Call of Duty Ghosts Was WORSE Than You Remember 

This is probably the last review video for a few weeks, ive been at my computer working on this 24/7 and im gonna take a break to enjoy my summer! When i get back, let me know what game i should do next! Also ill be streaming on Twitch in the meantime so make sure to follow :)

My biggest gripe with the game is you're supposed to be one of the greatest stealth groups ever. But yet you get caught in every stealth mission.

I’m very surprised you never mentioned the Advanced Fish AI System. Don’t know how you could forget such revolutionary technology

Fun fact, after you shoot Rorke in the train you have to swim out of the train to safety, but if you turn around Rorke is actually gone, this is either a fine detail or they were just to lazy to put the model in, considering Rorke couldnt realy have escaped via any other way.

There was one thing Ghosts did that we haven't seen ever again: Good. Bot. AI. They were built to be perfectly capable to PLAY FRICKING SEARCH AND DESTROY and that's INSANE for the time. No AI today handles objective modes like Ghosts' AI did. It was one of the selling points for me, since I just wanted to play and practice the other modes.

I genuinely loved the apocalyptic art style of the game. It was something new for COD. It might've been a bit bland but compared to other post apocalyptic games like New Vegas for instance it still looks great

I honestly miss the character customization and Extinction. The Micheal Myers mode was also extremely fun alongside some of the dynamic maps.

Extinction is still to this day the mode that I remember playing and enjoying so vividly, unlike any game prior or since. Truly phenominal and fun with various and diverse environments. In addition, The Fog was probably the coolest MP map due to the chance of getting to play as Jason (?).

Ghosts doesn't get enough props for just how creative all of the missions were, recalling correctly they were all super fun and unique with a few small branching paths even

I literally played ghost the most out of every cod game. I sort of grew up and didn’t have the time to ever play another cod. I loved the feel and the atmosphere.

Ghosts had the best, out of any cod: 1. Minimap. 2. Perk system and perk choices 3. Match scoreboard (shows only your stats and pulls down the full scoreboard when you hit the button). 4. Best footstep sounds. 5. KD/stats tracker/comparison in lobby.

Thank you for showing us the "Dad" scene in it's entirety. It was by far the most comedic thing in Call of Duty.

You forgot the greatest technological achievement in this COD..... The fish AI that moves away when you swim 🥴🥴🥴🥴

I didn't take the campaign too seriously. That's why I didn't mind Rorke at all, he's so ridiculously overpowered that comes off as comical, he also seems to not take the story seriously at all; he's getting captured by the Ghosts and he doesn't give a damn, he's about to get thrown off a plane a he doesn't give a damn, he's killing his former friend in front of his sons and he doesn't give a damn, he got shot through the chest and he doesn't give a damn. It's almost as if Rorke unconcioussly knew the story was a mess since the beginning and said "Fuck it, why should I take this seriously?"

Personally Ghosts had possibly the best setting in the entire series, followed closely by Advanced warfare. Something about a long drawn-out war on what looks like a nearly post-apocalyptic America just vibes so well.

Ghosts is one of the weirdest, unique, and forgettable cod I've played but It's still oddly nostalgic. I did love the cool moments in the campaign though like the space fight and the building rappel and the orbital destruction scene at the start(also the sabotaged map variants). I had no idea what the story was and thet ending felt so out of place lol

Extinction is also one of the best PVEs ever made in my opinion. It was interesting, varied, different, and the progression was very satisfying in my opinion. It felt like l4d with aliens.

love the dog models in this game, very immersive, it felt like i had a real attack dog companion

I enjoyed Ghosts. Had a great time working for that Ghille suit

Coming from a military family, the opening scene with the father was actually pretty grounded imo. It reminded me of my grandpa retelling the stories of our family, or my uncle telling me about his time in Vietnam, or my other grandpa talking about his time on a carrier

The campaign, even with it's uninteresting lore, characters, and story, is still a hell of a good play in my opinion. Each and every mission feels special and unique with love and care put behind everything. Every mission feels different and fun in their own way, and there's quite a few missions as well.

Can I just say how much I loved extinction? Sure it was hard to get into at first, but after learning how to play it, I started liking having objectives more than round based zombies.

