I was hoping to have a fun experience playing Call of Duty. I played Battlefield 4 and it sucked and Call of Duty Ghosts is in the exact same boat of suckiness. I preordered the game thinking this is going to break the mold that has been COD since MW2, crap and utter crap. I was wrong and lied to at the same time. Promises were made and they played on the exact things that all gamers wanted, a proper hit detection system that isn't exploitable and a cheater free game. Got neither in return. Game was released this morning, for me steam didn't release until 4:00 am, and already I found a cheater in the game. I joined a match in process and found a guy with 20 and 0, im like wtf, I was thinking maybe he was just good, but I found out that not only was he benefiting from the poor hit detection, but I watched the game ending kill cam and watched as he turned the corner and aimed right at the head of his target with out needing to adjust just went and insta-aimed that about killed it for me.
Gameplay as usual is weak. weapons don't feel authentic, they feel like toys. There is no dedicated servers on the PC, im betting we will see the exact same thing that happened in MW3 with the dumbed down no progression system with all the server hosts requiring you to play a crouched game only on hardcore. Maps are veritable mazes that are definite camper friendly maps, they always are on COD and many rooms have easy exploitable entry ways for camping. Hit detection is garbage here also, its still client side hit detection. Visuals look on par with Half Life 2 which came out a decade ago. Several gameplay additions like sliding and the moving mantle are not implemented in MP so that is a total let down. I was hoping that I would enjoy this but Im as let down as I was in Black Ops 2.
Game companies today need to take a step back from their release schedules and actual let the game be finished properly. Both COD and BF released games that needed much much more work to be released properly. BF4 has massive game crashes and terrible hit detection, COD has massive amounts of cheaters and also poor hit detection, see the trend! I think im gonna move into the console variety and stick to the games I play there because I actually get a better experience with them.