Call of Duty: Ghosts

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2.3

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  1. Dareviewer12
    Jul 22, 2014
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is **** This is the 2nd WORST COD ever and is the WORST game of 2013 for me. this game has nothing new. Its just the same thing from MW1. Full of 12 year old **** and it gets boring in a day. There is very little destructible environment compared to BF4. And single player story is a load of **** Its where the USA falls to its knees. WTF Activision. Who ever made this game should DIE… Expand
  2. RainbowPieFiM
    Nov 7, 2013
    2
    The graphics are from 2011, that's okey, but... the requeriments... i have a GTX 480 and in maximum settings i have "60" frames, with drops to 20fps and 1fps.
    70GB, yep.. 70GB for graphics from 2011 (Have textures that looks the same in Black Ops II and Black Ops II are only 20GB)
    The history pfff.... i don't want to talk about that. The Extinction mode is fine, is funny. Ah, and we    The graphics are from 2011, that's okey, but... the requeriments... i have a GTX 480 and in maximum settings i have "60" frames, with drops to 20fps and 1fps.
    70GB, yep.. 70GB for graphics from 2011 (Have textures that looks the same in Black Ops II and Black Ops II are only 20GB)
    The history pfff.... i don't want to talk about that.
    The Extinction mode is fine, is funny.
    Ah, and we don't have quickscope anymore (And we can't do ALT+TAB)    … Expand
  3. Thatweirdguy
    Nov 5, 2013
    2
    Ok now besides the fail graphics and stuff the PC version so Called Pre-load Just totally wasted24 GB that when u launch the game it totally deletes and re download 24GB Which took my like 2 Days
  4. richardh754
    Nov 5, 2013
    2
    PC version is a joke
    Graphics are poor, Gun sounds are poor
    Black Ops 2 is much better!
    Game pauses & stutters even on I7 6 core with 3 GTX 680s & 12GB Ram!
  5. Zurvan
    Nov 5, 2013
    2
    First of all I have played the old COD 1 en 2 on the pc. Those two are the best COD's and they are from the times that infinity ward and activision gave a damn about their consumers. Back when you paid 60$ for a full game and no 15$ map packs, back when the developers made actual expansion packs with new story line and new maps and not only 4 maps.
    So after such a long time I decided to    First of all I have played the old COD 1 en 2 on the pc. Those two are the best COD's and they are from the times that infinity ward and activision gave a damn about their consumers. Back when you paid 60$ for a full game and no 15$ map packs, back when the developers made actual expansion packs with new story line and new maps and not only 4 maps.
    So after such a long time I decided to get the newest installment because they hired a good writer to write this game. (I have not played black ops or any of the other cod's)

    The sad thing is that Activision hired Stephen Gaghan to do the writing but there isn't much dialogue in this game. You basically have an idea of what the story is about but you are shooting most of the time, there is no connections with the characters and the campaign is too short. The missions are varied but we have seen them in the previous COD's. All COD's have climbing down from a window and then shoot the guys inside the room, the snow missions are getting repetitive, the underwater mission is nice but we also had that. Also the 40gb install and 6gb of ram are just lazy coding or maybe all the DLC's are already installed and need a 15$ code to unlock it.

    The multiplayer is just a recycle of previous modern warfare's it seems: Same animation kill, reloading animation, same guns and knifing feels like you poke someone. The kill streaks are stupid because you can see the enemy on the radar and the dog attack is just overpowered.