I enjoyed it, it was great as long as people weren't sitting with lmg thermal

I remember even as a 13-14 year old thinking the premise of the campaign (South America banding together and taking over the world) was totally nonsensical EDIT: I totally forgot about how the villain survived a fire extinguisher to the head, a .44 to the chest at point blank range, and being trapped in a sinking train car hundreds of meters offshore only to sneak up on the protagonist on a totally wide open beach and beat the shit out of him

28:50. This. So much this. In fact, in my mind, what would drive the point home even harder would be if, while in the Federation's custody, they tortured Rorke _so much_ that it left him horribly scarred and even mute, so that his reappearance as a villain would be even more shocking and heartbreaking. If handled correctly, it could also make him an incredibly intimidating villain, especially if he constantly manages to stay one or two steps ahead of Logan and co. throughout the remainder of the story.

No ghost was the last actual boots on the ground game that I could find myself playing for hours without getting bored.

My theory is that they purposefully wanted a silent protagonist in Logan so that players would relate and care more about Hesh because they intended in the sequel to have us play as Hesh and the main antagonists would be Logan and Roarke. It’s clear that from the get go they intended Ghosts to be the next cod sub-franchise like Modern Warfare and Black Ops. I think they were already planning a Ghosts 2 and 3 and the story of Ghosts suffers from this because they made it too much of a setup for the next game or next games rather than being it’s own story that can stand by itself. Cod 4’s story does lead nicely to MW2 and MW3 but it didn’t need those sequel stories to be good, it was good on its own. Even with MW2 ending on a cliffhanger, that story and MW3’s story can both stand on its own two legs and be a good story.

Cod Ghosts was amazing imo. Honeybadger was an amazing weapon! Clan Wars was also super cool and something I looked forward to after school! Also don't forget the interesting DLC weapon which could change from an AR to an SMG platform!! Good times :)

I feel you covered everything here well except the extinction mode. Comparing it too much to zombies and not really giving the gameplay variety you can have justice.

I’m surprised when people talk about ghosts they don’t mention the coolest part that has only been in ghosts… they had like a “clan” vs “clan” war mode with its own prizes for winning them. It’s the equivalent of like gunfight tournament in the newer games. I miss it

It’s crazy how extinction influenced Cold War Zombies. Having to play to upgrade your perks and skills etc etc. love your videos. If we go back in retrospect you have to see the influence it had on Cold War zombies

I personally love the campaign. I’ve never played cod campaigns for compelling stories or emotional moments. I play them for fun and unique gameplay that you won’t get from mp. Ghosts is my favorite campaign bc it very fun to play, probably the most unique in its missions and the gameplay never got stale. Imo the campaign is the only enjoyable aspect of this subpar game. Also I still want a sequel to this campaign.

If they do a remake, basically having a somewhat interactive story like with cold war, with just some basic non-dogshit writing, slower pacing, and some better color pallets and graphics, it might genuinely be my favorite cod ever. Too bad that's never ever going to happen lol.

My worst gripe with the campaign is the fact that the US somehow just has this massive missile system capable of destroying entire countries, but it has zero security. The federation somehow managed to launch a spacecraft into space, travel hours to get to the area the ship is in, and get close enough to the ODIN ship to break in, all without the US or the ODIN crew knowing. They also had no weapons, the only guns the crew obtain after the attack are from Federation forces. Super dumb, especially since without ODIN, the story would never even happen.

They very much explained the Federation getting soldiers to the ODIN station. The ride they’re on was supposed to be the Federation dropping off some scientists but instead they threw a whole bunch of troops in there to overtake the satellite system for a first strike. Like, they mention this very explicitly. This ship is supposed to be the player character’s ride home before the ambush.

I love how everyone is defending the game in the comments, personally I loved ghost. Extinction was amazing.

