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How Treyarch Failed Themselves With Zoo in Escalation

The second map pack for Call Of Duty : Black Ops was announced a while ago, there were 4 multiplayer maps and also a zombie map that would be included in this map pack, however one that caught my eye and many others was the zoo map, back then, we did not know anything about it, all we knew was that it was called zoo, and there was a faint image of it on the leaked Escalation poster.

QuodEratDemonstrandm4767d ago (Edited 4767d ago )

Reason #12 for thinking I would be raising the bar for gaming journalism comes in the. Form of this question: which is abandoned? The Zoo? Or the map of the zoo? To put it another way, is it a map of an abandoned zoo? Or was that map scrapped altogether?

If it's a map of an abandoned zoo, then all you get are a bunch of rotting animal cages. If the map was scrapped, you don't even get that.

(any other studio - creativity) = Treyarch

Update: it occurs to me that Treyarch would not have mentioned the Zoo map if it was abandoned... so the highest probability is a map of an abandoned zoo. Maybe you can take POWs and lock them in the cages.

Beahmscream4767d ago (Edited 4767d ago )

Curse you Activision, that is all.
Beahm out.

xstation794767d ago (Edited 4767d ago )

Yeah darn you activision because you are a company that cares about money. There is no other company that works for money, only activision. Everyone else just works for the hell of it, because they have nothing better to do

NiKK_4194766d ago

Yes, but good companies rely on quality to get consumers to buy their product, but companies like Activision rely on a name alone, because other companies care about money, yes, but they also care about their fans

BlackTar1874767d ago

I am such a sucker for zombies maps. i wish they would release 2-3 at a time instead of this 1 at a time BS

xtremexx4767d ago

the zombie map was the reason i bought the map pack

beavis4play4767d ago

me too! can't wait to get my hands on "call of the dead". i'll probably never touch the other maps.

Rybakov4767d ago

they failed themselves by signing with activison to only make call of duty when they could have had potential and make something new and fun....but now there worthless

QuodEratDemonstrandm4767d ago

Spider-Man 2 for the ps2 was nice. Treyarch made that one. Now they're worthless. Apparently, the only Activision developer that's worth more than a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys anymore is Radical. Prototype is pretty good.

InLaLaLand4767d ago

Still people are going to buy it no matter what the price is. Youtube is going to be free advertisement for Treyarch and Activition.

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Modern Warfare 3 Ranked Play Coming During Season 1, Treyarch Handling Development

Modern Warfare 3 Ranked Play will be arriving sometime in the middle of Season 1. Treyarch is once again handling development of it.

Kaii216d ago (Edited 216d ago )

I'll bite.
I don't min/max or alter controller schemes anymore because the default options suit me fine aside from aiming sensitivity, which was freakishly low on default.
But the matchmaking system still does that dissemble-reassemble which I hate and knew that my following games after my first overall score would increase In difficulty, i.e. drop shotters (many more examples)

You've got this ranked play but you have this spm scale that throws you against the sweatwall of hell (2 good games>1 bad game)

Swiftly uninstalled and I save 110+gb

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MW3 loses a veteran Call of Duty developer of 18 years

Just 24 hours following the Modern Warfare 3 reveal, former Treyarch Studio Design Director David Vonderhaar has announced he’s stepping away from both the Call of Duty studio and Activision.

MrDead265d ago

Call of Duty development, what's that? They just make the same basic game and keep adding more and more MT's

anast264d ago

He probably should have stepped down 10 years ago.

Harkins1721264d ago

Might as well just quit your job now.

anast264d ago

I am sure you know what you are saying...I think.

Rocketisleague263d ago (Edited 263d ago )

He's a developer in one of the most successful franchises and works from Activision, do you know the benefits you get working there? Or the pay?

Half of the peasants on this site don't understand developers are humans and are working mostly for necessity like the rest of us

Stanjara264d ago

He couldn't have done another one.
Best of luck. Good decision.

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Off-Map Exploration of Black Ops' Kino der Toten Reveals Cut Content And Secrets

The video on Black Ops 1 shows some separate rooms, assets, and other features which exist outside of the boundary of the game.