Call of Duty or COD is the most well known game currently.  People love to play it, bash it, be brainwashed by it, among other things.  I'd like to take some time and just talk about it, with a slight review of the ones I've played.  This is all my opinion and so here we go. 

My first COD games was COD3, I heard about COD back in the day but ignored it.  Mainly because I was heavily into Medal of Honor when it was actually good.  MOH was my favorite WW2 games and probably still is up there.  When I got my first Xbox 360, there some kind of deal at Best Buy two get like 2 games and Xbox 360 for a little bit cheaper.  So I got (ironically) Battlefield 2 Modern Combat and COD3.  COD3 all in all was pretty good.  The campaign was interesting and had some nice action.  I had few complaints with game as far as story.  I hated jumping from character to character, while it gave me a chase to experience the battle from different view points I didn't care about the characters.  This is something that will plague COD for me.  A minor complaint were the 3 quick time events were too easy and just un-threating.  As of right now I can't think of anything else so these complaints are small.  COD3 had multiplayer which I liked.  I liked how both sides had their own weapons and abilities which made for great gameplay; along with good maps.  I'd give COD3 a good 8/10.

When COD4 came out I was slightly concerned because it wasn't WW2, like it has always been.  But I was interested in this new game.  But apparently not enough because I got Halo 3 and that refused to leave my xbox for 3 straight months.  That is not a lie, the only reason I even played COD4 was because my dad bought it so he could play it.  Once I needed a break from Halo 3 I played COD4.  This game was revolutionary at the time.  It had a solid story, new and refreshing and VERY addicting multiplayer.  The story again jumped from character to character which again i didn't care too much about them, but it wasn't like COD3.  So I recognized them, the mission were fun an varied with a nice ton of action and shooting, the pacing seemed a little fast but it wasn't enough to bother me.  Multiplayer was my Halo 3 skill killer.  It was so much fun, unlocking guns, the maps, the challenges, just everything.  It was a 9/10 and what I consider the most SOLID CALL OF DUTY EVER MADE.  

Now we reach over to Call of Duty World At War.  I was kinda happy to see the return of my favorite part of history ever.  But it was filled with mixed feelings.  The campaign was short and felt terribly rushed.  However the Russian Sniper mission was awesome!  I really like the Russian missions a lot more than the American.  I did feel it was kinda weird for the game to be jumping from Pacific Warfare to European Warfare, but you only played two characters so that was find enough for me.  Multiplayer I could tell was the hard focus of this game.  Multiplayer was slightly improved and it had something new.  Dismemberment!!!! It was cool to see your limbs blow off because you tripped those bloody bouncing bettys.  Still don't know why an anti tank gun was used as a sniper rife but multiplayer was awesome.  Again, great maps, guns, perks, challenges, and this crown jewel of gaming ZOMBIES!!!  Zombies was such a huge bonus and a bigger reason to buy DLC.  Working together to fight endless hords of zombies could not have gotten better, until they added new maps and new toys.  COD WAW i'd say be given a 8/10, mainly because of a lacking campaign.

Now MW2, campaign took an interesting turn but it just kinda was ok and a bit confusing.  I mean the airport mission I remember questioning myself on what to do.  I'm a CIA member forced to work with terrorist and mow down hundreds of civilians.  That was cool with a moral twist.  I honestly didn't shoot many people the first time, the second time I mowed down everyone, and the several times after that.  The ending does get intense and the final battle was awesome.  The multiplayer was at this point the main focus of COD.  I think it pretty much perfected multiplayer.  The same quality COD had been putting out since COD4, guns, maps, perks, challenges, and improved it.  However there were several glitches people took advantage of, and the curse of this game the freakin noob tube.  I have no problem being killed by a noob tube/grenade launcher, but when that's all I get killed by then it starts to piss me off.  In combination with the right perks this was a thorn in my side.  I would use it when other people used it against me and I can't honestly say it hardly takes any skill.  You don't even have to hit the person to kill them.  AHHHHHHH it gets me mad just thinking about that crap!!!!  I would like to also mention the fact that the snipers would randomly decide to be two hit kills even though its a 50 cal.  That was frustrating, to have a gun with damage almost maxed out not kill in one hit.  But MW2 is my favorite COD multiplayer ever, and I still play it from time to time.  Not only did it have multiplayer but it had Spec Ops, these were joyful little quick missions.  I'd spend hours with friends trying to get all 3 stars.  They were so much fun.  This game is a 8/10 for me.

