Sunday, December 9, 2012

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Multiplayer Review











Hey Guys, here's my multiplayer review of the recent release of the game  Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 by Treyarch and publisher Activision.

Before I begin, I want to let you know I'm not the biggest fan of Call of Duty( Never bought MW 2.5( 3), and Black Ops sucked). I'm not being paid to offer a bullshit review of how "great" this game is and how more innovative they have become- Call of Duty innovation?! Ha!- especially when it's just Call of Duty 4 and the last game they released regurgitated every year. Anyway, I'll offer a nice glimpse of what I feel so far about the multiplayer exclusively as I have not played the Campaign at all and only briefly touched the Zombies to not give it a fair review.

After picking up this game after trying to get Assassins Creed: III from Walmart for 40$( which was sold out) along with Max Payne: 3 by developer Rockstar for 15$ I decided to grab this game because of pressure from the usual Call of Duty Game when it comes out. "It's so good." "You'll love it." "It's like Battlefield, Try It!" "They did so much."

To be honest
, I was actually surprised upon starting the game and heading to multiplayer. Now, it's not like they changed the game up as they did with Call of Duty : 4, I'll highlight what they have done and what I think about it.

First off, they now allow you to make classes using their new Pick 10 system which allows the player to choose "10 points" on a class using perks such as Overkill, etc. to allow you to use primary weapons as secondaries, adding more attachments, dual perks, etc. Honestly, I think this is a nice feature allowing freedom to change what YOU want in your class. You can go with just a knife and make a class centered around that. It's a nice thing and allows you more control over your character.

They re-skinned the famous Nuketown from their last installment Call of Duty: Black Ops and renamed it Nuketown 2025. Here's a picture of it below:




Same old, same old.
They now put in something called Scorestreaks instead of the usual Killstreaks, although me and my friends still call it that. I like this feature as well as it forces people to camp less and capture objectives and such more. It's a plus and I'm glad they added it. Now your streaks are based on Score and not Kills so it's now possible for someone to just capture objectives and get streaks. It's a plus, but camping is as it has always been.

Multi-Team

I really like this game mode as it incorporates a little bit of Teamwork with your friends that was not present in Call of Duty at all. You have a team of 3 and you go against two other teams of 3 making a total of 9 players. This is pretty fun and allows for a more focused method of gameplay as opposed to the usual "Lone Wolf" gameplay style Call of Duty has glorified. Another plus.

Hardpoint

Another game mode that is similar to Headquarters but requiring people to be in a specific area to get points for it. Also when you die, you can respawn and head back into the fight. Constant action as people need to fight over the point and stay in the guided lines to capture it versus Headquarters where people could capture it and go camp someplace. I like this as well.

Now moving onto the attachments and things they have added.
The perks are the same as always just with different names.
UAV, Counter UAV, and VSAT ( Blackbird) allow you to get points towards your streaks everytime an enemy is killed while you have it up encouraging people to use them more.
Now let's move on to what makes me annoyed.

Target FinderThe dumbest, stupidest, lamest,gayest scope in all of Call of Duty history. it's a scope that lights up enemies with a diamond around them just by aiming at them. It pisses me off getting killed by someone using this scrub scope as it takes absolutely no sense of skill to use it, Call of Duty in general doesn't require any skill at all.

MMS
This scope is actually alright. It allows you to see from a certain distance enemies through walls. I know what you're thinking, but it's not like you can shoot people through walls with it (you already can). It's good as it shows where campers are in the building if you didn't need the constant UAV to tell you that.

The weapons, most of them are new and the weapons are actually pretty good. Now in Call of Duty, there are always overpowered guns that everyone uses those being the PDW-R, Vector, MP7, and the like that decimates any enemies that come towards you. Perks such as Slight of Hand from previous games are now readily available as attachments to your guns in the essence of QuickDraw and FastMag.

Well, now for the rating of this game.

Rating : 8/10
Graphics: no comment; the same.
Gameplay: Same.
Features: Nothing really different.
Modes: a few new ones

That's what this game deserves. Honestly, if you're a Call of Duty fan or used to be like myself. This game could revive that way you used to feel for a while, playing with friends like old times. It's fun and a decent game far from what I expected.

Well, that's my first Video Game review. This is TechFate. Thanks for Reading!





Thursday, November 29, 2012

Rockstar offering free t-shirts with GTA: V Pre-orders



















Rockstar Games will be offering people who pre-order Grand Theft Auto: V from the Rockstar Warehouse.
The shirts are limited and will be given on a first-come, first-serve basis. This promotion is only availaible at the present time for those that reside in North America, other territories and areas will receive similar promotions as well, but they have not announced these promotions yet.

Grand Theft Auto V is coming out for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, while PC players petition to ask Rockstar to release the game for them.

I have to pre-order this game. I have not yet and I have to get right on that haha.

Support for PC Port of Grand Theft Auto: V gains 100,000+ supporters











A petition signed by over 100,000 individuals calls for Grand Theft Auto: V due for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles to be released for PC as well. With Grand Theft Auto this is not unusual as Grand Theft Auto: IV was released 6 months after the console versions were shipped. PC players are up in arms about this and Rockstar has taken it into "consideration" for the Wii U as well.

