Call of Duty and the Evolution of Modern Games

So last week I borrowed Call of Duty: Ghosts from a friend of mine. And having enjoyed the Modern Warfare series I was looking forward to playing the game and seeing what the game had in store. After about 1-2 hours of playing I realized something, it's the exact same game it always has been. Now there's new guns, different perks and some extra kill streaks, but other than that it's the same. The game literally has not evolved in 6 years. When Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare came out, it was an amazing game with new, innovating ways to play. I loved, and still love, to play that game online, but it hasn't changed.

As a gamer I'm always looking for new games with new stories and new ways to play. But when game developers are constantly releasing the same game year after year, it gets redundant.This is why I like games like Rainbow six. They are constantly innovating their games and making them better. Take their new game Rainbow Six: Siege, it's different than the last Vegas series that they did and they've tried to add elements to the game. This is what I like about developers, when they try to add something new and take risks.

Take a look at the Assassin's Creed series. The original came out in 2007 and there wasn't a whole lot like it out there at the time. But as the game progressed you could see them adding in new elements to the game and taking risks. They even failed; from the tower defense missions of Revelations to terrible game-play of Assassin's Creed 3 you can see that they failed and it looked like the franchise was going to continue to spiral downward. But they took another Risk with Black Flag, and it worked and they revived the franchise bring it back to the quality that we loved in the first three games of the series.

My point is this though, games need to evolve and game developers need to stop being scared of changing there game and potentially making a "bad" game, because when they don't change and innovate what they have, their going to get left behind and nobody is going to want to play their games anymore.