zeal0us2181d ago

Human Revolution was a better game and not to mention longer.

isarai2182d ago

Reshade is not raytracing, its a screen space post processing effect. Thats like calling SSAO "global illumination"