Sad News IndeedBy Locke on March 4th, 2010
Apparently Infinity Ward is in quite a bit of trouble. Vince Zampella and Jason West, the creative heads behind the Modern Warfare series were fired recently. Activision cites its reason as insubordination, due to the fact that Infinity Ward has had yet to receive royalties for Modern Warfare 2 and may have held meetings with other game publishers; a breach of their contract. One of the things that has always bothered me is the fact that ever since Activision began pumping out quick CoD sequels there has been a distant stink to the series. Each of Infinity Ward’s games were exceptional, but after its heels came the Treyarch interpretations that seemed…stale. It always makes me angry when people refer to World at War as Call of Duty 5. It’s multiplayer is a WWII interpretation of the system Infinity Ward established with Modern Warfare, only instead of shooting with M16A4s you’re using Springfields. The same people that claim it is Call of Duty 5 are from the same crop as the gamers who claim that Rock Band “copied” Guitar Hero. They are immensely ignorant to overall background of the things they play. I’m not asking you to lurk on Wikipedia, I just wish that you gather some intel before you voice an uneducated opinion like that. In all aspects, I must dreadfully speculate that the Call of Duty series is dead. What will be shoveled into our faces will be pieces of what was once a great work. It will become a meat puppet, a husk marionette whose strings are pulled by fools who only desire money and have no passion for the work that they create. When you remove the heart from something, Activision, don’t expect it to operate the same way that it did before. And don’t expect that fans won’t notice the gaping hole you left behind. I hope that Infinity Ward can pull it together, join up with someone else, and bury your mediocre rehashes under the superior might of a Work of Passion. Locke UPDATE: Vengeance is a swift angel! JUSTICE! |