Great video but as one of my top 3 favorite games I wish to try to help others enjoy the game more and I truly think people just didn’t give ghosts the chance because it was to different. At launch I hated it but after getting deeper into the lore and how the stories played out I grew finder because it’s more fleshed out than you would expect. As such here are something’s that you missed or just kinda glossed over. This is not meant in any negative way but just to give more information so more people can hopefully enjoy the game a little bit more. Campaign 13:50 The Federation’s true name is “The Federation of The Americas”. The Federation started after a war in the Middle East which caused a global energy crisis in which most South American countries created the federation to gain more power as they had large amounts of oil and gas productions and their main goal was to unit all of America (continents as in the name of the federation) because of the US’s past with oil and gas production. 17:50 the federation doesn’t just show up they were on the shuttle that Mosley says was their ride home either by highjacking it or someone apart of the ODIN crew knew of the plan and let it happen. 20:15 The ghosts are just a selective group like the Navy Seals and they knew that they already knew that the ghosts were real just not who they were or their purpose. 21:30 In the mission “The Hunted” after the plane goes down and you land in the jungle the other ghost asks each other if there ok and one asks if anyone saw Logan (player) and someone responds for him. They didn’t ask Logan himself and with another line you can assume Logan has never talked and is completely mute. 25:45 Going to their home and meeting up with the ghosts and trying to rescue Ajax was the test. 31:20 Rorke planned on getting captured by the Ghosts. As he says “You made my job a lot easier” as he had set up the location they were to capture him in order to try to kill them in the plane crash. With the multiplayer the only real thing you overlooked was the point streak system. The system was put into place to incentives playing the objective of the game mode rather than just getting kills. Like in BOI1/2 there is no incentive for playing the flags in domination other than the win as kills were what everyone looked at because kill streaks were so strong. 56:40 The cryptids are actually not aliens at all, in Nightfall it is told to use that the cryptids are a very old species that live on earth before the mass extinctions as they lived underground only coming up after the end of the campaign with the ODIN (Loki) strikes hitting Colorado. 1:02:00 The map is just very deep underground and not a different planet as they are not aliens.

Turning my brain off and shooting the bad guys is exactly how I play every CoD game and it hasn't failed me so far.

Unpopular opinion I know, but…. We need a Ghosts 2. They can’t leave in in suspense with Rourke. I loved this game & grinded the hell out of it

There’s literally only 1 character I remember and do genuinely love from this game and it’s Keegan. Only because he’s the silent one, his mask looks cool, clutches time and time again and is your partner in federation day. Truthfully the golden piece of corn in this big turd of a game

The one thing that kept me playing ghosts was extinction. I wish they could bring it back

I think people ride this game way too hard for an underwhelming campaign which is only popular because of a cliffhanger, a multiplayer which had many problems such as extremely large maps and poor balancing and score streaks, and then extinction was a mode with potential but couldn’t ever be as grindable as zombies without buying DLC. I would recommend watching the Act Man videos on this game.

Nah, this, as I remember, this game was the very LAST good COD and one that's criminally hated for no reason

The shitty reveal scene would've been at least fine if their father hadn't talked until he took off the mask and the other 2 talked for him and Hesh's voice actor didn't deliver his lines absolutely terribly

It always blew my mind that you can, not only live, but continue fighting after being shot in the gut with a 44 Magnum. It was absurd when I first saw it all those years ago and it’s absurd now

In my opinion it felt like the movement had weight behind it and you where actually moving with a decent amount of gear on and not able to run 40 mph and jump fucking 3 meters dodging bullets and as for the sliding well agian it felt like it had weight. The dusty visuals i always though was due to the game being post apocalyptic setting. Other players blending in to the environment is kinda the whole point of camouflage. ghosts kinda felt like it was trying to get a realistic grasp on some gameplay mechanics that older player wanted and new players couldn’t get the feel of. The story was left on such a cliff hanger.

Ghosts is considered to be the black sheep of the COD franchise and I feel like its unique because of this reason

Underrated and had the most unique mode I still like playing to this very day; Extinction! Would not mind Ghosts 2 if it ever happens.

"Our New Dog model has taken from High resolution scans of from actual Seal Team service dog"

I still found the game enjoyable

Bro I always said… this cod is one of the ones that could’ve been one of the best… just was missing something. The multi was great.

Literally the best CoD since MW1. Had outstanding maps, gun play, guns, Extinction was great, had a super fun campaign, and Killstreaks. It genuinely felt like the last time a CoD developer tried to make a good game.

Ghosts gave us what the multiplayer community was asking for at the time. No more (or at least fewer) 3 lane maps, larger maps, faster kill times, newer weapons, fun events and game modes. It was everything we asked for and we found out we didn’t actually want that much change to the formula. It just wasn’t Cod enough. I still loved the Michael Myers map and playable character which was so cool and the other fun events.

This was my favorite cod and I LOVED Extinction! So slept on

I dunno man I replayed the campaign, and played some Extinction and Multiplayer with friends recently and it held up just as well as I remember. Not saying it was perfect but this is still my favorite COD game

It was around the time where people began Ranking everything. What's the best, what's the worst. And ghosts showed up at the wrong time.

