The text based adventure game is an antiquated genre largely forgotten in today’s world. I’m not a fan of the genre myself and it would take nothing less than an absolutely stellar and compelling game to pull me in. I have found that game.
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The Call of Duty series is certainly a popular franchise, in particular Modern Warfare 2, that has generated a lot of discussion in the video game community. The chatter surrounding the game in the past 6 months has been constant ranging from the popularity and success of MW2 to the controversy surrounding releases and developers.
Before MW2 was even released there was a stir surrounding the famous airport mission and more recently the shakeup with Activision and Infinity Ward. Some say that any publicity is good publicity and in a sense this is true. Even if games are pulling in negative press it’s still putting the game, the developers, and their publisher out there on the web. Hop on google and give “call of duty” a search and behold the myriad of links regarding a variety of topics.
The reason this is relevant is due to impending release of Black Ops. The “Infinity Ward Situation” will surely contribute to the press for the upcoming Activision title, especially because this is being developed by Treyarch. Treyarch and Infinity Ward were the two subsidiaries charged with developing CoD titles and now that Infinity Ward is missing more than half its staff this could be big for Treyarch. Fans of the series are split between which studio puts out the better product.
Black Ops is highly anticipated but it’s questionable whether or not it will have the level of success that MW2 especially after the incredible amount of negative press Activision has received recently. On the other hand, a lot of people also claimed they’d boycott MW2 or the new updates for it and that CLEARLY went over well.
In the end, whether or not people play the new title on a scale as large as MW2, people are afraid of Activisions intentions, a point made clear by their concerns regarding their involvement with Blizzard. One can only wonder when the Guitar Hero series will be bastardized further by getting linked up to the Call of Duty titles.
Happy AMERICAN HOLIDAY everyone! This weekend the site has been feeling a bit empty but with good reason! We’re really busy trying to bring you even better material. Arien and Brian hit up Anime North for three days this weekend to bring you video coverage of the event and we’ve also been working our asses off on some new original material we think will be very important to you gamers out there.
Speaking of gaming, this week’s podcast is a good one! We have our first REAL guest in GNSU history. Angry Banana’s head honcho Carlos Lopez stops by to discuss the Street Fighter scene both in LA and worldwide as well as a variety of other topics. As usual things get a bit ridiculous but we wouldn’t be us if we didn’t. Check it out on Wednesday and have a good one.
DISCLAIMER: This post is not for Brian, Angel, Arien or Sarah because they are dirty foreigners. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
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