RadicalRad said:
After WaW it's a rule of thumb to just skip each Treyarch entry. The mixed impressions only enforce that in my mind. Was gonna get it on 360 to play with friends but if party matchmaking isn't even working correctly, screw that.
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Fail. Seriously. At least give the game a try - the graphics are a little off in some areas (gun models like the M16 look like BC2... cartoonish or bland). Otherwise, it's a superior game to MW2 in every way IMO. The party system, spawn bugs etc are all straight out of MW2... so if you could enjoy that, or it didn't bother you all that much - then Black Ops won't either. More importantly, the game plays so much nicer than MW2 due to the balance improvements and currency/customisation system that makes you invested in your weapons.
zlatko said:
I read up on what others were feeling and for the most part it seems I'm not the only one feeling this is not a step forward for the CoD series in too many places, which is a shame, because what they did add customization wise is great.
I just had a game where it spawned me 4 times on Firing Range by the same guy who kept killing me. Is there REALLY no other spot on the ENTIRE map it could pick other than the same one I keep getting shit on at?
Decent attempt by Treyarch, but they continue to hold the #2 team title.
Really? The spawn issues make it a 'decent' attempt? It's really starting to sound like the people bitching or putting the game down are really holding Treyarch to unrealistic expectations. Modern Warfare 2 was a glitchy, unbalanced mess of a game that seen
some improvements over several months. The only thing it clearly outdid Black Ops in was the graphics/image quality... and possibly the sound on
some weapons, footsteps etc. MW2 had the exact same issues with spawns as anyone else was having... and for anyone complaining about Nuketown, you need to go and have a match on Rust in MW2 to see the meaning of unfair spawns. If you don't spawn on top of a MLC knifer, or Noob Tuber, you are getting spawn camped by 1-3 people on the top of the building, or have someone spawn directly behind you 2 seconds after you kill them. Nuketown is an improvement if nothing else, as you can quite easily make it into the house, or into the garage on the side of the map, or even into the caravan/van/bus things in the middle for a little extra safety. Killstreaks of course are an issue on that map, but no worse than MW2 was on many of its maps due to the constant death from above in that game.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - I was a huge fan of MW1, hated WaW, really enjoyed MW2 despite its issues (the tubing became too much and I had to stop)... and Black Ops is easily the best FPS I've played (besides Reach) for a long, long time. It plays almost exactly like MW1/2 without the quickscoping, knifing, killstreak-rape, UMP45 bullshit. And to top it all off, it's the most feature rich CoD game by a mile, with some of the best designed maps I've played.
