He's been missing - presumed dead - for more than four years, but it's time to reactivate sci-fi gaming's most famous super-soldier.
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.
GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales
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.
I give MS credit for having the balls to release Halo 4 a week before Black Ops 2 but that just wasn't smart. They should have released in September like they've done previously so that it would have 2 months before Black Ops 2 released and it would have sold about 4 or 5 million during that time frame. But now with Black Ops 2 releasing this Tuesday Halo 4 sales will hit a huge slow down. COD is an unstoppable juggernaut that breaks previous year's sales record every year and this year will be no different.
I don't think Halo 4 can really beat Black Ops 2. COD has a larger base across more platforms.
Don't you people know that Bungie signed on a partnership extended to them by Activision? Every single Halo plays SO much better than any COD. The graphics, gameplay, maps, campaign are always better. The Halo engine is not glitchy in the slightest. Why? Because Bungie has a HUGE hand in developing COD games and they're not going to make a FPS better than their baby, Halo.
Microsoft, with 343, has some new developers as well as veteran Bungie developers. They're the best team in the business which is why Halo will always be the best FPS, period.
So, you chumps keep playing COD and leave Halo to those smart enough to implore strategy and skill into their game play.
Interesting and good read. I found the article very interesting because it talks about how in a way Halo and CoD are both soldiers in disguise as they try to stave off the critics that people are more and more switching to Tablets and Smartphones for their fun because of prices on games for consoles.
Just like how they explain that the music games that use to be rolling for two to three years was growing, it eventually died and that could end up being the FPS genre if something is not done by these next two games to offer variety of options rather than just "follow the road" in terms of linear gameplay. looking forward to what BO2 has to offer.