@Megawizard: Maybe you're new to chip manufacturing, but reduction in die size is one of the main ways chips are improved, it happens regularly, typically every other generation of chip. It's not a gimmick nor does it make the chip unstable or somehow deficient (otherwise it would still be in RnD), it just straight up makes the entire chip fit in less space.

Really this news isn't anything special, simply a new gen of cards coming.

@jenovaschilld: What you just said is pretty much "bad drivers". Late is bad , doesn't need a different name :)

@Karmazyn: That you just compared a manufacturing process to a piece of software shows you don't know what you're talking about. This is a hardware leap, something that has, does, and will continue to happen in order to make videocards and chips in general faster. It's not some gimmick, it's literally how hardware gets better.

@0m39AX: The difference is in the gameplay specifics. Most shooters have some form of specific flavor to gunplay or movement, meanwhile this game has gone full generic. Shooting is heavily aim assisted so you just run around shooting from the hip, and the inventory/perk system is simplified way down into a few recharge cards and map pickups.

People say that CoD is simple and casual, Battlefront makes CoD look complex. It's very polished, but very shallow.

Spotty acquisitions? On the contrary I'd say they've had a track record of picking up some of the most promising devs in the industry. Then... they run those devs into the ground, choking them with anti-consumer features and unattainable release schedules.

If they simply picked up great devs and said "have this money and advertising, make something good" they'd be crapping all over Activision/Ubisoft and wouldn't have a reputation as the devil that devs should avoid working with.

@88mikelll: I'm not a journalist either, nor are the people I associate with, but I expect them and myself to be able to form a sentence.

Your writing is so terrible, you literally need to take the writing class you prescribe. How can you judge a journalists writing skills when you yourself don't know how writing works? Can't dodge that hypocrisy.

@lefthandbandito: Graphics aren't that good, can't do those exact moves. Hence, not everything. "Has the guns" doesn't count for much at all.

@cejay0813: The games are great, the problem is they're all so similar and released so often. Other franchises are also pretty similar in iterations at times, but they wait, understanding that their gamers are still enjoying what they have.

When CoD wants to shove another title down my throat, for a lot of money, when I already own the same game from last year? I'm not buying. If CoD only came out every 2-3 years, and instead had substantial DLC and improvements for each game during that time, it'd get a lot less hate.

Battlefield, which had a 2 year gap between 3 and 4, still got that similar overdone hate but not nearly as much, and those games are substantially improved during their life cycle.

@shadow580: Yep, and even EA lets you play their full games for a few trial hours on Origin.

@Drkoolbeanz: Other reviews are out, the embargo is up. It's completely within Gamespot's profit interest to release their review asap for ad revenue and to ride the hype. Holding the review to check the servers sounds like a believable reason, unless you can think of another reason it would help to wait?