I don't believe that the game can be downloaded to any modern consoles, and if it's a PC game it very well may not exist on any modern online stores like Steam or Origin, so the only option may be to hunt down a physical copy, which can be a long and ambitious project, especially for a game that old. And even then you may not be able to find a copy for your system of choice. However the game is on the Google Play Store and IOS store for mobile devices if you want it there, but getting it for PC may be close to impossible.
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Personally I loved the original trilogy, but am by no means eager to play Andromeda, I don't like the move towards action that they made in the gameplay department. The story is also very dumbed down and kinda shit to be honest, and with many game breaking bugs still around months later, and the stupid looking animations that have only been half fixed at this point, I don't think that you would. The only people who really enjoyed the game were newbies, as they don't know how good the original trilogy was in comparison to the trash heap we got in March.
Personally, i'd wait until later to decide fully primary we have barely even seen the vanilla game at this point, and who knows if you'll like that, so I'd definitely wait until about October-November to decide as I believe Expansion I drops in December.
The Last of Us, Nier Automata, Infamous, Bloodborne, Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection +4, and possibly Destiny. I can't recommend Horizon Zero Dawn because I haven't played it but I've heard it was good. That is pretty much it for PS4 exclusives (kinda) that I can thoroughly recommend, obviously this all depends on your personal tastes, personally I like shooters, RPGs, and strong story-driven single player games, a mu picks clearly showcase, but I guess Grand Tourismo for racing might be good, but again I don't like racing games, so I wouldn't know. But make sure you do your research before buying stuff.
So rumors have recently began to circulate that cancelled XBOX + PC Exclusive Scalebound that was cancelled not that long ago by Microsoft, may not be dead after all. Now Scalebound was originally announced at E3 2014 to be developed by renowned Platinum Games and Published by Microsoft and was to be exclusively released on XBOX One (more that likely Scorpio as well) and PC on the Microsoft Store. The game didn't have an official release date (that I know of) but was speculated to be released Q4 2017 or Q1 2018, so it was just months away from launch before being cancelled in January 2017. Now millions of people were ecstatic about the game and were very excited to get their hands on it and play it, and the cancellation was by no means expected and came completely out of left field. Apparently towards the end of the games development cycle many of the senior developers working on the project had to take a break due to the heavy work lead associated with the project, and it seemed that Microsoft was really pushing Platinum to finish the project, again likely shooting for a Q4 2017 release. Now most if not all of the executives had returned after a short break but by that point the relationship between Microsoft and Platinum had turned sour with the game being way behind schedule, leading to the game's cancellation by Microsoft.
Recently however news has began to circulate that Scalebound might not be dead after all. These rumors seemingly started when Microsoft renewed their trademark for Scalebound, and continued to spread after twitter user @XRays_Insider (link: https://twitter.com/XRays_Insider?lang=en) claimed that Microsoft was "in talks with a friendly developer" about renewing the project. He went on to say that it may not come back, but it is a possibility in the eyes of Microsoft. Now here is where I take issue with this, Microsoft could easily have renewed the Trademark for other purposes than developing the game such as just stopping other devs from picking it up, or even holding onto it just to hold onto it for some reason. The source is also sketchy, he seems to be an Italian gamer that reports on Xbox news, and does not have much of a history with leaks, so I have no idea as to his reliability. Now personally, i'm a PLayStation guy, and I think Scalebound looks great, well looked great, and have been thinking about buying an XBONE for a while now, but haven't made the leap, but I think that this game could've been good for Microsoft as far as the exclusive game goes, and it is obviously a field they're lacking in as of late. I'd love to see the game release, but I just don't see it happening.
@The_Stand_In: As you brilliantly pointed out the Swastika was by no means exclusive to Hitler, it was around several centuries before in various forms and purposes, although mainly religious. Yet so many people forget about that, and ONLY associate the symbol with Nazi Germany, and to be honest Germany's ban on Nazi material makes complete sense, and was originally put in place to bust up smaller pockets of Nazis left after the war, and remains in place primary to make sure that no Nazis will ever again rise to power, at least in Germany. But the issue is political correctness, and how it tries to suppress the brutal truth of what really happened, and I, as a history buff, just cannot let that go, as I throughly believe that history cannot be censored. The truth must be told so that people recognize the patterns and can prevent it from happening ever again, because HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF! Anyways, my point is there.
