black ops 4 is not call of duty

like the title says, as of bo4, call of duty is no longer call of duty. bold statement, i know. well as "bold" as a stupid gaming statement can go.

to determine if this is true, we need to ask: what makes call of duty well... call of duty? what aspects define what a call of duty game is in the modern era?

to me, a cod game meets the following criteria:

1) action packed, linear campaign

2) fast/twitch first person shooter

3) quick time to kill (when compared to games like halo, battlefield etc.)

4) random weapon recoil

5) no armor system in multiplayer

6) health regeneration

7) no classes or character "roles" (so no such thing as a medic, support class, engineer etc.)

8) no buildables in multiplayer

9) 6 vs 6 multiplayer on traditional modes

10) create-a-class, level up and prestige systems

11) kill/score streak rewards in multiplayer

so if you look at any cod game from cod4 to ww2, they all fulfill all 11 of these criteria. even some of the earlier cod games (cod, cod 2, cod 3) would fulfill at least 6 of the 11 criteria listed.

this brings us to bo4... how many of these criteria does bo4 fulfull? well lets go through them all and see.

1) no, there is no campaign... pathetic

2) yes. although, the ttk is so long now this could be debatable but we'll give it this one.

3) no. 150 health + armor + extra health from crash, ttk is waaaaaaay longer in bo4.

4) no, bo4 has predictive recoil now.

5) no, bo4 has armor that you can apply on your loadout/class.

6) no, manual healing now.

7) no, you have a healer/ammo guy now (crash) & a character that builds walls (torque).

8) no, you can build/place barriers and wire traps pretty much wherever you want (torque).

9) no, 5 vs 5 is the norm in bo4.

10) yes

11) yes

that is only 3 out of 11! if the requirement of being a call of duty game is to have create-a-class, kill streaks and to be a fast paced fps then a game like crysis 2 complies and is more of a cod game than bo4 is.

let's face it. call of duty ww2, as bad as it is, will unfortunately be the last proper call of duty game. rest in peace.