Ghosts was my first cod game that I ever played. I played it on my 360 and I loved it. I still have not found a cod game that I have enjoyed as much as ghosts in the sense of multiplayer. Never was into campaign in any cod and zombies wasn't in ghosts. The worst part about transitioning away from ghosts was losing the k9 scorestreak. I will always miss the days of playing with my brothers and a few ai and racing to see who could get the dogs first and hoping they would take out my brothers streaks

I think the gunplay was one of the smoothest in any COD. ADS always felt snappy and the movement felt solid. The maps on the competitive side of the house looked awful but played well in classic 3 lane style. Also the footsteps where top tier. Overall on the competitive side of COD, the game was boring but I feel the reason why is because it was essentially mw2 and 3 boiled down.

I played through the entire campaign in 2013 and every bit of footage shown apart from the space mission was new to me

Main issue was that the players blended into the game’s surroundings/background too well. so it was hard to essentially spot our enemies. most maps we much larger than typical maps where you would go long without seeing an enemy that way if you got picked off it was frustrating. Lastly, none of the guns in game felt consistent in use. It was hard to even find a go to gun

Extincion was a very good game mode and had better and more complex progression systems than other games at the time. The devs really worked hard on this one from cutscenes to overall graphics. It was let down by the other parts of the game. Id love another iteration of extintion, maybe humans try to re conquer earth or they go about surviving in space

If I had friends to play it with me, I think Extinction would've been my absolute favorite mode. It's a fantastic portion of Ghosts, even if map 1 is vastly more simple than the rest. It just hits that odd little itch when I play it every so often.

If it's worse than I remember, then I must be remembering it as the best game ever.

Couldn’t agree more with infected. I remember playing so many hours of infected and the glitches in the game made it so fun. Ogs remember the iceberg glitch

I was 11 and in 6th grade when this game came out. I didn't play cod, but I remember all the kids loving this campaign and saying that they couldn't wait for a sequel.

Ghosts had an incredible campaign, great nostalgic graphics, awesome gun play, a great perk system, great maps, extinction was great. Literally don't understand people's problem with the game

I loved ghosts don’t see why it got the hate it got

there were absolutely zero aspects of cod ghosts that other cods didn’t do better. i’ll never understand how some people are reaching for nostalgia for this game when it is seriously the bottom of the barrel in the franchise. even Infinite Warfare at least had better writing and more colorful art direction.

I’m not gonna lie this game is still 10x better than the last 3 COD games

I personally like the story (without the ending) but I understand what you are talking about. I think a second one could do better now with time if choosen to be revisited

Even though the mp was Meh over all I gotta say this was probably the last game that had strong and iconic weaponry. Ak12, the R5, honeybadger, bizon, mtarx, vector, the bulldog and much more. I love the fast ttk the weapons actually felt strong. Like cmon I remember running the Remington r5 with red dot and muzzle break being able to 3 shot people across the map felt bad ass and satisfying.

Funny, the only I remember of this game is the dang dog 🤷🏾‍♂️

Even though I didn’t like Ghosts that much I do like the leaning mechanic it had and the intro cutscene explaining the history of the Ghosts looks incredible even today

Cod ghosts was a revolution, mechanically and graphicaly superior to the previous ones. The campaign was more focused on a family story than a war, but it ended in a clifhanger that will never be answered. Players chose to hate it because it was less forgiving with its gunfight mechanics, like with the flinch and that quickscoping took actual skill, which sadly encrouraged camping.

I never had a problem with this game I never understood the hate it got

2013: “This game sucks.” 2022: “This game is underrated”

It would've been interesting if Extinction became it's own series separated from the Call of Duty IP. It could be like an interesting mix of a PvE and a Horror Game

It had the best most balanced perk system of any COD even today

I loved Ghosts and still think it's incredibly underrated

I'm a pretty big defender of Ghosts. Despite the bland color pallet, the game just feels great to play. I really love the weapons, the perk system is unique and works well, and even their new side mode Extinction was a lot of fun. This game is honestly better than anything we've gotten recently imo.

Saying Ghosts was received with open arms or came out to a growing and happy CoD community is just not true. Sure, it didn't have a huge backlash before release like Infinite Warfare did, but I clearly remember people demanding CoD to switch to a new engine after MW3, which everyone at the time perceived as an underwhelming game (partially because of how technologically inferior BF3 made it look). I clearly remember the first reveal of Ghosts at the Xbox One presentation and everybody in the chat immediately mocking it and criticizing the lack of new engine (which Activision had led everyone to believe they would have). Despite the fact Black Ops 2 was one of the best entries in the franchise, the peak of the CoD popularity had been gone, and Ghosts specifically had to live up to some expectations that everybody knew long before release it wouldn't live up to.

