Showing posts with label Sledgehammer games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sledgehammer games. Show all posts

Monday, May 26, 2014

COD Advanced Warfare: Too Advanced Maybe?



 The name of the next Call Of Duty should be telling enough .... advanced warfare means war using advanced technology to win. One of the problems with recent Call Of Duties is the unrealistic nature of the technology used in game. Look, I understand that the franchise has grown stale and you can only add so much to a yearly game where you play basically the same game modes with different guns to kill the other team. Why not spice it up a little bit? Sure.... but a 3D printed rifle? Not just any 3D printed rifle either, its a 3D printable rifle that "prints" its own ammunition right there in the guns own chamber. Look, 3D gun printing is real (and illegal ) and we know it can be done, however, magically printing bullets in the chamber of the rifle is a feat which shall never be accomplished no-matter how advanced a society grows. Its simply impossible that a gun could print its own bullets in the very same chamber used to eject them.
 I know this concept is probably exiting to the to a 9 year old wanting to blast a plasma rifle ( and yes there is a plasma rifle in AW ) and slip on a exoskeleton suit. But what about the serious competitive players? Where does this leave the pro competitive gamers in this whole "more advanced every year" scheme of things which leads each new installment of Call Of Duty looking more like Star Wars than a competitive war game on planet Earth.

Saturday, May 3, 2014

COD Advanced Warfare / A Deeper Look


 After the worst selling and verily badly rated Call Of Duty in history COD Ghosts the next chapter in COD has been revealed as MW4 Advanced Warfare by Sledgehammer games. The Call Of Duty franchise has been slowly in decline for years now and with COD Ghosts getting an average of a 6 on a scale of 10 in most ratings they are in desperate need of something new to reinvigorate the series. Can MW4 Advanced Warfare bring Call Of Duty back from the verge of a slow death? Or is it yet another gimmick in a desperate attempt to reach a new audience and sell more units? Either way, after watching the video's on youtube it seems that they are making the same mistakes as times past. They are yet again ignoring their old fans and franchise hardcore in search of something ..... well, not very Call Of Duty like. In the video's you will see mech like soldiers in futuristic uniforms jumping 40 feet in the air and climbing walls. After watching this , one must ask themselves..... Is this a COD game or new Spiderman. In my opinion .... Call Of Duty keeps pushing farther into a future of war in which almost nobody seems very interested. You can watch the reveal of MW4 Advanced Warfare in the video below.