User blog comment:DBD Abyss/Call of Duty: Ghosts Nemesis DLC coming to Xbox Live August 5th/@comment-70.196.1.74-20140802163620/@comment-1187559-20140802172248

It was completely lack-luster. The campaign was rather dull, and full of clichés. Furthermore, there was no real emotion or depth. It was meant to be America being invaded and on the receiving end, but it didn't feel like that at all, granted I'm not American, and with the amount of games/movies that feature America being somehow invaded or wrecked lowers my general attachment, Ghosts really took it to a new level of not caring. The actual emotional attachment was hardly shown, it's basically you see ODIN fire then suddenly your shot into a "10 years later" and frankly you've completely missed the worst of it, like watching the start of an argument and then coming back at the end of it. And this works on a more personal level, they made it so you play a specific character for the most part, aside from one-off missions, and they made him a mute. While non-speaking protagonists have been in earlier CoDs, in this case it didn't work. They tried to make some kind of character development without allowing us to know the character at all. Only your brother talks, and he's pretty much a cold bastard. Hell, in one level he points out how he wants to try and save your Dad, then a few missions later your Dad dies, and he doesn't give a shit. The worst part has to be the cliffhanger, which really seems like a cop out. Also, a lot of things that were heavily advertised make little to no appearance or mention. Riley is only in 2 missions, and no one talks about the masks really.

Multiplayer I can't talk about much. I played it a bit and found it dull. The weapons are lack-luster, none of them stand out at all, unlike MW2 where each gun had pros and cons. This game just uses simple formula for balance, and it makes the weapons dull. The maps are not as advertised. They said they would be bigger, and they're not. With every DLC they get smaller and smaller, even as far as remaking Dome and Shipment. It got boring to me very fast, so now I just play against bots.

Extinction I find OK, has a few issues with it, like the bosses being annoying more than "tough but fun", but aside from that I see nothing inherently wrong with it, but it's a bit annoying how they started shoehorning it into multiplayer.