Another year another call of duty
With Modern Warfare 2 being a 50/50 kind of game such as you either love it or hate it or a bit of both at times what Black Ops try to do is take Infinity Wards work on Modern Warfare 2 and basically try to perfect it fix the wrongs, now that I have said that, that is part of my first problem with Treyarch and with this game the sheer lack of innovation, I've noticed it always seems to be Infinity Ward now who make the push with games such as they did with Call Of Duty 4 and they did with Modern Warfare 2 for some it may be a good thing but my problem comes in at the price tag and in all honesty its like paying full price for the same game yet again just with different guns, they could of easily patched the wrong in Modern Warfare 2 but they didn't so i look at this game as the patch which was needed for Modern Warfare 2.
The graphics on this game aren't better than Modern Warfare 2 their is no denying that, I just simply can't understand how a game degrades in a way in its next title... I don't think they should of had better graphics than MW2's but they sure as hell should of been reaching par with what IW done in terms of graphics.
Next problem is player hosting, too many times have I seen people get the advantage of pulling host, its very very frustrating and if the host decides to quit and their is not an appropriate host to migrate too then guess what... GAME OVER... No match bonus for you because someone just quit, plus games can suffer from lag from time to time i just think to myself they can add dedicated servers for the PC but not for the Xbox I'm not trying to turn this into a debate of what's better but I'm pretty sure the amount of cash Activision make from the Xbox is a lot higher than what they make from the PC.
Moving on my next problem is some of the weapons... If you have played Black Ops you will know what gun I will be targeting, yep you got it the L96 its far to OVERPOWERED! Nah im just joking, its the AK74u obviously, no denying it that gun is like the MP40 reincarnated into Black Ops if you have played World At War you'll get what I'm talking about, next problem and I'm fully aware this is more like a rant but just hang on if you actually managed to read all the way down to here for the positives, the sniper rifles are useless! the shotguns they can be used but very sparsely will you ever see them being used, that's one thing IW got right having shotguns and machine pistols as secondary's.
The campaign in this game I find very very amazing, voice acting wise everything is spot on Ice Cube some may think he seems out of place but for me he did a not bad job at his role... Can't forget about Sgt. Woods plays such a cool role and as the start of the Vietnam campaign as he got off the chopper i just thought wow for a second you couldn't of made him look more cooler if you tried.
The story has a nice little twist though, not as predictable as the last story.
I will give Treyarch credit for them trying to listen to the community as much as they possibly could, their sheer effort to patch as much of the wrong in this game as they could makes me respect them as they did what IW didn't do (LISTEN TO US!!).
The game has its annoyances but they did fix things that were needing fixed they balanced the perk system up, they made it so you won't see a chopper gunner every single game because you will need abit of skill to get to 11kills, overall the game is better than MW2 it may not be as pretty to look at but it is overall gameplay wise better.
Anyway thats my rant/review over thanks for reading.