    LOOKING FORWARD TO BLACK OPS 3 NEXT Year, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE :s    … Expand
  6. awkenney
    Nov 5, 2013
    2
    The single player component features the same outlandish fiction that has been prevalent since MW2. While the presentation was on-par, the game play was uninspired and unoriginal.
    The multiplayer component would be a rock-solid title if it were not for the incredibly aggressive anti-lag tech being applied to the game. In the COD4/World at War generation, this was easily resolved by    The single player component features the same outlandish fiction that has been prevalent since MW2. While the presentation was on-par, the game play was uninspired and unoriginal.
    The multiplayer component would be a rock-solid title if it were not for the incredibly aggressive anti-lag tech being applied to the game. In the COD4/World at War generation, this was easily resolved by dedicated servers which had min and max ping settings and the ability to turn anti-lag OFF.
    The anti-lag tech produces effects where your actions can be up to 2 seconds behind an opponent, giving you little hope to win in a face to face gun battle. It also impacts general hit registration. Hilariously, some guns are exempt from this. That being said, I can't in good conscience recommend a game that still has this problem after several iterations.    … Expand
  7. bieelll
    Nov 6, 2013
    2
    I wish I could give a better score, but since I've been locked away from the multiplayer due to not meeting the RAM specifications, even though my pc can run it smoothly, I think a game that makes me throw away my money is a game that doesn't deserve much.
  8. Ebelon
    Nov 6, 2013
    2
    I'm a hardcore CoD gamer that loves to compete to be the best, but with all these new "innovations" it has become impossible to get more than one kill without dying. Its an endless cycle; you run around, kill, get killed, then run around kill and get killed some more. The only way to get a +1,5 k/d is by camping, but I don't have time to waste my life hiding in a corner. This game justI'm a hardcore CoD gamer that loves to compete to be the best, but with all these new "innovations" it has become impossible to get more than one kill without dying. Its an endless cycle; you run around, kill, get killed, then run around kill and get killed some more. The only way to get a +1,5 k/d is by camping, but I don't have time to waste my life hiding in a corner. This game just doesn't require skill anymore.
    I was also very disappointed with the "customize your soldier", I was expecting something along the lines of rainbow six ,but it was more like GTA 4's customization options; barely anything to choose from.
    My major complaint though is the removal of Search and Destroy from pub games, I used to love playing Search and Destroy with my team, now its been replaced by this stupid search and kill confirm game type.
    The series sure went down hill after they fired West and Zampella. MW2 was a masterpiece, after that, it was the same call of duty trash. The series has officially died for me. Time to move on. Looking forward to Titan fall, which IMO is the true successor to MW2.    … Expand
  9. azarth
    Nov 7, 2013
    2
    Hi there, atm the state of the game is just awkward.
    1) Impossibile to play Single Player campaign due to a bug with some AMD and Nvdia video cards
    2) Graphic is simply AWKWARD and to damn heavy. Srsly i run Bf3 at full settings but this s*** snap in a 10 square meters map??!! I had to set to medium all graphic options and still i have some snap in certain moment, fps drop and so on. 3)    Hi there, atm the state of the game is just awkward.
    1) Impossibile to play Single Player campaign due to a bug with some AMD and Nvdia video cards
    2) Graphic is simply AWKWARD and to damn heavy. Srsly i run Bf3 at full settings but this s*** snap in a 10 square meters map??!! I had to set to medium all graphic options and still i have some snap in certain moment, fps drop and so on.
    3) 30 and more gb for a game like this?! Nice optimization
    4) Paying 60 for "playing" (if you can call it play) a beta. SHAME    … Expand
  10. grik
    Nov 8, 2013
    2
    First time im review a game. Iv only played MultyPlayer yet, thats why i bought it in first place. Let me tell you the first thing, avoid buying this game !
    Im a player since the first ages, playing COD feels like returning to the first Wolfenstein with better graphics. Soldiers seem to be fluctuating, they dont seem realistic not even close and the gameplay suffers with that.
    Iv seen    First time im review a game. Iv only played MultyPlayer yet, thats why i bought it in first place. Let me tell you the first thing, avoid buying this game !
    Im a player since the first ages, playing COD feels like returning to the first Wolfenstein with better graphics. Soldiers seem to be fluctuating, they dont seem realistic not even close and the gameplay suffers with that.
    Iv seen alot of games, played a few, if you want to use multiplayer in the PC version, avoid buying. I dont know if BF4 is better, i played the Beta and it felt the same.
    COD Ghost is a Beta game that will be forever beta im sure, even correcting some things i dont think they will be correcting the big picture of the problem.
    Another thing, i felt nausea's playing COD Ghosts, its because of the FOV being to low, its ridiculous never had this problem with a game.
    I would love to have my money back    … Expand
  11. omaifkngod
    Nov 8, 2013
    2
    BO2 was my first attempt in the COD series, and I loved every minute of it. Fast forward a year later, and I'm dying to play Ghosts. Due to money and time issues, I chose Ghosts over BF4 and GTA. What a huge mistake. Really disappointing. Mouse sensitivity issues, game crashes, in-game sounds not balanced etc. Last COD i will ever play.
  12. SuperGrover
    Nov 9, 2013
    2
    We were promised dedicated servers, instead we got peer to peer this seems nothing more than MW3 with a pretty wrapper over it. And by the 4th day, the same hackers who were around in MW3 are back, standing in the middle of the map getting head-shot after head-shot, with scores like 38 for 0 and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Hackers and lag. This game is intrinsically broken.
  13. samahl
    Nov 12, 2013
    2
    Sure the action is there with cliche moments and more explosions than the all Hollywood actions movie ever made combined, but we have seen it before.

