Call of Duty has officially jumped the shark

[Jericho941]

Observe the reveal trailer for Modern Warfare 3!

I was... disappointed with Modern Warfare 2, aka "Hey guys we've seen Goldeneye/The Rock/Black Hawk Down/Generation Kill too, those were pretty neat weren't they: The Game" but I was kinda hoping that after Infinity Ward bit the dust, and Treyarch actually showed some creativity with Black Ops, that whoever Activision picked to fill their shoes would do a decent job.

Well, at least I know I don't have to waste my money to find out! Let's break this down.

We start the trailer off reminding us that, in case you haven't heard, the Russians have successfully invaded America in a wildly implausible, Red Dawn style parachute assault, and Activision wants to make sure you know this.

0:11: An NPC tosses the player a magazine. Probably the last mag, so he'd better make it count. This was already done in Modern Warfare 2's blatant rip-off of Black Hawk Down when Ramirez, trapped in a downed Blackhawk, is tossed Sgt. Foley's last mag and told to make it count.

0:13: An Oscar-class SSGN launches a bunch of cruise missiles from visual range, on the surface, for some reason. This is almost as stupid as an F-15C doing a visual range Wild Weasel mission and flying as slow as a bunch of Little Birds in MW2. (Seriously. It was in formation).

0:15-0:20: Oh no, not 3NGLAND TOO! I'm sure that this will require a massive expansion of voice actors over MW2's cast of... mostly-British vaguely-SAS types.

0:20-0:27: The obligatory tunnel chase involves THE METRO this time! SO REAL.

0:27-0:38: FRANC3! The Americans must fight for Franc3 yet again! Um, I thought we already established that we had plenty to worry about at home.

0:38-0:46: You know, it's pretty sad when a series has used "burning vehicle narrowly misses YOUR FACE" so often that it does absolutely nothing for the viewer.

Makarov's narration: "It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man."

Yes, and apparently that man died with a knife through the eye in the previous game!

(The narration is over a bunch of scenes we've basically already seen in MW1/2.)

1:00: HOLY CRAP HELICOPTERS SPIN WHEN THEY CATCH FIRE!?!?!?!? THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE!!! REVOLUTIONARY GAME!

1:03: Because an emergency blow around a bunch of surface ships always ends well.

1:05: Blind fire. Because that was the one thing missing from the CoD series.

Side note: What is with that stupid HAAAAAAARNG noise they play as punctuation? It's stupid. Stop it. You're embarrassing yourself.

1:08: Yes, there is an AC-130 level. Again.

1:11: Yes, there are miniguns. Again.

1:12: Yes. You drive a boat through a burning obstacle course while some NPC shoots things. Again.

1:13: Yes, you are the passenger of a car where the driver does something awesome and you watch. Again.

1:16: HOLY CRAP GUYS AM3RICA IS UNDER ATTACK WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN

Count me out.

[Kommander]

I never understood how 5 hours of gameplay was worth full price.

[Jericho941]

I never understood how 5 hours of gameplay was worth full price.

That's Medal of Honor for you.

[Kommander]

Call Of Duty is short too, and I heard that Homefront was only 4 hours.

[mekender]

The single player missions are almost an afterthought to the real moneymaker which is the online multiplayer.

Personally I cant stand the MW multiplayer, It is just a joke.

I far prefer the battlefield games for their gameplay on multiplayer... Plus I like being able to fly the aerial vehicles.

[Matthew Mayner]

I abandoned the Call of Duty ship after Modern Warfare. What they did to the PC market in MW2 was insulting.

I'm done with these clowns. But hey Arma 3 is in the works.

[Jered]

Don't forget about G3RMANY. That noise is annoying.

And any game which uses "3" instead of "e" in the trailer does not make me want to buy it.

[SoupOrMan]

I never got into these games. I don't know why.

If you're also dealing with G3RMANY, do you have to worry about missions through N3UTRAL SWITZ3RLAND and into LI3CHT3NST3IN?

[dfwmtx]

H@t3rz g0nn@ h@t3

Holy crap! You get to shoot GUNZ at PEEPUL!!!!! This has never been done before in a game!!!!!!11!!!!

Does every game have to be revolutionary or innovative?

[dfwmtx]

Good point.