Now the downfall of a once great series.  Black Ops was a mixed bag.  I was starting to get tired of COD now, watching the game with only minor tweaks and such but it hit hard with this game.  I got Halo Reach, but was not as happy with that as I had hoped so I did eventually get COD BOs.  Black Ops did address one concern about the campaign, with being many people.  It was now down to one (mostly) and that made Mason the most like able character for me in COD history.  The story held my attention but it seriously lacked pacing, it was way to fast.  I did like going through important events in history, but nothing seemed really "Black Ops" in the game.  It was overly heavy on the action.  Multiplayer was honestly boring.  The guns felt the same, all automatic.  They just felt exactly the same too me, perks sucked because I ended up using pretty much the same perks for every class, unlike previous games.  Maps were stupid, with the exception of Nuketown, but that got annoying because that's all anyone wanted to play.  Snipers sucked, they hardly killed in one hit despite being all most maxed out with damage, and i'd even get hit markers on people point blank!!!  I also hated how the maps were not really sniper friendly.  I liked one gun in multiplayer and that was the Ak74u.  Killstreaks were defiantly improved, I loved the options of choosing.  The unlock system was interesting, after 1st prestige you knew what you liked.  But I ended up buying everything anyway, because what was the point of having all that cash and nothing to spend it on, and I liked messing around with the crappy guns.  I think I had the most fun in the Betting Lobbies.  Those game modes were very exciting, my favorite was Gun Game.  So there was very few things I actually liked, the ONLY reason I bought the DLC was Zombies.  Zombies again was extremely fun, I wasn't a huge fan of the guns because I liked WAW's better but it was still so much fun.  The maps were great until Shangri La, that maps sucked!  But the Moon Map was amazing.  It made it interesting to have the story in Zombies as well as the loads of Easter Eggs.  Zombies was the highlight of COD BO.  This game was a 7/10 for me, I still play Zombies.

Ugh, the most disgusting and last COD game I bought.  MW3 was a poop show.  WHY DID I SPEND MONEY ON YOU!!!!  Oh that's right to play with friends, I got this game cheap on amazon.  So at this point I didn't even what COD anymore.  This game just shows that COD is everything wrong with gaming.  First off, the graphics hadn't even really changed since... since COD4, cause its the same freakin engine with minor tweaks!!!!  Halo even stepped it up, in Reach.  It looked the same as MW2 almost.  It seems like they tried to do as little work as possible to make the most money.  The campaign is just this over the top none stop action that doesn't know what pacing even is!  Moments I was having fun, ended in seconds; like in the beginning, you're riding a boat, ships are blowing up everywhere, people are chasing you and then its over.  Just when I was saying to myself, "Wow, I'm enjoying myself" it was over.  And honestly, when Soap died, I didn't even care.  It was just like.. oh, back to playing the random Russian guy.  The campaign babied me throughout the entire thing.  I followed this linear path the whole time, I didn't even once need to think for myself.  I'd have moments where there was "Follow" above the AI and the game would be yelling at me to follow him, climb the ladder, do this when it was clearly obvious!  It just pissed me off further.  And the "Stealth missions" were completely crap!  You just follow the Price and everything is magically alright.  No thinking, no sense of achievement, no nothing.  I was just going to through the motions.  I'd have to say my favorite mission was the last mission.  It was a cool way to end the Modern Warfare series.  But hey, I'd say this campaign was much better than Bf3's!  Which is not saying much.  Now on to the crap we call multiplayer.  Maps suck, perks suck, guns... suck.  Killstreaks were my favorite out of all the CODs.  I like how you can pick a support killstreaks, a perk killstreak, or and offensive killstreak.  That changed somethings up.  But what was the point, I wasn't having fun.  I hated the maps!  None of them were again sniper friendly really.  Where is the open maps from COD4 and MW2?  Everything is this claustrophobic orgy and not in a fun Shipment kind of way like in COD4.  Snipers were terrible, so many hit makers and point blank too!  I never even touched any DLC for this game I refused to buy this crap.  

