Posts tagged call of duty

How does infinity wards answer to zombie mode hold up? Find out right here in my first impressions. 

So I’ll start by saying we were only allowed 10 minutes hands on time with the demo and in that time I only played one match on one map. Despite all this I think I have a good impression of how the mode will pan out. So basically you are thrown into a map and you have to fight of wave after wave of enemies with increasing difficulty. You earn money for kills which you spend on guns, perks, specials, ect. For that particular match. For the most part I don’t really have any problems with this but personally I would have preferred the perks to be permanent and part of a load out, but thats the only problem I have. The enemy AI is really good, they’ll hunt you down, take cover and try and flank you. It really does provide a decent challenge. As I mentioned earlier the enemies get harder each round, which forces you to buy stronger guns and such. There was one problem with this. We reached a point where the only enemies were choppers and we had no money for guns and only had ammo on a pistol. It was so frustrating just having to let the enemies kill you because there was no way to progress. I’m sure this could be easily fixed in balancing so I’m not too worried about it.

A big feature of this mode is that it can be played co-operatively with a friend. the demo we played was a LAN set up so I don’t know if it has split screen like the zombie mode, but I hope so. Co-op was great and your partner can revive you if your downed by an enemy. I think you can also revive a partner even if you yourself are in a downed state. 

So overall the spec-ops survival mode seems like a really cool addition to modern warfare 3. It a very clever way of including the zombie mode but with a modern warfare feel. 

Yer so I haven’t played many games at all this week. I’ve been playing black ops as usual (which I won’t talk about again), played some minecraft multiplayer, played a bit of scott pilgrim the game and umm I guess I’ll talk about about collecting video games. 

I play minecraft all the time, but I haven’t played a lot of multiplayer, but seeing as the game now runs (just) on Tanyas laptop, we thought we’d give it a try. It was actually pretty fun. I’m not sure why but just having someone else there makes everything about the game much more fun. Hopefully we’ll play some more of it soon. After I had messed around in the multiplayer I thought maybe I should try out some server mods. It was really fun just giving myself 64 TNT and absolutely destroying the map, I did remember to back up the map before I did all this. So yer pointless destruction is fun, who knew.

I finished the Scott Pilgrim game ages ago but I only found out yesterday that there’s multiple endings, so I figured I’d try and complete it with every character. I’ve already finished with Scott and Ramona, I thought Scotts ending was hilarious. Anyway I really like the Scott Pilgrim game, the soundtrack is awesome and the 16-bit graphics look amazing. Plus the story follows the books pretty well and there’s tones of little nods to the series. 

Right so this weeks post isn’t super short I figured I’d talk briefly about a recent experience with collecting video games. I’ve got all of the consoles I want for specific games, so any others I get are only if they’re really cheap. Today I bought a zx spectrum for that very reason. It was super cheap and came with 40 games. So I couldn’t really turn that down. So I take it home and of course it doesn’t turn on. I thought maybe it was the power supply so I looked around and my nes power supply was the same voltage, but had a lower amperage. I figured that it’d be fine so I put it in and the consoles light lit up. After that I unplugged it just to be safe and not cause it any damage. Now I knew the power supply was the problem I thought I’d check the fuse, so I open up the plug and there wasn’t a fuse. After replacing the fuse I think I’m finally good to go, but of course when I plug it in nothing happens. I think I may have shorted it out, because now the nes plug won’t work either. So the lesson learned from todays purchase is “don’t swap plugs”. On the plus side I still have all the games and while I was out I also got a couple of original xbox controllers for pennies, a really good condition original devil may cry and a dragon quest game. 

So thats it for this week sorry it was a bit short this week hopefully my random collection tale made up for it. Anyway I’ll leave you with a picture of my new wolves that replaced the ones that died last week (yer these aren’t allowed to leave the house)

It seems like I’ve had a little bit more time to play games this week. I finished COD black-ops, finished ace attorney trials and tribulations and played some Pokemon. So lets get started.

I bought black ops at release but I never really got into the single-player, I played a fair amount of multiplayer but for whatever reason it’s taken this long to finally get around to finishing the single-player. Overall I would say that the single player for black-ops was really underwhelming, the set pieces were boring and the characters were uninteresting. In terms of the multiplayer I think there are some really good maps, not quite as good as the original modern warfare, but much better than modern warfare 2. So yer unless your into multiplayer don’t buy black ops

I’m gonna get straight to the point and say I loved Trials and tribulations. The previous 2 ace attorney games we great but this was the best overall. All the cases flowing together was a great idea. I’ll probably move onto the next game in the series eventually but I’m a bit apprehensive because of how nicely this game wrapped everything up. But so far the ace attorney series is something anyone with a DS should play, it really doesn’t get the attention it deserves and if more people buy the games maybe capcom will translate investigations 2. 

So finally this week I played some more of pokemon white. Thats the game I’m focusing on at the moment so hopefully I’ll get it finished soon. I’ve only just beat the 6th gym so I have a way to go yet but I’ll take my time and enjoy it. I’ve mentioned pokemon a lot in past posts so I’ll try not to repeat myself. I will however, say that the 6th gym was stupidly easy. A gym that far into that game that uses nothing but flying type pokemon really doesn’t offer much challenge. Anyway in summary i’m still liking the new pokemon and I’m looking forward to playing it some more.

I guess that’s pretty much it for this week, hopefully I’ll have a little bit more to talk about next week seeing as the whole team is meeting this week to do some recording. Anyway I don’t have any cool minecraft pictures so I’ll just end it here.