CW, if you like this better than CoD4, you're mental.
Nah, I know everyone likes different things, but I'm with the reviewers on this one. The gameplay is really annoying. For a start the turn/aim sensitivity is way too low (you can change it but it's unusally bad for a default setting), running and shooting is very clunky, but what annoys me the most (and what I think the reviews are getting at); you can't just press "cover", you don't know whether you're covered or not until you try to run off and you find yourself stuck on the edge. It's just awkward all-round. I've just looked at the disc and realised it's made by the Hitman guys, and the Hitman games are exactly the same control-wise (clunky, more like you're driving a car than moving a human being, which was my problem with Assassin's Creed). This is what makes CoD4 so great - it runs at such a high FPS (even the dashboard blade comes on at 100mph) that it's smooth as butter and it feels like you're controlling a person, it feels totally natural to move and hide and shoot. It's never awkward.
Good story but it reminds me of the 24 game. Was looking forward to it, and I want to love it, but I'd be kidding myself if I said it was enjoyable. The best games immerse you but with this I'm constantly thinking, turn you bastard, cover, for fuck's sake cover properly, you're dead now you bastard.
And how many fucking times do they have to say fuck in a fucking sentence? I think I've heard two fucking lines since the start of the fucking game that don't have the word "fuck" in them at some fucking point.