If you like HALO: REACH don't buy Black Ops

[Wonderpill]

Just sayin... because you will never want to play reach again.

The most fun I have had in a game in a while... takes a few rounds to get a hang of it, maps are easy to figure out after 2nd or 3rd play, and the reward system seems to always be dumping XP or Credits into your accounts, sometimes both.

The one thing I completely forgot about since MW2... Game modes and lobbies are locked until you hit a required rank... uh durr.

I was dead set on jumping right into hardcore mode, when I realized that its not open to me yet... which is fine, because I am owning noobs left and right with my M14 Garand... and I know its only because I learn quickly that I am excelling... no lack of skill from other players anywhere, just disorientations.

At first, I thought the graphics looked like a SNES game, very OTT colors, huge icons and names, character models seemed a bit too large also.

What I really Like, and I know Sokar is going to love, is that the game is super fast paced now... Sniping is pretty much done with in any kill based gametypes, there is simply too much going on to have a minute to snipe... not to mention the UAV/spyplanes seem to usher in nonstop, giving away your position.

I played from around 1am til almost 4am, and I don't want to go to bed.

all I can say is that starting next friday, it is going to be the best vacation ever.

[^APEX^Sokar]

So if you dont like Reach you'll love Black Ops? haha Pretty good news to wake up to. Now I cant wait to get home from work and fire up my copy. Hopefully I can find some excuse to get out early.

Hopefully the faster pace isnt like a speed freak match in Unreal but im sure its not that fast paced

Any sign of glitches or anything like that? I know you said there were already lobbies and carepackage glitches but did you see any of that yet? And how are the leaderboads? Probably already filled with people with impossible kills and 10th (or whatever # BO has) prestiges and what not

See you all tonight, my bullets are hungry.

[^APEX^ALPHA]

I was tempted to pick it up yesterday, when I looked in LIVE last night lots of my friends had it but 0 ^APEX^ were playing it till shortly before going to bed when I saw Heli playing it...

Guess I'll be picking it up tonite although I still like REACH dangit!!

[^APEX^Oneder]

I was talked into the midnight release by a few friends and played till 2am. I didn't want to quit playing. This by far is the best cod of this generation, maybe of all time. So far at least. I wonder if omega and my first level was the same. I made a comment on how cartoony it looked. Was the nuke test site. Did horrible we were against people ranked mid to upper 30's. After that started to do good. Ilike the money system a lot. Also looking forward to buying the dogs killstreak.

I should be on after the kid goes asleep. So lookfor me and I'll be ready to play.

[Wonderpill]

nope, I had the launch site... everything just didn't look like the hi-res that I had expected from MW2.

The reason that this happened is because of the data tracking... 60fps is a lot of data to record, so in order for the game to have the record features and 60fps, the processor had to be freed up... hence a drop in visual quality.

They do it well enough for it to be nearly un noticeable to the untrained eye... I did pick up on it immediately though.

The good news is there IS zombies mode, bad news is I didn't play it.

Leaderboards... I don't care about... but the stat tracking in game is pretty cool, K/D is now on the scoreboard, which still somehow supports camping... I had a 14 and 3 match last night, which was because I camped out once I got my gunship from a care package... I got killed 3 times right off the bat, then got a 5 kill streak, and then got gunship... and got the other 9 kills in like 10 seconds. our team won in about 3 minutes into the match.

[Wonderpill]

I also forgot to mention, you can dive.

You can jump dive, you can sprinting dive, and you can sprinting jump dive.

All of the diving can also be executed to traverse very small openings in the map... aka a bathroom window, that is too small to jump through, or crawl through... you can just sprint, then jump, and go prone mid air, and shoot right through the 8x8 hole in the wall...

It ends up being really freaking cool if you have lightweight on, and you land while still sprinting.

[^APEX^Tyhk83]

Hey all,

I'm definitely picking this up in the next week. I've been more into PC games as of late, so I'm torn whether I'm getting it on the Xbox (which has been collecting dust for months) or the PC.

If you guys let me ride with you, and if it looks like BO isn't going to down the MW2 path, I'll probably pick it up on the 360.

[^APEX^Oneder]

Sounds good tyhk. I have it for 360 right now but may pick it up later for PC since a bunch of my other friends have it for that. So either way I'll play some rounds with ya.

I'll have to try out the dive sometime.

Alpha this game is great. I'll go back to reach eventually. Though this game has got me.

Anyone for some zombies this week sometime? Maybe even this coming weekend where I'd have a lot more time.

[^APEX^RAPT0R]

I'll be picking it up later on maybe....the last MW2 and all the glitching kinda killed it for me. Not to mention it looks like the last one but with a new name....IGN gave it a 8.5