Today I saw the 4 trailers for the new Call of Duty game. I must say it looked kind of interesting, and that's not normally something I say about Call of Duty games, even though I almost invariably end up buying and quite enjoying them.
The plot appears to carry on from MW2, or so I'm told, and features attacks by the Russian dude I've forgot the name of on 4 major western cities. In this case New York, London, Paris and Berlin. Yes the western invasion plot has been done now, with the awesome premise, but horrible game of Homefront immediately springing to mind. But call of duty generally has higher production standards and I'm really hoping come 8th November (or whenever it is around there) MW3 will be worth a buy. I'm really not talking a camp out at midnight waiting for game to open so I can get the 'hardened' edition which will inevitably be available, but a normal buy!
However, with homefront as an example and Portal 2 as an exception that proves the rule, when I get enthusiastic about games before release they generally suck and suck hard. I'm sure CoD won't though!!
Downsides are I've only just started getting on with playing Black Ops online, and although there's some considerable months, 2 weddings, a weekend in tenerife etc to go between then. I know I'll get good (I say good... I mean not humiliatingly bad), then everyone will leave it to play MW3 online, I'll drop back behind and get shot by French people all over again, I mean honestly, when you log in on a French server shouldn't you immediately surrender?
By the same standard on a US server you should get +500 for a team kill not minus...
On an unrelated note, I just had some classic 'last nights' pizza for dinner... EPIC.
EDIT: Yes I know Battlefield 3 will be better
Showing posts with label Black Ops. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Advertising age restricted games
As anyone who follows my twitter (that'll be nobody then) would have saw yesterday,. I was stood in Merthyr Tydfil Tesco overlooking a display for last nights midnight shipping of Black Ops. The display had a short section of the game (looked like every other COD to me) running and then a display where the games would be at midnight and a poster.
Quite normal you'd think.
However, a quick glance around to check all the people mesmerised by this display and there was a large compliment of kids, the oldest I'd imagine about 14 or 15 down to one boy of no more than 7. No adults present at all. Now thinking about it, that kind of display is absolutely perfect for catching the attention of... kids. The loud bangs, the running video, and of course... no price, not the kind of thing to perfectly grab an adults attention.
Earlier on yesterday I was listening to the Richard Bacon show on 5, the man is surprisingly good! One of this points of discussion was COD and the effect it has on children playing it. The game is sweary, violent, obviously due to the genre it has to be aggressive, all points we don't really want to bring out in sprogs, and a good percentage of the calls basically said it should fall to parental control to stop under-age playing it. But give the parents a break, this was blatantly being marketed at the kids, it's easy to say well don't let them play it, but get them hooked and they'll find a way.
I'm not having a go at just Tesco, over my days of weekend/lunchtime browsing in Game stores I've heard some of the worst advice mankind has ever given. The amount of times I've seen parents being given truly awful advice by incentive crazy (I assume) staff members just so they sell them the 360. Mothers of 8 year olds ho know no better being handed over GTA4, Modern Warfare 2 and being told, 'well it is 18 but....'
As much as the parents have of course a duty of care, sure to god there should be a duty of responsibility with the advertising of age restricted products. You wouldn't show an advert for it before the watershed (not that I've noticed anyway) so why leave it running, even if it was a fairly innocuous section of the game, there was still shooting and killing, 24/7 for kids to watch, and watch they did.
Saying that, it is the same game store when a staff member of about 17 refused to sell 27 year old me Manhunt 2 (not a great game anyway) because I looked so young... moron.
I haven't yet picked up a copy of COD:BO but I probably will, but I have Fable 3 to play and I've barely even started that yet, but it's on me list.
Quite normal you'd think.
However, a quick glance around to check all the people mesmerised by this display and there was a large compliment of kids, the oldest I'd imagine about 14 or 15 down to one boy of no more than 7. No adults present at all. Now thinking about it, that kind of display is absolutely perfect for catching the attention of... kids. The loud bangs, the running video, and of course... no price, not the kind of thing to perfectly grab an adults attention.
Earlier on yesterday I was listening to the Richard Bacon show on 5, the man is surprisingly good! One of this points of discussion was COD and the effect it has on children playing it. The game is sweary, violent, obviously due to the genre it has to be aggressive, all points we don't really want to bring out in sprogs, and a good percentage of the calls basically said it should fall to parental control to stop under-age playing it. But give the parents a break, this was blatantly being marketed at the kids, it's easy to say well don't let them play it, but get them hooked and they'll find a way.
I'm not having a go at just Tesco, over my days of weekend/lunchtime browsing in Game stores I've heard some of the worst advice mankind has ever given. The amount of times I've seen parents being given truly awful advice by incentive crazy (I assume) staff members just so they sell them the 360. Mothers of 8 year olds ho know no better being handed over GTA4, Modern Warfare 2 and being told, 'well it is 18 but....'
As much as the parents have of course a duty of care, sure to god there should be a duty of responsibility with the advertising of age restricted products. You wouldn't show an advert for it before the watershed (not that I've noticed anyway) so why leave it running, even if it was a fairly innocuous section of the game, there was still shooting and killing, 24/7 for kids to watch, and watch they did.
Saying that, it is the same game store when a staff member of about 17 refused to sell 27 year old me Manhunt 2 (not a great game anyway) because I looked so young... moron.
I haven't yet picked up a copy of COD:BO but I probably will, but I have Fable 3 to play and I've barely even started that yet, but it's on me list.
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