First, I should tell you that COD4 was a &@#%ing XBOX Live awaking for me. I thought Live was for the birds until I found that little gem. I loved the single player of COD4 as well. Everything about it was dreamy. Maybe "best game ever" for me....just a hair behind Zelda on the Ninten.
So, when I read all the negative stuff about the dashed hopes and dreams from COD5 I was nearly distraught. But, I decided to through it in the ol' Gamefly queue for craps and giggles.
Opened 'er up tonight and have been at for about 4.5 hours. Very, very good game. Not COD4, but the best thing I have played short of that. Single player is solid. Fun, but the real deal is online multiplayer.
The maps are bigger, and there seems to be more of them....maybe my imagination. The guns are cool...the old timey stuff is cool once you resign yourself to the idea that this is a "period game." The Tank stuff can be fun, both when you have the tanks, and when you circle around them sniping the hell out of them. I came into this thinking the dogs would be stupid, and they aren't really that bad. Kinda cool that they help you figure out where &@#%ers are.
Maybe my thoughts will change after some more time with the game, but I am going to purchase it from Gamefly.