Dethroning Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3

[Entropyutd]

MW2 is still going to be the top multiplayer game even though I'll keep seeing threads of people bitching about it. Reach may have some moderate success but in the end might just become another bland game with that will sell because the Halo name is attached to it.

This!

 

[Dr. Awesome Face]

Wow, I'm going to be pissed if nobody notices the new Ghost Recon Game. It won't dethrone any of the major titles, but hopefully it will get a considerable amount of players, because R6V2 is practically unplayable on some game types because nobody plays it anymore. A shame.

Yeah I'm looking forward to the new Ghost Recon, I agree that it won't dethrone anything but it could still be pretty good.

As for the people who have mentioned Medal of Honour, I always foiund that series to be far too generic. I don't really know anything about the new one so feel free to correct me. Thanks to this forum I have discovered that DICE is doing the multiplayer, so there is some good potential there, but the brand of Medal of Honour has kind of faded into obscurity because of Call of Duty, so there probably won't be people lining up to buy the thing.

 

[Uncompetative]

Not trying to be controversial, but new is not automatically better. Reinvention can result in good things being replaced by worse things as the developers don't realise what worked first time around and more subtly the balanced inter-relationships of those things in the previous one.

MW2 apparently has poor spawn points and some people dislike the emphasis on kill-streaks. Those pirate-style guns aren't popular either.

The Halo: Reach Beta was a serious disappointment. It was like EA had tried to copy Halo without understanding what made it great. All the weapons were crap, all the maps were dull (except perhaps Overlook, but that suffered from overly restrictive sight-lines), the jet-packs were underpowered, armor-lock could kill your team (it should just affect jet-pack avionics), the controls weren't properly integrated so it didn't feel like Halo, you played a disempowered short-arse... need I go on?

So, I predict that after the initial buzz, MW2 & Black Ops will lose players to the classic COD4 and Halo 3 Mythic Multiplayer will still be more attractive in the long run than Halo: Reach.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 suffers from having too many of its more interesting weapons locked when you start and a limited bunch of maps. Actually, I played B:BC's multiplayer before the sequel arrived in the post and actually enjoyed it more. The best thing about "2" is the spotting system which makes up for the Xbox LIVE community's immature usage of team-chat.

It is rather optimistic, but one game that may dethrone MW2 & Black Ops that no one seems to have mentioned is Crysis 2:

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/10/ex-free-radical-crytek-uk-working-solely-on-crysis-2-multiplay/

You do realize that Halo: Reach is being made by Bungie who made every other halo game?

Of course I know that EA didn't make Reach. "It was like..." is just the same as saying "It was as if...".

Maybe, I could have been clearer. Apologies for the confusion.