GotGame: We chatted with Yale Miller, Producer at Activision, and we asked him all about the Wii U version of Black Ops 2. We asked him if there’s any difference between the Wii U and Xbox, PS3 and PC versions. He also tells us how the Wii U Gamepad comes into play.
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
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Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.
@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol
Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.
If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.
Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.
Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite
I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.
Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts
I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.
Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.
We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.
I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.
I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.
Like I said...we played Black Ops 2 on the Wii U last week. No direct feed or off-screen gameplay recording was allowed though.
i wish they (acti reps) would stop saying "full hd"
that means 1080p
and if its just garbage upscaled 1080p, thats not full hd
is it native 1080p, if not, don't say it
ask the right questions, does the wii u version of blops 2 look even half as good as the pc version?
-no
does it at least look twice as good as the horribly sub-hd 1024x600 ps3/360 versions?
-yes
does it support anti aliasing that works unlike the jaggie infested ps3/360 version?
--yes
who cares about a mini map on a touch screen, we want to know if it sh!ts on the ps3/360 like a console coming out 8 FREAKING YEARS after the last gen ps3/360 craps all over them visually and performance wise!
So upscaled to 1080p, nice faking going on there...
I still remember my COD experience on the Wii, pure horror. Game got me nightmares and it was not because of the great realistic gameplay and blood everywhere. Sad game was sad on Wii.
COD turned sad after COD4 anyways, but that is a different story. Anyways, never a shooter on a Wii or WiiUpgrade anymore for several reasons. A first: the controller. Wiimote is inaccurate, WiiU bulky tablet controller is not as nice to use as a 360 or PS3 controller, which is a lot more comfortable and ergonomic than such a big brick. Its dumb to think that the 2nd screen is great in a FPS, looking away from the screen in a fast paced FPS for some other tasks on the 2nd screen? Lol
WiiU - Rated U for Upgrade
I can't believe this guy just said "full HD" again. Is this a new definition of the word "full" where it means "not full"?
Cant wait for this game!