You could argue that every video game is an action, and you’d be right! For this award though, we’re looking at those games whose inherent activity that you have agency over is just so gosh dang good that you can ignore everything else about it. The games whose ability to rock you like a hurricane more than makes up for a silly story, occasional glitches or even a lack of ambition.
Over on the multiplayer front Activision is trying something new: Content that’s actually free and meaty enough to chew on. There’s a substantial amount of the stuff coming in the first season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which begins on December 3.
With all the future DLC coming as free updates, it would make sense to throw Call of Duty Zombies fans a chewed up, soggy old bone.
A stacked package of single-player and multiplayer offerings, Call of Duty Modern Warfare may not hit every mark that it fires but this ballsy reinvention of the franchise is still the blockbuster benchmark that is thrilling, thoughtful and terrific.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare may have a gripping mission featuring a stretch of desert road that you fight to reclaim, but Russian players aren't exactly happy with history being rewritten in this stage.
Modern Warfare might just be the reset key to the entire franchise, the new template from which a decade’s worth of Call of Duty is based, just like the original Modern Warfare was so many years ago when it rewrote the book on cinematic first-person action and propelled video games into the mainstream spotlight.
It would seem that physical versions of Modern Warfare are already out in the wild, with some skeevy individuals using the hype around the game to make an exorbitant profit.
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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