This evening we have blops gameplay from Prof Robot. It was his first match ever on the game and he strangely decided to use the shotgun. It worked out ok though so what do I know.
Watch and listen to my super awesome commentary. I will finish my blops review soon (i’ve been trying since a couple of days after I got it) but doing that gets in the way of playing the game so we’ve got things to overcome.
My boy Chelios has been playing Blops (I’m making it happen people) as much as he can get away with while still maintaining a stable marriage. Over the next year it may cause a couple rocky patches so he should probably invest now in some back-up dildos just to keep things sweet.
The wager matches are pimp and here he is with some pretty smooth kills in Sticks and Stones, which loads you out with a Crossbow, Ballistic Knives and a Hatchet to bankrupt your victim, separating them from their hard earned points.
Finally my first Black Ops vid is up. There has been some problems but it’s finally here. expect some more in the next few days. The theatre mode makes things real simple.
In the interests of whoring up some cheap hits I’m posting Black Ops content just one day before release.
So Hutch is probably the most famous if not the most successful COD player, being picked up by Machinima like some truck stop hooker only instead of receiving a bludgeoning and shallow burial they gave him a job. Thumbs up for him, and he’s a natural choice to forward a copy of Black Ops and have in what appears to be a press lobby. Here he is getting a bit of a hammering (like the truck stop hooker) but also giving back and coming out ok (unlike the lay by temptress).
The advance your weapon every time you score a kill match type.
And standard Team Deathmatch
Well there we are. I hope you weren’t expecting John Simpson quality journalism here.
Check out Chelios’ excellent complete introduction to Black Ops multiplayer HERE
This is a few days old, because we are such bleeding edge reporters. This morning I even won an award.
True that it was an award for a delicious sandwich. And I awarded it to myself.
But how many awards have you won today?
No. No I didn’t think so.
I have a conflicting relationship with COD games. It’s fair to say that they are probably top banana when it comes to online multiplayers, in terms of popularity at least. In terms of quality at most, some would argue. As a person who wants gaming to be more progressive, to be about more than headshots I dislike what they are about when you get right down to it.
Then I punch myself in the arm, tell myself to stop being such a douche and just enjoy something awesome. It’s the same part of me that loves Commando, Crank and Rambo. It’s the part of you that’s still a ten year old kid playing war with your friends. The part of you which has no idea how to take something seriously. It’s like on these bullshit “best ____ movie/TV show of _______” programmes. An arbitrary panel tries to dissect in soundbites of 15 seconds or less how these movies/TV shows worked and someone inevitably pipes up with how He-Man was gay or some shit. Some people just try looking into stuff too hard and make something out of nothing.
So not gay.
COD is kinda like that. You’ve got to just enjoy it for what it is and stop being a nonce.If you have a pretentious side like I do, give it some mescaline and send it away for a little while.
Anyway I sometimes hate loving it because I play it so damn much that I tend to exclude playing all else. I reach for another game but then boot up to find I inserted COD. It’s a snappy arcade shooter so you think you can just get by with one match. Which turns into two matches and so on.
And god help you if you give it a rest for two weeks because you’ll jump back in at whatever level you got up to, only you will get a shoeing because you’ve lost the edge. You’ll need to spend a couple of hours getting back to your previous ability, and then because you’ve re-invested that time you feel you need to commit more time to make it all worth it. Then you’re hooked again.
Such is the genius of its design. My rounds tend to vacillate between super-human triumph, and shrugging whinge about latency. More often the latter. Either way, only Demon’s Souls can match it for booting your adrenal gland into your heart at every instance. This is what makes it, roundly, the most accomplished online multiplayer made thus far.
Black Ops is almost upon us so I thought I’d give a run down of what we know so far. Some of this maybe wrong but I’m pretty confident I’ve got all the facts. I’ll concentrate on the multiplayer here as you pretty much know what to expect with COD single player. Globe trotting Special Forces soldiers doing the jobs no one else wants to do. Unlike previous games though Black Ops will take place across a larger time frame, we’re talking missions from the 60’s all the way up to present day.
Above is the trailer released yesterday for Trayarch’s next stab at the CoD franchise.
It’ll probably be the last standard CoD as next year the gutted Infinity Ward studio’s will probably be more like MAG in nature, as Activision try to rip as much money from you as possible.
I probably will not buy this, I’m on the verge of trading in Modern Warfare 2 as soon as something worthy comes up. I’ve got Red Dead on preorder so it’s too late for that, though Amazon still haven’t dispatched and my knickers are bunching up right now because of it. (Note to self, give the girlf her knickers back)
I can’t remember whether I included the Bloack Ops Teaser when that was released, so have that too.
On a side note, Machinima Respawn seem to be quietly getting things done on the YouTubes. They have rapidly became a vuluable hub for trailers as well as hooking gameplaying talent like TheIMightyHutch. I personally enjoy WingsofRedemption’s commentary videos also, despite the beefing and the flamboyant name. Not that I dislike flamboyance, far from it, it’s just unusual. Not that that’s bad either.
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