User blog comment:Cubuff37/My Official Review Of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare/@comment-1263839-20150131213136/@comment-2080691-20150203212759

@AugFC I don't see how Irons' motives were more original. His reasoning was this... "your leaders create wars that don't solve anything, so I'm going to kill everyone for it!" which is extremely unthought-out and random. Makarov's was basically "you killed our leader, so I'm going to terrorize the UN". That's not very original, but it's believable for a terrorist to think that way. Also, it seems like you're trying to make excuses for Sledgehammer when you say "KSpace costs money, and the more lines they gave him, the more millions they'd have to shell out". First of all, Kevin Spacey wasn't even great in this game when he WAS on the screen. Don't act like more screen time would've made it better because with the piss-poor writing in this game, it just would've lengthened an extremely boring and predictable plot. Secondly, you're acting like Sledgehammer not paying for more Kevin Spacey is an excuse for the campaign to be this poor.

And I'm not saying IW had a deep narrative, you're trying to put words in my mouth now. I just said they had better characters. If you insist to disagree, let's take a poll of "Who is the best character in the COD franchise?" and you and I both know that the characters from the BOps series and the MW series will blow away the characters in AW. It won't even be close. That you cannot deny.

One last thing, you're still trying to overimagine a personality of Gideon's that was never executed. You're giving them credit for a personality that they could've gone with, but never even tried to. The one thing I will agree with you on is that Treyarch has historically had the best storytelling by far. The characters are likeable, the antagonist (Menendez I mean) has a reason to hate the US, and the way he goes about attacking the US is actually original and well executed. The story made sense.

@Crazy sam10 Isn't being "evil just for the sake of being evil" kind of the point in terrorism? Makarov was a terrorist, his objective was to use violence and intimidation for political purposes which is almost exactly word for word the definition of "terrorism" on Google. I'm not denying that there isn't much characterization in the COD franchise, but it's better in the MW series and BOps series than it is in AW.