Early thoughts ...Black Ops 2.

Just some quick thoughts with a couple of hours with the game.........

Zombies...........Zombies but harder
Single Player...........Who Cares
Multiplayer.............Is this Black Ops 1 in disguise.

Its a good game granted but really even after a couple of hours playing I'm not entirely blown away,not that i expected to be in the first place but i expected more.

I will say if any game needs a new engine then its COD games because this really is showing its age,dont get me wrong but there has been little to no improvement dating back to the first Modern Warfare and only Cod games could get away with this.

There is not a chance that the next Cod wont be on next generation as i really think Activision have milked this Cow way to often.

The game in general is what you would expect from a Cod game and its got some superb reviews,after playing the first 30 minutes of single player which is quite interesting but again not anything we have not already seen i then moved on to a little bit of Demolition which is fun granted but again this quite frankly could be The first Black Ops but with new maps and a new load out section called pick 10.

You seem to die in a nano second which is something i would have hoped they would have balanced a little better,seems to be even quicker than the original Black Ops and already we have people on Rank 55 with the game only been out a matter of hours.

Obviously some have had it a week early and basically all stats should have been reset but Treyarch have stated they will not reset stats for legitimate copies of the game.

Zombies is really cool on the hour or so i played it but dam its tough and really is a challenge which by all accounts is not a bad thing.

So there you have it a few thoughts and opinions regarding the long awaited Black Ops 2,kind of new i would feel like this as the excitement leading up to the release was not exactly causing me to get to excited.

More hyped for Far Cry3 and i expect this is what will take me through December and Beyond.

After a week or so i may have something more positive to say but after the first few hours i was kind of hoping i was going to come on here and say how mind blowing it is rather than its a good game but so similar to every other Cod Game

Oh well FC3 will be out soon


Or you could go back to BF3

Ta saved me £25 the Tesco deal with points almost tempted me

Just been totally honest mate or I'm just getting fed up with gaming in general.

Battlefield Swanny as i have said is quite a decent game in its own right,Black Ops 2 is not a bad game but we just have not moved on since the ground breaking Modern Warfare at the time.

Think we have had world of war,Mw2,then Black Ops ,then MW3,and Now we have Black ops 2 and each and every game since Modern Warfare seems to have got worse.

I played for a couple of hours tonight in and out of Multiplayer playing Demolition and Domination,its entertaining but its not like when i first played Modern Warfare and i had to virtually drag myself away from the console and the hours went by like crazy and even 12 months later i was still in love with the game.

Dont get them feelings anymore regarding Cod and in all honesty i might just boot up MW1 again and see why that game was such a groundbreaking game in its day and why on earth some 5/6 years later are we waiting for something of that quality.

Far Cry 3 is my only hope this year to bring back my passion for gaming,because quite honestly 2012 for me has been a total disaster.

If Far Cry 3 fails to impress me,be it single player and Multiplayer then its time to think of another pastime as its plane obvious I'm getting bored with gaming.

From what i have seen regarding Far cry 3 i think its going to be my game of the year for sure.

At the end of the day i speak as i find really and as much as i take a dig at the likes of Swanny some of his points and references regarding Cod games in general i have to agree with.

Not that i thought Battlefield 3 lived up to its promise either but i do think its a far more adult minded game.

There is that possibility that Black Ops 2 is the best Cod game in years if you believe the hype and certain reviews from gaming websites such as ign.com.

Suppose growing older and dare i say it wiser you start looking for the cracks and Cod has plenty of them and when i see all the negative reviews and comments on metacritic from other people that have bought the game saying things like ........Well done activision and Treyarch you have virtually destroyed Cod with your yearly Copy and paste remakes then it kind of rings true for me last 12/18 months.

Haven't started the campaign, but zombies has been overdone yet again. Yes, they have as promised given you the opportunity to play it in its original format, as well as the new transit mode. But in all of the modes the [censored] floor keeps catching on fire, which in turn sets the player on fire! That gets very old, very quickly.

As for the MP, I have had some reasonable games tonight. The matchmaking definitely feels better so far than it has since MW and World at War. It ain't perfect and the dipsticks that actually believe their 2.5 and 3 KD's are down to their awesomeness are still at it, but it doesn't feel pointless in the majority of matches, not compared to MW2 and 3 anyhow.

The sounds really good and there are a lot of customisation options in the custom matches, right down to how long you have to hold a flag to capture it etc. What appears (I think) to be a new mode called hard point ish current favourite. A it like HQ but with respawning for the defending team. Fast and furious and more fun than domination.

Overall impressed with the multiplayer and some of the maps are really good and look nice. But I agree it really does show it's age, final polish wise at least.

Yeah forgot about the fact you keep catching fire when playing zombies which is really silly as there is no need for it offers very little in the way of gameplay.

I played a little of the single player again and i hate to say this it just bores me,i actually found on some of the cut scenes that it made me feel a little dizzy with the ocean wave camera effect when showing certain scenes.

Not managed past level 13 in zombies because we got the usual P2P hosting and host has left on several occasions and then others have quickly followed.

Certainly not as good as i expected and i really don't see me playing this after the end of november.

I got it and played it all day yesterday, the multiplayer seems pretty pants, same story different title so I played a few games and came on it. It's just spawn, die, spawn, die, spawn, die etc.

