I honestly don't really like first person shooters: why should I need to use both sticks like that? Using the left stick to step and the right to turn keeps my thumb off the all-important button used to shoot. The only FPS games I can think of offhand that did it right were the first two Metroid Prime games on Gamecube, which allowed turning with the main control stick (and up-and-down aim as well, as long as you held R). Games should have a simple, intuitive control interface to the highest extent allowed by the complexity of the game itself, and having to use the second stick to turn is fucking retarded. And that's saying nothing of how the worlds in such games generally consist mainly of grays and browns, such an ugly look compared to the cartoonish yet absolutely beautiful graphics of the SNES/Genesis era (and of modern games done in such a style: note how much more interesting SF4 looks than, say, this from Call of Duty 4). The genre is overdone anymore, with far too many FPS games released by game companies and made popular by a crowd that often refuses to try anything else but FPS, Madden, and the latest GTA-type circlejerk of criminal wish-fulfillment (which at least may be interesting games, I'd play one if I had the money) for fear of it being "gay". It's at the point where I wonder if the game world would have been better off if Wolfenstein 3D and Doom had never been made.
No, if I were to stand outside a Gamestop all night and miss a day of school for any upcoming game, it would not be CoD. Only one week after the Modern Warfare 2 release, another game is coming out that I eagerly await. I would stand all night and day for Assassin's Creed II. The graphics for the next installment look, if not colorful on the order of Street Fighter, then at least a proper vision of the Renaissance, somewhat realistic without being entirely dull brown. The fact that our new hero Ezio ends up wearing such a flamboyant costume (relative to the soldier protagonists of CoD) doesn't hurt that, especially since the player will tend to see more of Ezio than his arm and a gun. Unfortunately, the same lack of coin that stands between me and GTA prevents me from getting Assassin's Creed II, and I need to be at school.
