User blog comment:Cubuff37/My Official Review Of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare/@comment-1263839-20150131213136/@comment-6343006-20150203223607

Irons is no well concieved character because that's not what they were selling him as. Kevin Spacey was all over the promotions as far as the campaign goes, you're not being promised a complex and multi-layered character with surprising depth, you're being sold a Kevin Spacey preformance as a simplistic G.I. Joe villain. In fact, as far as that goes, he does it well, because he's the only one in the whole ensemble capable of any kind of charisma. They get Troy Baker, a veteran capable of giving a good performance when it counts and just make him narrate the whole thing.

It's that kind of attitude towards their talent that makes me curious who they'll get to sell you the next Advanced Warfare, which is why I'm glad Treyarch is coming next with a very different approach to celebrity characters. They've had Kiefer Sutherland, Gary Oldman,  Michael Rooker and so on and they don't try and make them the selling point of the campaign as if good graphics and a talented actor are all that they're about.