http://redzonegamer.com/2008/06/24/treyarch-defense-force/ A New Kind of Video Game Journalism Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:53:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://redzonegamer.com/2008/06/24/treyarch-defense-force/#comment-88 James Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:46:46 +0000 http://redzonegamer.com/?p=89#comment-88 Regardless of Treyarch's talent in making/porting games, they are going to have a tough time beating or coming close to IW's COD 4. Maybe gamers and journalists give COD 3 such a hard time not necessarily because of its arguable failures as a single player or multiplayer experience; but perhaps because of the mammoth task of making players forget how great of a game COD 2 was. Actually, I don't even think that COD 2 was all that great of a game, but it did focus the COD series in a good direction. Since COD 2 was received so well it made it that much harder to swallow that COD 3 wasn't as good (overall). I fear that will be the same case with COD WaW. Not only was COD 4 the most successful COD ever, it brought the franchise into the forefront of FPS war games because of its tremendous transition into modern warfare. Reverting back to WWII seems like a backtrack in almost every way, especially after gamers have had their nearly insatiable desires satisfied, with the taste of modern warfare fresh on their tongues. These reasons are why gamers and journalists are going to be hard to please with the release of WaW. (sorry to ramble) Regardless of Treyarch’s talent in making/porting games, they are going to have a tough time beating or coming close to IW’s COD 4. Maybe gamers and journalists give COD 3 such a hard time not necessarily because of its arguable failures as a single player or multiplayer experience; but perhaps because of the mammoth task of making players forget how great of a game COD 2 was. Actually, I don’t even think that COD 2 was all that great of a game, but it did focus the COD series in a good direction. Since COD 2 was received so well it made it that much harder to swallow that COD 3 wasn’t as good (overall). I fear that will be the same case with COD WaW. Not only was COD 4 the most successful COD ever, it brought the franchise into the forefront of FPS war games because of its tremendous transition into modern warfare. Reverting back to WWII seems like a backtrack in almost every way, especially after gamers have had their nearly insatiable desires satisfied, with the taste of modern warfare fresh on their tongues. These reasons are why gamers and journalists are going to be hard to please with the release of WaW. (sorry to ramble)

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