Another Call of Duty: Enough Already

Anyone who is anyone could have predicted that Activision will be putting out yet another Call of Duty this year. I am really getting tired of this franchise. The yearly releases is forcing the franchise to produce no innovation. I loved the first two but after them Call of Duty hasn't changed at all. Activision is quickly becoming a publisher I don't want to buy from because of their lust for cash and copy & pasting Call of Duty every year. They already killed Tony Hawk games I use to love to play, they destroyed Ravensoft (who use to be a bad ass developer), and they ran Guitar Hero into the ground (not that I ever cared to play GH).

When Activision made the announcement of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 I saw forums exploded with people say they are not going to buy it and support Battlefield 3. Of course you got your fans of the franchise praising MW3 and hating BF3. I always find it interesting reading about these love/hate wars that happen on the Internet. Normally I wouldn't speak up about it and just let those who love it get sucked into Activision's black hole of death. But I have to say something now. This is because Call of Duty is causing other publishers to make their games Call of Dutyized. And what I mean by that is the fact that they are changing their games to suit the sheep that buy the yearly releases of the crap that has become Call of Duty. Publishers have Call of Dutyized some of my favorite franchises because they are trying to get a piece of the pie. Adding multiplayer to Bioshock 2 and Dead Space 2 was a huge mistake. No one played them, or even cared about the multiplayer part 2 weeks after release. To me it was a waste of resources that could have been focused on the singleplayer. Luckily for Dead Space 2, the singleplayer was still good but you can tell that adding multiplayer to the game put resources elsewhere. Another game that got Call of Dutyized was Dragon Age 2. I liked the combat, but the RPG felt like garbage and watered down. You can tell it was made for another audience, the Call of Duty crowd.

This type of thing happened before in the MMO genre. Everyone is trying to be a clone of World of Warcraft and because of that that it destroyed my all time favorite MMO, Star Wars Galaxies. Unless the beast that is Call of Duty is brought down I have fear it will spread into my beloved franchises. Call of Duty needs to die and I am really hoping this is the year it will be brought down. I really don't want to look forward to a game only to find out it was revamped by the publisher because they wanted to change it for the Call of Duty crowd.

I know for sure I will not be purchasing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. I already took a chance on Black Ops last year and I have seen that the franchise hasn't changed at all. Here's to hoping that the franchise begins it's down fall this year and is dead by 2012. Die Call of Duty, just die already....