Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 – good but sweaty (Activision)
The Friday letters page worries it’s been too easy to forget Wolverine and Perfect Dark, as one reader hopes Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a good omen for Mass Effect 4.
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GOAT COD
I honestly think Black Ops 6 might be the best Call Of Duty ever. It won’t have the impact of Call Of Duty 4 and the other earlier games but I really can’t remember enjoying a Call Of Duty more and it’s definitely one of my favourites of the year.
That doesn’t mean it’s perfect, because you were right about Zombies mode still just coasting along on fumes, but I’ve enjoyed every minute with the multiplayer. The spawn point problems are an issue but I’m sure that’ll be patched out in the next few days.
The campaign is the highlight for me though. I love how hi-energy and varied it is. Call Of Duty is at its worst when it’s taking itself seriously, if you ask me. This does go more whacky than usual but even the original Modern Warfare games were filled with humour and were more trying to be an interactive action film than they were a military sim. For me that’s exactly the right approach for Call Of Duty.
Fuse
Pyrrhic victory
Those financial results for Xbox are so bizarre. They’re the biggest publisher in the West now but their success is entirely based on a publisher they had to pay $75.4 billion to buy and a game that sells best on the PlayStation 5. Talk about a high cost of success.
I don’t really get their game plan though. Being the biggest third party publisher around is obviously a good thing but they don’t seem content with just that. But what else does Xbox actually do? They’re dead in the water when it comes to console sales and cloud gaming is super niche with current tech. No wonder there were those rumours about even people at Microsoft not being sure what’s going on.
I’m not having a go; I just don’t understand where they stand anymore and I don’t think Microsoft does either.
Iain
Forgotten reveals
Hearing about the Wolverine guy leaving Sony, I had completely forgotten Microsoft had a trailer for Perfect Dark earlier in the year and that it actually looked pretty good. I really don’t think these publishers being so quiet and secretive is a good idea.
A game like that should be bubbling over with hype but it’s only a few months since it was unveiled and I’d already completely forgotten it existed. Come to that, I’ve no idea whether Wolverine had a gameplay trailer or not. I don’t think it did, but it’s been so long since Sony has even mentioned it the whole thought of the game has gone out of my head.
Yes, too much hype and endlessly going on about the same games can be a problem, but publishers are ridiculous overcompensating at …read more
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