Call Of Duty Black Ops Mission 1 without firing a single shot

Chairman Meow wrote: »

United offensive is still the best ever cod game and literally shat all over cod 2.

You do know that Treyarch technically developed UO, as it was developed by Gray Matter, who were integrated into Treyarch a long time ago.

In fact United Offensive is nothing to do with Infinity Ward at all.

You guys are continuously passing off opinion as fact. Everyone's entitled to an opinion but I do take exception when people start referring to those opinions as definite statements about a given game.

If you don't like the SP and MP - that's fine, that's why such a variety of genres and even sub classes within genres exist. To cater to a versatile and wide target market. As I said before, there are several franchises of games I absolutely cannot stand; but nonetheless I acknowledge that they must be doing something right to be so popular even if they are not for me. Why so many people are so rabidly attacking the integrity of Call of Duty as if it where a great offense to the gaming market despite it, however, being the best selling game of all time, is beyond me.

For example, I would address the following comments as so:

I'm sick of it and it's only a matter of time when the rest of the target audience who unlike me had CoD4 as their first CoD game get sick of it.

Actually, I've played the games since 2015 brought out Allied Assault, and enthusiastically played COD, United Offensive, COD2, COD3, World at War, COD4, and MW2 prior to Black Ops. I was particularly into the PC gaming scene, though I've since switched to the 360. I've been playing FPS games since Wolfenstein, so I don't know what gives you the authority to seemingly speak for everyone as to how or why they appreciate Black Ops.

I can admit to liking the campaign but in the same way i admit to loving ****ty action movies. Why people put it on some kind of a pedestal as the greatest FPS series of all time is 100% beyond me. Its MP is a retarded Quake 3 arena clone, and its SP is bettered by everything out there, but it appeals to kids who just dont know any better.

As above - what gives you the right to say that? I'm not a kid, and I certainly do know better; I'm perfectly well informed as to what's out there and on merit of what I personally feel constitutes sheer entertainment and longevity excellence, Call of Duty, throughout and up to Black Ops, is my favourite video game franchise. It's my opinion, shared by most of the 20,000,000 odd people that bought MW2 along, and it doesn't make your opinion wrong, but it does suggest that you're leaning far more towards suggesting fact than opinion in what you're saying. Can you not respect the opinions of others?

Critical reviews of both MW2 and Black Ops are overwhelmingly positive, sales figures are phenomenal, which would surely indicate that personal opinions aside, there's a massive target demographic out there satisfied with the output (whom I would be one of). If you don't like it's style, if you prefer games of a different nature, then it's hardly fair to judge it on the merits of what it never professed to offer. It delivers on what it promises, and does it better than any other game of its type out there. People have expectations of games, myself included, and when comparing games like, say, Bioshock, Fallout 3 and Call of Duty, they're not entirely cross comparable, each has to be taken on its own merits and offerings. For example, I expect intense, cinematic, in your face straight up brainless entertainment from Call of Duty; from Fallout, I expect a much deeper and involving experience that places both choice and freedom in your hands. I like both, I just happen to prefer what Call of Duty offers, it doesn't mean I can't enjoy the others at the same time.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare had a 2 year development cycle just like every other one.

The first 3 titles from Infinity Ward were fantastic IMHO ( CoD1, CoD2 and CoD4).

All went downhill with MW2 which had an appalling SP and an average MP with woeful balance and a tiny skill gap.

CoD2 had the best MP.

Actually, Treyarch were given serious restricted Timetables with their releases, hence COD3 was inconsistent, excellent in some sections and then atrocious in others, an extremely rushed title pushed out to capitalise on COD2. You can't blame Treyarch for that, they were under immense pressure from Activision. Given 6 months, I'm sure IW would struggle to piece together MW3 either, but even at that, with COD3, Treyarch had no prior track record apart from some members of staff having worked on United Offensive and COD2: Big Red One, which, decent as it was, was worked for a vastly different and limited platform. World at War had longer but still less than MW2, though Black Ops had the full cycle - and it shows.

In my opinion....Call of Duty was an instant classic. Relevant to the time in which it was released, it's definitely the best COD title. COD2 was equally epic, and really pushed the angle of cinematic gaming. COD3 was outdated, entertaining and promising, but severely rushed; buggy, inconsistent qualities in development; it belonged in the past rather than the time it was released. COD4 was brilliant in every regard, hard to fault it. World at War was severely underrated, a great title and as a gamer who leans towards WW2 titles, it had some fantastic set pieces but it lacked the character development that IW had nailed down to make the SP truly memorable. I see Black Ops as Treyarchs perfection, surpassing IW in creating and drawing the player into a story, and creating an entire world of characters and motives to make it credible. Multiplayer wise, I feel Black Ops is more like an add on for MW2, with some stellar new modes and options, but overall feeling far too similar to be considered an entire step forward the way most of the other titles were in several ways.

If I never played Black Ops MP again to be frank, I wouldn't consider it much of a loss. I appreciate the improvements in BO over MW2 but something in me just prefers MW2. I'm more of a Halo Reach player either way.