Post: Black Ops Shows Treyarch Destroys Infinity Ward
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11-28-2010, 04:37 AM
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.Nik
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Black Ops is receiving a lot of hate from gamers who seemingly refuse to even try the game. Is there legit reasoning behind this hate or is this the fallout of the disappointment known as Modern Warfare 2? In what was surely one of the biggest hype campaigns of all time, we were told COD 6 would be the FPS to end all other FPS titles. Instead, come November we were met with COD 4.5 and it seemed even worse than COD 4 to many folks due to its balancing and hacking issues. Many gamers predicted MW2 would be like this, but most of their complaints and the signs they pointed out were ignored by the bigger crowds. Black Ops is selling great, don't doubt that. But it would seem that group of pre-release doubters has grown and saw fit to label Black Ops a terrible game, without even playing it.
The truth is Black Ops multiplayer does more right than it does wrong. Simply put, the game is great! With the new COD points and Wager matches in multiplayer it is clear there has been more thought put into this game than all the previous COD games combined.
From Sharpshooter where every player starts off with the same weapon and battles it out for points as everyone's weapon cycles at the same time to One in the Chamber where you get a pistol and a bullet. In One in the Chamber you must get a kill to get another bullet and there are only three lives for each person. Gun Game is another greatly designed Wager match that adds a lot of creativity to the title by challenging every player to start off with a pistol and work their way up a universal tier of weapons. Each kill you get bumps you up a notch to a new gun. They get better and better as you go but if you die you must start over.
For those who say Infinity Ward would have done a better job, simply put - you are insane. Take a look at the generic approach taken in the first Modern Warfare title and the incredibly dull follow up Modern Warfare 2 and I don't think it's hard to see that IW preferred coasting rather than setting goals for themselves and implementing additions to the COD brand.
The real issue I see with Call of Duty: Black Ops is that it should have gone even further with innovation. The problem with that is whenever gamers get used to a game, change of the formula is usually met with disdain by their fans. I think Treyarch has absolutely succeeded in bringing change to Black Ops without upsetting the style and fundamentals of the game, but rather improving it.
Just saying, Black Ops wouldn't be anywhere today without MW2 or IW. Also, please don't forget to reward me if I helped or informed you.
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11-28-2010, 03:21 PM
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11-28-2010, 03:36 PM
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SUPERIMIAINI
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Just throwing my 2 cents in, both COD B.O. AND MW2 were great games they are two very different games also so there is no need to measure as two which one is better they both have there own lane. The problem at the moment with B.O. is that after all the hype and promises by 3ARC to fix things little has been done, then the article comes out how the PS3 version was made inferior on purpose and it pisses people off because coming after the bad taste that MW2 left in some peoples mouth they were expecting something close to perfection where lets face it B.O. is not. I will defend MW2 to the end of time it's a good game, if only IW would have fixed things, patched thing it could have been the shooter to end all shooter's they were that close. As far as B.O. I do think it's a good game but needs major fixes we all know what they are I won't count them down for you, however sometimes you look at B.O. and can't help but think that it's no wonder 3ARC WAS ALWAYS THE LITTLE BROTHER TO IW.
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11-28-2010, 03:46 PM
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SUPERIMIAINI
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Originally posted by Dirtymomonline
Iw couldnt patch things because they were being sued... Lol patching wasnt their first priority.
Don't you think after all of us "the consumer's" made them a lot of money they owed something to us ?? Maybe not Jason or Vince because they were going through all the lawsuit B.S. but IW as a studio should have said lets fix some things to save face at least not just leave us hanging out there, and even with all it's faults MW2 was a great game so I'm more upset that we were left with WHAT IF.
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11-28-2010, 03:55 PM
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