These days, it seems as though System Wars hates all the Call of Duty games after Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. People list the gems of the series as 1, 2, and 4. However, back when 4 first released, everyone hated on it. In fact, the "hype" in the Modern Warfare 2 was just a bunch of hate.
People said 4 was just a dumb downed version of 2 with no vehicles. People complained about the two weapon system, regenerating health, claustrophobic environments, lack of recoil, lack of vehicles, short, scripted campaign with infinitely respawning enemies, among many other things.
People constantly insisted that games with regenerating health systems were bad because they allowed for lazy game design. This reason was constantly nailed into peoples' heads. Remember, this was back in 2007, where this stuff was actually considered uncommon.
Fast forward to 2011, and people hardly pin any first person shooters for those design decisions these days. Back then, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was a terrible game because the health system allowed for lazy game design. But actually, it's a fantastic game! And everyone loved it! It's the endless amount of sequels that people hate, right? No, this further proves that people just hate on Call of Duty because "it's cool."
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare took shooters in modern settings, offered a create-a-class system, took a more modest approach concering America's involvement in warfare, had a large bevy of maps and modes, split-screen support, and top-of-the-line presentation values. It seems like a really impressive game for its respective time period, yet all the majority here could do was hate. But then the sequels came out, and I guess people changed their minds.
Also, people will argue that "X game did this before Call of Duty." So what? Why does Call of Duty HAVE to innovate to be good. Battlefield 3 didn't. The fact is that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare still wrapped it up in one package and was one of the few games to incorporate "X aspect." Oh, so one game did create-a-class before Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare... Okay.
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