Poll: Why did YOU buy Black Ops?

[malestrithe]

Reviewing it for a website. I would not have bought it otherwise.

 

[bjj hero]

So I've been told that Black Ops is one of the top selling games in history. But why did you, Escapists, buy Black Ops? Single Player? Multiplayer? Zombies? Achievements? Or maybe just a fanboy (No offense if so)?

I bought it for zombies mostly. Same reason I got the DLC's.

Because my friends were buying it and xbl is a social thing for me. Having said that Treyarch always disappoint me with their "efforts". They seem to find a way to make flame throwers and dismemberment boring, thats the only thing they seem to offer over IW. Otherwise it feels like a poor copy of the IW year. I went back to Modern Warfare after a couple of months. I was equally unimpressed by WAW and entered the series at COD4.

Zombies bored me after 3-4 attempts. I can sit at home and stare out of windows for free.

Also, why do the treyarch games appear easier? COD4 I learned the game so my K etc was poor. My stats vastly improved on WAW, dipped for MW2, went through the roof for BlOPs then became quite average again for MW3.

 

[Jon Press]

Singleplayer was wacky and cool and i enjoyed the alternate premise of reliving the memories rather than 'go here and shoot this cause i said so' attitude of previous instalments.

Zombies are just zombies.

Multiplayer was good fun however could have done with a few tweaks to things

I don't get why people bash it so much to be honest...

 

[nsqared]

I said others. I don't remember much of what my motives were before buying it, other than that it was the newest call of duty game. I didn't like the multiplayer much, but i did enjoy the zombies some and the single player because of how abandoned that time period was for games of this genre.

 

[Iwata]

Also, to play Zork.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

I actually bought it cuz I thought it would be fun.

And it was, it didn't disappoint, multiplayer wise. Still haven't played the single player campaign though, lol. dgaf either.

 

[z121231211]

I didn't buy CoD:BO, but if I did, it would be for zombies. It's the mode I play most when I do play the game.

 

[Kriptonite]

My best friend got it for me for Christmas!
I mostly (99% exclusively) play multiplayer though.