Connor Brill

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I cannot begin to say how much I want this to succeed. It is a fun game, fairly easy to understand and customize and for the most part a fairly interesting and challenging story. That being said, it definitely isn't without its flaws. And some pretty big ones at that. Firstly, after seeing that the game was made by People Can Fly and Square Enix, I was stoked to see the incredible graphics and gameplay that followed the Final Fantasy series, Gears of War, and Tomb Raider. But for some reason, this game is significantly subpar in both categories when compared to some of the other games. With Final Fantasy's phenomenal photorealistic graphics in cutscenes its a wonder to why they didn't do the same here. Even Tomb Raider has better graphics, and that's several years old. The gameplay is where I have the biggest issues. It is your typical 3rd person cover-shooter; without the cover part. I say this because with the way the combat mechanics are, you will find yourself quickly running around an area to try to create distance from the enemies that forever want to be so far up your rear that they can taste what you had for breakfast. Add into that their unbelievable pinpoint accuracy with whatever weapon they are using, the incredibly high number of enemies, and the very small window for dodging, and you have one recipe for busted controllers. Now, I am always up for a challenge, and over time I did find that mob control and enemy prioritization gets easier to manage and in some cases, enjoyable. But there needs to be some balancing done to the enemy so you can use the cover more appropriately when you need to. With that, healing is another issue. With each class having special ways to heal during combat, and no health packs or "in case of emergencies" way to heal, it makes it tough to stay alive against the endless hordes of enemies who want to turn you into mush. On the flip side, the game is not bad all together. I enjoy playing it, and enjoy synergizing with my friends. The story is all over the place, and I am disappointed that it took the route it did (I won't say anything to avoid spoilers), but it's not the worst story I have ever played. It does pull at the heart strings and keeps things interesting from time to time. The inventory situation is solid, with plenty of customization of your gear that you have countless way to build your character and find new means of damage and feeling like a total badass. It is a good game and I am open to see what it has in store in the future, but that is only if the developers invest in the game to keep it relative. There are some great games out there that have constant updates to keep things fresh, and I would love to see this join those games.

I have very mixed feelings about this game. I have seen this franchise decline tremendously since I started playing with World at War. I got it as a gift from a friend and lets just say I am very glad that they only paid $10 to gift it to me and I didn't pay a dime for it. I enjoy some aspects of it, such as the campaign and zombies; personally, I feel multiplayer is by far its weakest link. First off, campaign, it was great. I enjoyed every second of it. It felt immersive and well done, but it was a shame that it was short. I'm not going into depth with it because I don't want to spoil anything, but it was one of the best Call of Duty campaigns I have played. However, the cut scenes and loading screens were unbearable due to the unbearable and quite frankly unacceptable lag and choppiness of the video. Zombies, is zombies, what can I say. You spend hours climbing through the hordes. I can say that I do enjoy some of the new features to make it different and unique. I like that you can play zombies and progress with multiplayer levels, however I don't foresee myself playing multiplayer a whole lot. My only real attraction to this game was the new zombies mode; which was advertised as being free to all players just like warzone in MW. And it is yet to be free, you still have to buy the full game. And finally, multiplayer. Oh boy, another run-n-gun, camp-fest, broken SBMM multiplayer. Except, this one seems more broken than some of the others I have played. Running around it feels very clunky and slow, the bugs in the system, the sheer disappointment in what feels like an unfinished product. Following MW, which had its fair share of problems, it feels like 5 steps back with the flow and smoothness of the game. I usually say that game have potential, but I having difficulty find anything really unique about multiplayer in this game. Same mechanics, same feel, same game as the last game, and the one before that, and the one before that, and so on. The spawns feel linear and broken, meaning that you get 2 places to spawn, and if the enemy is camping both spots, which they most likely are, well too bad. I find myself jumping from one end of the map to the other because there is no where safe to spawn. Sometimes, spawning with the enemy and immediately get blasted only to spawn there again. Skill Based Match Making is still a terrible idea simply because it thinks that camping in a corner scoped in on a door way is "skill" vs actually moving and playing the game normally. There needs to be a balancing mechanic that deters sitting in a single spot the entire game with a gas mine or proximity mine. It is not enjoyable to do really good in one game with people who are obviously way less familiar with the game, to another game where everyone is level 400+ and not a single person moves. The games usually end by time limit than point limit. I will admit, in recent months, it has gotten better in some ways, but remains the same in most. And for them to basically merge this game with Modern Warfare feels like a money scheme if anything. To say this game is its own entity and charge $60+ for it, and then have it split half it's features with MW is pretty lazy design; i.e. Warzone. It just does not make sense to me.