Call Of Duty: Advanced Nowhere, Review

Call of Duty: Advanced warfare, the latest installment

in a gaming franchise that represents everything wrong with games today.

The issue with Call of Duty is its economy of scale. The franchise has grown exponentially to be one of the most popular games franchise in history. The franchise has however just become a bloated cash cow with the likes of Activision in a frenzied state of cash grabbing, manipulation and pure market penetration and saturation.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is like a pyramid scheme, only there to make as much money for those at the top while offering as little as possible to those at the bottom (the customer). Call of Duty has been the same copy and paste job for the last 6 years offering a limited campaign, broken peer to peer multiplayer with no signs of actual dedicated servers appearing anytime soon.

For a franchise that has been going for a while, one would think there would be enough experience among developers and publishers to give us an evolved game that improves on the last with some original game play mechanics, not just last minute jet packs, to appeal to 8 year old children.

The game was absolutely imbalanced from day one with an overwhelming majority of players

using the Bal-27 and the ASM1, that’s two guns out of approximately 20. What this shows is the disregard for common sense and lack of respect they have for consumers. These mistakes only end up with the community voicing its anger,
resulting in various “Nerfs and Buffs” to make the game a little more playable, if you chose not to be a Bal-27 sheeple. The best part of the entire game are the rendered cut scenes in the campaign where great visuals and voice acting offer a glimpse of the technology should give us.

The fact that Call of Duty still hasn't provided dedicated servers is unbelievable as Battlefield can do it, a direct competitor. Too often the host ‘rage quits’ and the game ends prematurely, or you experience players lagging yet somehow always managing to come out on top! The multiplayer is just a shooting gallery of mindless Rambo style players in it for themselves with little appreciation for team work.

It’s time the Corporation of Duty: Money Warfare remind themselves of their duty to have a little respect for their consumer base and give a little more than just explosions, jet packs and lasers! Those who played Call of Duty 10 years ago are not still 12 year old kids!!