Takes Cod4's concept and puts it in the past, online's addition of dogs and tanks make it very annoying and oor gun choi
I'm the latter of the two described above. There are some things that Treyarch have not learned from it's predecessor's, the campaign as always is way too short. Most people can finish this in a day, it needs to be longer! What made CoD 4 so amazing was that the sizes of the maps were a nice size where players could get from one side to the other fairly easily, some moaned about maps being too small or big, but most of the time it was just right. What Treyarch did was not continue with the good sized maps, but go with the big maps that so may people hated. the majority of the maps in CoD 5 are as big, if not bigger than the much hated Creek and Broadcast. This means you spend most of your time roaming around the map looking for opponents and after several minutes get sniped off to have to repeat the process again! This is evident in most games but it does not occur as consistently as it does in this!
There are obviously additions in this installment, tanks is the most obvious one. The familiar UAV is now a recon plane, an airstrike is now an artillery strike which is much more lethal and wide spread which adds to the annoyance. Finally the dogs replace the helicopter.
The dogs and the tanks have to be the most annoying additions in the entire game. Firstly the tank. Whenever there s a tank on the map, there is always one person if not more who rushes over to it, then they slowly move towards enemy territory where they run over and blow up everything. This is extremely annoying, especially if your not on the tanks side. As you will inevitably be a victim of this noob addition that takes a ridiculous amount of ammo to get rid of.
Secondly the dogs. They may be able to get the user more kills than the helicopter did and it's fair that the other team can fight them off, but if you are the other team, when you respawn you instantly get eaten alive by, you guessed it, a dog. But you can fight them off right? Yes, but not when there are two or more. Therefore you have no chance and the game becomes extremely annoying especially when this is a regular occurance... in the same match!
Now, guns. The selection is obviously a downgrade from CoD4. The bolt action rifles are basically sniper rifles, and the rifles are just weaker equivalents as you have a faster fire rate. The machine guns are quite useless as, although powerfulish, take a long time to actually come out from the barrel, and there is sight aid for these either. So they are pretty useless due to the slow fire rate. The guns that do have a sight aid, you now get a black dot, instead of a red dot. This is a very very small black dot that makes your aim worse as when you bring it up you have to move the gun down so that you can get the dot to actually touch the enemy.
Enough about hating the game, here are the positives... when you get an assist now, the amount of points you get depends on how much you weakened the enemy before they got snatched from you. 4,6,8, these points aren't just for personal gain anymore, they go towards the overall score of the team, making matches quicker so your not stuck on the same map for a long time. When killing a dog, you get 3 points which also is added to the team score.
Overall if you like the older type of war and were a fan of CoD before number 4 then you would probably like this, if not then you won't like it as much and will become quite annoyed.