Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – do you find the game’s menus too confusing to navigate? (pic: Activision)
Disgruntled Call Of Duty fans have taken umbrage with Modern Warfare 2’s menu system and unfavourably comparing it to Hulu.
For as much of a money maker as the Call Of Duty franchise is for Activision, it sometimes seems as if its own player-base doesn’t actually like it.
Now that Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been released, Xbox players are bemoaning the forced crossplay (something PlayStation owners don’t have to worry about) and plenty are taking issue with the game’s menus.
This was already a frequent complaint during Modern Warfare 2’s beta, but it seems Infinity Ward hasn’t done enough to fix things.
On Reddit, one ghostghost31 says Modern Warfare 2 has the ‘absolute worst UI I’ve ever come across.’
They explain how they struggled to find the right gameplay mode they wanted, since there’s no option to filter them from the lobby.
‘It’s truly baffling to me why it’s set up like this,’ they say. ‘Why can’t I change filters from the lobby screen like we always have? What is the difference between Quick Play and Invasion?’
‘It’s truly mind0boggling how bad it can be,’ adds justthisones. ‘The campaign sits weirdly in between all modes in the main menu too.’
They even suggest that the menu is ‘un-video game like’ and made by people who don’t know anything about games.
If some fans’ claims are accurate, that may be the case, as it’s been suggested that Infinity Ward hired the same person who designed the user interfaces for US streaming service Hulu.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – there are also separate tabs for Social and Channels/Party, which seems oddly unnecessary (pic: Reddit)
‘I’m pretty sure they paid the guys who designed Hulu’s UI,’ claims Brodias_Johnson. ‘I mean the UI was getting a bit boring but you didn’t need to f*** it up this bad.’
That’s not the only Reddit thread either. Always-Panic (who shared the above picture) describes the menu as ‘the worst UI in a Call Of Duty game so far’ since everything – including the multiplayer modes and campaign mode – share a single menu, rather than being separated into individual ones.
‘Gotta click like five different things to do anything,’ they add. ‘Couldn’t even find my friend when his name was right in front of my eyes because there were so many things on the screen.’
A common complaint is that the menu itself resembles more what you’d see for a streaming service, where all the options are displayed as giant blocks, which only adds to the Hulu comparisons.
‘I read somewhere that the UI/UX devs are ex Hulu devs,’ says Polidamn. ‘When you look at it, it makes sense (all blocky like you are looking for your next show to watch). They developed what they knew, a streaming platform and not a video game. Hence why it’s trash.’
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LJN2_1202 dislikes it so much that they went and made their own custom UI. Elsewhere, David83IT points out that the UI issues extend to the menu for selecting weapon camos since there appears to be no option to search by category. You need to manually scroll through the whole list if the category you want isn’t at the top of the list.
At the time of writing, Infinity Ward hasn’t issued any comment regarding updating or changing the menus. It’s possible that it will end up on the to do list, but it’ll likely be less of a priority than keeping on top of gameplay issues.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is available for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
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Disgruntled Call Of Duty fans have taken umbrage with Modern Warfare 2’s menu system and unfavourably comparing it to Hulu.