History YMMV / CallOfDutyGhosts

* CriticProof: Despite all the negativity surrounding it as well as the lessened expectations for this entry, ''Ghosts'' still managed to pull off [[http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/06/entertainment-us-activision-callofduty-idUSBRE9A50XY20131106 1 billion dollars]] in retail sales '''[[{{HSQ}} on its first day.]]'''
** As IGN UK pointed out though, this just means how many copies retailers asked for- we don't know if the game has beat GTA V's record of 1 Billion in three days, which raises suspicion of why Activision would release ''that'' information.

* PortingDisaster: Possibly one of the worst optimized games to come out on the PC this year, Ghosts has a seemingly limitless amount of frame rate issues, including in menus, a narrow field of view with no way to adjust it (with a fanmade utility having a CEASE AND DESIST ORDER placed against it), and uses far more CPU power then it has any right to. It's almost borderline TheyJustDidntCare. This made even more insulting when you remember that Call of Duty's roots are on the PC.

* ToughActToFollow: Activision themselves have admitted that they're not expecting ''Ghosts'' to beat ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'''s sale records. Alongside that, Black Ops 2 had one of the best campaigns in the COD franchise, which worries people waiting for Ghosts.

* CriticProof: Despite all the negativity surrounding it as well as the lessened expectations for this entry, ''Ghosts'' still managed to pull off [[http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/06/entertainment-us-activision-callofduty-idUSBRE9A50XY20131106 1 billion dollars]] in retail sales '''[[HSQ on its first day.]]'''

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: San Diego's geography and topography are hilariously wrong.
** Toward the end of the prologue, there's an amazing SceneryGorn shot of San Diego being destroyed by ODIN's projectiles while Elias, Logan, and Hesh are driving away in the truck. However, they're looking down on Downtown from a road on a hillside-- a vantage point that doesn't actually exist in that part of San Diego (at least, not with an unobstructed view of the waterfront).
** The downtown district looks nothing like its real-world counterpart, either, up to and including the ersatz "Greenway Park", home of the "San Diego Tsunamis". The stadium also looks more like Wrigley Field than the ultra-modern Petco Park.

* PortingDisaster: Possibly one of the worst optimized games to come out on the PC this year, Ghosts has a seemingly limitless amount of frame rate issues, including in menus, a narrow field of view with no way to adjust it (with a fanmade utility having a CEASE AND DESIST ORDER placed against it), and uses far more CPU power then it has any right to. It's almost borderline TheyJustDidntCare

* And sure enough, since the game refused to adapt any of the changes '''Black Ops 2'' introduced, the game received lower scores.

** The downtown district looks nothing like its real-world counterpart, either, up to and including the ersatz "Greenway Park", home of the "San Diego Tsunamis". Doesn't even count as an example of WritingAroundTrademarks, as the stadium looks more like Wrigley Field than the ultra-modern Petco Park.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Toward the end of the prologue, there's an amazing SceneryGorn shot of San Diego being destroyed by ODIN's projectiles while Elias, Logan, and Hesh are driving away in the truck. However, they're looking down on Downtown from a road on a hillside-- a vantage point that doesn't actually exist in that part of San Diego (at least, not with an unobstructed view of the waterfront).

* ToughActToFollow: Activision themselves have admitted that they're not expecting ''Ghosts'' to beat ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'''s sale records. Alongside that, Black Ops 2 had one of the best campaigns in the COD franchise, which worries people waiting for Ghosts.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Riley (the dog).

* SoOkayItsAverage: Ghosts so far is one of the lowest scoring games in the franchise, with most reviewers giving the game middling review scores, mainly because it sticks to the same Modern Warfare formula.

* 8.8: The exact score from IGN, who is known for near-perfect scores for the franchise; Ghosts seems to be receiving lower reviews across the board than previous entries in the franchise.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The dog.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Some of the BrokenBase has christened this game as [[FanNickname Modern Warfare 4]] due to Infinity Ward not separating Ghosts enough from the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series.

* CompleteMonster: Whoever came up with the plan to use kinetic weapons in the single greatest opening strike on a nation since the atom bombs in World War II. Considering that many major cities in the US were hit, we're talking possibly ''tens of millions'' of casualties.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Some of the BrokenBase has christened this game as [[FanNickname Modern Warfare 4]] due to Infinity Ward not separating Ghosts enough from the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series. Even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPl65QGMb9w the multiplayer HUD]] is similar to the multiplayer [=HUDs=] from the Modern Warfare series!
* ToughActToFollow: Activision themselves have admitted that they're not expecting ''Ghosts'' to beat Black Ops 2's sale records. Alongside that, Black Ops 2 had one of the best campaigns in the COD franchise, which worries people waiting for Ghosts.

** Honest question: how much can you realistically change something, and why would you want to do so, especially something that (in my opinion) works pretty well?

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Some of the BrokenBase has christened this game as [[FanNickname Modern Warfare 4]] due to Infinity Ward not separating Ghosts enough from the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series. Even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPl65QGMb9w the multiplayer HUD]] is similar to the multiplayer HUDs from the Modern Warfare series!