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| From Call Of Duty 4: Modern warfare |
Example one, in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 adding a snub nose to your revolver makes it more accurate. In the real world, these physics simply do not work. If you shorten the time that the bullets direction is controlled it does not magically make it hit the target. Now I hate to bag on the Modern Warfare series because I think Infinity Ward has done the best job with realism in first person shooter games to date, but c'mon, you don't have to be an expert marksman to figure that one out.
After stating that I think Infinity Ward is the best, we'll have to take a trip to the other side of Call Of Duty for the worst. Treyarch definitely is the worst. Not only are their guns horribly balanced (even to FPS standard) some of them don't even EXIST in the time period the game takes place in. Call Of Duty: Black Ops developed by Treyarch is currently the highest selling FPS game on the market. This does NOT make it a good game. In fact, it's maybe the worst game I've played in the Call Of Duty series (and that's including Call Of Duty 3, also developed by Treyarch). I'll start off this anti-Black Ops rant with how they portrayed the Famas used by the French military. First off, it wasn't in service during the time period Black Ops takes place. It was first put in service in 1978. Black ops takes place at it's latest in 1973 if it went straight through the Vietnam War. That's FIVE YEARS before the gun was even released.
How do they cover up such an error in history? By saying that since it's secret missions and black operations that they could have had it. Fine I can deal with a couple errors in a game. But then there are other guns with the same problem...THEY DON'T EXIST YET. This is including the
SPAS-12 which isn't invented until 1979.
But it wouldn't be enough for Treyarch to make it so their guns that didn't exist yet were in the game, the also had to get them wrong. See a difference?
Battlefield 3 gameplay
SPAS-12 which isn't invented until 1979.
But it wouldn't be enough for Treyarch to make it so their guns that didn't exist yet were in the game, the also had to get them wrong. See a difference?
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| The Famas in Black Ops |
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| The REAL FAMAS design, as shown in MW2 |
And yes, the FAMAS can be fully automatic, but it certainly cannot empty a clip faster than an SMG.
This is not a post all about Call Of Duty however. Every single game I have encountered (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) does NOT cock the gun when a clip is empty and you reload. I can understand if you manually press the button and reload while still having a bullet in the chamber. If you cocked it then it would just be a waste of ammo, but why wouldn't you when the clip is empty? Since there is no cocking the first shot must be a dry fire because there is no bullet in the chamber. but no, a bullet comes out and somehow it's magically there.
When are we going to have a realistic FPS? Is it in November this year when Modern Warfare 3 comes out? Doubtful since Activision completely took over and destroyed Infinity Ward and put a virgin developer (Sledgehammer Games) on one of the most anticipated games of all time. My friends, I think it's time to look to the Battlefield games for comfort.
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| From Battlefield 3 |
Battlefield 3 looks like an answer to all our problems. It has realism (even graphics-wise) and it even has destructible enviornments that are destroyed in real time. Battlefield has consistently produced great games (mostly for pc) and already has a large following with past successes like Bad Company and Bad Company 2. Even their Vietnam add on was better than Black Ops. So while the rest eat up on the Call Of Duty gimmick, I'm going to find a better game, that doesn't cheat realism in order to "wow' fans
as a gamer i was extremely disappointed by black ops and much prefer the original COD games where the character did indeed cock their weapon and also despite not so good graphics delivered unforgettable gameplay. personally i prefer the games that don't claim to be real. i love the halo games and am also a huge fan of games such as gears of war, and fallout 3, new vegas was good too but 3 was a gamers dream come true. all 3 games are made by knock out game designers and deliver a graphic and gameplay rollercoaster. personally, if im going to loose sleep over a game i would sooner grad a totally fictional game and play it for hours rather than see the "real world" butchered by futureistic guns and much to be desired game to player interaction.
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