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Are Annual Installments of Call of Duty Necessary or Overkill?

November 14, 2009 in Blog comments 11

Modern Warfare 2 brings us yet another installment of the Call of Duty legacy. PlayStation LifeStyle explores is this series destined to the same treatment as other popular Activision franchises?

Modern Warfare 2 has been unleashed and has resulted in mass hysteria at retailers around the globe. Being Call of Duty, it’s only natural that such hype should be sustained by a brand name alone. But how long can Activision annually release the same series before their work reaches the predictability of other industry juggernauts such as Madden and Guitar Hero?
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    Shadow of Death* Nov 15, 09
    Well, the sales of the newest one say "YES YES" to the Activision coffers....

    They play pretty nice, so eh.
  • 0
    Play ISDF Nov 15, 09
    As long as they're quality products, then it's hard to complain. Just as long as isn't the same story as it is with the Guitar Hero series and the horrible amount of releases.
  • 1
    Zero and X Nov 15, 09
    Eventually people are going to get tired of these games, and the developers are going to get tired of shelling out the same shit. Not to say that the CoD games are shit, but a game a year? That's gotta be alot of strain on the devs when it comes to coming up with new concepts and I am sure they would eventually want to work on something different and not CoD all the time.
  • 2
    BANDITO ATTACK Nov 15, 09
    Guitar Hero: Modern Warfare
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    Coi Cki Nov 15, 09
    If they maintain or exceed what IW has done with the MW-series, I don't mind.

    I don't want to see another WWII-shooter, though, unless they made one about the winter war between Finland and Soviet Union.
  • 1
    Red 9 Nov 15, 09
    Frankly I'd prefer seeing less shooters, to be honest. I'm beginning to tire of the fact that the only thing I can do online with friends is shoot crap. Bring on GT5, dammit!
  • 0
    Onvacation Nov 15, 09
    It helps that they have two teams of Devs working on each gamr after one another
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      Tenken Nov 16, 09
      It's just unfortunate that only one of the teams can produce a truly solid game. When the best part of your game is a bonus mode featuring undead Nazis, you have a problem.

      But, it's progress I guess.
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      Shinobi_razor Nov 16, 09
      only 1 that gives a shit. Treyarch is stuck in the past and i believe they would rather make a zombie game anyway, but Activision doesnt think so. its like forcing your child to take piano lessons that would rather play guitar, while your other child is the next Beethoven.

      stupid, cause i think Activision should drop the WW2 tour bus and let them make something else. everyone but them knows that Modern Warfare is what COD needs to stay as, just continue with that line and drop all other COD lines, no one wants to see any more WW2 bullshit. they should in fact let Treyarch work on a zombie game, something to let Activision compete with L4D, RE, Dead Rising, etc, that would in turn make those companies make better sequels for those series too. it could have a military theme even, just hopefully not Nazis. but Korean zombies, Vietcong zombies...
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    Arikardo Nov 15, 09
    So long as the games are good quality, which they are, then there is no problem with this.
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    blazeboy11 Nov 16, 09
    It doesn't help that every other game is comparatively terrible.

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