Black Ops has been out for weeks now. Lotsa complaints about it that have mostly died down.
The thing is, I am a long time fan of Call Of Duty even before multiplayer became its forte. Finest Hour, Big Red One, 3, 4, World at War, Modern Warfare 2 and now Black Ops. I've played them all. the earlier ones just for single player. I only started playing multiplayer when numero quattro came out.
It was groundbreaking. Online multiplayer for first person shooters(and other games as well) would never be the same again. Class customization, perks, weapon attachments, killstreaks combined with top notch(for its time) graphics blew everyone away. Everyone played it. People who never picked up a controller/keyboard+mouse before played it. People who hated first person shooters loved it. Critics for once agreed with gamers. It received numerous awards as well as going on to become a best selling game. It was also the most distributed(pirated) PC game next to WOW, DotA and CS.
Then World at War came out. It was a huge disappointment. Back to the ancient era of WW2, it lost the 'cool' factor. In addition, the graphics had not really improved. The game was basically a copy of Modern Warfare with a WW2 skin. It was also plagued by the imbalance of the MP40 and the PTRS-41. This drove players to the Nazi Zombies mode which became a huge hit.
The sequel to the best selling game arrived. It was called Modern Warfare 2(duh). Pre-orders and expectations soared. Then the game actually came out. For a while, everyone was still bursting with excitement and adrenaline. Slowly, cracks appeared and the design team failed to patch these cracks. The multitude of killstreaks and the addition of pro-perks were too much. Everything in the game was powerful and killed instantly. Spec ops failed to cover for the failure of the multiplayer like zombies did.
Fast forward to 2010. Black Ops. Surpassing MW2, it established new records. Some minor cracks that appeared were soon patched. Everything was balanced perfectly. Each weapon and perk had its own strengths and weakness. Customization was improved. Zombies was brought back. Everyone form gamers to critics were gushing.
I am not.
Sure, it's great. Probably the best yet. However, it lacks the X factor Modern Warfare brought with it. Bottomline, it's nothing new. We've seen it all before. It's just that things have been tweaked to exactly how it should have been all the while. The franchise has been reinventing the same game since Modern Warfare. It needs a fresh start, a new system.
However, Activision doesn't seem to realise that. Next year, 2/TWO/DUE/DEUX/DOS/ZWEI/δΈ€
Call of Duty games are coming out.
It's like reality TV, except this is REAL.
Showing posts with label black ops. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Dissecting Black Ops Trophy List
The trophy list for Black Ops was leaked recently. I'm not so excited about knowing the trophies themselves. It's just that the trophies can tell us a lot about the game.
What we know will happen in Campaign
- We KILL Castro in Cuba! The real man is still alive though.
- Infiltrate Vorkuta, a coal mining town in Russia
- Take part in a fierce battle in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam
- Fight Soviets in Laos
- You have to kill test monkeys and run through lethal gas on some place called Rebirth Island
- An enemy type called Pentagon thief which can steal you loadout. WTH is a pentagon thief?
- Dead Ops Arcade is the name of another game mode.
The leaked trophy list is here http://sofrozen.blogspot.com/2010/10/call-of-duty-black-ops-trophy-list.html
Black Ops is shaping up to be VERY interesting.
Wager Match
Wager Matches are a new Free-For-All multiplayer playlist for Call Of Duty Black Ops. There will be 6 players. Every player will wager a fixed amount of CoD points against everyone else. Top 3 are 'in the money' and win the points, with 1st getting the most.
The buy-in cost varies, Ante-Up has the lowest with parties allowed, Weekend Gambler is higher with no parties and High Roller is high stakes with Pro Gambler Mode enabled.
Gun Game : Everyone will start out with a pistol. With each kill a player will move up one level, which will grant them a new weapon. Knifing an enemy does not give you a new weapon, the kill must be with that weapon in order to level up. The game ends when a kill is achieved with all twenty tiers of weapons. However, if a player is knifed, they will move down a level.
Sharpshooter : Every player will receive the same random weapon. After a set period of time (rumored to be anything between 45 seconds and 5 minutes), their current weapon will be cycled out for a new one. With each kill, a player will receive a perk and, eventually, a scoring multiplier.
Sticks & Stones : All players spawn with a Crossbow, a Ballistic Knife, and a Tomahawk. Players can bankrupt one another with Tomahawk kills.
One In The Chamber : Each player starts out with a pistol with one bullet and their knife. One more bullet is gained with each kill. However, each player will only have three lives and if the bullet misses they only have their knife.
The buy-in cost varies, Ante-Up has the lowest with parties allowed, Weekend Gambler is higher with no parties and High Roller is high stakes with Pro Gambler Mode enabled.
- Random lobbies
- No equipment
- No parties
- No join game session
- NO BOOSTING
Gun Game : Everyone will start out with a pistol. With each kill a player will move up one level, which will grant them a new weapon. Knifing an enemy does not give you a new weapon, the kill must be with that weapon in order to level up. The game ends when a kill is achieved with all twenty tiers of weapons. However, if a player is knifed, they will move down a level.
