Call of Duty, as a series, is the most overrated thing ever. The gameplay manages to stay the same through the many(and now they are yearly) incarnations, like games such as Madden, Guitar Hero, Etc. The depth of said gameplay can be explained as simple as "Run Ahead. Center your screen on thing you want to kill. Repeat." It is boring and repetitive. Same with the unoriginal, generic story, or lack thereof, there are next to no characters and all the twists are as predictable as you can get. So why is it that whenever a new instalment comes out both children and adults wait outside crappy stores like GameStop to give their hard-earned money to Activsion? Why pay 60$ for a game they basically bought last year? Well, as much as I'd like to say that our Country has some weird fetish for guns and the military, I'd say it's because the of the multiplayer, which is also pretty hollow, especially when you comapare it to other FPS games like Team Fortress 2. There are better games out there, there are better FPSs out there(TF2, Thief Series, RainbowSix, Portal 1&2, Deus Ex, Bioshock, Etc.) , Call of Duty is not this "revolution" in gaming as many people would want to make it up to be, Goldeneye among many other games did what CoD does now a decade ago, and the reason why these games are so popular is a big mistery to me.
