Modern Warfare 2 vs. Black Ops
With the arrival of Call of Duty: Black Ops this Tuesday, I have been torn between two worlds: Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops. How can I justify leaving behind my fourth prestige level 70 profile for a whole new, albeit similar, game? I have personally devoted 11 days, three hours and five minutes of game-play to get to where I am now! However, while I won’t be joining the crowds at the midnight release, I am still looking forward to some of Black Ops’ multi-player improvements because, seriously, who buys these games for the single-player?
First, there are rumors that the dreaded ‘noob-tube’ will no longer be available to cause headaches in multi-player; instead, there is a flamethrower attachment that will replace it. Hopefully it won’t end up giving legit players the problems that the ‘noob-tube’ does. Second, an exciting new system of character building where new guns and attachments are obtained using an in-game currency system to buy what the player wishes, whenever the player wants. I am especially fond of this since the current system in Modern Warfare 2 makes you impatiently wait for the gun and class that you do really well in or have a particular attachment to. Now, I can begin to build my favorite class from day one; granted, I’ll probably go through phases where I’m not sure which class I love. In addition, your entire character is customizable, all the way down to the reticule of the gun’s site.
Next, Black Ops offers new game formats for online play. Two of which I am very excited to play are Sticks and Stones and One in the Chamber. Sticks and Stones incorporates the two new weapons that I am the most excited about: the crossbow and ballistic knife. Each player is given the same class of a crossbow, ballistic knife and tomahawk: mayhem ensues. One in the Chamber gives every player in the game a pistol with one round. Every shot is a one-hit kill, but you only have that one chance to kill someone. If you kill someone, you get their bullet; if you miss, you have to move in close for a melee kill.
In addition to the whole new list of guns, these are just some of the new treats in Call of Duty: Black Ops. But you may still ask, Alex, what about my precious Modern Warfare 2 account? Well, consider this: many people who play Modern Warfare 2 are moving on to Black Ops. With a whole new game, fewer and fewer people will be playing Modern Warfare 2 online. Sure, for the next month or two, you may be able to get away with playing Modern Warfare 2 online, but sooner or later, it will end up like Call of Duty: World at War, that, if you’ve tried to play online recently, is a deserted wasteland of cyberspace.
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