GamingUnion.net:
Every developer likes to sit down and toot their own horn, informing gamers about how their game will immediately change the shape of things to come. However, the fact of the matter remains that very few games manage to do this. Change within the gaming industry rarely occurs with a single title. Once a trend has been established, every other developer out there naturally jumps on the bandwagon and it becomes difficult to veer away from the newly imposed norm.
A fantastic example of this is Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, two first person shooter franchises that have been at each other's throats for longer than most care to remember. They were the first to set the stage for an epic single player experience before moving on to define what core FPS gameplay can be like on consoles. We, as gamers, have a lot to thank - or perhaps blame - these two series for. Yet, while Activison and EA use these flagship titles to duke it out, other developers have been trying to change the shooting genre in their own way. Slowly, but surely, they are making online a lot more interesting and forcing these two titanic development teams to rethink their game plan...
Each of them brought (or will bring) something new to the genre, and you can't really ask much more than that. Nobody likes carbon copies.
Homefront is already causing a stir on YouTube with its ads and such. I really hope it can live up to the hype. But yea, I'm getting almost as tired of the CoD series as I was with the Guitar Hero series.. and that's pretty darn tired.
yeah MAG YEAH! lol. but seriously MAG was great ufn after you get use to its damn frustrating at first. Cannot wait to give homefront a blast
I think BF started this a long time ago. Other than that, Call of Duty used to be awesome before it went to consoles.
COD is still OK, but boring.