Call Of Duty Black Ops 3

[Cjail]

Because there's really nothing new to do in FPS gameplay wise.

The natural evolution path is only "well, what if you had like...powers!" thus all the FPS games seem to end up in a robo-bat-techno suit.

I often wonder if Crytek looks on and thinks "we invented that, why didn't our game get rich!" or something (and yeah I'm sure they didn't invent it, you know what I mean)

Maybe next they should just use super powers and abandon guns.
COD: Mutant Ops or Mutant Warfare.

They will sell billions

 

[AlNom]

Wasn't there a game once called Crysis => Crysis 2 => Crysis 3 which exactly did that ?

Command & Conquer springs to mind.

Maybe they should pull a Red Alert and COD can go back in time.

 

[Deleted member 13524]

There's a ton of armed conflicts they can use, without going through the World Wars for the 100th time.
Napoleonic Wars, North vs. South, all the wars of independence that happened in Europe right after the World War I, all the Israeli wars after WWII, all the wars in Indochina (except for Vietnam, which is also overused).

But I guess exo-suits are fashion these days, and DARPA&friends thank the free publicity since that way they get more money for researching that subject.

 

[Cjail]

There's a ton of armed conflicts they can use, without going through the World Wars for the 100th time.
Napoleonic Wars, North vs. South, all the wars of independence that happened in Europe right after the World War I, all the Israeli wars after WWII, all the wars in Indochina (except for Vietnam, which is also overused).

But I guess exo-suits are fashion these days, and DARPA&friends thank the free publicity since that way they get more money for researching that subject.

Napoleonic wars would be a terrible choice for a FPS, I mean you would literally spend more time reloading then shooting
I say any war/conflict after the invention/diffusion of repeating guns would do, so roughly any conflict after 1835.
Still nowadays every FPS has bows or crossbows so any conflict in the history of mankind could do.

 

[Laa-Yosh]

Oh man, Outlaws was such an incredible game. Mostly for the story and animated cutscenes and MUSIC, but the shooter wasn't that bad either.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

There's a ton of armed conflicts they can use, without going through the World Wars for the 100th time.
Napoleonic Wars, North vs. South, all the wars of independence that happened in Europe right after the World War I, all the Israeli wars after WWII, all the wars in Indochina (except for Vietnam, which is also overused).

But I guess exo-suits are fashion these days, and DARPA&friends thank the free publicity since that way they get more money for researching that subject.

COD has always revolved around military engagements. As such anything from WWI and before is all rather boring from a gaming standpoint WRT a military shooter. Especially one that wants to maintain at least some semblance of reality. Even their Advanced Warfare tries to theorize what real combat and real technology might be available at that time.

Going from WWI and back, you'd have to either abandon the Military aspect, or go into high fantasy. Neither of which fit the COD franchise. Some of the small wars leading up to WW2 might be interesting, however. Smaller engagements with the World powers slowly learning what tactics to use with all this (relatively) new technology. WW1, as pointed out before, was all old stale military strategy with new technology = disaster. Even in WW2 some countries were still trying to use old strategies (Poland) and got steamrolled.

There's certainly a lot of small engagements that the British and French engaged in between WW1 and WW2 that might be interesting. But those engagements were small, and might not be a big draw commercially.

Regards,
SB

 

[DavidGraham]

The graphics is not that impressive or beautiful at all, it is comparable to Titanfall graphics, which is saying a lot.

 

[orangpelupa]

you mean the art or the technical wizardry?

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Below are the specialists revealed so far:

Callsign: Ruin
o Real Name: Donnie Walsh
o Bio: Raised in a military family in a tough neighborhood, he is fearless and headstrong, an infantry soldier through and through. He uses his unique abilities to rush into battle and surprise the enemy with sheer force.
o Weapon: Gravity Spikes – creates a devastating area of effect shockwave in the surrounding area.
o Ability: Overdrive – Initiates a burst of speed that accelerates all movement for a short period of time.

• Callsign: Seraph
o Real Name: Zhen Zhen
o Bio: Militant enforcer of the 54I crime syndicate’s rule of law. She is known for her focused and unflinching combat discipline, striking fear within the ranks of the cartel.
o Weapon: Annihilator – massive high-caliber revolver with penetration rounds.
o Ability: Combat Focus – triggers a bonus multiplier to score earned towards Scorestreaks for a period of time.

