Call of Duty: Black Ops announced


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Is this the next FPS or the rumored RTS?

New Treyarch shooter. Supposedly set in 'nam. Though might be a special forces game. No one knows. They'll likely do another **** weak MW2 teaser and follow the marketing plan from last year since it worked so well.

The Sledgehammer Games, game is going to be an "Action/Adventure" to make it "appear to a broader audience".

Who really give a **** though? I mean we all know it'll be the an inferior game. Treyarch have had how many shots at the anvil and missed each time? If it didn't carry the CoD logo it would sink to mediocrity in the sea of endless shooters.

That's not to say I've pre-judged the game. I gave W@W a good chance but seriously- the game has no pacing and felt repetitive by the end. Both Brink & the re-booted MoH franchise show more potential this year. But it's a market which is over saturated and I can't be the only person who is feeling rather apathetic towards #YAFFPS. ;)

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New Treyarch shooter. Supposedly set in 'nam. Though might be a special forces game. No one knows. They'll likely do another **** weak MW2 teaser and follow the marketing plan from last year since it worked so well.

The Sledgehammer Games, game is going to be an "Action/Adventure" to make it "appear to a broader audience".

Who really give a **** though? I mean we all know it'll be the an inferior game. Treyarch have had how many shots at the anvil and missed each time? If it didn't carry the CoD logo it would sink to mediocrity in the sea of endless shooters. That's not to say I've pre-judged the game. I gave W@W a good chance but seriously. The game has no pacing and felt repetitive by the end.

I dunno. MW2 was pretty bad IMO. If it's worse than that...the cod franchise will be dead.

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I dunno. MW2 was pretty bad IMO. If it's worse than that...the cod franchise will be dead.

Gotta agree with this guy. I have more faith in Treyarch than I do Infinity Ward right now.

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I dunno. MW2 was pretty bad IMO. If it's worse than that...the cod franchise will be dead.

I don't know. Casuals enjoyed it, but they don't mind an imbalanced meta game for example the killstreaks and perks. But as I've said before I'd imagine we'll get to next years release before we see the brand loose it's shine to everyone. Once bitten, twice shy.

That's not taking in the other issues like the MW title: will that still belong to Activision in 12 months time? Will Activision try to cockblock development like they tried to do with Double Fine on Brutal Legend?

Gotta agree with this guy. I have more faith in Treyarch than I do Infinity Ward right now.

The core IW staff have been making consistently good shooters since MoH:AA. MW2 was a complete farce I agree but I don't think we'll ever find out the true story of the development behind that game. As I said before. It took 22 people to make CoD one of the best WWII shooters of it's time. They now have up to 30 people, a tonne of more experience and EA's wallet behind them.

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I dunno. MW2 was pretty bad IMO. If it's worse than that...the cod franchise will be dead.

Already is dead without Infinity. Everyone should just boycott this company and their crappy releases of games.

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MW2 was definitely my last Call of Duty purchase and I will tell every person I know to keep far away from the Call of Duty franchise from here on out. It'll be hard to convince

the new generation of kiddy gamers though, as CoD is a household name and it'll sell by the bucket-loads.

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Even though its Treyarch I'm interested to see if this will be the fabled COD: Vietnam. No game has ever done Vietnam well so I can't wait to see the announcement.

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how is that exactly going to work?

Ever played Brutal Legend? Well ever since they ditched it they've been meaning for a way to make a clone of it - THIS IS IT! Fight off Nazi dogs using the power of ROCK! Coming 2011!

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Ever played Brutal Legend? Well ever since they ditched it they've been meaning for a way to make a clone of it - THIS IS IT! Fight off Nazi dogs using the power of ROCK! Coming 2011!

:laugh: +rep :)

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Even though its Treyarch I'm interested to see if this will be the fabled COD: Vietnam. No game has ever done Vietnam well so I can't wait to see the announcement.

The rumor is that Treyarch is doing a cold-war era COD that spans from Vietnam to the early 80s

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I want the next COD to be a war between cats on stilts fighting robotic t-rex's with laser eyes. In space and with voice overs from Jessica Alba, and Chuck Norris.

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Even though its Treyarch I'm interested to see if this will be the fabled COD: Vietnam. No game has ever done Vietnam well so I can't wait to see the announcement.

WOW!!! (Y)

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Even though its Treyarch I'm interested to see if this will be the fabled COD: Vietnam. No game has ever done Vietnam well so I can't wait to see the announcement.

In the past, I've found the biggest problem with recreating a vietnam game has been the lack of dense jungle. The major problem in the Vietnam war was the Vietcong's ability to hide in the foliage, using guerilla tactics to ambush soldiers and then disappear in to their hidden tunnels. Jungles seem to have been always difficult to recreate in video games, and I think that's been the Vietnam genre's downfall.

As Spookie pointed out though, Vietcong wasn't a bad attempt at it.

Hopefully, now that technology has progressed and we have next generation consoles, dense jungles will be possible, giving a true Vietnam era feel.

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In the past, I've found the biggest problem with recreating a vietnam game has been the lack of dense jungle. The major problem in the Vietnam war was the Vietcong's ability to hide in the foliage, using guerilla tactics to ambush soldiers and then disappear in to their hidden tunnels. Jungles seem to have been always difficult to recreate in video games, and I think that's been the Vietnam genre's downfall.

As Spookie pointed out though, Vietcong wasn't a bad attempt at it.

Hopefully, now that technology has progressed and we have next generation consoles, dense jungles will be possible, giving a true Vietnam era feel.

As far as what you're describing, the beginning of the WaW SP didn't do a bad job at this

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OMG another Call Of Duty! who woulda thunk....Yea definately not buying until they stop releasing a new one every 6 months It's even worse then sports games at this rate.

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As far as what you're describing, the beginning of the WaW SP didn't do a bad job at this

Actually it did; it was all 2D props, terrible atmosphere and crappy textures.

Well said Intrinsica, I do agree the problem lies in the recreation of the jungle environment, partly. I think it also has something to do with jungle warfare being completely and utterly boring. That's

probably just me but playing these games feels like a Flintstones backdrop that just keeps rolling on by and when you've played the first 30 minutes you almost seen it all. So the only way they could

capture my interest is by doing a game like this on a massively powerful engine that could really lay down a thick jungle atmosphere and make you want to progress through this jungle; ala Crysis.

Then again, we may have progressed technology wise but what does that help when games are limited by the hardware in the consoles and the fact they will most likely used an updated version of the MW2 engine

now, "One iteration on" as they call it - That really isn't bleeding edge on any level.

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