Just finished the Campaign.
This is my opinion so if you dont like it you can fuck off because I speak purely from a design notation.
1. The storytelling in this one was unique. The whole "mindfuck" element is definitely different from any of the other CoD titles and personally, I feel like it doesnt work the way it should. It works well enough but it just doesnt fit the series. I feel like this should have been a whole different game not under the CoD franchise. That being said, the campaign was a bit weak - dont get me wrong, a lot of the missions were very immersible but not enough of them were. They got the theme going real nicely but threw it off with things like red dot sights in the 60's? Now maybe they did exist back then - my military history only goes back to the 80's but regardless - you have all these old style weapons and then red dot sights and mk7 scopes? Seems a bit off to me.
Regardless. As a whole, the campaign was definitely interesting but a bit predictable. I knew from almsot the start what the entire story was going to be about. yet I kept playing because I wanted to see it not just assume. The best campaign of CoD? Not even close. Personally I think MW1, MW2 and even WaW have a better campaign.
2. Zombies. Cool beans. Kennedy. Pentagon. Shit load of fast zombies. I get it, its awesome. Thumbs up.
3. The multiplayer which I always dread to get into with CoD because of fags i tried out for a bit and I have to say off the bat, Treyarch really did a good job trying to make this CoD title much different than the rest as far as interface goes. Granted its still much the same but seeing your avatar is a change I wasnt expecting.
Playing a few matches I can feel a change, im not sure what it was but I felt it. More balanced I would say like many others have said. Its not so hectic and arcade like like MW2 tried to attempt and did a great job making it that way - but ruined the system at the same time. Leveling seems a bit quick, not sure whats up with that. Otherwise, seems solid. My first match there was a server issue but it was quickly fixed I think. I dont really know what that was about.
Anyway
This game is DEFO not the best CoD ever made, and if you think that than you need to hop off the fanboy dick and ride the core gamer horse because youll easily see that elements of MW1, MW2 and WaW are better in some ways. Black Ops may have made the MP more desirable and used a unique story telling variation to its SP but that doesnt make it the best one. Is it fun? Yea pretty damn fun no doubt about that - but all of them are fun.
My biggest grip - is that single player had far too many bugs for my liking. A console game should never have bugs, even though they are hard to get them all the amount i experienced are a bit absurd for a blockbuster game. Maybe spend more time making the game and less time worrying about if youll make 360 million dollars or 260 million dollars. just saying.
8/10 (only because the MP feels right this time, if it didnt i would give it a 7) Ill migrate to Black Ops multiplayer for sure since MW2 is unbearable and MW1 is dead as a door nail
TL;DR: 8/10 because im not a fanboy. Campaign is so-so, zombies etc etc, MP seems balanced, not the best CoD ever but ill keep playing