Hi guys!
Now, unless you have been living under a rock, you will of no doubt heard about the new and up coming Call Of Duty: Black Ops. As new videos and screens come pouring out as the release date gets even closer, my hopes, expectations, but more importantly, respect for this old series has been dramatically reduced and I am now not even a bit impressed with their new effort. You may be wondering why I have randomly started a stupid argument, but it started about a month ago. Whilst on our summer holidays, I went down to my local Apollo and I swapped 3 games in for another game. As these three games were crap, I didn't get that much money for them, but one game in Apollo that caught my eye was Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare. Whaaaaa......you don't already have it?!?!?! I know, I know, but I've just never bought it or played it.
No offence to the Call of Duty franchise, I was expecting an over the top, shouty, unrealistic shooter that for some reason you get addicted to. But to my surprise, as I sat playing the opening levels of this masterpiece of a game, I fell in love. The story was involving, the characters were awesome, some funny, some harsh, a brilliant mix. The levels were exciting, mental and the game was a damn right laugh. I'm not normally some one who gets all emotional at games, but the first person view of the nuclear blast? One of the most powerful moments in gaming, up there with Half Life's final scene and Metal Gear Solids epic last level. As I was crawling through the obliterated city, moving at a snails pace, I actually felt emotion. And then that thought hit me. Im feeling emotion at a Call of Duty game? How can this be happening. But as I continued through the story, I was feeling happy, sad, scared and in peril, something that never happened to me when playing a COD game.
What im trying to get at here is that, in my eyes, Modern Warfare 2 was one of the laziest, shortest and most over rated game of this decade. The story? Basically the same. The controls? Not any changes. The levels? Shorter and worse. The characters? Typical American 'OH MY GOD' action hero's. Infinity Ward just let the huge success of the first MW to carry the second to the top spot. However, it wasn't just the story that surprised me. The one so-called 'improvement' from the last Modern Warfare was the 'flawless' multiplayer. I cannot deny that I played online for about 5 months after wards and, like everyone else, I was addicted to unlocking new call signs, emblems and being the top of my friends. But now, once the hype quietened down, its nothing but a place for immature 8 year old's to shout about how you are a 'fag' or how my mother is 'fat'. The servers are constantly breaking for me and the games get over run by Pave Lows and AC130's. And to tell you the truth, I'm bored of it now; the maps are tedious, the fights are boring and it is generally a bit of a rubbish experience. So critics said it the multiplayer was improved from the 1st, but I have to disagree, the multiplayer is perfect. Its easy to get into, not over run by shouty people, and every match is a fair game with only a couple of helicopters each game. And the helicopters don't destroy everything in sight.
So there was my rant. Sorry about that. I'm just tired of COD milking money and getting lazy. Black Ops may bring in a few new gameplay techniques but, to me it still looks the same old same old stuff. I know that there are people who agree with me, and I hope that they will join me in not buying Call of Duty, they don't deserve the money.
Thanks
James
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