Is Black Ops the last mega-selling CoD??

Honestly, Black Ops isn't that good a game. It's good brilliant shooter mechanics and a robust multiplayer, but its the same game as MW2 and MW. Do you think that if the next CoD is just the same game in a different setting again, it won't sell that well? Even if they make gimmicky changes, will it be run to the ground like Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock??

The next COD game will sell just as well or better. Yes i agree activision has oversaturated the market with yearly re-hash but until people stop buying they will keep making re-hash COD games. I Stopped Buying COD Games

No way, it's looking like Modern Warfare 3 might be the next one, and with that name alone I can guarantee it will outsell black ops. I'm gonna say CoD still has another 3 good years in it at least

The single player was well made but its nothing we havent done before. The multiplayer was a step up from MW2 though which was nice. The only problem I have with it, is hardly any servers with people on it in AUS (pc version).

honestly COD doesnt need a game out every year, a new game is only warranted when you make significant changes to the gameplay mechanics, same gameplay different story, new guns doesnt justify the 60$ price tag, either make it a subcription based game, or just stick to the 2 yr sequel model like every other normal game developer out there, activisions greed is going to catch up with them eventually, quite frankly im surprised how people arent already tired of the rinse and repeat structure of the modern FPS these days. there is no room for creativity and innovation if 90 % of the gamers on both consoles give their undivided attention to just one game that isnt truly inspiring to begin with, i mean its essentially MW 2.5.

COD single player is a B action movie, totally passable, and its selling point is the MP, if all they have to offer is a few new guns, new locales, and some fancy gizmos, they can do what EA did with BFBC2 vietnam and call it a day, but they wont, coz they know ppl will line up outside gamestop if they just put some toilet paper in the game box and sold it, just like if apple decided to put a rock in a box and call it irock, ppl will turn up in hordes. the saddest part of this is, more and more talented game developers are losing their creative freedom under the pressure of publishers who demand what is trending atm, which happens to be multiplayer, that why we get MP in assassins creed, and talks of MP in mass effect, just pathetic.

The latest issue of PC Gamer has a rumor that the next Call of Duty will be THIRD person and set in space. Sledgehammer Games is rumored to be working on it (they have developers from Dead Space). If either of these is true, I don't forsee the game doing as well.Gammit10

I'm all for something different, as long as it does the job well. In the case of COD, if it doesn't do well at all (and I have a feeling it won't), why even mess with a formula that's successful from the beginning?

Then next CoD will be a Shattered Horizon clone in 3rd person and availible on all 3 platforms, not just PC and thats it?

Black Ops will be the last CoD I buy without them making any meaningful changes to the gameplay. It's the same thing over and over again and I can find better things to spend $60 on.

Honestly, Black Ops isn't that good a game. It's good brilliant shooter mechanics and a robust multiplayer, but its the same game as MW2 and MW. Do you think that if the next CoD is just the same game in a different setting again, it won't sell that well? Even if they make gimmicky changes, will it be run to the ground like Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock??

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when BO was announced, most people said no, and said it wont sell and will fail etc. yet look at its sales. the next one will probably be the same

I don't see why it would be the last, considering Black Ops is a much better game than the last two installments. The campaign is superb, multiplayer is very balanced this time around, and it could very well be the most content-packed FPS yet. Then again, these games will sell millions on top of millions regardless of their quality. Modern Warfare 2 is proof of this. Just be happy that Treyarch FINALY made COD fun again.

Infinity Ward, for all their controversies, deserve the praise given to them. Modern Warfare (the frst one) was a revelation and a perfect shooter from start to finish (and multiplayer) MW2 was mostly a confused mess but it still had brilliant gameplay. Black Ops is just old now.64316431

My opinion speaking here, but MW2 didn't have brilliant gameplay. It had more of the same.

I hope so. Black Ops was good and so was CoD4, but this series just needs to go away forever.