Army of Two can’t seem to steal Call of Duty 4’s thunder
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Posted April 14th, 2008 at 11:11pm
by Corey Tamas
Electronic Arts, publisher of the wildly successful Call of Duty 4, describes competitors’ attempts to usurp the first person shooter’s pole position as “failing to inspire”. EA marketing guy David Tyler wasn’t shy about reminding print mag MCV about who’s number one where the shooter genre is concerned: “We’re pleased to have Call of Duty 4 leading the way in the FPS genre, with recent launches such as Army of Two and Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 failing to inspire.” Sure, it’s a bit like asking a Ford dealer if he likes the latest products from Honda, but EA has sold more than 1.3 copies of CoD4 in the UK alone, so he has reason to be smug. “One of the things we’ve seen is that people outside of what you’d consider ‘normal’ gamers, are actually getting into this a lot, including quite a number of celebrities.” I’m not sure what the celebrity angle is supposed to leverage for him. Personally, if I knew Tom Cruise and Steve O were on the other end of the server, I might just log off.
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