Dana Abercrombie writes:
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 starts off with disappointment from the beginning. When I first started the game, it took forever to load. I would compare it to waiting on lines at Comic-Con, dying of thirst and hunger but you know if you get off that line you’ll never make it to any of the panels you’ve waited for hours to see. Yes it’s that bad. Cue The Hunger Games’ whistle. However, if you happen to have the patience of a solider (Black Ops division) then you’ll discover the magical world of bad graphics and the overall feeling of emptiness as your childhood is destroyed before your very eyes.
According to a developer working on the title, Activision is working on a narrative-based open-world game based on a new engine through its new studio.
It was recently revealed in an exclusive episode of the 'Grit' podcast that EA once passed up acquiring Blizzard, Activision, and Call of Duty.
Only a big company that has interest in gaming like Microsoft or Tencent could have acquired Activision. Extremely low interest rates at that time certainly helped.
Not exactly sure that a merger with EA would’ve benefited any of their franchises or gamers. I imagine it would’ve been like the activision blizzard one were each publisher retains their own identity. So Activison-Blizzard-EA. But who knows.
If it was owned by EA, COD could’ve disappeared a looong time ago. They have no clue how to manage franchises.
It's a shame EA didn't buy them then, COD should die, it's past its prime and has been since black ops 2, I started playing it when cod 4 mw first came out and it has been downhill since.
Activision has announced a one million dollar donation to L.A. fire relief.
Nicely done Activision. Every penny counts. My family is in one of the areas that burned down so any and all donations are appreciated.
Exactly. Cynical people say; well their worth billions it is just a tax and p.r. move. Sure but how many major companies have not given a penny? Amazon, Meta, Musk and his ventures, etc.
They would hary be the first company with problems but at least they are willing to make a donation unlike ma y others.
Donations during are much needed, and should be applauded. Every bit counts.
But for context… individuals like Beyonce donated $2.5m, Jamie Lee Curtis $1m
Also there was an interesting donation incident during the China Henan floods. Erke the Chinese sports brand was seeing RMB60m (about $8.5m) losses during the 1st quater of 2021. Despite that donated RMB50m (about $7m) for the henan floods that year. The Chinese public upon learning this, worrying about Erke’s survival and showing appreciation, started to purchase Erke products en masse. As a result Multiple Erke shops ran out of stock, the erke live stream sales in 2 days exceeded the company’s sales for the first half of 2021.
The text in this stub made me laugh. Is this game really that terrible? I was hoping to play it soon.
Nope...you either do the mission and succeed, for Heroic points, or you fail and/or don't even try the mission and get Menace points. You have two factors against your success in this design.
That is, in and of itself, the crippling feature of a game. I don't know about you but when I'm given an open-world to explore, I want to be able to enjoy it...and explore. I'm constantly applying the breaks because at any given moment there are dozens of possible side missions. If I make full Rank 3 Hero, the only way to maintain that is to continue participation in the side missions, and succeed...else I'm cut down a notch, or even placed into Menace status which has the entire city against me.
Again, if Beenox allowed us to turn that off, the game would be fun. It doesn't look next-gen (I'm playing on PS4), but it's fun swinging around and unlocking new costumes, etc.
Well done beenox.lol.