Popular video game punching bag Call of Duty has come in for more criticism with its new title Ghosts, after a video posted on YouTube showed an animation from Modern Warfare 2 re-purposed for the Xbox 360/PS3 game.

A soldier is seen rescuing a fallen comrade in the clips, which are identical except for the characters’ clothes and method of extraction (helicopter in one, truck in the other).

Re-using animations isn’t entirely uncommon in video games, but the repetition is being seen as an example of much-maligned developer Infinity Ward’s ‘laziness’ by many online, with views for it rapidly climbing.

Different war, same cutscene: Call of Duty: Ghosts (Picture: YouTube)

‘Cut and paste at it’s finest! Everything they do is cut and paste and they rake in billions every year with this sh*t,’ one typically angry YouTube commenter wrote, as another added: ‘I have a weird feeling that MW2 looked way better than Ghosts.’




The latest instalment of the first-person shooter franchise was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this week, and is set to come out on next generation consoles Xbox One and PlayStation 4 later this month.

Early reviews of the PS4 edition have reported problems with the graphics, with testers saying that its frame rate dropped at several points during the game causing it to stutter.

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