I dont think Steven is gagging to write a ghosts 2 campaign

I was that guy using the M27 with a thermal and the Deadeye perk. Nobody stood a chance with that setup 😅 Also I agree about the frustration with IEDs but there was a perk you could use that highlighted them so you wouldn't have to worry about them again.

i had the most fun on ghosts compared to any other call of duty. black ops 2 was difficult for me to play because I couldn't see anything, so the target finder sight was my go to attachment online 😎

I’d love to see this perk system in mw2, it could make the most complex create a class system that could result in some crazy min maxing between the new gunsmith and those, it could make a 2 year cod deep enough to keep people engaged.

I actually really enjoyed this entry and I really wanted a follow-up for the campaign. I mostly play COD for the campaigns as I find the multi-player the same from game to game and Ghosts campaign was a lot of fun IMO

Cod ghosts at the time was terrible. Having ghosts during the bo1, bo2, mw2, and mw3 era didn't help. However, I would take it 100x more than todays call of dutys like vangaurd and bo4 and stuff.

The Michael myers and predator kill streaks are some of the coolest ideas cod has ever had. We need more of this. Perhaps a terminator and alien killstreak would be rad. Honestly, just a whole 80s killstreak pack would be kill. I'd pay 20 bucks easily for that.

I enjoyed ghosts, for me every new cod that came out was a banger i enjoyed every moment playing zombies, extinction, campaign and multiplayer with my friends. It didn’t bother me if it was good or bad but I had so much fun with my friends. That’s the most important thing imu. Appreciate the moments you got back then because at some point your friends will not go online and you wish u can go back enjoying all the small things a game has to offer.

You forget that this game also had the first instance of picture in picture scopes in CoD.

It’s so weird to feel nostalgia with this game, to look at it and feel old school. I loved this game

It was really bad, went back to BO2 so fast

“Try THE Ghost! That’s your commanding officer!” How is he going to just interrupt Elias talking to his sons lmao what a jackass. Idc if he’s the President, shut up!

Not sure if you ignored the info or just didn’t see it, but there was a lot of stuff that could’ve been explained in the story if you just payed attention. Especially at the start of the story in the space mission at the station that shoots rods, not missiles, you see the federation exiting a spacecraft and the lady says that it could be the maintenance crew arriving. And they also explain how they didn’t take the entire world over, it’s just a federation of South American countries, and global tensions are high

Regardless of how the came turned out, Ghosts had some of the coolest and most interesting DLC content, I would argue in C.O.D history. The special character packs, the DLC camos, very interesting and innovative maps, the two (technically 3) really good and cool DLC weapons; they kinda knocked it out of the park with its DLC content

Ghosts was a step backward, Advanced warfare took like one step forever and infinite warfare just fell so far back it became Halo 😭

That part where you highlighted the space station being invaded by those guys was on point and also hilarious! Guess security was just super lax that day, so the bad guys just walk in all like, "Hey, what's for dinner, Mom?!" Like, the goddamn door appeared to just be opened up, and I get being in space might seem like you don't have neighbors around or vagrants to be concerned with. But, one would have to assume that the guys on the space station would have been aware that they weren't the only ones' capable of space travel. Maybe put a camera out there or something, ya know? Or get some string and tin cans and just have a couple guys hold each end. Gov't money well spent right there. baby. Great fuckin' video!

I thoroughly disagree with your points of the first iterations being the worst, to this day ghosts had the best use of the slide, it was used the way a slide should be (defensive movement) and not abused for slide cancelling challenging people on headys or resetting tac sprint also advanced warfare had by far the best advanced movement of the 3.

“what went so wrong with it?” It was made by Infinity Ward after the original team left to form Respawn Entertainment. It was the first FPS for a lot of the new team, let alone their first COD, so there was just NO WAY the game would live up to the hype and expectations of the MW series.

I remember being a huge Battlefield fan back in 2013 and was excited whenever ghost wasn’t received well. Now Battlefield 4 had a not so graceful launch, but it still felt like this was battlefields chance to takeover COD. Which is kinda crazy to say in 2022, but that’s just how my middle school brain perceived it back then.