I support this to be released for PC as well as us console gamers. I play Xbox 360 and love it  ( not at the moment; my dad took it away for an obscene to me but reasonable cause for him) after I stayed up playing Call of Duty: Black Ops II a few nights ago till 4 in the morning!(Damn; I couldn't sleep =/)
Anyway, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was a masterpiece and this game looks like it might exceed that. I miss the mods on PC on that game and the endless fun I had having CJ in a catwoman suit with max fatness and an afro( Pretty cool!). The car mods and all make PC GTA beyond words fantastic.

Keep your eyes on this guys.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Obama's Photo a Social Media Craze




This Photo uploaded from Barack Obama's Twitter account last night might just be THE MOST shared Social Media photo ever. Yesterday, President Obama uploaded this photo with the caption "Four More Years" attached to it. Just moments after News outlets declared President Barack Obama winning re-election over Republican challenger Miit Romney. As of 11:30 AM Today, the crazed photograph has been retweeted over 675,000 times, defeating a tweet by pop star Justin Bieber making it the most popular tweet in Twitter's    History.
On Facebook, It received over 400,000 shares and over 3.3 million likes on Facebook, destroying records held by Mark Zuckerberg's wedding photo in May, and a photo of a glass of beer, a tribute to a fallen sailor.

Congratulations to Barack Obama on re-election and hopefully these next four years are great for America!

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Just Some Thoughts..

Did you guys know they were electric ambulances in the 1900s?!

I learned about it last year in U.S. History II, Crazy Stuff. To even think we had electric automobiles 100 years ago and the huge corporate gas companies buried the plans to these? Imagine what we'd have right now.

We'd have hover cars, robots in our houses, and we would be so much more advanced. Shame the qualities humans that hold us back. Greed, jealousy, anger, and other qualities that make our people not be at their best. Kind of makes me wonder what America would be right now. Kids in the 1960s and such thought that we would have hover cars by the 2000s.

I could have a talking house and be able to fly to school like The Jeffersons- yes, that cartoon with all the futuristic stuff in it. Life would be so much easier right now. We could already have colonies on Mars and underwater, replenish our food supplies, I don't know! The Possibilities are endless.

I wish that our emotions and characteristics- our negative qualities- didn't hold us back like this. We are advancing much more than I ever thought we would, iPhones, iPads, Electric Cars, etc. But Guys, Imagine if we continued from Electric Cars from the 1900s when McKinley, a U.S. President was assassinated at the Worlds' Fair and his Vice President Theodore Roosevelt took his place. What would happen guys?

Did you also know; There was a guy that invented a car that could operate SOLELY on Water- Yes, Good Old H20. Word is he was mysteriously poisoned at a dinner and the plans he made could not be found. The Gas Companies prevented this from being made,why so? They would not make any money! Greed at its finest, leads to shortcomings like these. :( ( I could have a Water Car right now).

Monday, November 5, 2012

Apple seems very unlikely to approve Google Maps App, reports claim

People at Google who are working on the dedicated application say they are "not optimistic" that Apple will approve the software for iOS, according to the Guardian.It Seems, Google Maps, might not be getting into the App Store that is the download center of Apple.
Competition between the two companies has become more sour as Apple tried to release its version of its own Maps software, Apple Maps- a horrendous map software by the way- to try and replace Google Maps on iOS 6. Apple also left behind Google's YouTube Application yet it accepted another YouTube based application. Weird.

What Maps Application would Apple approve then? I speculate apps like MapQuest would be approved if Google Maps was denied. Apple has time to think about this however. Google Maps might not be done until later this year. Interestingly enough, Google Maps is still accessible from the iOS browser.

I think Cook, the new CEO of Apple disapproves of competition unlike Steve Jobs' did, who encouraged it. My honest opinion, Competition is good as it brings out the best of companies. Let's hope Google Maps gets approved.

3 Million iPad 4th Gen and iPad Minis Sold in 3 Days!

I found this on TechCrunch. Check it Out Guys! Cannot Believe 3 Million were sold already, seeing Apple's success, this should not be a surprise.


From TechCrunch

Apple has just announced that the iPad mini and 4th generation iPad, both of which debuted on October 23 in San Francisco, have just topped 3 million sales in 3 days.
The smaller, lighter tablet had been rumored for years, yet its arrival was somewhat overshadowed by Hurricane Sandy devastating the North East. And the 4th gen iPad came as a bit of a surprise, though it was also rumored prior to launch.
On the November 2 launch date, a week after pre-orders began, lines weren’t quite as long as they have been for other Apple products, despite having two new models on sale.
Still, Apple has managed to sell a whopping 3 million of both devices in a very short period of time. For reference, Asus has said that the company sells around 1 million Nexus 7 tablets per month.
At the same time, this isn’t exactly the level of opening day, weekend, or week sales we usually see out of Apple. Apple’s 3rd generation iPad, however, sold 3 million on its own during its opening weekend last March, so this time around two separate device lines are splitting the same number of sales. The iPhone 5 had 2 million pre-orders in 24 hours, and sold 5 million in the first weekend.
Apple likely won’t break out sales by device type, but we’ll see if analysts or supply chain information provides a better breakdown.

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