Well, talking about an entertainment form with millions of passionate fans as a packaged goods industry isn't great — and irony doesn't work well on the internet. Even if something dark and unjust did happen at Infinity Ward, we enter troubling critical territory when the wrongs of the author, the studio or the distributor are visited upon the appraisal of their work. Movie history is littered with despicable characters who have made astonishing films; is Melancholia any less of a work because Lars von Trier claimed to be a Nazi during his Cannes press conference?
Tying in with the contempt for Activision is a distrust for the reviewers themselves. Several comments beneath my own review for Modern Warfare 3 had to be removed because they were essentially libellous. And this has happened hand-in-hand with the rise of the internet and the democratisation of opinion.
The louder you shout the more kudos you get and no matter what your opinion, someone else on the internet will agree with you — and you get a boost from that. It encourages people to think, 'I am correct, it's self-evident that I'm right, therefore the reviewer must be subject to bribery.
It's something of a farcical accusation. As one reviewer tweeted last night, games publishers barely trust us to take our own screenshots any more let alone keep quiet a widescale attempt to fraudulently secure favourable review scores. Furthermore, Call of Duty is perhaps the one entertainment brand in the world that doesn't need critical acclaim to ensure success. That's a quite staggering mathematical failure. But like other reviewers, I suspect, I wrestled with how to score Modern Warfare 3.
It isn't innovative, it isn't original, but it is ruthlessly compelling and packed with content. I am thoroughly enjoying it. Perhaps, however, we need to think about the critical criteria we use. Her colleague Daniel Krupa agrees. Once upon a time, blockbuster movies had critical merit too — the likes of Jaws and Star Wars, for example.
But now you get these behemoths like Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers and they are just explosion and spectacle.
Most people will defend them by saying it doesn't matter, they're just about fun. Maybe we're falling into that trap with Call of Duty. Perhaps we should expect more from our games. I am curiously heartened by this. I've contributed toward the problem, of course, by awarding Modern Warfare five stars — a decision I stand by. But I am also a huge fan of indie and art games; I was transfixed by Robin Hunickie's explanation of thatgamecompany's beautifully strange Journey at GameCity just a week before I reviewed MW3.
I want new, innovative games too, and judging by the current flourishing of the indie games sector, there is a growing audience for offbeat, unorthodox experiences. It could be that gamers are undergoing a process of genre fatigue; it might be something to do with this console life cycle coming to an end. And although it's a pleasing game and critically it's great, it's solid, there's a feeling of disappointment that it's not more than we expected.
Someone will be looking to step into this space — it should have been Battlefield really, but someone is surely looking to please these people who are so fed up with Modern Warfare.
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Modern Warfare 3 reviews: why is this the most hated game on the web? DaiDamTac New Member. You could probably mount a pretty strong argument that Modern Warfare 3 has more in common with something like FIFA that it does its first-person shooter peers.
The first game people tend to compare MW3 to is Battlefield 3. You could probably mount a pretty strong argument that Modern Warfare 3 has more in common with something like FIFA than it does its first-person shooter peers. FIFA is riding high. FIFA 12 is the best-selling sports game ever. EA is not going to jeopardise that. Not right now. Call of Duty finds itself in the same space.
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