Treyarch has some big shoes to fill with the next Call of Duty and it looks like they have a good handle on things based on this reveal trailer for Black Ops. The Vietnam conflict will bring some new weapons to the mix like the crossbow with explosive bolts and some missions that will let you blow sh*t up from a helicopter.
However this game turns out, I'm just glad we're not playing yet another World War II game. What do you all think of the reveal trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops?
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Also, most Viet Nam games have failed. I like to believe some kind of ghost made up of American morality influences the developers to make bad games. Hopefully one day it will work and the shit will stop. My dad was a Marine in Vietnam and Korea, and it fucked him up for awhile. When you lead a village of frightened children across a minefield in the dark, and lose a couple, I guess it does that.
Yay war. AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
Regarding your first comment, if you don't want gratuitous, unrealistic action in your video games, you shouldn't be looking at trailers for the next Call of Duty game (and that's not meant to be a criticism of the franchise).
And yeah, I think most Vietnam games failed at being anything terribly interesting beyond fun, but there haven't been that many attempts - at least, not compared to WWII or modern Middle East conflicts. If I were a betting man I wouldn't put my money on CoD bucking that trend, but I think it'll do something at least a little bit interesting.
Vietcong (for pc) was a decent game that gave you some perspective as to how terrible it was.
How many first person shooters do you people need? You're going to stop stagnating the video game industry soon, right?
This video is an insult to anyone with intelligence. Also is that fucking AH-1 Helicopter which is a two person cockpit vehicle transporting people?
It looks like a Huey, but it has Cobra paint on it and a gunship weapon on it's sides, even though anyone intelligent will tell you a transport vehicle can transport more if it doesn't have a load of ordinance on it, hence why its a fucking transport. Don't get me wrong though they have been known to carry out special missions, normally with no one on board but the pilots as far as I know.
Still no cover system for what is supposed to be THE premier FPS?
This looks like... Modern Warfare 2, just like World at War did when it came to MW. So obviously it's going to be a not as good version of MW2. And since MW2 is a not so good version of MW... you see where this is going.
90% of this trailer is explosions. Did not do a thing for me, it's going to be a crappier version of MW2 and people are going to buy it up just cause it says Call of Duty.
This game does not look good.
LOL!!!!
This is considering MW2 sucked ass, yes?
cover system? You mean like the system used in Gears of Wars?
But to nitpick and say "oh the explosions suck" when they clearly look fine, or saying MW2 sucked ass so this one will be worse, even though we all know you only hate on MW2 because it's more popular than some shitty game you like better.
If you say MW2 sucks, you've got no respect for the craft of video game making. You can dislike it, as I do, but to say it sucks? That's just ignorant. Gameplay was tight, game was technically impressive.
I didn't care for the characters or story much though.
Amazing how many people hate a game that sold like 12 million copies. No wait, we do that with EVERY popular game.
No it was not technically impressive. Yes the controls were there, the excitement was there, but what it really lacked was a good story, good multiplayer. People still play it and they put up with all the bullshit , not just the Camping to get killstreak garbage (which ruined the whole point of COD) but the network problems and hackers that I seemed to run into on a constant basis. Cod has a become a casual pew pew pew hide in a corner game that requires hardly any skill to win a match. Its really stupid. I have had some fun games but the bad ones far outweigh the good ones because of people being ignorant online, little kids that shouldnt be playing the game screaming in the mic, lagfest garbage, people hosting lobbies, wanting to play regular free for all but running into parties of 20 on rust, im sorry but if you find a game with that many flaws impressive i would question your intelligence.
Your statement does nothing but support what EDS said. You've done nothing but outline why you don't like MW2. But you simply disliking a game is not enough to say it sucks. MW2 is a successful game, whether you like it or not. Millions of people bought it and millions of people play it everyday. You don't like some aspects of it's design and I respect that, I too don't like a lot of the things you mentioned. But again, that's not enough to make it a bad game. It's a good game that you don't like.
Wake me up when this CoD is GoD trend is over.
There was a time where new IP's were all the rage, anyone remember those sweet days. Days where the odd sequel was an exciting thing. Yawn.
I just hope this isn't them showing all the cool parts in the trailer, then leaving us with nothing new when we actually play the game.
Also finally getting away from WW2 is a relief
This is not why I'm 'hating' on it. The trailer did absolutely nothing for me and this is Activision wanting another Call of Duty for the sake of having a new one out there. I did not like WaW at all, and I liked MW. This looks like it will be the same re-skinned type deal and I'll doubt I'll be into it.
Also I don't know if people are misinterpreting what I said, but I don't think MW2 sucks, I just don't think it's as good as MW was.
And if I wanted to hate things that are popular, I'd be a hypocrite since the only thing I've been playing lately is SSFIV.
and if I'm right YAY ESPIONAGE!!!
It seems you're not criticizing MW2 for being technically faulty, but for not being as tactical as you want it to be. The game is solid and enjoyable - if it's the type of game you're looking for. I'm not gonna say the Civ series sucks because there aren't enough flashy explosions. MW2 does wear me down and I do get frustrated with it, but that happens with any game you overplay.
There's enough incentive for a person to keep playing and despite what people think, not all games are camping killfests. If you play Team Deathmatch or Domination, yeah, you'll get that. But pretty much every other gametype, people are pretty focused on accomplishing the objectives.
Yeah, the game is a little unbalanced. Some perks (OMA, Commando) are unfair and too easy to use. But opinions vary as to whether or not those are actually gamebreakers.
I was thinking more along the lines of Rainbow Six Las Vegas since it is a FPS!
You yawn a lot bro. Little tike keeping you up at night?
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I think this looks pretty fun. I've always had a great time with the Call of Duty single player campaigns (even the Treyarch ones), so I'll be renting this to play it through and then returning it after the weekend.
"We live in a world..." stupid script too.
Now MW2's campaign had it's problems, mainly story based...it just didnt make much sense or lacked logic in a lot of parts (how was price there again? what exactly was the main bad guy (note: the russian one)'s motive? and why does he disappear and we never find out what happens to him as a new ''shock'' (read: senseless) villain comes into play?
But as a game, it was fantastic fun, with great graphics, set pieces, and just intensity, it's hard to match.