Call of Duty what a monster. With clockwork precision a new edition pops up every year and sells millions without fail. Its doing perfectly well, but in spite of an audacious shift to a far future setting in Black Ops 2, its becoming increasingly repetitive. Its become a slapstick dose of noisy annual nonsense with an arcade multiplayer mode attached. Its a game about gun-lovin superheroes who are 90% bicep and 10% stubble shooting hundreds of enemies, shouting and occasionally getting into knife fights. Activision have found a golden formula for mainstream success that has changed the genre. Call of Duty perfected iron sights aiming and ushered action movie set pieces into shooter environments, but those set pieces have gradually subsumed the challenge and tension of the series rolling street battles. The series ballooning love for noise and bombast masks a dearth of substance, and its ability to deliver those famed set-pieces is increasingly hindered by an engine that...
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