This week the world bowed to the release of Call of Duty Black Ops. The game was released on 11/09/2010 and so far has had an outstanding turnout in sales. Day 1 sales measured 5.6 million copies sold equating to around $310 million dollars. News on top of the sales and marketing figures stated that within the first 24 hours of release over 2.8 million players were playing online across all gaming platforms. Xbox Live did top out the highest number of users around 2.1M users (source: http://tinyurl.com/25yutes).
As I’ve proclaimed before, Bad Company 2 is my choice of shooter. I’ve yet to pick up or play Medal of Honor and I have not yet tried Black Ops. I do plan to try them at some point, but I won’t be spending much time online with them. I may have changed w/ time and age, but I just can’t keep up with more than a handful of shooters at once. The market is flooded with options, and a few stand out, but if you’re a hardcore or dedicated gamer, it is too much work to play all of the games and work your way through the ranks and online in game awards such as new guns, perks, etc.
So Black Ops has been released, has great critic and user reviews and Activision and Treyarch are rolling in more cash than a movie studio. I’ve heard more good things about the campaign for Black Ops than online play. On the surface, the online play seems to be more of the same, just new maps, new perks, and some in game features. For those who loved MW2 I’m sure this is a great refreshing way to get back into the game. However, it’s only been a year since MW2 came out, so there must be a pool of people who weren’t ready and love MW2 for all it is, but the sales definitely don’t reflect that.
I’m not against the COD series, I’ve enjoyed it in the past. I’m personally getting tired of it. The game stories do pull me in, so I will try to find time to borrow or rent both Black ops and MOH, but like I said the online has no appeal to me, for a number of reasons. When I last played MW2, it was quite fun, yet always frustrating. Within the first minute of action someone on the enemy team, or my own, would have attained a kill streak and then came the non stop air attack bombardments. At times you had harriers, C130s, attack choppers, UAV missiles, and maybe a stationary drone gun dropped off. It just seemed like endless chaos. I’m getting old and I guess slow, but I wasn’t adapting well to it. I like more strategy and teamwork, but COD had me feel like run and gun the whole time. It doesn’t help that the maps made be claustrophobic, as the small space for so many players and weapons really cramps you up at times.
Bad Company 2 makes up for all those issues I wasn’t liking in MW2 and what I assume will exist in Black Ops. Bigger maps, a full arsenal of vehicles, and a class system the promotes teamwork and strategy. On top of all that we have some fun game modes such as Rush. I can never seem to get enough of Rush and wish more BC2 maps had that mode available.
As a gamer going into the holiday there are many shooter options. Halo reach, any Call of Duty game, the Battlefield series top the charts along with Medal of Honor, the new comer. What else are people playing for FPS is not any of these top rated games?
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