Gameplayer: "We can already hear the moaning. Another WWII shooter? Man, that makes, like, two this year! TWO! That's just too many. Don't they know what we really need are more sci-fi shooters, more racing games, more… basketball games? With Call of Duty: World at War and Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway both on track for release later this year, it means the percentage of games to be released this year set in WWII is almost a staggering 1%! Please, spare us!
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but it is handy to make people sound stupid. To all of you, press included, bemoaning this so-called avalanche of WWII shooters – sorry, but we had to call you on it.
Admittedly, to some it will seem like an odd step to take the Call of Duty series back to the Second World War, particularly when Call of Duty 4 knocked it out of the park with its modern-day setting. However, it's not really surprising that the series is taking a trip back in time with Treyarch while Infinity Ward uses its usual two-year production cycle to (presumably) take us somewhere new again. Besides, this time around Treyarch is bringing the war to our doorstep by focusing on the US campaign in the
South Pacific, as well as the Russian push into Berlin.
First-person shooters set against WWII's Pacific theatre have been attempted before – but none have set the world alight. World at War, however, should be different – primarily because it IS going to set the world alight. Literally."
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies Terminus Island map is recreated for World at War and it looks scarier than the original version!
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
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Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.
I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing
1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.
It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!
I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.
Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.
Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.
Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:
- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2
I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.
Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.
I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.
I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.
But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5
Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.
A very devoted fan of Call of Duty: World at War racks up incredible in-game stats while playing regularly for the past 15 years.
Actually it is very easy to up the number of hours you have been playing a game. Basically all you need to do (assuming you have a PS4 or 5) is to place the console into stand-by without exiting the game, so if you do this a one hour gameplay actually becomes a 24 gameplay or longer.
There's someone on my friend list that has more than 6200 hours on Uncharted 4.
7k hours over 15 years isn't that crazy. The fact that he's been playing the same game for 15 years is more impressive.
Nailed what is the Spectrum... For good and bad, Quality or Quantity..Or the unreasonable to reason for. ;)
Of course you will hit a ridiculous stat after 15 of anything.
My main character for Everquest had over 500 days played in the first 6 years of the game. I was young then and had a lot of time on my hands. I don’t think I could duplicate that again until I retire and not sure I could match it if I tried.
500 days in 6 years is nothing lol, you do realise how many days in a year right ?
I might be getting the maths wrong here, I think 500 days in 6 years works out at an average of just over 6 hours every single day. For 6 years. That’s pretty serious
Edit: wrote this early this morning, I understand it's lots of hours now lol at myself 😂🤣😜
or a good demo whit online !!! but i may not buy this game i mean they r too many good fps games comming like r2, k2...
I hear you all shout we dont need another WWII shooter or why have not they done a modern setting. All i can say is wait and see before you cast doubt on what has the potential to be truly amazing. For a start is uses the COD4 engine which is fantastic in itself and i thought it really raised the bar graphics wise on gaming as we know. I would also imagine that Trearch have also upgraded the engine to fit the setting and new effects they have done, i think this is gonna be one hell of a game. Of course it could be completely utter tosh but im giving it the benefit of the doubt with fingers crossed.
Its proberly gonna be a bit hit because of the COD franchise, and I dont think that they gonna allow it to suck because it would damage the hype regarding COD6 - but - I like all the gadgets in COD4, and even though Martyrdom is a pain, don´t see the logic in going back to WWII - We are all way to young to have experienced any of it.
I think it will look at least as good as CoD 4, but I really think they were lazy by using the IW CoD 4 engine for a WWII game...while the engine looks good for the modern setting it lacks the "weight" and grittiness necessary for a believable WWII game. I think a more appropriate, albeit overly used engine would be the Unreal Engine (plenty of grit), or one similar in appearance to it.
The fire effects for the flame-throwers are decent enough, but nothing outstanding like someone might expect from the IW team (but considering the utter crap flame effects of Haze they are outstanding)...wish they were working on all CoD games, but we'll see what Treyarch can do...if this one is crap but for the graphics I will cease to have any shred of faith in Treyarch-produced CoD or other games.
This game needs more replay value than COD4 and a slower ranking system that rewards skilled players more. If they have a similar system, prestige need a whole rework, it was just a cheap way of persuading people to play more without any actual reward.