If there’s one thing I could never understand, it was howHalo 3remained Xbox Live’s most played game when the superior (in my opinion)Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfarewas available. Then I remembered that people play what is considered “cool,” not what is actually (in my opinion) “good.” It’s not thatHalois a bad game, it’s just thatCoD4is (in my opinion) amazing, but it never stood a chance against the mainstream monolith that held the Live service in its mighty armored hand. Until now (not my opinion, that one was a fact).
In an amazing upset victory,CoD4has actually beatenHalo 3to become Xbox Live’s most played game. The collar popping frat boys that frequent Bungie’s lair (and Wardrox) have either crawled intoModern Warfare, or were too busy dateraping some cheerleaders to stop Activision from taking over during the week of January 14th.
Considering how dominating theHaloseries has been on Microsoft’s servers, it was never really expected that anything could knock it from the top of the mountain, at least untilGears of War 2arrived.Call of Duty 4‘s surprise victory may have proven that there’s room on the Xbox Live service for more than just games made by Bungie, and that perhaps a well crafted title is enough to beat pure marketing power … sometimes, at least.
In other news,Metal Slug 3was a huge XBLA success, along with, shockingly,Boogie Bunnies. Confess, readers — who among you went and bought that wretched thing!?
