good luck to these guys i hope they will and serously take some cash away from activision,

Unless the charges of insubordination and breach of fiduciary duty' are substantiated and upheld. Reckon they thought they could do no wrong?

I was really quite aggravated when I found out the direction Activision wants to take the Call of Duty franchise.
'Action/Adventure'? Ugh.
Just as long as Modern Warfare stays untouched unless it's by these two, I'm okay.
Still frustrating though.
Don't interfere with art.

I would hardly call MW art its just the current benchmark of a genre.

There has to be something done with this franchise. I mean they are looking for a COD game every 12 months. Even with IW at its height they would be hard pressed to continue delivering record breaking games within a game archtype as confined as a shooter.

Forget Treyarchs involvement as well. The franchise needs a breather.

i think the franchise defiantly needs a breather, like halo, give it 4 years or so, there doesnt need to be a COD every single year like fifa, madden etc etc, i hope they all leave infinity ward and set up a new company, its been no secret that infinity ward emplyees have many times expressed their bad feelings for activision

Am i the only one on here that just doesnt want to hear anything more about that damn franchise......

Not only do i find the game boring, easy and ultimately little more than an update of the last one when push comes to shove but rich people arguing over how much who is owed by what for what because of what is so damn boring i can't be bothered to even finish my poi...............

Yawn!

Oh although on another point i hope anyone sues Activision over anything, it's no secret that almost everyone over the age of 12 or with an IQ of 3 figures find's their games trivial and their attitude towards retail disgusting.

Cue the fanboy flamming.......... Sigh

hat off to you mark, i feel exactly the same, after 2 years in developement i feel the game is just an expansion pack, and its so arcade like now its just horrible, i agree activision just churn out crap music games and multiple sequels, prototype was basically the hulk with a different main character, problem is now cod is so big, but i wont touch another game in this franchise, its basically for the kids online, ive already had people in slaggin off bad company 2, saying its a copy of mw2, unreal !! like cod were the original fps, seems now everyone is a fanboy of everything !

Yeah good point Paul........ Prototype or as my attempt at humour says..... FLOTO-HYPE was pure rubbish, all the things that made Hulk ultimate destruction good on the PS2 or original XBOX was binned and instead we got a rubbish character in a game world where every vehicle was a damn yellow cab....... RUBBISH! And the game camera...... Oh dear no!

Bad company 2 is amazing im playing it right now ( well inbetween typing lol ) although for me a game is measured by it's one player contenet not it's online play.

My advice is to bitch slap any fool who comes into your place today and moans about it............. Not to mention the fact how can they slate something they have not played??????? Weird people are everywhere right?

It seems that nowdays if you take a stand against something thats popular then your the wrong person, nobody can tell me or even attempt to argue with me that a majority is always right, i mean look at all the people who voted for labour at the general election........ See how that worked out eh? lol

(ooooh little bit of politics, little bit of politics )

Paul Johnson for Editor......... The campaign starts here!!!!

Although at first i was not to sure about MW2 i have stuck with it for 2 hours a night pretty much since release.

there is a reason for this.

Nothing in a real world environment plays as well we normally play 6-8 players on our team/clan

Im not impressed with the Demo for BC2 but the footage for MoH looks good, I just hope it has the game modes for multiplayer.

As for single player content.... I really dont care

MW2 is without doubt a great game and the COD franchise probably does need a break but the public thirst for FPS' is so strong that it can't take a break.

Imagine how Activision shareholders would view a break in the franchise and
then sit idly by as other publishers move in one the territory that COD won fair-and-square.

It has to be said that all those games journalists who claimed that MW2 was a significant improvement on MW1 need to get back outside to some fresh air - frankly it's just an update.
A good update, but an update just the same.

The larger problem with COD is the lack of age restrictions on the muti-player as it's now become almost teenage domain which is frustrating.

As for the two IW employees getting their pay-off then they delivered the game Activision wanted so they should get their money. If they are overpaid then Activision shouldn't have gave them the contracts if they didn't deserve them. Too many times now a contractual agreement is made and then come payday one side decides to slither out. Stand up and pay what you agreed to - if the IW boys broke the terms of the contract then they're out of luck.

MW2 has sold over 3 million copies in the UK alone, so I think it is safe to say that the public have voted with their feet on that one regardless of what the hardcore gamers think. Activision and IW definitely got it right last year and fair play to them for generating massive exposure fot eh games industry as a whole on the back of their own success. Sad that the IW Studio heads have been ousted but it's pretty common knowledge that there was tension between Activision and these guys that has built over the years. It was probably always going to be headed for a parting of ways as there is only room for so many egos out there...

This is almost always what happens when you let your company get swallowed up or make it public. It happend to Gary Gygax with TSR to WoTC, and countless other biz models. If they wanted to maintain control they should have kept it indy, and internet distributable vs. retail.

This is how Activision treats their most respected developer and blockbuster maker? The developers that put them on the map? For shame. I hope they get sent to the poor house.