I dunno why they (the players, developers, and/or the publishers) feel the need to have a game every year. CoD is nothing more than your typical sports game released every stinkin' year. Those CoD players can go ahead and play their Madden Black Ops World at Warfare 2010 game.
And then there's the model or lighting on those characters... ever since MW came out, virtually every character model I see have those bothersome light reflections no matter where they're at. Are their clothes really that shiny and reflective???
What's most confusing about CoD: BP (The Oil Spill Edition) is that up until recently I would only play Call of Duty games produced by Infinity Ward and I would dodge any CoD developed by Treyarch as I found them bland and unsastifying. Then IW decided to stab all PC gamers in the back with MW2. Honestly, this wasn't that big of a deal for me since Bad Company 2 came out shortly there afterwards and is in my opinion, a far better game than any CoD has ever been. What strikes me as odd though is that MW2 was so abysmal and such a disaster for PC gamers that I didn't even buy it, however the concept on this one looks mildly interesting despite being a Treyarch game. If Treyarch can deliver, they might actually flip my opinion on CoD developers.
What's most confusing about CoD: BP (The Oil Spill Edition) is that up until recently I would only play Call of Duty games produced by Infinity Ward and I would dodge any CoD developed by Treyarch as I found them bland and unsastifying. Then IW decided to stab all PC gamers in the back with MW2. Honestly, this wasn't that big of a deal for me since Bad Company 2 came out shortly there afterwards and is in my opinion, a far better game than any CoD has ever been. What strikes me as odd though is that MW2 was so abysmal and such a disaster for PC gamers that I didn't even buy it, however the concept on this one looks mildly interesting despite being a Treyarch game. If Treyarch can deliver, they might actually flip my opinion on CoD developers.
Going to have to say the reasons for not supporting certain features was due to Activision, and not IW. This was due to the production of the game and Activision wanting it on for a holiday release, if it was up to IW they would have not gone that route.
MoH still seams to be the better game, and I am still on a "no buy" for Activision until they get their act together.
Professional... well I'll figure that out.
"I sense something, a presence I've not felt since......."
Pity MW2 sucked in every conceivable way (considering how awesome MW1 was) i highly doubt as many people will be so easily and quickly going back for more.
The early college age students are addicted to CoD. I do not get the hype around it. I have played the free weekends and it was rather "meh." Not that great of a game, but it is hyped enough that all the annoying 13 year olds as well as college kids on xbox live will buy it.
I bought it to play with friends and i Do like the core gameplay of it. I just get annoying by pay-to-play DLC and the lack of ded servers. As soon as a suitable replacement comes along, I'll jump on it. I play some BC2 as well, I think i prefer the closer quarters combat.
Has anyone seen any info whether or not surround or even eyefinity will be supported
Most likely it will have the same crap support that the last two had, and will have to be messed with by someone in the community. I believe Dopefish handled the last two CoD games.
Well the same crap support is the likely answer since Black Ops is based off the same engine Modern WarFAIL 2 uses. And if it's using the same engine, chances are Treyarch will do nothing about it. Treyarch isn't smart nor good enough to really do anything good w/ the CoD game they're tasked of developing. They're nothing more than a hand-me-down company.
I'm looking forward to getting my copy of BlackOps tomorrow, but for sure don't know if
I'll like it. I havent' much cared for MW2--like many many I think they overdid the "super all powerful earned acheivements" and the same with the overdone, imo, kill streak rewards.
But of coure some peeps like that kind of game. I like games to be more competitive, and that's why i still play a lot of COD4. Even a beginner COD4 can play OK. Sure earned acheivments help, but they're not essential. And I rarely see totally one sided wipe out team games in COD4--I often see this in MW2 and that's a bore for either team to me.
I've watched many of the developer promo vids etc, and its just too hard to call.
Its funny lately i have started playing more MW2, and it doesn't bug me sooo much as it once did. I'm kinda enjoying getting weapon acheivements etc with guns I dont' usually use etc. And the play seems better? I don't know why. But its still pretty flawed.
I also play BBC2 and its really good for sure, but I guess too me I often like the more often up close and personal action of the COD series. I like the series for COD1,2,4 and United Offensive was great too. But the other COD games are not sooo hot for me.
And then there's the model or lighting on those characters... ever since MW came out, virtually every character model I see have those bothersome light reflections no matter where they're at. Are their clothes really that shiny and reflective???
Heh, they subscribe to the school of thought that you can hide any amount of low-res textures and blocky models if you add enough HDR and Bloom.
Graphics are from 2006, but they need to keep up the illusion so they can keep charging us 60$ every year.
