Let’s be frank people. The height of this series was with Modern Warfare, I mean come on, it won GOTY. But now it’s like Halo or Sonic or any other originally good game that went to hell when they started milking it. People who like CoD and enjoy playing the same game with pretty much the same weapons will enjoy it, but for everyone else it’ll probably be a washout. Granted it looks alright, but then I wouldn’t buy a game just for it’s graphics, else we’d all be playing Crysis 
True, but they’re just overpowered. It doesn’t take any skill at all to throw your 3 grenades randomly in 3 directions were people may be and get kills. The game should reward a little more thinking, like more carefully thrown grenades where you are fairly certain an enemy is. Less range or less power. In the game world, they should be less powerful than C4.
All fair points, but the main reason people will buy this game is for the new. People are tired of the CoD4 maps, perks, tactics, streaks, but not the core gameplay. They are looking for another game, with similar gameplay but with all I just said included.
Couldn’t say it any better myself.
Halo didn’t go to hell (In fact, I’d call it a game of the year if 50% of all people weren’t dumbasses, leaving the other 50% divided up into 35% dickheads and the remaining 15% people who actually know how to play). For the subject of Sonic, those games don’t deserve to be mentioned. They weren’t just milking the series- they didn’t even try to make the games (unless you count the vomit-inducing dialogue, horrendous gameplay gimmicks and intentionally very-nearly-mentally challenged and deformed characters as effort). Halo however made decent games like Halo Wars, and the Call of Duty series had its own decent games that could be counted as milking ( but don’t forget those were developed by Treyarch). Infinity Ward has a consistent record for games that don’t suck or are mediocre in any way, shape or form. Their track record is just as good as Valve’s, I dare say
Treyarch is the reason i’ve never gone anywhere near W@W, though i’ve heard its actually a good game :S
Them sources are highly unreliable.
No, the height of the series was Call of Duty. It won game of the year as well and was around before all these console style Call of Duty’s that completely trashed the gameplay that made the original CoD so great. CoD4 was not bad, but it was not up to the standards of the original.