    A step back and could easily be a DLC instead of a independent game.
  14. StarGame1994
    Nov 12, 2013
    2
    Do not like! The same thing every year! Once the dog out of the new, the rest is all the same thing that we saw back in 2007, in Modern Warfare 1. I even encountered a feeling that the graphics and everything else in the first Modern Warfare better than in ghosts. 2 points only because I once loved this series until it has slipped to the so-called pipeline. That's my opinion.
    P.S. Errors    Do not like! The same thing every year! Once the dog out of the new, the rest is all the same thing that we saw back in 2007, in Modern Warfare 1. I even encountered a feeling that the graphics and everything else in the first Modern Warfare better than in ghosts. 2 points only because I once loved this series until it has slipped to the so-called pipeline. That's my opinion.
    P.S. Errors certainly clear that I am Russian, but in spite of them, I really wanted to express their discontent.    … Expand
  15. daiv156
    Nov 12, 2013
    2
    This game is horrible.You need 6GB RAM over 30GB hard disk and DirectX11 cards and other things.Bad multiplayer,bad singleplayer. infinity ward CoD=SSDF(Same Different Year)
  16. SILENTBOB
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    Activision release a beta game to the market.

    The multi-player on this game is a mess. To get it working correctly the use of 3rd party plugin's is required, but by using these plugins you will run the risk of your account being banned. This is supposed to be a next gen game but it doesn't support sli. Even the steam overlay is not recommended with this game. Takes another    Activision release a beta game to the market.

    The multi-player on this game is a mess. To get it working correctly the use of 3rd party plugin's is required, but by using these plugins you will run the risk of your account being banned.

    This is supposed to be a next gen game but it doesn't support sli. Even the steam overlay is not recommended with this game. Takes another multi-player aspect away from a bad game.Theres that many things wrong or broke in the game that the 5000 max letters wouldn't be enough.

    In its current state avoid the PC version of the game.

    Cons    … Expand
  17. Zabre
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    The game does a great job!... of doing the same thing with the Cod 4 engine that IW did with the other CoD games. Disgustingly bad singleplayer paired with poor graphics and too much of an emphasis on multiplayer make this game an obvious miss for those looking for a truly good time.
  18. Kanaric
    Nov 15, 2013
    2
    If anyone waited for this game to be the "last chance" they held on too long and cant be taken seriously. Expected release from CoD for any objective gamer. Expected meaning it is terrible.
  19. trollkorv
    Nov 16, 2013
    2
    Worst game in the series. We're not here for innovation but one does expect some quality to a title like this. Graphics are very poorly optimised, sound is way, way uglier than its predecessors and level design is uninspired. Don't even ask about the story of the single player campaign. Everything feels worse than the last time around. They've actually made it worse! How clueless can aWorst game in the series. We're not here for innovation but one does expect some quality to a title like this. Graphics are very poorly optimised, sound is way, way uglier than its predecessors and level design is uninspired. Don't even ask about the story of the single player campaign. Everything feels worse than the last time around. They've actually made it worse! How clueless can a studio be. MW2 is better than MW3 is better than Ghosts. Infinity Ward is apparently a worthless studio without West and Zampella. A big waste of money this is.… Expand
  20. woofwoof
    Nov 18, 2013
    2
    I started off excited about the new COD, but this game is so bad, it's hard to know how to start the review.
    This game does not run properly, even on a high end system. It crashes frequently, freezing up the pc completely. Also there is micro-stutter all the time. The FPS keeps dropping extremely low. The graphics looks dated and the textures are very, very bad. The fov is extremely    I started off excited about the new COD, but this game is so bad, it's hard to know how to start the review.
    This game does not run properly, even on a high end system. It crashes frequently, freezing up the pc completely. Also there is micro-stutter all the time. The FPS keeps dropping extremely low. The graphics looks dated and the textures are very, very bad. The fov is extremely small and likely to induce motion sickness, which actually happened to a friend of mine.

    The gameplay also has huge problems. The flinch is extremely strong and the weapons are overpowered. This means that the first person to hit the target will win every duel, and you will die without a chance to react, over and over again. Because there are no dedicated servers and huge ping differences, combining with the op weapons, playing is extremely frustrating.

