User blog comment:AntiScootaTwo/Advanced Warfare Havoc DLC preview/@comment-174.64.99.147-20150116003123/@comment-3967954-20150116135143

MW3 wasn't that bad.

Honestly, I think the majority of the community agrees that Ghosts was one of the weakest titles in the series to date. Poor map design was probably the worst thing about the game.

Sledgehammer have done a pretty good job, considering their only other project was MW3. AW has issues, but it's decent. If you nitpick at every single issue in the game, then sure it looks bad. But you could do the same to CoD4 (which was horribly balanced in retrospect) and MW2.