Jan. 2, 2008 -- MSNBC tallied in their Game of the Year readers' votes between December 19 and 27. "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" garnered 33 percent of the over 17,000 votes and is MSNBC Readers' Game of the Year. The runner-up was "Bioshock" at 22 percent of the votes. The second runner-up was "Mass Effect" at 10 percent.
Here are MSNBC readers' picks for the best in each genre:
• Best sports game: Madden NFL '08
• Best racing game: Project Gotham Racing 4
• Best casual game: Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
• Best family game: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
• Best music game: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
• Best handheld game: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
• Best role-playing game: Mass Effect
• Best action/adventure game: Bioshock
• Best shooter: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
View the full report for the runners-up in each category.
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
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Nowhere to be seen :O
we all know what the ms on msnbc stands for