A Rekindled Love Affair

After the lovely rebooting of my online presence on Xbox Live, via the gift of a Gold account, I've been getting back to grips with Call of Duty 4. I was actually quite amazed. The game is over a year old, and still looks gorgeous and still plays like it was made by the gods. It didn't take me more than a few minutes to reacquaint myself with the controls, remember my old tactics, and start to get my stats up.

Sure, the game isn't perfect, you still get the annoying children play online with their dammed microphones on so you have to hear them say "head shot" whenever they achieve said shot. But then again, when you can almost see the tears welling in their eyes as you continually track them down and kill them with immaculate aim and sneaky knife's to the back, you begin to calm down a bit. I'm talking about in the game by the way.

But after a while playing my favourite reason to own an Xbox Live Gold account (and it does annoy me that you must), a horrible thought hit. Infinity Ward are working on Call of Duty (6) Modern Warfare 2. Surely this means that when this inevitable pillar of gaming goodness arrives, the majority of Call of Duty 4 gamers, myself included, will jump ship and start playing with the new kid in town. But what will happen to your old stats? Now, I'm not doing desperately well with mine in comparison to others who didn't have a Call of Duty hiatus due to the restrictive price of Xbox Live Gold, but I would hate for all that work to be left behind.

So here's what I'm saying. Think of it as my final thoughts of the day.

Infinity Ward, if you're reading this. Please let us bring our old dusty Call of Duty 4 stats across with us, when we join you and the new messiah, Call of Duty 6. If you could make new perks and weapons available so that there's still something to work towards, that would be great. We hang our heads before you, and plea with you to grant us this merciful request... Amen!