My son is 13. I don't let him play this game as it has an 18 rating. Am I being harsh?
Don't think you're being too harsh, its nice to see a parent take responsibility for a change. I'm not saying violent video games are the cause of kids growing into murderers or rapists, nothing like it, but kids need to be kids for a little while longer, they don't need violent imagery rammed down their throats.
I remember standing in the queue in Game buying Halo a few years back being held up as the shop assistant was being shouted at and threatened by a woman. The assistants crime? he wouldn't sell her 10 year old a copy of Grand Theft Auto Vice City - Too many parents these days think a video game is a babysitter.
Rant over - But Black Ops does look awesome
So where's got offers? I MIGHT be getting a freebie but I waited last time and it cost me £40 in the end at the supermarket because my mate didn't come good.
No where really all involve purchasing something else with them to get discount.
Wagner mode! Interesting X-factor link up but I'd happily shoot him up a bit...
Anyone tried it on the Wii yet (yes, I know it won't be as good as Xbox/PS3/PC but I don't have those so not interested, thanks 😉 )?
Oh dear. Predictably, the servers have gone down so everyone's (well, certainly all PC players anyway) locked out of the game at the moment. Tons of people whining about poor performance (I'd agree based on what I've seen). Pretty typical high profile game release then!
Boba I used to sell games, the penalties are severe for selling to a minor. I refused a kid with no ID a BBFC 15 rated game, his dad came to the store ready to start a fight. Turned out the kid was 16, but a bit pubey looking. Prison, huge fines and sacking, never worth the risk. Intresting case, if rockstar hadn't put the cocaine use in Red Dead Redemption nor some of the harsher swearing it would have been rated much lower, Rockstar basically said they wanted an 18 rated game as they sell better.
Oh and black ops on xbox is ok, it's not a revolution but a good evolution.
I bought it today at sainsbury's while doing the weekly shop. Spent £30 in store then got the game for £27.97. First impressions are good, multi player has been improved, less noobs about. And campaign is pretty good so far.
Downloaded it from Steam yesterday, just sat down now for a play and it's doing an update really slooow, then pausing. Why couldn't it do that yesterday. Very frustrating.
the update was probably the final section of the game which completed the download and let you log onto the servers.
Have played multiplayer for a couple of hours. I'm wanting to love but deep down I know its not as good as mw2. Does not look or sound as good. More depth to the game though.
Is it just me?
The servers are not coping very well on PS3. Like the maps, much prefer it so far to MW2 - less noisy, less flying nonsense, more proper fighting.
was ok for me last night till 2am 😯
After an all day and all night sesh I think this is the best game in the COD franchise so far.
No lag whatsoever on the 360 just takes a while to find available games.
Love it, my life, degree, bike is over for the foreseeable future.
Had about 5 hours on it last night.
I really liked the different format of being able to buy perks/ attachments etc. It makes it alot easier to customise your player to suit your own game style. Not sure about the maps yet. but I guess it's just a case of learning them. Do like Jungle in Free For All though and Nuke Town can be a bit mental in Team Deathmatch!!
The challenge system is better than the old format too. It will maybe force you to play other game types that you might not have played in the past.
Favourite player config at the moment is; Ghost/ Sleight of Hand/ Ninja with a silence Enfield and Camera Spike.
Bit old/OT, but is MW2 any good on the PC? I seem to remember people moaning about something to do with servers.
Arse - going to have to buy this now.... glad to hear there is less aircraft stuff.
Have they sorted spawn camping? Nothing pisses me off more than get killed, respawn dead immediately, respawn dead again etc... someones got a chopper gunner and is just shooting the spawn spot.
Bought this yesterday and installed it only to find that Steam wanted to download 8GB of patches before it'd let me play. Left it running overnight as the servers were struggling and hope to actually get to play the game tonight!
There's not really any less aircraft, it's just now you also have to pay for items with game credits not just unlocked at at a certain level.
