Zero Punctuation: Call of Duty: Black Ops
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It was one of his better reviews. But why does he even do the effort. We could all now he was not going to like the game really and i am pretty sure almost everybody bought the game. So he does it for our entertainment or he is forced by the escapist show. I would like to see a review of kirby. That one is original and i don't know what he's going to say. I don't need golden eye, because he is going to compare it to CoD and complain about the game freezing sometimes.
A larger part of America's interest in war has to do with spending way more on our military than any other country [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest_defense_budgets] coupled with the fact that we're the number one producer of military hardware [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest_arms_exporters] in the world. So there's a significant number of people out there who figure if we happen to get involved in war that'd be best for our economic interests despite the overwhelming recent evidence to the contrary.
We've gotten to the point where war games are becoming their own genre. The only problem is that Call of Duty seems to be taking up about half the seats.
Hey Yahtzee! If you want to go to a different war not related to America, try playing Jeanne D'Arc for the PSP then. It's a (not so) faithful recreation of France's last war with Britain, the last war France actually won, played from the eyes of the character who gave her name for the title.
Hey Yahtzee! If you want to go to a different war not related to America, try playing Jeanne D'Arc for the PSP then. It's a (not so) faithful recreation of France's last war with Britain, the last war France actually won, played from the eyes of the character who gave her name for the title.
I liked the Sahara desert idea. And have the people who make the decision to go to war be on the front line.
Oh man, that was hilarious. USA, a virgin, now that's funny. That comment on the grenade section is so spot on. I hated when grenades were thrown at me and there would be "press this button to pick it up and throw it back" flashing in the middle of the screen.
Could've shortened that first analogy by a fairly large amount and we wouldn't have missed anything. In fact, we'd be less traumatized. Is this just not the show for me anymore? I know Yahtzee feels like he needs to up the ante every week but that'll happen on its own, without having to Hostel/Saw-style torture all his increasingly horrible metaphors.
It's gone out of funny-town, is what I'm trying to say. I still gag at that last... well, gag in Kane and Lynch 2, please stop making it worse!
It's gone out of funny-town, is what I'm trying to say. I still gag at that last... well, gag in Kane and Lynch 2, please stop making it worse!
Just to be fair, several of the missions do actually require you to be sneaky - the one at the space rocket base, for example, though you're nearly on rails for most of that segment, and a decent stretch where you're using the crossbow to take out unaware Russian guards. Both of these do eventually have you go into "plan B" mode and start blowing **** up, but there are SOME sneaky bits. It's probably still accurate to say there are less than the original MW, though.
But that leads to another point - several of these "black ops" essentially happened in real life, and the reason we know that IS EXACTLY because they weren't very deniable. Nixon sent troops over the Vietnamese borders into Laos and Cambodia, which we all found out about, and which was ostensibly a "black op." The CIA did actually try to assassinate Castro, on multiple occasions, and we all know about that too, especially about the disaster they took part in with the Bay of Pigs. Maybe they didn't have a couple American soldiers fighting their way through half of Havana to do it, but they still tried, and failed, and we all know about it, so deniability wasn't great there, regardless.
I'm not a real fan of the game or anything, but just looking at the history of the period: plenty of things that would have definitely been classified as "black ops" became huge public ****-ups with little real deniability, so the game's title isn't all that misleading. Perhaps they should have called it "Black Ops... that within five years everyone will know about."
I do agree that there could have been some really fun stealth sequences though. Indeed, the slower-paced rocket base mission was one of my favorites (until everyone started shooting),
and if could have been even better if they'd let you lead the way instead of just holding your hand through it. More missions like that would have been welcomed - sneaking a scientist out of East Berlin would have been a great option for one, I think, though there are plenty of other ways they could have gone.
But that leads to another point - several of these "black ops" essentially happened in real life, and the reason we know that IS EXACTLY because they weren't very deniable. Nixon sent troops over the Vietnamese borders into Laos and Cambodia, which we all found out about, and which was ostensibly a "black op." The CIA did actually try to assassinate Castro, on multiple occasions, and we all know about that too, especially about the disaster they took part in with the Bay of Pigs. Maybe they didn't have a couple American soldiers fighting their way through half of Havana to do it, but they still tried, and failed, and we all know about it, so deniability wasn't great there, regardless.
I'm not a real fan of the game or anything, but just looking at the history of the period: plenty of things that would have definitely been classified as "black ops" became huge public ****-ups with little real deniability, so the game's title isn't all that misleading. Perhaps they should have called it "Black Ops... that within five years everyone will know about."
I do agree that there could have been some really fun stealth sequences though. Indeed, the slower-paced rocket base mission was one of my favorites (until everyone started shooting),
and if could have been even better if they'd let you lead the way instead of just holding your hand through it. More missions like that would have been welcomed - sneaking a scientist out of East Berlin would have been a great option for one, I think, though there are plenty of other ways they could have gone.
Black Ops is like Modern Warfare 2 which in turn is like Modern Warfare. So everything you bought after CoD4 is an overpriced DLC.
So countries CAN get laid eh?
The that struck me about Black Ops was the OTHER modes. Everyone was already waiting for it to have another Zombies mode but was anyone really expecting a top down zombie shooter with cyborg gorillas?
The that struck me about Black Ops was the OTHER modes. Everyone was already waiting for it to have another Zombies mode but was anyone really expecting a top down zombie shooter with cyborg gorillas?
thatstheguy said:
It IS uneventful when there's no time for a breather. There's no buildup, tension or drama. It's just corridor shootout-open area with respawning enemies (go there, then here! Now here.)-corridor shootout-set piece, repeat.
There's a lot happening but none of it is very interesting and it just feels like a chore.