Bonus Number 11!  Please open up more buildings in the city maps.  If you have a machine gun, you can open doors to residential homes.

-Check.  There are many more interiors to explore.  They compromised on busting down doors by putting in many, many windows to break.

10. Good camouflage for all teams, no red on Islamacist’s uniforms

-Check.  Although the islamicist uniform remains, the red is much more subtle.

9. Maps where ghillie suits are useful, big maps with lots of tall grass.

-Check.

8.  Complete controller layout customization options so I’m not accidentally punching all the time when I want to turn quickly.  Am I the only one who has this problem?

-Denied.  Although this problem seems to be lessened by the size of the maps, there are much fewer occasions to be startled like that.

7. Multiple and/or adjustable Zoom settings on scopes

-Denied.  Although the thermal scope is a very nice compromise.

6. Hand signals and/or general audible commands

-Denied.  Really aren’t enough buttons on the controller for this.

5. Ability to lean around corners, if SOF can do it so should COD

-Denied.  Although the crawling is improved.

4. More morphable terrain, airstrikes should actually be able to bring down a crumbling stone wall

-Denied.  If I hadn’t already counted the windows, I might have here also.

3.  Bodies should remain on the ground so it gives the sense that there is an actual war going on.

-Denied.  Bodies and dropped weapons still disappear after about a minute.

2. No healing in hardcore mode, hardcore means realistic

-I might have to remove this one from the listing, you don’t heal in hardcore, the damage accumulates, the pulsing red just goes away.

1. Scoring system that reflects kill/death ratio more than kills only and being able to survive an entire round should be the ultimate victory.

-Check.  Although the scoring system still rewards kills no matter how many deaths you get, there is still a nice accolades system, where although everyone wins an award, the kill/death ration award is the most coveted.

4/10.  But the things they included that I didn’t think of are numerous.  The expanded list of killstreak awards, the Bling perk that allows multiple weapons attachments, and the larger size of the maps in general take us up to 7/10.

I’m also going to give them another point for the Spec Ops section which is really barrels of fun, some of my favorite bot gaming since perfect dark.

So for fulfilling my imaginations, I give Infinity Ward an 80%.

And I’m not even going to hold that twenty percent against them, because I know they could have done the morphable terrain and pileable bodies if it weren’t for America’s laggy network.