WTB wrote:
Easily pleased! It's dogshit! Play better games! Like, seriously? Brilliant? That's not a word I'd use. It would've been brilliant had it came out in 2001 I guess. But its entirely ordinary today and exactly the same as the last five games. With multiplayer, good, it's the human opposition that mixes it up. The practically on rails explosion fest campaign, seen one, seen them all. Brilliant?! I should clarify, it's not especially bad in the traditional sense. It's just shit and uninteresting.
I genuinely think a word like 'brilliant' is seriously overegging this game. It implies that you're sat there constantly blown away by how good it is, rather than a jaded thumb twitcher, occasionally scoffing at how silly it is. Dark Souls is 'brilliant'. This is another CoD campaign. Not a particularly memorable one at that.
The campaign is there for showing off in trailers. The game is made for multiplayer and 90% buy it for that. Infinity Ward know that, and everyone knows that.
I've enjoyed the vast majority of it. In the first couple of missions alone I have:
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Shot down choppers with missiles, and then with bullets from another chopper!
Hijacked a nuclear submarine, and programmed it to destroy a Russian fleet off the coast of New York!
Escaped in a dinghy!
Been awesome with Captain Price!
Controlled a fucking Johnny 5 style robot, but with MASSIVE GUNS MOWING DOWN BAD GUYS!
Had a gun battle inside a plane, at some points floating in zero gravity!
Chased bad guys who then hijacked a tube train, which we chased down tunnels at high speed in a jeep!
Watched a lovely family get blown up!
...and that's just the first couple of missions!
Yes, it's an on-rails FPS... that's the genre. Calling it boring for being what it was designed to be is like calling FIFA 12 dogshit for still just being a football game. It's clearly not something you're interested in at the moment, and that's fine, but I've had a massive grin on my face while playing the whole thing.
P.S. Didn't you say that 'more of the same' shouldn't be so frowned upon?