Tripwire Boss claims "Call of Duty has ruined this whole generation of gamers"

The President of Tripwire Interactive John Gibson has ruthlessly claimed that Call of Duty has ruined a whole generation of gamers, in an interview with PC Gamer he gave his opinions on the state of the FPS genre and singled out the Call of Duty franchise.

Here are the highlights of the interview about the state of first person shooters:

"I think that single-player shooters are getting better, I think they're finally coming out from under the shadow of the Hollywood movie, overblown "I'm on a rail" linear shooter. I'm talking about Call of Duty-style shooters.

"On the flip side, I'm really discouraged by the current state of multiplayer shooters. I think that, and I hate to mention names, because it sounds like 'I'm just jealous of their success,' but I'm really, I feel like Call of Duty has almost ruined a generation of FPS players.

"I know that's a bold statement, but I won't just throw stones without backing it up. When I was developing Action Mode [for RO2], I got a group of people that I know that are pretty hardcore Call of Duty players. And my goal was to create something that was accessible enough for them to enjoy the game-not turn it into Call of Duty, but try to make something that I thought was casual enough but with the Red Orchestra gameplay style that they would enjoy.

"And we iterated on it a lot. And just listening to all the niggling, pedantic things that they would complain about, that made them not want to play the game, I just thought, "I give up. Call of Duty has ruined this whole generation of gamers."

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