Firstly I would like to talk about game reviews and why they dont matter to you individualy. Like everyone the reviewer has an opinion and thats not to say hes wrong but not everyone will agree with him. Just because one person doesn't like a story in a game doesn't mean you won't. Its the same principal with films, you should always try it for yourself. I do understand though that some people rely on reviews for there gaming purchases because they may not have the funds to buy games just on a hunch or a reviewers recomendation. My advice is to read a few reviews but also maybe wait for a few reviews off actual gamers not journalists, you should then be able to get a feel of what the game will be like and if you will enjoy it. It might come as a shock to people but "killzone 3" may not be to everyones taste and taking offence to reviews is a waste of valuable gaming time of which I don't get alot of these days.
In November like most people I bought Black Ops, after a few games I was thinking what the hell have I bought. I've been playing Cod games since number one and for me the series peaked with the amazing Modern Warfare, that game was perfection. It had an amazing single player with some truly memeroble moments, but it was the multi player that made the game great. So whats happened to the Cod series then, they have messed up big time thats what. Instead of making a polished game that works they have decided to cram in as much as they could and forgotten to actually make the game playablem, but most importantly enjoyable. After about a month I traded Blops in and re purchased Cod4 and I would love to say that I havn't looked back but I have. When the new maps were released I bought it again, so i've now spent nearly a hundred pounds on a game that I am not really enjoying even with the inclusion of the new maps. For me the main problem is the players, its just a campfest. Every corner there is someone with a claymore waiting for some unfortunat person to walk past and boom your dead. I'm not saying camping is such a bad thing but with every new Cod theres even more campers due to the fact that theres more and more new gamers buying consoles just for cod and thats the tactic of choice. ITS DAMN ANNOYING.
Lastly I would like to talk about exclusives on the PS3 and why they look better than 360 games. The simple fact is that the PS3 and 360 are very close interms of power no matter what the fanboys think. Sony are spending alot of money on there exclusives, Look at the biggest microsoft exclusive "halo", Reach is basicaly running on an engine that was used on the original xbox that has been updated over the years. Another xbox exclusive Alan Wake was origianly desighned for the PC then microsost bought the publishing rights and made it a 360 exclusive. It looked fantastic but wasn't up there with the best the PS3 could offer. The ps3 is has a slight advantage but its miniscule, if micrososft paid a developer to desighn a game from the ground up for the 360 we would see a different outcome which brings me to kingdoms. Now i'm not saying this is going to destroy the PS3 interms of graphics but I do think your going to see what the 360 can actually do. Untill then I hope killzone 3 will keep me occupied because Blops is a huge dissapointment for the second time.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I agree, I purchased Black Ops and within an hour or two, I was in a taxi back to the shop to return it. I was utterly disappointed. The major issue in my opinion, is bringing the Call of Duty titles back to historical wars. The older Call of Duty games, I wasn't too a fan, but then Modern Warfare 1 and 2 blew my lid off. World at War and Black Ops were garbage.
And as for Killzone, I wasn't its biggest fan for the first and second title. Killzone developers attempted to create innovative shooter controls that hit the shitter miserably. Killzone 3 bringing it back to basics makes the game as amazing as can be. It's funny how a thing so small as a game's controls can make the game a steamy pile.
As popular as Call of Duty is, Its really hit the bottom of the barrel with Black Ops. I knew that it would flop when Trey Arch (ark?) got its hands on it, as there known for simply taking old engines from the original studio and making cod 7 on it.
I still bought it though... More-so because I knew that if I didn't, I wouldn't be gaming with my friends for a whole another year... Turns out I was right. But besides the point... I notices your story quickly turned into a possible console war, in which you picked PS3 games over 360's. And yea man, for the most part, I agree.
PS3 will dominate in 2011, but not without a loss. By the time UC3 will be released, so will Gears 3... Two major condenders for the consumers out there (good thing there a different genre ha-ha), however I'd say that 2011 looks amazingly promising for multiplatform games! Skyrim, Crysis 2, Bullet Storm, Homefront and more. Its gonna be awesome. But this goes without saying that PC as well will have some strong input on what people play. MMO's such as Guildwars 2 and SWTOR will suck in alot of souls, not to mention the better versions of Crysis 2, Battlefield 3, Mass effect 3 and Skyrim will be available to who owns which.
Bottom line, console wars are so 2007, I own all 3 systems, I like them all for what the have to offer (the Xbox's superb online experience/exclusives, the PS3's behemoth of bluray space/exclusives and the PC's clear graphical and performance wonders). Time to lay the bickering to rest.
Everyone I know was burned by Blops. On the PS3 especially, its the worst online experience. Just a really, really poorly executed game full of bugs.