Is Call of Duty an "un-game"?

[KillerGremlin]

This seems timely. From Reddit's front page:



Destructoid has undoubtedly gone downhill, but yeah. Between this and the Zelda-Gamespot controversy, I think reviewers better start checking their shit. Or maybe do away with the number scores.

This criticism is poor, btw:

Walker calls Modern Warfare 3 an "un-game", a designation he is undoubtedly quite proud of. He complains that Modern Warfare 3 does not let him choose how to play and restricts him to tight, unyielding corridors. In his latest article, he attempts to argue that linearity isn't his problem (thus freeing him up to enjoy Half-Life without being hypocritical) but he simply confirms that it was his problem. Because honestly, Modern Warfare 3 is about as "open" as the Half-Life series. More importantly, it's as open as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare which everybody loved before the series became too popular and needed taking down a peg or two.

You can have restrictive linearity, and open linearity.