• Callsign: Outrider
o Real Name: Alessandra Castillo
o Bio: Developed keen observation skills growing up in the streets of the Favela, traversing the rooftops to watch the action of the city below, and this earned her a place in the ranks of the Brazilian Special Forces. She outsmarts enemies by finding them before they have a chance to know what hit them.
o Weapon: Sparrow – compound Bow w/explosive bolts and variable range.
o Ability: Vision Pulse – pings the surrounding area and tags the location of all enemies within range for a period of time.

• Callsign: Reaper
o Real Name: Experimental War Robot (EWR)
o Bio: Started as an expensive military R&D project to supplement Special Operations soldiers in the field, the EWR was a cutting-edge prototype combat robot, the most advanced in the
world at the time. Budget overruns and embarrassing political incidents left the project all but a resource for scrap metal, except for the one prototype that remained.
o Weapon: Scythe – robotic arm transforms into a high power Mini-Gun.
o Ability: Psychosis – Infiltrate enemy DNI systems to simulate three instanced decoy Reapers.

• Callsign: Prophet
o Real Name: David Wilkes
o Bio: Wilkes got his first set of cybernetic augmentations while serving in the British Engineering Corps. Five years and many upgrades later, he is the embodiment of cutting edge of human weaponry on the battlefield, using his superior technology to disrupt opponents’ tactics before moving in for the kill.
o Weapon: Tempest – Charge-shot weapon that fires an arc of electricity, shocking targets and chaining to all nearby enemies.
o Ability: Glitch – Flash back to a previous position with this system mod that hacks thebattlefield simulation grid.

• Callsign: Nomad
o Real Name: Tavo Rojas
o Bio: Last surviving member of an elite Rapid Deployment Force unit specialized in Jungle Warfare, Rojas has gone off-grid using his survivalist training to stay alive. At home in the wild, he uses his skills to turn the environment against his foes.
o Weapon: H.I.V.E. – Deploys pod traps which release a deadly swarm of nano drones when triggered.
o Ability: Rejack – Recover from near death by injecting a nanoparticle serum into the bloodstream.

So each characters has "super abilities" now, inculding illusions of Reapers ! This could actually feel new when combined with 4 player co-op which will necessitate larger open levels.

 

[DJ12]

Wake me up when they go back to WW2.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

One hour of MP, wonder how only one guy was allowed to record !
At one point he seems to wallrun for ever !

 

[Billy Idol]

Looks good.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Looks like its only me in this thread now, but here it goes, the new Zombies:

Strangely, this has the past vibe while the rest of the game has a future vibe to it. GFX don't impress much at all.


I have been playing Split screen CODs with my nephew for the last month and realised how fun these games can be. Still prefer Resistance over them, but CODs are fun in coop. Have just ordered a used copy of Black Ops2 as I never got to play it before and Black Ops was one COD after COD 4 which I actually liked a lot !

 

[loekf]

Looks like its only me in this thread now, but here it goes, the new Zombies:

Call me old fashioned, but does anybody actually care about this zombie mode ? For me it's a useless addition to a franchise unsucessfully trying to re-invent itself each year.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Call me old fashioned, but does anybody actually care about this zombie mode ? For me it's a useless addition to a franchise unsucessfully trying to re-invent itself each year.

Well, there are people who buy COD for Zombies alone, so yes there are. I am not one of them, I know ! But recently I played the coop survival in CODs with my nephew and frankly, they were some of the best co op times, triumphs and failures together. I have just discovered this fun, but yes, not zombies, i hate zombies in every game not just this one.

Checkthis out, ppl hooting to live trailer reveal, it got leaked :

 

[Clukos]

This is looking really good for 1080p60, Ps4 footage apparently.

 

[Deleted member 86764]

Wake me up when Call of Duty drops all of the exosuits/boost jumping/instakills/sci-fi/circular maps/crappy three-four shot kill MK14/quickscoping/ and overpowered SMGs.

 

[Clukos]

Well it's the new fad now

I am curious to see what'll be the next one

 

[djskribbles]

Played some of the beta last night. Mind you I've played little to no CoD MP before so I have nothing to compare it to, but it was pretty fun. They definitely took some things from Destiny as some things seem familiar, such as each class having some sort of special attack that needs to be charged, and some of these special attacks are similar to Destiny's super attacks.