CoD: Black Ops

Nanor

Nanor

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So the bad boy has been released today. Have Treyarch managed to create an amazing, perfectly balanced FPS experience? Or is it a bit shit? I haven't actually got it. My mate's playing it next door but I'm deathly afraid of consoles. I might give it a whirl later, though.

Any of you guys had a bit of a go with it?
 
Traxata

Traxata

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Kirby is bashing away at it now, claims it's much better than the last one but has some latency issues :rolleyes:
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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Don't they risk just, y'know, being yet another modern-day shooter?

I dunno. I'm fairly dubious about the whole CoD franchise, now. Had a play of MW2 courtesy of thatbloke's kind lending (for rather too long, sorry about that mate). Sure, it was fine, but I really didn't get a huge kick out of it.
 
Kasatka

Kasatka

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Yeah ive never understood the fanatical following of the COD/MOH crowd. It's like sports games getting released yearly just to have the latest names attached to them, with maybe 1 or 2 more pixels here or there.
I was thinking about it, and the idea of a sports game fan having entire shelves devoted to 10 or so of the same title made me laugh out loud.
 
Tetsuo_Shima

Tetsuo_Shima

In Cryo Sleep
Kateryne said:
Yeah ive never understood the fanatical following of the COD/MOH crowd
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It's not that hard, CoD4 totally blew everyone away - the console crowd and PC crowd alike - with its incredible gameplay and addictive unlock system. Something that good is bound to attract a lot of interest when a new installment comes out.
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

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In an interview with IGN, Treyarch's community manager, Josh Olin said the partnership would allow for better security measures to deal with cheating.
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Pfff, who cares about cheating.
 
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HotStuff

Member
Kateryne said:
Yeah ive never understood the fanatical following of the COD/MOH crowd. It's like sports games getting released yearly just to have the latest names attached to them, with maybe 1 or 2 more pixels here or there.
I was thinking about it, and the idea of a sports game fan having entire shelves devoted to 10 or so of the same title made me laugh out loud.
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As Tetsuo says COD4 was a very successful game. It did kind of win almost every award that was going in the months following release. COD5, COD6 are very good but have issues as I am sure the new COD7(black ops) will.

I think to compare the COD series to aunnual releases of sports simulations is not really that valid. A football pitch is still a football pitch regardless, and yes as you say Kateryne, a lot of it is to do with a bit more graphic detail. With the COD series you do get different wars and different maps. It never feels stale when you play a new COD game, it does feel like a new war, new maps and different weapons to get the grips of. In sports simulations they certainly do have the Version 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 feeling year by year.
 
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Gombol

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The box next to us as an offer for CoD servers for £9/M (30 slot) if we have people interested in BO, maybe we could do it?
 
Tetsuo_Shima

Tetsuo_Shima

In Cryo Sleep
HotStuff said:
COD5, COD6 are very good but have issues as I am sure the new COD7(black ops) will.
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It certainly does, on PS3 at the least (and I hear things aren't exactly sunshine and flowers on 360 or PC either). Plenty of bugs are starting to make themselves apparent, and the online thing is a laggy mess at the moment. You've maybe got a fifty/fifty chance of finding a game in the lobby, fifty/fifty that it'll start up correctly and then another fifty/fifty that the game finds a new host when the host (who is always on the opposite, losing, team) leaves (and he will leave). So your chances of finding a decent game are down around 12.5%, and I can guarantee you that in that single game where nothing breaks ... you can't shoot for peanuts.
 
Tetsuo_Shima

Tetsuo_Shima

In Cryo Sleep
Theatre mode gets two thumbs up! It certainly beats /record demo1 ... /stoprecord ... /demo ... what the fuck did I call it again? Is it in the right folder? Damn, I want to see that kill again, but no rewind! That would have looked great in slo-mo ...
 
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Gombol

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Tetsuo_Shima said:
It certainly does, on PS3 at the least (and I hear things aren't exactly sunshine and flowers on 360 or PC either). Plenty of bugs are starting to make themselves apparent, and the online thing is a laggy mess at the moment. You've maybe got a fifty/fifty chance of finding a game in the lobby, fifty/fifty that it'll start up correctly and then another fifty/fifty that the game finds a new host when the host (who is always on the opposite, losing, team) leaves (and he will leave). So your chances of finding a decent game are down around 12.5%, and I can guarantee you that in that single game where nothing breaks ... you can't shoot for peanuts.
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I've honestly had no problem with BO online, minus the campers and the people who go "amg I'm being shot at! *lies down*" reccomend it loads.
 
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