So, obviously Nazis and Nazi Imagery is huge parts of history, as the Nazis were the bad guys in WWII, the single conflict with the largest death toll and longest lasting effects in human history. Now obviously the WWII Era has been very popular for video games for a long time with interest fluctuating, but now we have one of the largest franchises in the Video Game Industry at the moment jumping head-long into WWII after almost a decade, and that would of course be Call of Duty: WWII. Slated to release sometime in early November (I don't care enough to look it up) the game will likely follow the story of a generic american soldier dude fighting on the beaches of Normandy against Nazi forces. Inevitably with Nazis comes the Nazi Imagery like the Swastika. However the Swastika specifically has been the topic of much debate for almost a century as it was originally a religious symbol for religion X (I don't care enough to look it up) for centuries before it was adopted by Hitler as the banner for Nazi Germany. Obviously since then many people see it synonymous with Nazi Germany, and it is even classified as a hate symbol throughout much of the world even today. In Germany, the Swastika and all other Nazi Imagery is strictly forbidden by Federal Law (#ButtHurtGermany), and just recently there was a federal court case in Germany against a guy because he threw a Swastika in the trash, because there was even a Swastika involved, so i'd say Germany is pretty serious. Now in Germany the Wolfenstein franchise is universally banned due to it's nature, and pretty much every WWII game the Swastika has been swapped for the Iron Cross or Iron Eagle. The German anti-Swastika law can be seen here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a .A recent example of this censorship would be Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3: Zombie Chronicles and how every Swastika has been swapped out for the Iron Symbols, and this begs the question, will we see this censorship in Call of Duty: World War II? Well we've already seen evidence of possible censorship in the worldwide reveal of the game, and this evidence has been collected and showcased in a Reddit post by user Thermikz, link the the post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WWII/comments/68ap0s/some_evidence_that_shg_is_censoring_nazi_insignia/ .Now obviously Activision wants WWII to be released in Germany because of the huge CoD fanbase there, and doing so will require them to create a separate build of the game specifically for Germany without the Swastika, likely swapping it for the previously mentioned Iron Symbols. Now they've done this before with Call of Duty: World at War where Germany got a separate Swastika free build, and again in Call of Duty: Black Ops with the Germany version of Kino Der Toten, Nacht der Untoten, Verruct, and Der Riese all got separate Swastika free versions in Germany. Now that just begs another question, why now? Why start universal censorship now? Well that could be for multiple reasons actually, one possibility being that they may not be universally censoring it, but maybe just cleaned it up for the reveal to fit in with German law so they didn't have to **** up the reveal for Germany, this all comes back to Germany. Another option would be that maybe they just don't want to do multiple builds of the game, and they may see it as being easier to make one that is censored for everyone, as Treyarch did with Zombie Chronicles. Now that just about wraps this up, now real quick i'd like to than Reddit user Thermikz for collecting and posting that evidence because I sure as hell never noticed it, and i'd like to thank YouTuber Drift0r for bringing this to my attention via video that is below, followed by a link to his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8cNb10L5rmV9xB13ADCWA
So it's no secret that Black Ops 3 just launched it's 5th DLC, Zombie Chronicles on PS4 featuring "remastered" versions of Nacht Der Untoten, Verruct, Shi No Numa, Kino Der Toten, Ascension, Sahngri-la, Moon, and Origins for a price point of $30, not being featured in the Season Pass. Now after staying up all night and playing all of the maps excessively, I feel like I'm in a position to give my thoughts on the DLC. Now as a blanket statement, I LOVE this DLC and the way it beautifully remastered all the maps, but it certainly has it's issues. Now to start i'll go in order after I discuss blanket issues affecting all maps. This post is not intended to hate on Zombie Chronicles but merely to make you guys aware of it's faults in the hope you don't buy out of nostalgia. Now many of the positives aren't mentioned due to their blanketing nature, but not that they are certainly there. Also, please excuse spelling errors as they're almost guarenteed.
- Now it's worth noting that the maps all look astonishingly beautiful, except the WaW maps, which look like they're half assed as they lack the astonishing lighting effects of the BO1 and BO2 maps have. Also, none of the original wall-buys are in ANY of the maps, they were all replaced with BO3 gun, and the M1911 no longer exists at all, MR6 is
worstbest starting pistol after all. Now it's worth mentioning that all the old-school Supply Drop weapons like the M16 and Ghalil are in most if not all of the maps, with the box being primarily filled with BO3 guns aside from those few exceptions. Also, I feel like GobbleGums break a few maps in particular (like Nacht), just allowing you to become a god of space time as all the maps that were not designed in any way with balancing that in mind, leading to you being UNGODLY POWERFUL. One last blanket complaint, they got rid off all the Swastikas in all of the maps and replaced them with either the Iron Cross or the Iron Eagle, now while I can forgive the rest, that I just can't get over as I feel they're trying to disguise the genocide of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany in WWII and that I honestly cannot forgive as a history buff. - Now onto Nacht. Nacht's new skin makes it look downright AMAZING and incites a feeling of unease for the first time in years in a zombie map, but the map is broken as shit. The spawns are screwed to hell with spawns taking several minutes at times, and that is if the zombies spawn at all. It took me 45 MINUTES to get to wave 10 because of this. Now they also added 2
god modeGobbleGum machines and a WonderFizz random perk machine to the portion above the box room, with one GobbleGum machine being in spawn. - Now Veruuct is also an outstanding map to look at and is the best looking of the WaW maps in my opinion (I'm going to stop mentioning look now outside of a few exceptions). Now aside from the blanket statements mentioned above I have few complaints about Verruct aside from the BAR being swapped for a Bootlegger for 5k points (Bootlegger is in the box :/).