    The character customization is ridiculously complicated. To unlock challenges you have to have "operations" active, which means that you will take years unlocking challenges you would have otherwise completed many times. What kind of imbecile came up with that idea? And of course there is widespread hacking. Here in Europe there are now hackers, not just wallhackers, but aimbotters in almost every other game and nothing is being done about it. I bought every COD, but this is the last one. I hope this review can change someones mind about buying this game. If they lose most of their PC customers Activision would care enough to start fixing the issues, but I doubt it. Uninstalling.    … Expand
  21. Rapapara
    Nov 21, 2013
    2
    I love this game it is so awesome, great optimalization great gameplay i can feel next gen just looking at it, epic upgrades and other stuff

    nah just kidding same as 5 last parts of the series 2/10
  22. kwilks3
    Nov 21, 2013
    2
    This game is garbage. Horribly optimized, no dedicated servers like promised(yes, another P2P matchmaking system), and the spawn system puts you in the middle of the opposing team. Graphics are average at best. Like others have said, they took a few steps back with this one. Even the weapons sound like toys. I'm glad I only bought the game, and not the map packs. This will be the last CODThis game is garbage. Horribly optimized, no dedicated servers like promised(yes, another P2P matchmaking system), and the spawn system puts you in the middle of the opposing team. Graphics are average at best. Like others have said, they took a few steps back with this one. Even the weapons sound like toys. I'm glad I only bought the game, and not the map packs. This will be the last COD from infinity ward I buy. I should have learned my lesson from MW3. Black Ops 2 is way better.

    BTW, all the game modes are available in core mode, but in hardcore you only get 3. Very F'n lame IW!. And you can't use the "Free Fall" map in hardcore either as of now.

    The only i'll give this game is that the maps are very nice, but that's all this game gets from me. Over powered dogs and your typical crappy lag compensation makes this game almost unplayable. Even high end PC's struggle to play this game evenly at normal settings.

    Activision, Infinity Ward, I give you two middle fingers ,,l,,(-_-),,l,, for putting out this garbage you call a game. You have officially ruined the COD franchise in my eyes.    … Expand
  23. NavyAlphaGamer
    Nov 23, 2013
    2
    God awful PC port. Multi-player is nothing new. Single-player is the same OVER-THE-TOP story. If the this is Call of Duty's ''Next Gen'' game, then Battlefield has nothing to worry about. Don't waste your time with this game, especially the PC version.
  24. The_true_critic
    Nov 24, 2013
    2
    Here it goes. Call of Duty: Ghosts, maybe good, maybe bad, is it a remake or a ressurect. Well my critic is final and on my honest opinion this is one of the worst remakes I've ever seen. Past-gen graphics, horrible gameplay, nothing new compared to the versions before, it's just painfully repeated. I'm only giving a 2 because the development team worked hard copying the 3d models. I'mHere it goes. Call of Duty: Ghosts, maybe good, maybe bad, is it a remake or a ressurect. Well my critic is final and on my honest opinion this is one of the worst remakes I've ever seen. Past-gen graphics, horrible gameplay, nothing new compared to the versions before, it's just painfully repeated. I'm only giving a 2 because the development team worked hard copying the 3d models. I'm not going to buy your game until the 9 years old go away, the story becomes interesting, and the game becomes cheaper.… Expand
  25. Gamer70
    Dec 6, 2013
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is a crap-optimized, otherwise it would not be bad, shame on you IW!The next idiot who will give money out of it!The graphics are a step backward from previous parts!The PC community has not been watching nothing!… Expand
  26. BRBullet
    Dec 13, 2013
    2
    This game is terrible, the whole look of the game is grey and boring. its not optimized and even the main menu is laggy. I have a great pc witch can run anything 1000 times better than this crap.

    The only thing ''ok'' in this game are the maps, nothing more than ''ok''. The rest of the game is plain Im very sad over the money i paid for this crap. The new unlocking system is very    This game is terrible, the whole look of the game is grey and boring. its not optimized and even the main menu is laggy. I have a great pc witch can run anything 1000 times better than this crap.

    The only thing ''ok'' in this game are the maps, nothing more than ''ok''. The rest of the game is plain Im very sad over the money i paid for this crap. The new unlocking system is very boring and slow. THIS GAME IS NOT FUN, IT IS COPY PASTE. This is no joke, its plain BORING and LAGGY.    … Expand
  27. insyncgamer
    Dec 29, 2013
    2
    Ok so I already reviewed this game and originally gave it a 1 as my first impressions warranted that. I have spent the last few days playing (all night I might add) as I couldn't figure out what it was I was doing wrong to get so many deaths. Now I am not a great COD player but on Blops 2 I'll rarely go neg but Ghosts was just fishy I was getting killed so much.

    I do still stand on my    Ok so I already reviewed this game and originally gave it a 1 as my first impressions warranted that. I have spent the last few days playing (all night I might add) as I couldn't figure out what it was I was doing wrong to get so many deaths. Now I am not a great COD player but on Blops 2 I'll rarely go neg but Ghosts was just fishy I was getting killed so much.

