Modern Warfare Coming to DS, Likely To Suck

Would you be caught dead playing CoD on this?

In this rough economy, any money that can be squeezed out of a franchise is needed to help a publisher scrape through. Meet Activision. They are a publishing megahouse with such success as the Guitar Hero series, Doom 3, and the Call of Duty series. Certainly something as graphically advanced and with such great selling power as Call of Duty can help make ends meet. Activision certainly thinks so, and they have announced that Call of Duty will be coming to the graphically-challenged Playstation Portable, the only portable system that could possibly handle a shooter of this caliber. Sorry, what’s that? It’s for the Nintendo DS? The even more graphically-challenged handheld?

Yes, it’s true. Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized (or CoD:MW:M) will be coming to the Nintendo DS with a six-player multiplayer option and “a variety of weapons, vehicles, and reconnaissance drones with which to wreak havoc on the battlefield.” It certainly could, but the bigger question is, how badly is it going to suck? The DS isn’t a power handheld by any means, and it certainly isn’t a very good device for a shooter. More importantly, why would anyone want to play one of the top shooters of our time on two midget sized screens? There’s probably a bigger market for a netbook edition of Call of Duty. For those still interested, it’s coming out the same day as MW2, 11.10.09.

Gamespot: Modern Warfare invading DS

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