CoD 5 first impressions.
K COD5 "World at War" Arrived today making a mochery of the release date this Friday. Which is often the case with stuff preordered from Play.com. However when you go into mutliplayer and it tells you theres about 200,000 other people playing two days before the release, any way.
After reading a couple of articles on escapist and a few other places, i must admit that on Monday i tried to cancel my preorder, so when I saw it was already in packing I was worried. The game arrived today, and i've had a play!
Happily COD5 shares the COD4 engine, and not just the graphics engine, alot of stuff directly translates to the new game. Such as button layout which makes it super easy to pick up and how the mutliplayer xp, challenges etc work. From my brief shooty battle I have had this evening, getting myself to rank 14 was fun. The game does comes across as a World War II mod for cod4 and heres the bad bit a mod developed by an online community, not a professional bunch of dudes who do this day in day out. This is not to say that the game is bad. Just that the Level design isn't quite right in a cant put your finger on it sort of a way. I remember clearly jumping into a mutliplayer game of CoD4 for the first time, the map was overgrown and i was taken back by the whole wowness of it all. CoD5 you wont get that.
I'd be mad not to mention the tanks which are in some of the maps and can be player controlled. There scale appears to be totally wrong, and you can quite happily ignore them with little penalty. Not sure why they bothered there. It seems odd that a game series clearly priding its self on its realism would plop a generic tank that would be at home in a fair ground. If i were making the game ( which I'm not ) i'd stay clear of the whole vehicle area as its somthing that the Battlefield Series has down perfectly now, COD should IMHO stick to the gun battles.
That said it is clearly an excelent game taken on it own, though im sure its fate is already sealed as being another bad CoD game with an Odd number.
Update: I discovered later on COD5 has introduced Squads which is a good addition, now im just hoping they will add it to cod4 in the next update if there is one ( though they are now busy on COD6 ). Also played Mirrors Edge demo last night, got annoyed by the whole balance across the pipe bit. So will be giving that one a wide berth.
After reading a couple of articles on escapist and a few other places, i must admit that on Monday i tried to cancel my preorder, so when I saw it was already in packing I was worried. The game arrived today, and i've had a play!
Happily COD5 shares the COD4 engine, and not just the graphics engine, alot of stuff directly translates to the new game. Such as button layout which makes it super easy to pick up and how the mutliplayer xp, challenges etc work. From my brief shooty battle I have had this evening, getting myself to rank 14 was fun. The game does comes across as a World War II mod for cod4 and heres the bad bit a mod developed by an online community, not a professional bunch of dudes who do this day in day out. This is not to say that the game is bad. Just that the Level design isn't quite right in a cant put your finger on it sort of a way. I remember clearly jumping into a mutliplayer game of CoD4 for the first time, the map was overgrown and i was taken back by the whole wowness of it all. CoD5 you wont get that.
I'd be mad not to mention the tanks which are in some of the maps and can be player controlled. There scale appears to be totally wrong, and you can quite happily ignore them with little penalty. Not sure why they bothered there. It seems odd that a game series clearly priding its self on its realism would plop a generic tank that would be at home in a fair ground. If i were making the game ( which I'm not ) i'd stay clear of the whole vehicle area as its somthing that the Battlefield Series has down perfectly now, COD should IMHO stick to the gun battles.
That said it is clearly an excelent game taken on it own, though im sure its fate is already sealed as being another bad CoD game with an Odd number.
Update: I discovered later on COD5 has introduced Squads which is a good addition, now im just hoping they will add it to cod4 in the next update if there is one ( though they are now busy on COD6 ). Also played Mirrors Edge demo last night, got annoyed by the whole balance across the pipe bit. So will be giving that one a wide berth.
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