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Call of Dutys latest isAdvancedWarfare, a game that I dare call cookie-cutter.
The change of direction is suspect albeit typical.
Activision has a formula, and it has worked.
Convoluted single-player campaigns havent been enough to knockdownCoDfrom its throne.
Since 2007, the franchise has reigned as THE mulitplayer shooter on consoles.
But if one thing is certain in the gaming industry, its that the new becomes old rather quickly.
(I previously wrote aboutSledgehammers opportunityto deliver a uniqueCoDexperience.
And then I laid outmy expectations.)
Most likely, hardcore fans of this series wont see a problem withAdvanced Warfare, and they shouldnt.
You have to stick with what you love.
But the alarms have gone off for followers of the larger genre.
Titanfall, which was made by guys who worked on the firstModern Warfare, is ironically an exception.
We could use more new.
Thats why the concept of Call of Duty: Vietnam is so exciting.
The game wouldve taken place during the not oft-mentioned battles in Cambodia and Laos.
This was an opportunity to examine the damage that war does to the human psyche.
Were talkingCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, of course.
NowCall of Dutyis the standard by which all other first-person shooters are measured.
Call of Duty: Vietnam was, indeed, trying something new.
For one, the number of Vietnam-era shooters could be counted on your fingers.
Secondly, how many shooters out there really take a stab at instill a sense of dread and fear?
Activision has three developers working onCall of Dutygames now.
Infinity Ward and Treyarch have settled into their own takes on the series.
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