- Shi No Numa is also a solid one aside from the half-assed graphical upgrade, with my only real complaint being how the zombies somehow turned into ninja gods and WILL SNEAK UP ON YOU, and it is damn near unavoidable as they make no sound most of time (this may be a bug, but I can't be sure so I had to mention it), I also noticed that the dogs in this map SEEM TO have an increase in their speed, now I can't confirm or deny this as I don't have any hard data yet, but It really does feel like that (and no, it's not because i'm in the water).
- Now Kino Der Toten is a beautiful beast of a map with the most intensive re-skin of all of the maps by a landslide. Not only is the skin changed but many of the special effects are as well, for example the teleport screen changed, and when it's cooling down you can clearly see steam coming off of the teleport pad. Now it's wort mentioning that the Alley got a complete re-skin, and is near unrecognizable as a result, good or bad is up to personal interpretation but I LOVE it. Now in terms of complaints I really have none with this map aside from the blanket stuff
- Now on Ascension I do certainly have some complaints. For one, starting off it's no longer Black & White, but is now an ugly Sepia tint that I am really not fond of in the slightest. They also changed the sound of the Gersh Device, and I just don't like the new sound at all. One last mention, DO NOT USE A PERKAHOLIC ON ASCENSION! YOUR PERKS WILL BE STOLEN! The worst part about it is that they only take the on-map perks like Jug, so if you lose them, you get left with 4-5 off maps perks without the ability to get the on-map ones back, so no Jug, think about that for a bit. Now one more mention for the BO1 maps as a whole, no PHD Flopper, it has been replaced with Widow's Wine. They said they did this because there is no Dolphin Dive, but that is a bullshit excuse and we all know it. I also hate how you get blasted with oversaturated colors to a new degree when turning on power.
- Now my main complaints about Shangri-La are with the map itself (I absolutely despise this mp and would rather have ANY other map, even Transit), but in terms of the BO3 version they've made some small adjustments that aren't even worth mentioning as the map is largely the same, but the visual upgrade is miniscule. Overall the objectively worst remaster out of the bunch.
- Now we have Moon, the big boy where a whole lot changes. First of all the remaster here is probably the most behind the scenes instead of up front, like how the Earth blowing up in the Easter Egg has changed so much in terms of the animation itself. Many of the post Easter-Egg visuals have changed drastically as well, for example the skybox after you go back to the Earth post Easter Egg has been fixed to show the moon instead of the Earth, and you can even see the NukeTown mushroom cloud if you look off the map. But I don't have many actual complaints about this one either, another solid remaster.
- Now Origins is easily the map I was most looking forward to, being my favorite map in Zombie history followed by Der Riese then Kino Der Toten, so in BO3 we have my trifecta of perfection. Now the map itself is very similar to the previous version with the obvious upgrades, but one thing I notices was that they renamed the Ice Staff to the "Staff of Water" when you have it in you inventory, they also redesigned the a few of the HUD elements such as the Staff part indicator (I don't like that one specifically). Now may of the iconic guns are their like the STG, MP40, MG15/08, and a few more, and the Mauser remains that starting pistol. Only complaint is that it feels like the Panzer Soldat has an increased movement speed and damage output, however this could be me comparing it to the Panzer from Der Eisendrache with that one being a straight up nerfed Panzer, meanwhile here they brought back the original. I also noticed that the snow effect looks slightly ugly, at least in my opinion. Overall Origins is a great remaster that is very very solid, but that could just be bias on my part.
Now the final verdict on Zombie Chronicles; It is a very solid DLC that features many of the universally best maps (overall in the community) as well as the most important ones to the incoherent mess of a story that zombies provides. But all the content is old content that millions of people have already played, and I find it difficult to justify the $30 price point attached to the DLC, even with the 8, a way through playing the maps I often found myself bored out of my mind, even though I LOVED these maps, it's just something about the BO3 formula that makes the maps less fun to play compared to their original counterparts. However that could easily be dismissed as "weariness of BO3" considering I have a significant time investment into this game, and especially the Zombies. Anyways look upon this and WATCH GAMEPLAY before you make a decision on the purchase, because it's a steep one that you may easily regret.
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