MasonicGamer.com: If there’s one thing you can count on in the games industry, it’s a yearly iteration branded by Call of Duty. The powerhouse FPS is practically unstoppable and Treyarch continues to raise the bar set by previous developers of the series. Luckily for us, Activision provided us a copy of what has been poised to be the best Call of Duty ever. But one thing has plagued the series, regardless of consistently selling a bajillion (not a real number) copies every round, it has been the target of harsh criticism for becoming stale and repetitive. Does Call of Duty Black Ops II break the mold or is it just another shake ‘n bake remake?
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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.
I am having difficulty understanding how a game that comes out every year with rehasing after rehasing can get such high scores from reviewers....Please people use your brains and realize that this is the same thing every year with Call of Duty. Gamers should not excuse this irrefutable fact. The games they are pumping out every year are not $65 bucks worthy man...COME ON@
well this game doesn't deserve a 9/10 on the lack of zombie content alone.
Highly disappointing in the small maps and almost non existence of exploring in the zombie maps. LET DOWN
9/10 is a joke
8/10 fine more like 7.5/10
Here is my mp review. Crappy servers, quick scoping sadly is still in, 90% of what you run into is some sort of smg over powering any other weapon. What a joke. At least zombies is fun.