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★☆☆☆☆
This game is like your first serious relationship
This game is like your first serious relationship. You think that it's true love, that it's "the one," and that it will never end. Over time, things slowly change. A new haircut, new clothes, new group of friends, etc. The changes are slow, incremental. Each change is only slight enough that you notice it, but the familiarity is still there. You have your fights, things are said, mistakes are made (Ghosts), but you are committed and you stick with it. Then, one day, you're in the middle of your routine and you realize that the relationship is over. Your significant other has changed so much that they are unrecognizable. That's what's happened here.
COD slowly lost the plot through previous years. They've kept all the weird changes and updates from old editions, just layering them on top of each other. This is so far from the fundamentals that made it great that I would not have been able to recognize it as a COD title but for "CALL OF DUTY" being slapped on the cover.
You can make your own class, but then you have mech armor/suits layered on top of that. There are some strange choices in the tactical grenade menu. They've kept that weapon/item that charges throughout the round. Then my personal pet peeve, the jumping/jet pack and wall running, is still in the game. They have now completed the transition from a solid, fundamental FPS to the dudebro, Dorito and Mountain Dew choice of 12 year olds everywhere. This is ADHD in video game form.
The only redeeming quality about this game is the Legacy Edition came with one of the best COD titles and multiplayer ability. Even then, Activision won't let me sell off the IW disc if I still want to play MW. I guess I will have to come to terms with the fact that I paid $70.00 for a remastered Modern Warfare and got a cheap Halo knockoff included. The remastered Modern Warfare is the only reason why I can give this a star (and the fact that Amazon does not allow a zero star review).
November 2016 · Video Games · verified purchase