Re: COD :BLACK OPS TRAILER TONIGHT

On May 1, 11:54 am, Luther Root <luther.r...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 1, 6:48 am, The alMIGHTY N <natle...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Anyway, back on topic...

I'm a little disappointed that the game won't be a "Vietnam War game"
like the earlier Call of Duty titles were "World War II games."

Yeah, you and me both. I'm starting to believe that I'll never play a
decent Vietnam War FPS. Men of Valor probably came close (I liked the
idea that you fought in real battles but the game was mostly "meh".) I
hope DICE try to fill this void by doing a sequel to Battlefield
Vietnam -- I didn't play it, but from what I remember reviews were
generally positive.

Black Ops just doesn't evoke a sense of a period piece game.

They should have named it COW: Not quite Modern Warfare. But I can
almost get a sense of their thinking:

"Oh, we _must_ do a snow level"

"Yeah, definitely got to do a snow level"

"Bad Company 2 did a snow level"

"Well, that settles it then, we're doing a snow level"

I wonder why they couldn't just do a Vietnam
War game since tons of gamers are clamoring for that and no one's
really been able to make a truly killer Vietnam War game yet.

The answer is that developers are under a misguided belief that gamers
want varied gameplay locations for FPS (mostly to facilitate a variety
of multiplayer maps), as supposedly proven by MW2 and BC2.

They were also apprehensive about returning to exclusively to the
jungle because CoW5 flopped, although that may be more attributable to
the fact gamers are bored shitless of WWII shooters. As Pachter once
said: "WWII games have lasted longer than the real thing".

Misguided belief? Not quite- I'll take a fair amount of variety in
locations over trudging through the same environment ad nauseum.
.

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