Ok, so clearly culturally there are a lot of problems with COD. Limited ideas, tedious machismo and a maddening online community have stripped it of any artistic cache it may have ever had. HOWEVER, i remember playing the Vietnam levels in (I think) Black Ops and thinking how good a Predator game it would be to be stalking through the jungle with this thing following you... If it manages to be anything like that it may be worth getting a second hand copy for shrapnel and then getting the dlc. COD games are irritating, but they are playable. Think I might bite the bullet and see. I can always take it back to CEX if it's pants.