Ok, I had heard a ton about CoD 4, and had never really read a negative review of it. It looked like the next step in evolution from BF 2 in a way. I bought it for the online play since that's what I look for...
So I start up and I think 'wow...the graphics are gorgeous....I love that the buildings can be shot through, and debris pile-up, cars exploding, all of it' and then every thought about the game since then has been negative. Where do I start??
1. 3/4 of the time you die, it's from grenades. Most online matches are just grenade chucking fests. Most of the time the person that kills you is behind a building or two down the street, and just blindly chucking grenades at you. I usually do decent in any FPS with a kill:death ratio around 1.3:1, which is fine for me. In this game I couldn't get better than 1:3, and it wasn't like I was dying in shootouts, which would actually be fun. Most lives, I would spawn, take two or three steps, and be dead from the grenades. I know you can lob them back at enemies....but that doesn't always work, and when they're cosntantly landing around you, you're gonna die sooner rather than later. And again, this was AWAY from the main action, these are grenades from people a couple buildings away just blindly chucking them like monkeys flinging their own feces.
2. The aimbotting/hacking is RAMPANT. I thought people were just bitching at first, but then I saw it for myself, it is AWFUL. Even servers that are good about kicking cheaters, it takes a few games to catch them, and they dominate for those few games...then they get kicked...then the next wave of people dominate until they get kicked for aimbotting or whatever. It's honestly worse than Diablo I was.
3. I don't know if it's the hit detection or what, but it feels LESS realistic than BF 2 (and I NEVER EVER EVER thought I'd be saying that). I can shoot someone in the face with 1/2 a clip....yet I get shot with a pistol in the knee and I die??? Riiiiight.
4. Snipers EVERYFUCKINGWHERE. Seriously, you step outside of a building on the edge of a map 2 blocks from any enemies....and somehow you get mowed down from 4 different angles by a snipers who're so badass they're probably banging every girl you love, or ever will love, all while murdering you.
I played for a couple weeks and I have to say it is the most frustrating disappointing gaming experience I have ever had. I wouldn't mind having a shitty kill:death ratio if I was actually getting in wicked fun fire-fights with other players....but it's all sniping, grenades, and cheap b.s. kills. Even most of the kills that I got were mostly B.S. I won't lie. The only fun I had was when me and several other players in a game decided to use only our knives. I ended up being at a 1:1 kill:death ratio that game, and it was the only time I ever did. Too bad, what a waste of a game.
So I start up and I think 'wow...the graphics are gorgeous....I love that the buildings can be shot through, and debris pile-up, cars exploding, all of it' and then every thought about the game since then has been negative. Where do I start??
1. 3/4 of the time you die, it's from grenades. Most online matches are just grenade chucking fests. Most of the time the person that kills you is behind a building or two down the street, and just blindly chucking grenades at you. I usually do decent in any FPS with a kill:death ratio around 1.3:1, which is fine for me. In this game I couldn't get better than 1:3, and it wasn't like I was dying in shootouts, which would actually be fun. Most lives, I would spawn, take two or three steps, and be dead from the grenades. I know you can lob them back at enemies....but that doesn't always work, and when they're cosntantly landing around you, you're gonna die sooner rather than later. And again, this was AWAY from the main action, these are grenades from people a couple buildings away just blindly chucking them like monkeys flinging their own feces.
2. The aimbotting/hacking is RAMPANT. I thought people were just bitching at first, but then I saw it for myself, it is AWFUL. Even servers that are good about kicking cheaters, it takes a few games to catch them, and they dominate for those few games...then they get kicked...then the next wave of people dominate until they get kicked for aimbotting or whatever. It's honestly worse than Diablo I was.
3. I don't know if it's the hit detection or what, but it feels LESS realistic than BF 2 (and I NEVER EVER EVER thought I'd be saying that). I can shoot someone in the face with 1/2 a clip....yet I get shot with a pistol in the knee and I die??? Riiiiight.
4. Snipers EVERYFUCKINGWHERE. Seriously, you step outside of a building on the edge of a map 2 blocks from any enemies....and somehow you get mowed down from 4 different angles by a snipers who're so badass they're probably banging every girl you love, or ever will love, all while murdering you.
I played for a couple weeks and I have to say it is the most frustrating disappointing gaming experience I have ever had. I wouldn't mind having a shitty kill:death ratio if I was actually getting in wicked fun fire-fights with other players....but it's all sniping, grenades, and cheap b.s. kills. Even most of the kills that I got were mostly B.S. I won't lie. The only fun I had was when me and several other players in a game decided to use only our knives. I ended up being at a 1:1 kill:death ratio that game, and it was the only time I ever did. Too bad, what a waste of a game.
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