Call Of Duty Has My Attention For The First Time In Ten Years

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Before we begin, I'd like to make it clear I have nothing against Call of Duty players. For the most part. However, the period during which I was all in on the series is one I look back on with frustration. For a chunk of my gaming life, I played nothing but FIFA and Call of Duty, and I'm still catching up with some of the fantastic games I missed all these years later.

The game that pulled me into the Call of Duty universe was the original Modern Warfare 2, specifically its fantastic multiplayer. I don't think I touched the campaign at all. I spent more time than I care to remember playing Modern Warfare 2 and am thankful there weren't end-of-year wrap-ups back then. My numbers would have made for grim reading. My K/D was also decidedly average for someone who had sunk that many hours into the game.

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I stuck with Call of Duty for a little while longer after the series moved on to Black Ops, but nothing after Modern Warfare 2 grabbed me in quite the same way. So much so that I reverted back to Modern Warfare 2 after a couple of weeks with Black Ops. I played Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer for as long as possible and vividly remember sitting in an empty lobby, struggling to come to terms with it being over.

Little did I know, Modern Warfare 2's servers would eventually be brought back from the dead. Well over a decade later, my interest in Call of Duty long over (outside of a brief two-week period during which I dabbled with Warzone), Xbox went and resurrected it. Fixing servers for multiple dormant Call of Duty games, I and so many others were sucked back in as various titles from the series' past shot to the top of the charts.

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