For the most part, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a pretty solid game. The guns feel good, the multiplayer is lively, and Geneva Convention violations are rendered in eye-popping 4K HDR. However, players still have a few complaints. Chief among them is the game's strange, almost iPad-like UI design of its menus (opens in new tab).

In fact, MW2 players have grown tired of navigating the game's various interfaces and are beginning to get enthusiastic about imagining new ones. Players have tried the camouflage menu (opens in a new tab), the class creation UI (opens in a new tab), and the main menu (opens in a new tab). My favorite, however, is the first one I found by GamesRadar (opens in new tab) and Reddit user InterventX (opens in new tab). Like Da Vinci heading to the drawing board, InterventX imagined an alternative UI for MW2. It replaced the maze of large touchscreen-style buttons with a sophisticated, efficient, and parsable menu system.

This concept would truncate MW2's current wide variety of options and make them easier to see and read. Instead of a cascading system of filters and Netflix-style carousels, there are simply familiar, simple options that even those who are not good at CODs can easily grasp.

This is so much preferable to the current UI, and so strikingly similar to the UI already present in COD: Warzone, that it is a real mystery why Infinity Ward took such a hard left turn with the real UI design for MW2. Perhaps the studio will respond to the backlash that MW2's UI has caused and sort things out a bit.

MW2 has made a huge splash in less than a week since its release. Players have already come up with cunning exploits to accumulate piles of XP (open in new tab), a meta over the optimal number of gun attachments is rapidly developing (open in new tab), one player turned himself in to Activision's offices outraged by the ban (open in new tab) and "talked to an employee," which is wildly out of line.