IGN:The team at Treyarch could have played it safe and Black Ops II would have sold well, but instead they challenged assumptions and pushed the series forward in awesome new directions. It’ll be hard to return to a campaign where I don’t have the ability to shape it, and I simply can’t imagine going back to the old loadout system now that Pick 10 exists. Combined with the host of subtle and overt improvements to the array of other systems, the additions to make it more appealing to Esports, and the more fleshed out Zombies mode, this is not just a fantastic Call of Duty game, but one of the best shooters of the last decade.
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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.
No matter what people may think of the Vita version, it should have been the same game as that on its bigger sibling. Treyarch should have made the Vita version like they did the one for the Wii-U.
not bad for an "underpowered system", great news about choices and adaptable mission in campaign too bad people don't play campaign because its not "hardcore" unless you play online all the time, ill be getting this on Wii u instead of ps3 has better features and can play with my bro without split screen. where's the Wii u hate now. notice a bad Wii u game review and haters all over it but a good review one bothers to post anything.
also the vita couldn't handle the same game that's expecting too much dude it wouldnt fit on the game cartridge for a start and would probably blow up trying to run it. I know I got a vita and it is great but not a ps3 and also you can't compare a psvita to a Wii u, the Wii u version is the same as the other consoles. for a common sense gamer you sure lack commen sense.
lol most other Wii U ports get a lower score yet this manages to get the same.
Come on IGN, CODs launch has past I don't think Activision will care if you tell the truth now.
what you can't handle the fact that a game got about the same eview score on a Nintendo console grow up. oh ninja giaden got a much better Wii u review than ps3 Xbox assassins creed not reviewed yet but preview say is the same, Arkham city 9.5 same as Xbox 360 and ps3 mass effect guess what it scored 9.5 same as Xbox and this is ign scores aswell I can't be bothered to prove you wrong anymore so shut up and grow up. oh didnt think it would take long for an immature person to try to turn a possitive into a negitive. now go and cry to your mum and beg her to buy a ps4/xbox when they finally come out whilst I'm enjoying zombie u on Wii u and last of us on ps3
can't disagree with facts do some research.