"Every few years, the Anno series decides to take us somewhere new. We have built Renaissance trading hubs, industrial powerhouses, futuristic colonies in space, and deep-sea utopias. Anno 117: Pax Romana marks the first time the franchise marches back into ancient history and plants its eagle standard firmly in the Roman Empire." Jas @ Thumb Culture
VGChartz: "Game of the Year for the strategy genre has traditionally been a fight between the real-time and turn-based sub-genres for the crown. Not so this year, which was more a battle between strategic city/civilisation-building titles and the blooming card battler genre. Representing the former, we have the latest entries in the stalwart Civilization and Anno series, while the latter is fronted by the sequel to Monster Train, with its twist on the Slay the Spire-style deck building campaign, and by Death Howl, which reinterprets similar influences within a Soulslike universe."
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has had a disappointing European launch. Its opening week sales are 63% below what Battlefield 6 managed during its debut week in October.
Everything microsoft touches turn to 💩😂.
Scumbag Bobby Kotick sold everything just right before the ship started sinking 🏃🏻♂️💨 .
I haven't played CoD, so I can't really comment on it. But after spending dozens of hours on BF6, I think I understand why it sold so well this time around.The game handles weapons, damage, and on-foot combat in a way that’s very close to CoD. I even booted up Bad Company 2 to make sure I wasn’t imagining things, and yeah, BF6 plays closer to CoD than to its own “bloodline.”
So I can totally see the usual CoD crowd picking it up because it looked interesting, and then feeling so at home with it that they completely ignored the actual CoD of the year.
"The game handles weapons, damage, and on-foot combat in a way that’s very close to CoD."
It is very clear you haven't got enough experience of either of those series.
I mean, I’m not the most professional player of either. But I likely have more experience than the guy who feels the need to lie on the internet about not seeing bots in his games. ( ͡° ε ͡°)
Why would I lie about something like that? Based on your profile picture, I would trust your opinion on JRPGs, anime. But your opinion on BF and COD gunplay is clearly not based on real experience.
Uh splendid early Christmas present. Choke on that one MS. “Oh Cods too big to fail” LMAO. Battlefield finally did it. They listen to the fans and gave us a game we wanted. To an extent but a very fun and addictive boots on the ground classic BF experience.
PS5 physical release requires internet download --> no buy!