Now some might wonder why I didn't say "It's a bird it's a plane", "up in the sky", "Here I come to save the day" or something along those lines, well it's simple. Another superman movie is due out soon, so I don't want to waste an easy superman reference, at some point in time I'm sure Mighty Mouse will get a movie so I don't want to wast his, but on to the review.
Skyline
Jarrod and Elaine arrive from NY for Jarrod's friend Terry's birthday party. The party is epic, new opportunities are on the horizon and basically just when a guy is getting a chance to enjoy "the life" what do you know a bright blue light strikes the ground and ruins everything. This is another movie along the lines of War of the Worlds, the day the Earth stood still, and Independence Day. There is a lot of action, there is a lot of suspense what there isn't a lot of is humanity kicking bootay.
Let me be honest while I vividly remember this movie I do not like the ending, Now I don't put it up there with War of the Worlds "we are space travelers but didn't know to wear an enviro suit of some kind to protect us from Germs so we won't DIE, or even TEST for said GERMS before we expose ourselves to the environment" no it's not that bad. I just don't like you know the hmm can I say it without ruining the ending, It's a Neoish ending as in the Matrix.
The special effects were great, the aliens were big and awesome this movie should give you pause about investigating a weird light in the future. I kinda like how they handled the whole "nuclear option" ploy in this movie yup aliens arrive, act rowdy, you drop a nuke on them aaaaaand "Yaaaay we wooo, damn is he getting up really, he's getting up damn, um okay I'm out of ideas." This was kinda like the "friday the 13th" of sci fi thrillers, no there is no escape, please quit running I'm still gonna get you, oh look a blonde. I like this movie I'm trying not to give too much away because up until the ending that I don't like they did move the story along at a nice pace. What happens when it all goes to hell and you are thrown together with a bunch of people you barely know and are most likely going to die. This was no "bunch of meddling kids" here they didn't all get along and the many different ways people got taken out was jump in your seat shocking. (I was gonna say something about my wife and horror movies but she may one day read this blog and I don't feel like getting hit in my sleep) I don't really think this movie is set up for a sequel(which is the other reason I don't like the way they ended this movie, unfinished business but not a clear path on how to finish said business) this may have to be my first two part review I may wait a few weeks to go ahead and discuss WHY I don't like the skyline ending. There are a lot of explosions, a lot of bullets fired, some nice looking vehicles, pretty women(but then again the movie is set in LA), I mean in the flashback sequence you would almost think this was gonna be a buddy movie. But the only things there are about to become friends are the aliens foot and humanities behind, there are going to meet early, they are gonna meet often and yes humanity is the one picking up the tab.
I mean if you like suspenseful movies yes go see it, you don't have to stay through the credits on this one I did there is nothing there, but again I don't like this ending, if in a month it's still rattling around in my head(or I come back here reread this and decide to go down that path) I'll say why
Sunday, November 14, 2010
The trailers on skyline
Gullivers travels well did this last week so nothing has changed, the gulliver remake starring jack black. It was the exact same trailer as last week so yes it can work. I think the silly take on this tale might work just depends on if they go too over the top.
It has a nice cast who have pulled off decent comedic parts before so like I said if they mesh the studio will be laughing all the way to the bank. Under dog to big man on campus movie they usually work.
Little fockers-its seems the fockers have children and it is time for old Jack to pass the torch to Gaylord Focker. Its hollywood, them milking this joke for "one more gin" while all the principle characters are still alive and kickin yeah wow big surprise here. It might be funny but the whole viagra knock off 4 hour plus erection joke is getting pretty used and abused.
That looks a little harsh I do like most of ben stillers movies, and rarely do you see a Dinero movie that doesn't work and "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers" were both successful movies so if the well ain dry I won't blame a studio for takin another shot, I mean who would have thought Shrek would have pulled off 3 sequels?
Unknown-this was a new trailer Liam Neeson plays a doctor who was in a car crash in the water and wakes up 4 days later after being in a coma. As usual nobody can find any ID on him but he has some scattered memories and runs off to meet his wife. It seems though that either he doesn't know who he is or else foul play is afoot.(I couldn't find a better link for Unknown possibly the NEW official site isn't up yet, seems there were a few other unknowns out there)
Now if this sounds familiar yes Arnold, Matt, Halle, Kevin and Ben have all been down a similar road before. The clandestine Alice in Wonderland flick is back. Their usually good rides so let's hope this suspense thriller delivers the trailer has me interested.
Sanctum-big hole in the ground, a chasm like no other that people climb into with a huge rainstorm on the horizon. The last few deep cave movies didn't do well and I think from looking at the trailer this movie might continue the trend. I'm sorry but if a hole wide enough for you to base jump into, and deep as all hell can be filled up in a rainstorm why isn't this a "lake" movie.
Oh I know what the narrator said "blase' blah cave the last unexplored place on earth, blah blah, wonder beauty, blah blah, if you don't make it out no one will know your story" now yes this is a James Cameron movie and with "Avatar" James has earned himself a leap of faith movie. I just watched "skyline" which was an apocalyptic movie so I'm not saying a human peril movie won't work. I'm just saying I the guys who is all for hollywood bringing back the magic is saying he might have added a little too much elfin magic on this one. We'll see, as I see more about it maybe I'll become more interested.
Okay those were my 4 trailers and my initial thoughts of them feel free to agree, disagree or offer your own viewpoints if you think I have been unduly harsh. Everybody doesn't like the same movie, and everyone doesn't always catch the "fever" opening week but if a movie catches on or a new trailers piques interest, word of mouth, whatever I'm sure hollywood will take it.
Aiight bedding this one til I hit the house
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It has a nice cast who have pulled off decent comedic parts before so like I said if they mesh the studio will be laughing all the way to the bank. Under dog to big man on campus movie they usually work.