* 3 Kills – Spy Plane: Shows enemies on the mini-map. Can be shot down
* 3 Kills – RC-XD Explosive RC Car: Remote controlled car strapped with explosives
* 4 Kills – Counter Spy Plane: Temporarily disables enemies mini-map
* 4 Kills – SAM Turret: Airdrop a placeable SAM turret that destroys aircraft
* 5 Kills – Care Package: Airdrop a random killstreak or ammo crate
* 5 Kills – Napalm Strike: Airstrike that covers an area in napalm
* 6 Kills – Sentry Gun: Airdrop a placeable Sentry Gun
* 6 Kills – Mortar Team: Target 3 locations to bombard with Mortar Strikes
* 7 Kills – Attack Helicopter: Call in a support helicopter
* 7 Kills – Valkyrie Rockets: Launcher with remote controlled rockets
* 8 Kills – Blackbird: Shows enemy position and direction on the mini-map. Cannot be shot down
* 8 Kills – Rolling Thunder: Carpet bombing airstrike
* 9 Kills – Chopper Gunner: Be the gunner of an attack helicopter
* 11 Kills – Attack Dogs: Attack dogs that hunt the enemy down
* 11 Kills – Gunship: Pilot an attack helicopter
YEAH BUDDY
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*Very Jealous*
Do you get screen burn on the projection screen?
My son is 13. I don't let him play this game as it has an 18 rating. Am I being harsh?
After playing for a bit, I don't think so no. Theres quite a few gory bits, like shooting someone with a shotgun close up makes a bit of a mess.
I think you can turn that off in the options though.
@poppa - MW2 is good on the PC it's just there are no longer dedicated servers, one of the people in the game runs the server part (and if they quit it takes about 30 seconds to bounce to another person before resuming again, which can be a pain). As there aren't any dedicated servers you just enter a lobby and get chucked in the first game available of the type you select, rather than being able to browse available servers and chose the one you want (based on ping etc.). You can set up groups of friends in the lobby so you all get put in the same game but that can take longer to find a game with enough slots free for everyone.
I think it's a step backwards and hated it at first but have gotten used to it now and although I still find lag more variable than dedicated server days it generally works OK as a system.
Back to the original topic - the Black Ops single-player is a revelation, I bought the game for the on-line play thinking I'd spend 5 minutes in the single-player but I haven't actually been on-line yet and have had the game for a couple of days now. Probably a mistake delaying in hindsight though as by now everyone will know the maps and best weapon/perk combos 🙁
My bro' has been playing BO and then went back to MW2 - says the graphics are [b]much[/b] better on MW2 (but maps bigger on BO).
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So whos on PS3 on this? PSN 'FerryTuckwit' if anyone fancies a game!
I did a few hours playing Black Ops last night and while it's fine I also though the graphics were better in MW2.
For online gaming on the PC MW1 is probably still be the best - before it was dumbed down to the same level as the consoles. Some of the team deathmatches had huge player numbers and were excellent.
My bro' has been playing BO and then went back to MW2 - says the graphics are much better on MW2 (but maps bigger on BO).
Graphic wise I'd say there's not a huge difference and anyway it's gameplay that counts and BO has plenty of that. Yeah the maps are much better I reckon.
PSN here 'Dracy'
Well I will be waiting till Christmas anyway...
get it from tesco with 2100 points for £40ish
Just picked up Black Ops for the PS3 today
I'm maverickboy1980 if anybody wants to add me for some easy cannon fodder!
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I love it, but the servers are shocking. How many times do you get the 'connection interrupted' or 'cannot migrate host' message?
not that often
I got it with my new xbox for Christmas. Completed it on easy(recruit), and am shockingly bad - but then I've not played computer games for over 10years so no surprise really! I've done some online CT games for a laugh, always at the bottom of the scoreboard! Will be a different story when I get some other types of games though..
Anyone worked out how to join friends in the lobby? MW2 was easy - BOps doesn't want to work for us?