To whoever said this game had a great campaign I laughed really hard.monkeymoose5000
As I've said, it has the highest production values for a game in the grimdark jam-on-face linear modern military arcadish FPS genre, or possibly in gaming in general. Now whether or not the campaign itself is your cup of tea is a different story, the former seems to hold, however. And then of course you'll mention gameplay, and that part itself is quite good too considering it's practically one of maybe a handful of FPS with decent gunplay this year, the most notable one being RAGE, and of course I'd ask you where you were when you could have support the gold standards of gameplay post-2004, Just Cause 2, Painkiller: Black and Red Faction 3: Guerrilla, but maybe you were too busy drinking tea with your pinky up watching Red Dawn and treating Team America as a documentary :P
As for COD itself, it's a game completely specialized on small scale infantry vs infantry combat and this is emphasized even more with COD 8 where point streaks/air support(not to mention the game is designed such that even above average players will have trouble getting more than 4 kills in a row) have been nerfed and the maps as well as movement speed is such that camping will lead to doing worse than otherwise, so it is possible to camp, but unlike with previous CODs, the game is designed to punish you if you try to camp. The community does seem a bit nicer than previous ones at launch, and I suppose part of it is how smooth of a launch the game is, and if a person didn't hear of the game before and were being completely honest, they'd probably say it's a pretty good PC version if they could even tell that the game was available on other platforms. Considering I never get a minimum FPS below 160 while playing I'd say it looks pretty decent for a game that is part of a series that never has focused on visuals http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596954040375467468/01E187E42D02785DF7B022A6F2C60D27233B0F0B/
As for a lot of people comparing it to BF, it doesn't quite follow, BF offers for large scale rock-paper-shotgun combined-arms gameplay that doesn't overcomplicated things, i.e, it's arcadish while still letting you fight as infantry or allowing you to control vehicles with more emphasis on how players work together than how good they are individually(which is a more indirect form of competition) whereas COD offers small scale fast paced gun-on-gun infantry only combat with emphasis on gun skill and in general how good players are individually(at least in the standard modes, the newer modes are filled with some of the... better players so be warned) where the competition is more direct and in this it's more similar, to say, Crysis 2. It's an important skill to be able to understand the ins and outs of each game you become interested in as it leads to a better gaming experience than you would have otherwise.
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