"I’ve been playing a lot of Call of Duty recently, which isn’t strange. What’s strange is that I’ve been playing it on the Wii U. It used to be that if a multiplatform game came out, there was no question what system I was going to buy it for. The Xbox 360 was the obvious choice for a number of reasons but the biggest one was Xbox Live. For a single player game I still wanted to be connected to my friends list and for a multiplayer game, well that’s where all my friends are.", writes PennyArcade.
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.
Heard many positives from Wii U's first CoD game.
its because its awesome, i delayed buying it for my ps3 so i could get it on wii u (mainly to test fast paced online gaming on a nintendo system) and im extremely happy with my choice of platform, split screen is no more, me and my bro both have a screen each (one on gamepad, one on tv) with no noticable lag or frame rate drops when both players are online, when my mrs watches her shitty programs i play it on the gamepad, then when she finished watching whatever shit it is I boot up my ps3 and play farcry 3. i can game all the time without being ignorant, havn't used my vita in weeks because of this feature, the only reason i play my 3ds a little bit is because im halfway through master quest 3d, ive been meaning to compleate master quest for ages but i cant take my wii u to work so my 3ds comes with me.
The only downside to the Wii U version was the lack of Stereoscopic 3D support. I realize that is kind of a stupid feature, but I loved playing Black Ops 1 on the 360 in 3D, so I was hoping for the same here. For some reason Treyarch decided to not include the feature on the Wii U version which is beyond me since Ubisoft included the 3D feature for AC3 on all platforms including the Wii U. Laziness I guess on the parts of Treyarch.
Other than that, the game plays fine and I am having a blast with it on my Wii U.
I for one wish I had not bought COD for my PS3 as I rented it for Wii U and Wii U is hands down better. Not because it looks prettier, But multi-player same room both on line. The gamepad even alone makes this game way cool. There is nothing wrong with my PS3 version, but the Wii U gives you more ways to play, alone or with friends.
Looks awesome...!!
I think this is one of the Wii U's main strengths and Nintendo need to shout a lot louder about features not (Currently) available on any other system.
I'm more than happy with Sony franchises and have always gone with the PlayStation brand for the games...but features like this interest me.
I'll see what happens during 2013 (Hopefully E3 PS4 announcement) to decide whether Wii U will be the other 'next gen' console that will join my inevitable PS4 purchase.....providing Sony don't announce anything too radical Eg. anti-used games security etc
Roll on summertime!!