Call of Duty is hated because it is long past its retirement. Along with this, unlike Halo there is no coherent storyline between any of the games following CoD 4 (WaW is an exception). Blops 2 and MW3 have nothing to do with each other despite being in the Call of Duty title. MW2 and MW3 aren't coherent either. They just throw you as random characters in cliche cities with cliche battles and cliche backstabbings. If you counted the numbers by the games, it would be at CoD 9 I believe for the November release and that would include 4 Modern Warfare, 4 WW2, and 1 Cold War. Notice how the first three original WW2, the first Modern Warfare, and the first Cold War are generally accepted as good in some aspect. They then drag out the series with nothing new. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1I7N_0JR9s]The gun models and animations are all the same[/url], the buildings are copied and pasted, the storylines are very unoriginal and cliche, the multiplayer is scrapped together with no balance or consistency, and the only thing ever worth playing is Zombies or Spec Ops which is a sideshow of the entire game. As for graphics, they are very outdated and lacking of any sort of aesthetics at all to fit the games. CoD 4 had the aesthetics that fit Call of Duty with the grittiness and slimmer models and good sizes of the models. Then MW2 and MW3 made everything shiny and "bubbled" in a sense with fatter characters, bigger explosions, and less realism (and hasn't made any good or changing visual aesthetic attempts). Look at Black Ops which takes place during the stressful and tense times of the Cold War. Then look at the action packed and war exhausted MW 2 and 3. Then look at the futuristic Black Ops 2. Why do they all have the same aesthetics and all look the same? Black Ops 2 is in the future and should have slicker and cleaner looking models. Instead we have the same clunky look and it looks like today with cliche robots. So those are reasons why Call of Duty deserves the hate. And like usual, [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7eqwKYdy4&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLjAc0ogQmvHf0JIEt9pq-zg]this[/url] video helps explain why the game is bad. [Edited on 08.04.2012 11:14 PM PDT]