Zombies is absolutely brilliant, the smaller survival maps are just like the old days of WAW and TranZit is really good fun. I really like getting on the bus and moving around the map and having to fight off a massive zombie wave while on it It's also neat that you can build items & weapons out of random parts and that there are some new weapons. There is a lot of exploration to be had

I have got to wave 16 on TranZit and wave 20 on Farm so far, was ranked 9th in the online leaderboards yesterday but I have moved down to 31st now

I think I will play zombies for a few weeks until I am bored of the maps and then that's it for me, I will bash through the campaign for the achievements and just to see what the new "control a squad from above" mode is like then I will sack it off. It's definitely not good enough to pull me away from Assassins Creed 3.

Fair play to you and I'm not about to disagree with what you say.

The lack of innovation on multiplayer really sucks, it's like they don't need to try hard anymore as they know people will just buy it. I want some new features, some new game types, some new gameplay in general. Anything that isn't the same recycled stuff!

The sad thing is people will buy it because they are hoping it will be something more, but then it will just get discarded like with me, like with my housemate etc. But Activision will never really know that I never liked it as they will have got my £40 so for them it will be seen as a success.

In reply to a post by Jaxx281:

The lack of innovation on multiplayer really sucks, it's like they don't need to try hard anymore as they know people will just buy it.

You've hit the nail on the head there Jaxx, as much as i find the game to be ok that is it it's just ok. They really had better make more effort on the next gen versions!!!

i think this will be the last time that Cod and Activision in general will get away with it,if its not a new engine next year on a new console then i think the franchise will decline.

I played a little of domination today and i did enjoy it in all fairness,but like you said Jaxx there is no way of ignoring the same copy and paste scenario with a new mode called pick 10 and nothing else has changed.

It lives on the reputation of the awesome ground breaking Modern Warfare only after 5 more episodes Cod in generally has gone backwards and not progressed.

I generally think that Activision no that next time they will have to up there game because there is only so much people will take and we have taken 6 years of the same year in and year out.

I would be totally gobsmacked if next year they release another Cod game on the same engine,im convinced Microsoft will have a new console out end of 2013 and the Next Cod has to be ground breaking at least in visuals alone and it will have to offer some new exciting multiplayer challenges.

As for Zombies Jaxx i think its nothing special and it don't exactly do it for me.

In reply to a post by time2die:

It lives on the reputation of the awesome ground breaking Modern Warfare only after 5 more episodes Cod in generally has gone backwards and not progressed.

I generally think that Activision no that next time they will have to up there game because there is only so much people will take and we have taken 6 years of the same year in and year out.

I would be totally gobsmacked if next year they release another Cod game on the same engine,im convinced Microsoft will have a new console out end of 2013 and the Next Cod has to be ground breaking at least in visuals alone and it will have to offer some new exciting multiplayer challenges.

As for Zombies Jaxx i think its nothing special and it don't exactly do it for me.

Yeah, let's hope Activision finally stop milking their COD cow and release something with a bit more originality when MS and Sony release their next (and maybe last) generation consoles.

I thought BLOPS 2 looked very dodgy in the trailers but had to keep an open mind as to whether it would be any good or not on release. The original ingredients of the first Modern Warfare title haven't inspired any further outings worth going on it seems.

Activision could probably release another 10 COD games before people realise what they're buying and stop paying for rehashes. They've got a nice little earner that seems to be immune to employment of common sense from the buying public though they are not exactly alone in that with all the game sequels and rehashes out there (same old story).

I wonder how well it sold compared to earlier ones??

Its set to break the previous records set by MW3...........

A fool and his mums money.......

I really got into it last night playing Demolition and Domination,very fast and frantic which i like but what always gets me when playing is players always seem to know my every move.

Think i need to spend more time concentrating on the mini map

Anyway there is a new king of shooters i hope coming to town called Far Cry 3............Please be awesome and give me something nice to post about yourself in 2 weeks.

In reply to a post by Jaxx281:

Zombies is absolutely brilliant, the smaller survival maps are just like the old days of WAW and TranZit is really good fun. I really like getting on the bus and moving around the map and having to fight off a massive zombie wave while on it It's also neat that you can build items & weapons out of random parts and that there are some new weapons. There is a lot of exploration to be had

After an evening playing with a couple of mates I would now agree with you. The floor catching fire is still really irksome, but I enjoy building parts and the zombie shields are an awesome idea.

I think I will play zombies for a few weeks until I am bored of the maps and then that's it for me, I will bash through the campaign for the achievements and just to see what the new "control a squad from above" mode is like then I will sack it off.

Sack off the MP, but combat training in custom games is great fun if you have a couple of mates to join in, especially now you can modify so many options. We play hard point on nuke town and the other smaller maps, choose four teams of three, (us three and three bot teams) and its a right laugh. You don't get any XP, but everything is unlocked straight away. The EVO SMG is an awesome weapon.

Someone else not happy with BLOPS2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPFKua2tbk

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

Someone else not happy with BLOPS2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPFKua2tbk

LOL! Thank heavens I turned my speakers down before I clicked that link or my sub would have bounced all over the floor for the first 10s.

Looks more like Fat Ops to be honest.