I call it Call of Dookie because it's exactly that: crap.
There's nothing good or innovative about the series. It's designed to keep children and adults that don't like using their brains happy until the next popular game comes out.
Gamers like myself enjoy using our brains to succeed and win. There's no thinking required in something like Call of Duty. The series should be boycotted by all.
This was a thinking-man's game, but I don't mean that to be gender-exclusive because there's a few women that played SOCOM. I say few because it got incredibly intense online.
You’re right, C.O.D. blows - with lousy multiplayer and maps that look small & cheap, weapons that are crap. My 13 yr old whose into playing XBox military games like Battlefield 3 looked at the trailer for the upcoming futuristic BLOPS on youtube and said it looked like they managed to make it worse than it already was.
For thinkin’ games, I prefer strategy games. I got tired of FPS games years ago. Trying to beat Civ 5 on Deity level difficulty with only full domination victory enabled, now that gets my juices flowing. Plus, there is the possibility of getting to deploy nuclear-powered Giant Death Robots against France, which is always fun.