Sharpshooter : Every player will receive the same random weapon. After a set period of time (rumored to be anything between 45 seconds and 5 minutes), their current weapon will be cycled out for a new one. With each kill, a player will receive a perk and, eventually, a scoring multiplier.
Sticks & Stones : All players spawn with a Crossbow, a Ballistic Knife, and a Tomahawk. Players can bankrupt one another with Tomahawk kills.
One In The Chamber : Each player starts out with a pistol with one bullet and their knife. One more bullet is gained with each kill. However, each player will only have three lives and if the bullet misses they only have their knife.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Call Of Duty Black Ops Trophy List
| NAME | DESCRIPTION | 360 | PS3 | SECRET |
| Sacrifice | Ensure your squad escapes safely from Cuba | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| Death to Dictators | Use a single round to bring down Castro | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Vehicular Slaughter | Destroy all enemies on vehicles during the prison break | 25 | Silver | NO | |
| Give me liberty, or give me death | Escape Vorkuta | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| Slingshot Kid | Destroy all slingshot targets in 3 attempts | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| VIP | Receive orders from Lancer | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| A safer place | Sabatoge the Soviet space program | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| Tough Economy | Use no more than 6 TOW guided missiles to destroy the tanks in the defense of Khe Sanh | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Looks don’t count | Break the seige in the battle of Khe Sanh | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| SOG Rules | Retrieve the dossier and the defector from Hue City | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| Raining Pain | Rack up a bodycount of 20 NVA using air support in Hue City | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| The Dragon Within | Kill 10 NVA with Dragon’s Breath rounds | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Heavy Hand | Use the Grim Reaper to destroy the MG emplacement | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Up close and personal | Silently take out 3 VC | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Double Trouble | Use only dual wield weapons to escape Kowloon | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| Broken English | Escape Kowloon | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| Lord Nelson | Destroy all targets and structures while making your way up the river | 25 | Silver | NO | |
| Never get off the boat | Find the Soviet connection in Laos | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| Pathfinder | Guide the squad through the Soviet outpost without them getting killed | 50 | Silver | NO | |
| Mr. Black OP | Enter the Soviet relay station undetected | 50 | Silver | NO | |
| With extreme prejudice | Get to the POW compound in the Hind using only rockets | 25 | Silver | NO | |
| Russian bar-b-q | Incinerate 10 enemies with the flamethrower attachment in the POW compound | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Light Foot | Escape the ship with 2:15 left on the timer in Veteran. | 30 | Silver | NO | |
| Some wounds never heal | Escape the past | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| I hate monkeys | Kill 7 monkeys in under 10 seconds in the Rebirth labs | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| No Leaks | Make it through the NOVA 6 gas without dying on Rebirth Island | 50 | Silver | NO | |
| Clarity | Crack the code | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| Double Whammy | Destroy both helicopters with one TOW guided missile from the deck of the ship | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| BLACK OP MASTER | Complete the campaign on Hardened or Veteran difficulty | 100 | Gold | NO | |
| Stand Down | Complete the campaign on any difficulty | 35 | Silver | NO | |
| Frag Master | Kill 5 enemies with a single frag grenade | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Sally Likes Blood | Demonstrate killer economic sensibilities by taking down 3 enemies with a single bullet | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Unconventional Warfare | Use the explosive bolts to kill 30 enemies | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Down and Dirty | Complete “SOG” and “The Defector” on Veteran difficulty | 25 | Silver | NO | |
| It’s your funeral | Complete “Numbers,” “Project Nova” and “Victor Charlie” on Veteran difficulty | 25 | Silver | NO | |
| Cold Warrior | Complete “Operation 40″, “Vorkuta”, and “Executive Order” on Veteran difficulty | 25 | Silver | NO | |
| Not Today | Complete “Crash Site,” “WMD” and “Payback” on Veteran difficulty | 25 | Silver | NO | |
| Burn Notice | Complete “Rebirth” and “Redemption” on Veteran difficulty | 25 | Silver | NO | |
| Closer Analysis | Find all the hidden intel | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Matinee | Watch a film or clip with a friend | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| Gamblin’ Fool | Finish 5 Wager Matches “in the money” | 20 | Bronze | NO | |
| You can do it | Reach rank 10 in Basic Training | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| The Collector | In Zombie mode, buy every weapon off the walls in a single game | 20 | Bronze | NO | |
| CLASSIFIED | CLASSIFIED | 15 | Bronze | YES | |
| Hands Off the Merchandise | Kill the Pentagon thief before it can steal your load-out | 20 | Bronze | NO | |
| Sacrificial Lamb | Kill 6 zombies after getting shot by a Pack-a-Punched Crossbow bolt | 15 | Bronze | NO | |
| “Insert Coin” | Access the terminal and battle the forces of the Cosmic Silverback in Dead Ops Arcade | 10 | Bronze | NO | |
| Easy Rhino | In Dead Ops Arcade, use a Speed Boost to blast through 20 or more enemies at one time | 5 | Bronze | NO | |
| CLASSIFIED | CLASSIFIED | 15 | Bronze | YES | |
| CLASSIFIED | CLASSIFIED | 15 | Bronze | YES |
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