History VideoGame / CallofDutyGhosts

The tenth game in the popular FPS series ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'', developed by Infinity Ward, ''Ghosts'' was [[StillbornFranchise intended to be]] the start of an entirely new subseries for the franchise by acclaimed writer/director [[Film/Traffic2000 Stephen]] [[Film/{{Syriana}} Gaghan]]. However, his talent and Hollywood success did not extend to the first-person shooter realm, and the ''Ghosts'' brand and storyline was retired after this one installment due to lackluster sales and criticism of its plot and villains.

* [[FiveManBand Four Man Band:]] CIF 1, which has [[AnAdventurerIsYou 4 major roles:]]
** [[GunNut Weapon Specialist:]] Highest Damage Output, and can boost damage of allies for a short period of time.
** [[StoneWall Tank:]] Increased health and melee damage, and can become invincible for a short time, while focusing all Cryptid attention on them.
** [[TheSmartGuy Engineer:]] Increased drill armor, and can make traps more efficient. Has the ability to produce an impenetrable forcefield around them.
** [[WhiteMage Medic:]] Increased health regeneration, and revive allies quicker. Has the ability to produce a stasis ring capable of instantly reviving downed allies (but not dead allies).

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, guns ''can'' shoot in space, though obviously not as well as they do in atmosphere.[[note]]Even if the gunpowder is self-oxidizing to allow the gun to fire in space, exposure to vacuum may flash-evaporate the lubrication, to say nothing of leftover heat from firing [[{{Overheating}} having nowhere to radiate away from the gun]], meaning the parts would expand and prevent movement after a couple of shots.[[/note]] And yes, there ''do'' exist guns that were specifically designed to fire bullets while underwater.

* RareGuns: While ''Modern Warfare'' featured mainly commonly-seen-in-video-games guns such as the M4, AK-47, P90, etc, the arsenal in ''Ghosts'' consists largely of rarely seen firearms such as the AAC Honey Badger, Remington R5, Beretta [=ARX-160=], etc.

* SequelDifficultySpike: The main campaign is pretty standard ''Call of Duty'' difficulty, but the Safeguard co-op game mode is significantly more difficult than the similar Survival Mode from ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3''. You can survive much less damage in Safeguard compared to Survival Mode, while enemies have much more health and are super aggressive.

The tenth game in the popular FPS series ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'', developed by Infinity Ward, ''Ghosts'' was [[StillbornFranchise intended to be]] the start of an entirely new subseries for the franchise by acclaimed writer/director [[Film/{{Traffic}} Stephen]] [[Film/{{Syriana}} Gaghan]]. However, his talent and Hollywood success did not extend to the first-person shooter realm, and the ''Ghosts'' brand and storyline was retired after this one installment due to lackluster sales and criticism of its plot and villains.

* SceneryGorn: All over the place, just to drive home the nature of the CrapsackWorld the Ghosts live in. Also, very conspicously, after someone calls in a K.E.M. on the Strikezone multiplayer map.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The Federation appear to have no real motive other than "blow up America", which they seem to want solely because they're the antagonists in a ''Call of Duty'' game. The entire faction has only four characters from it: Victor Ramos, TheDragon who appears for all of five minutes; General Almargo, who is there solely to be an assassination target and doesn't even have any lines; the leader of the Federation, who is TheGhost, and again has no lines; and Rorke, who was brainwashed into supporting the Federation (rather than performing a genuine FaceHeelTurn, so we have none of that pesky "character depth" getting in the way; his [[FlatCharacter entire]] character consists of [[{{Revenge}} wanting to kill the Ghosts for abandoning him]]) and thus can't show us any insight into their motives. We get no insight into their history, culture, or even their ideology. They seem to exist solely so that the Ghosts can commit all the [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene war crimes]] they want without looking bad.

** [[RealityEnsues Take fall damage and take more time to regenerate health.]]

* AbortedArc: This game was meant to kickstart the spiritual successor series of the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' trilogy in tone and gameplay. However, the game ended up selling way less than ''Videogame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' and its reception was mixed at best, with its online player population being only the half that of ''Black Ops II'', prompting Infinity Ward's next game, ''VideoGame/CallofDutyInfiniteWarfare'', to lean more heavily on science fiction. Consequently, players of this game were left with with an incomplete story and SuddenDownerEnding with no follow up.