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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Can Actually Look Gorgeous - Comparison Between Modded And Vanilla

DSOGaming writes: "So you thought that Black Ops 2 looks ugly, right? Well, you are partially right as the vanilla version looks awful. But as we all know, PC gamers can use the amazing SweetFX Shader Suite tool to overhaul a game’s visuals, and you seriously won’t believe how good Black Ops 2 modded can look on the PC."

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Hazmat134173d ago

they can sell millions of copies of Call Of Duty but when can they change the engine? even if you are a cod hater you have to admit it does looks better.but every cod its just a little upgrades here and there.

Tonester9254173d ago

Like Treyarch has mentioned NUMEROUS times and people tend to forget. In order for them to keep the gameplay at a crisp 60 FPS they can't put Crysis 3 graphics into the game.

Battlefield 3 graphics aren't that good if you get close up to them. The textures look horrible and it runs at 30 FPS.

What ever happened to Gameplay > Graphics

Fans of the series have no problem because the game is fun and Treyarch changes their game with each release. WAW feels completely different then BO and BO2 feels and looks way better than BO.

People that don't even play the game just hop on the bandwagon of hating popular things because their favorite game isn't the most played and breaking records.

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kingduqc4172d ago

kinda sad for pc players.

ninjahunter4173d ago

Black ops 2 does look pretty good, on console at least. I havent played it on PC, but i would say that aside from scale it looks as good, or better than BF3 on console which is a nice accomplishment. But its not a crysis 2 ;P

ZoyosJD4173d ago

A few more raindrops, increased brightness(which made the grainy filter of the game worse), and more water puddles.

Jaggies are still present, textures are the same, and the game still runs at 60FPS.

Not to be a **** about it, but if you are going to mod something, make some original content, because just about anyone can change game settings.

pandehz4173d ago

Looks like the sharpening filter effect on Adobe packages

Looks worse than original

jetpacksheep4172d ago

I think it just makes the whole screen look a little more "harsh" too much reflection and light in some places and rain looks like a bunch of needles coming down at you.

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These Call of Duty games are officially dead as servers go offline

Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.

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Call of Duty players are playing this game for the last time before it's taken offline

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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Xbox backwards compatibility sends old Call of Duty games back into the Top Five | UK Monthly Charts

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales

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shadowT252d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty252d ago

Guess that's what happens when there's no good new games to play...

4Sh0w252d ago (Edited 252d ago )

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.

wiz7191252d ago

@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

mkis007252d ago

It's going to take 10 years for xbox to generate that much profit...

Rhythmattic251d ago

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.

EasilyTheBest251d ago

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.

Rhythmattic249d ago

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

jznrpg252d ago

Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.

shinoff2183252d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai252d ago

Mostly because the new CoD games are garbage. The old games were much better.

Rutaprkl252d ago

Agree 100%. Cod 4, WaW, Black ops 1 & 2, those were the days.

Rhythmattic251d ago

For MP, Unreal tournament , QIII Arena (loved the UT mod) FTW!

RaidenBlack251d ago

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

Rhythmattic251d ago (Edited 251d ago )

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.

thesoftware730252d ago

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.

CrimsonWing69252d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor251d ago

@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

CrimsonWing69251d ago

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.

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