Still, the good stuff - and there is good stuff!
Radio banter between old favs Soap, Price, and Ghost borders on the flirtatious.
Amongst the chatter there are some genuinely brilliant missions.
It’s proper second-act climax stuff.
And there are other highs.
Remember, by contrast, how ridiculous those past missions were, so enormous and fluid and brash.
Still, again, there are positives - there is still some good Call of Duty here!
The big maps are all great, really.
Some of the smaller ones are also excellent in their own right.
But it never, ever is.
This might seem like ridiculous criticism for a Call of Duty game.
What else should we expect from a series built on pro-military propaganda and official gun licensing?
But the reality is it needn’t be like this.
Retconned over the openly evil general Shepherd of the original Modern Warfare 2!
You could, actually, make something that has a stance.
Or better yet something that coherently and maturely explores a stance.
But it’s also one that’s terrified of you looking too closely at it.
