The Dude wrote:
@drofter
cod5 was high rated too and afterall a failure....
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Many people play Unreal Tournament. I hate it. Does that make it a failure?
The game has a reviewers average of 84%
The game sold TWICE the amount of games (on console at least) in its first week compared to Modern Warfare in UK.
The THIRD fastest selling game in UK [third to GTA].
FIRST Call of Duty game to allow Co-Op (and on PC!)
FIRST Call of Duty game to have extensive gore, without mods.
I happily admit there are down points to the game, but Modern Warfare had just as many, if not more, although both sides of the fence could argue that WaW is run on the MW engine, thus most errors are due to continuity.
The game is running on a NEW engine, which required them to input MP vehicle coding, co-operative scripting, mobile bipod weapons and other things into the engine themselves. These features will undoubtedly be reclaimed by Infinity Ward and used in MW2.
Relating this all back to companies.
Infinity Ward are just as bad as getting patches out to the community. Treyarch have very little community directed support, but few individuals can get inside info with a community employed member of their team (forgotten his name), how much support are you going to get from a dim-witted and uninformed community relation manager, "402".
Call of Duty is a dying breed, lets hope something crops up and becomes worthy of following (RTCW2, maybe one day), as neither of these games are of my interest any more, I only defend against ill-informed and poor arguments.