Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

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[color=#FFFFFF]You do need to finish it.

The sad thing is among certain gaming circles there were rumours of CAWADOOOTYINSPEESH for about 3 years now, this a compromise version future Cod but not in space. I quite liked Black Ops, more than I enjoyed MW2 and 3 combined in fact. The thing is, what I am seeing now is a game in which minimal effort was put, a game which will rely on cursing 14 year olds to buy it because they can 360 no scope on the servers. And it will sell well, because CoD is firmly grounded in the popular culture of today, it's what the BMX and the skateboard were in the 90s. The Call of Duty franchise was brilliant, even Modern Warfare 1 was brilliant, it was a diamond actually, it was straight on, old school shooter on steroids for the late 00s of the 21st century. The problem comes from the fact that EVERYBODY, and I do mean everybody including Infinity Wards themselves tried to recreate it and never actually did it properly. And thus one of my favourite games for 2007 turned into a name I despise. Everyone is dumbing down games, copying from MW 1 even in order to steal some of the aforementioned audience, Crysis, Battlefield, even Mass Effect 3, the list goes on and on and on. Call me a hypster but for me CoD symbolises the commercialism of gaming, and it is something I don't want. The trailer in question particularity makes me rage. Dear developers, it is two thousand and frakking twelve I do not want to see things like that in my games http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/med.../05/blops24.jpg 9 years ago Freelancer had more detailed backdrops. I do realize that you are developing for the dirty console peasants running on 5-6 years old hardware but history shows you can do magic with inferior hardware and a lot of imagination.

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