What do you think is going to be more eye-catching this fall, Call of Duty: Ghosts 2, or a WWI Battlefield? I still doubt Battlefield would have a prayer of outselling COD, but I just don’t see that much excitement around a Ghosts 2 launch, compared to where things would be if COD was heading back to WWII after nearly a decade away from it. And that was even before this rumor that Battlefield is making a World War I game.
This makes much more sense, and is a far better idea. The other rumor about this year’s Call of Duty, one based seemingly in nothing but logic, is that the series will return to World War II with Infinity Ward’s new installment. No offense to Infinity Ward, but that’s simply how it is. If the series wants to stay fresh, there needs to be some diversity between its games, and Ghosts is the most likely candidate to get cut, because of how forgettable it is as a brand, and how much the original was disliked. The real problem, however, is that Call of Duty games are starting blur together more than ever into one big blob of “near future shooters.” While Black Ops started back in Vietnam, and Modern Warfare was in some vague approximation of present day, the series has now split into three between Ghosts, Black Ops and Advanced Warfare, and now all are near-future shooters full of robots and drones and elaborate holographic HUDs and everything else that comes with that kind of tech.
It also marked the first severe decline in sales for the series in years, and though it wasn’t the lowest point (that would be Advanced Warfare a year later), it was nothing to be celebrated.
Made by Infinity Ward, now lacking its founders who made the Modern Warfare games, it was generic, and multiplayer upset both casual and pro players alike. The original Call of Duty: Ghosts is not exactly a beloved game in the series. But it shouldn’t be, and Ghosts 2 is not the direction the series needs to go this fall.
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