    I do still stand on my point that it is not next gen but it is an improvement ie we have prettier maps albeit not up to par of what other games have and are doing. Super fast reactions as well as a good knowledge of maps seem to be extremely important in doing well. Staying together as a team also seems to work well.

    I from my experience have had more then just a handful of games/deaths where I'm almost certain aimbots and other hacks are being used. This is not a small problem but quite common compared to Black Ops where I didnt have consistent problems.

    I feel this game actively promotes camping with way too many little corners which allow people to hide with nothing but one point to aim at. Now I know there is always a corner in COD maps which can be abused but were talking not one two or three but multiples on every map.

    When I first heard about bigger maps I thought great. That was until I played on them and found that the action would be miles away with no enemies in sights. Until next minutes when there everywhere and I get killed 3 times in a row.

    Onto my last point as I could go on forever but the spawn system is not just bad, terrible but flawed from the very ground up. If you cannot implement a system where by you are not within line of sight and xx metres from a opposite teams player them you should not have released the game. I couldn't believe it when I saw them advertising a DLC map pack after how terrible this game currently and most likely always will be. We should get the DLC for free. Do you actually expect us to buy a DLC after the countless lies. No quick-scoping lie, we'll fix things LIE (you clearly carried on working on DLCs).

    In the future all I can say is I should of listened to the warnings if you can only choose one game to buy my advice is do not buy this one. In all seriousness either buy Black Ops 2 or just wait until the best COD producer Treyarch does next Novembers release. I have faith they will give us what WE want not fish and dog ai that no one cares about.

    I loved COD and IW you have got so big headed that it has blown right up in your face this time when if you had just listened to what your fans said you would of at least made an average game as creativity is not something you do well.

    Revised from 1 to 2 only due to the MP having a few nice new bits and bobs but nothing worth more then a £12 DLC    … Expand
  28. Driftic
    Jan 6, 2014
    2
    This game is a clone to all the other modern warfare games. The PC version is practically unplayable due to the amount of bugs and almost non existent optimisation. The singleplayer story made me question humanity as a species because of how stupid it is. Dont buy this game unless you want to torture somebody.
  29. Darklion24
    Jan 10, 2014
    2
    i bought this game for 120$ via steam, once installed, the single player have a lag on the welcome screen, when tried to play MP the game is totally lag, I have 16GB RAM, R9280XOC, 1100T AMD, 8MB UP 3MB Down Internet , im fan of this game since Mw but i feel i loose my money with this, I prefeer to play MW3 and MW2 instead this, i can play BF4 and other games without problems... Pleasei bought this game for 120$ via steam, once installed, the single player have a lag on the welcome screen, when tried to play MP the game is totally lag, I have 16GB RAM, R9280XOC, 1100T AMD, 8MB UP 3MB Down Internet , im fan of this game since Mw but i feel i loose my money with this, I prefeer to play MW3 and MW2 instead this, i can play BF4 and other games without problems... Please dont buy this game.… Expand
  30. SenorCocainum
    Jan 12, 2014
    2
    The Call Of Duty games are really just the same, every new game has the same weapons as the game prior but look slightly different and adding one or two more perks. When this game was announced it was said to be the pinnacle of the franchise, that this was the best one. However, I found this game to be the biggest anti-climax ever. After all the hype, all of the waiting, we finally gotThe Call Of Duty games are really just the same, every new game has the same weapons as the game prior but look slightly different and adding one or two more perks. When this game was announced it was said to be the pinnacle of the franchise, that this was the best one. However, I found this game to be the biggest anti-climax ever. After all the hype, all of the waiting, we finally got presented with possibly one of the worst games in the franchise. It's graphics are terrible and the PC port was downright awful. As always, no thought was put into the story line and all focus was put into the multiplayer. Also it seemed that Activison was observing Treyarch and decided to put their own version of Zombies into the game. This however turned out to be terrible to as it didn't contain a lot of content and became boring seeing the same enemy 50 times every wave. It seems Activision didn't put a lot of time into this and wanted it out before the fanboys got too hectic. Maybe further updates can resolve these problems but for now, I recommend you don't buy it.… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. PC PowerPlay
    Dec 30, 2013
    80
    It's exactly what fans of the franchise have grown to expect. No surprises here, folks. [Jan 2014, p.90]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Nov 25, 2013
    60
    Nothing to see here in terms of innovation: the campaign is dull, the multiplayer fun. But this time, the air of sameness is a little bit too much. [Issue#236]
  3. IncGamers
    Nov 24, 2013
    40
    An utterly horrible PC port mars an otherwise very, very average Call of Duty game. Nothing to see here.
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