This game gave me allowed me to sit back and look at COD in perspective.  Multiplayer honestly hadn't changed much since COD4.  It had gotten better, but then it got stale.  One thing that doesn't help is that COD comes out every year.  The slight changes hardly justify buying it.  The campaign used to be fun, but now its all multiplayer because that's where the money is.  I have a personal belief that games should stand on Campaign alone and multiplayer is an added bonus to keep you playing.  For me if the multiplayer isn't good, it will hardly affect the game.  The new Tomb Raider a great game, the multiplayer sucked but it didn't bother me.  BF3 is a weird game; where the multiplayer is so great and refreshing that it outweighed the bad campaign; which is pretty powerful in my book.  What brought BF3 down was the campaign.  Since COD comes out every year I'm going to get tired of it faster.  While gameplay is smooth along with controls, it everything else I have a problem with.  The story is just over the top and trying to out do its previous, constant action, way too linear, it babies you through the game, you don't have to think much, multiplayer had hardly changed with few innovations , in current times the maps are just bad, and it seems unless your a pro quick scoper you not really going to be sniping.  So anyway, MW3 was a 6/10 almost pushing a 5 in my book.  Oh and the spec ops in this one seemed heartless, they were boring and just not like MW2.  The survival mode mixed things up but I just go bored with it, it was not like Zombies.  

I still keep an eye on COD just in case, but COD BO2 just didn't interest me at all.  It had promise but failed my expectations.  So after MW3 I refused to buy it.  Now there is COD Ghosts and from gameplay it still looks as linear as ever.  You don't even get to control the dog when you want too, only when the games says so or at least that's what I got.  Its a new engine, FINALLY!!!  And multiplayer will probably be similar to what it always has been.  I'll still keep an open mind for it.

But I honestly don't understand why COD is still so popular and continues to be one of the lead selling games.  Games like Bioshock, Far Cry, and even Halo way better campaigns.  And because COD sells other games try to copy it and the usually fail.  I used to love COD and now I almost fully despise it.  What I'd suggest COD should do?  A lot of fixes I'd suggest would be in Campaign, but I know this is a multiplayer heavy game.  I'd say Campaign is the weakest link, so for that i'd say, open the game up.  Enough with overbearing linear gameplay.  You can have linear gameplay, but use it for more story moments or important moments.  But open up the campaign so you can employ tactics instead of just moving forward.  Slow down the pacing, allow players to feel the full impact of what is happening.  Make intense moments last, while also add some quieter moments.  Allow the player to think for themselves in stealth missions, its so much more rewarding.  So babying players through levels, that's a annoying, we can think for ourselves, just like gamers did back in the old days with Doom.  I know I am suppose to follow you up the stairs so stop yelling at me to!!!  I'd also suggest that character swapping should be to a small amount, if at all.  Allow us to stick with one character so we can form a bond like Master Chief, or Gordon Freeman.  Enough with the endless spawning enemies!  Put a certain amount of enemies in one area and let us take them out.  I know you were playing with choices in Black Ops 2, that's a step in the right direction.  Oh and make the campaign LONGER!  That's about it for campaign, now multiplayer.

 Its mostly content wise that multiplayer suffers for me.  COD look back to the old days and what the maps were like.  Make them different, open them up sometimes, make a fun map like Shipment.  Allow snipers to roam freely around.  Mix up the guns a little more and have them more different for each situation.  Add more perks and different perks, I don't want all my classes to have the same perks.  Allow a lot of choices for killstreaks, like the support killstreaks and allow more control over killstreaks.  Actually allow snipers to be powerful and one hit kills, I think that might have been fixed in BO2 though.  You can always add more guns, nobody will complain about that.  Gameplay still should remain its run and gun fast pace as always; but don't try to make it too fast.  MW3 felt a little faster than previous ones, MW2 was perfect pace.  I just think it need some tweaks here and there and not a overhaul like in the campaign.  I mean you could always get rid of it and become fully multiplayer.

Anyway that's my rant of Call of Duty.  A game I once loved and now... pretty much hate.  But I still watch it just in case it will change.  It may be a false hope but I still hope.  To prove it, I bought all the DLC from COD4 too Black Ops, I don't buy DLC for most games.  The only 3 games I've bought DLC for are Halo, Call of Duty, and Battlefield 3.  Other than that I don't do it, because its usally not worth it too me.  If COD really wants me back, it has to have some changes to it.  Other wise it will just be a Spunkgargleweewee game that we like to make fun off.  I have a lot of criticism because I care, I want the game to succeed because its actually good.  If its going to be milked it better be chocolate milk.  The milk used to be good, but now its getting sour and gross... I don't know where I was going with that but eh.