Little fockers-its seems the fockers have children and it is time for old Jack to pass the torch to Gaylord Focker. Its hollywood, them milking this joke for "one more gin" while all the principle characters are still alive and kickin yeah wow big surprise here. It might be funny but the whole viagra knock off 4 hour plus erection joke is getting pretty used and abused.
That looks a little harsh I do like most of ben stillers movies, and rarely do you see a Dinero movie that doesn't work and "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers" were both successful movies so if the well ain dry I won't blame a studio for takin another shot, I mean who would have thought Shrek would have pulled off 3 sequels?
Unknown-this was a new trailer Liam Neeson plays a doctor who was in a car crash in the water and wakes up 4 days later after being in a coma. As usual nobody can find any ID on him but he has some scattered memories and runs off to meet his wife. It seems though that either he doesn't know who he is or else foul play is afoot.(I couldn't find a better link for Unknown possibly the NEW official site isn't up yet, seems there were a few other unknowns out there)
Now if this sounds familiar yes Arnold, Matt, Halle, Kevin and Ben have all been down a similar road before. The clandestine Alice in Wonderland flick is back. Their usually good rides so let's hope this suspense thriller delivers the trailer has me interested.
Sanctum-big hole in the ground, a chasm like no other that people climb into with a huge rainstorm on the horizon. The last few deep cave movies didn't do well and I think from looking at the trailer this movie might continue the trend. I'm sorry but if a hole wide enough for you to base jump into, and deep as all hell can be filled up in a rainstorm why isn't this a "lake" movie.
Oh I know what the narrator said "blase' blah cave the last unexplored place on earth, blah blah, wonder beauty, blah blah, if you don't make it out no one will know your story" now yes this is a James Cameron movie and with "Avatar" James has earned himself a leap of faith movie. I just watched "skyline" which was an apocalyptic movie so I'm not saying a human peril movie won't work. I'm just saying I the guys who is all for hollywood bringing back the magic is saying he might have added a little too much elfin magic on this one. We'll see, as I see more about it maybe I'll become more interested.
Okay those were my 4 trailers and my initial thoughts of them feel free to agree, disagree or offer your own viewpoints if you think I have been unduly harsh. Everybody doesn't like the same movie, and everyone doesn't always catch the "fever" opening week but if a movie catches on or a new trailers piques interest, word of mouth, whatever I'm sure hollywood will take it.
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Doh!
I'm getting extra cardio today I got so wrapped up in thumbing in my trailers blog for "Skyline" that I forgot to stop by the bank. Oh well spin around head back then walk on home.
I was making time too I was about to hit the home stretch when *face palm* bank clicked in my mind. Ah well a few more people live for a few more seconds on black ops whoop dee. The fact that I've made this hike and I ain winded yet is making me jump for joy. I haven't been hitting my resistance bands as religiously as usual so I'm not burning calories like I want. So to be able to jump down, turn around and spin it back is damn good in my eyes.
I ain running but walking it out has its benefits the change in terrain in the natural world is unmatched so the benefits my body is reaping from this mental slip is like whoa. And its not a bad thing that the rain is gone either I'd be sick as a dog tomorrow if it was raining(whoops misstep mayne I love these unsprainable ankles) well almost at the bank so tata and back to the trailers blog
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I was making time too I was about to hit the home stretch when *face palm* bank clicked in my mind. Ah well a few more people live for a few more seconds on black ops whoop dee. The fact that I've made this hike and I ain winded yet is making me jump for joy. I haven't been hitting my resistance bands as religiously as usual so I'm not burning calories like I want. So to be able to jump down, turn around and spin it back is damn good in my eyes.
I ain running but walking it out has its benefits the change in terrain in the natural world is unmatched so the benefits my body is reaping from this mental slip is like whoa. And its not a bad thing that the rain is gone either I'd be sick as a dog tomorrow if it was raining(whoops misstep mayne I love these unsprainable ankles) well almost at the bank so tata and back to the trailers blog
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
The plan for the evening
After another brisk walk, I think I knocked it down to 30 minutes this time , I'm at the movies again. This time the flick du juor is "Skyline" the flick that looks alot like "Independance Day".
I love me some black women a sister just walked in with her 3 kids and a nice round behind. Pretty face too, but I digress.
Same as last time I will do the trailers, what I think about them and sometime tomorrow afternoon or monday afternoon I will do the review. I've seem some pretty good sci fi flicks this year so I have high hopes. It looks like movies are going into the home stretch for the end of the year, me likey.
It seems I've talked myself to another low battery which is fine as I won't be talking or texting for the next two hours I should have PLENTY of juice for what I'm trying to do. I mean its at 2 bars and trust me two bars can go quick(for me 2 bars can go quick I mash buttons just that much) it was a long day, hopefully I'm about to see a good movie, and when I get home it will be conjure and black ops time.
I hope all reading are having a great weekend and if not, I hope tomorrow turns it around. Aiight time to bed this one I think its about 9:40 now so I can buy my ticket and drink
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I love me some black women a sister just walked in with her 3 kids and a nice round behind. Pretty face too, but I digress.
Same as last time I will do the trailers, what I think about them and sometime tomorrow afternoon or monday afternoon I will do the review. I've seem some pretty good sci fi flicks this year so I have high hopes. It looks like movies are going into the home stretch for the end of the year, me likey.
It seems I've talked myself to another low battery which is fine as I won't be talking or texting for the next two hours I should have PLENTY of juice for what I'm trying to do. I mean its at 2 bars and trust me two bars can go quick(for me 2 bars can go quick I mash buttons just that much) it was a long day, hopefully I'm about to see a good movie, and when I get home it will be conjure and black ops time.
I hope all reading are having a great weekend and if not, I hope tomorrow turns it around. Aiight time to bed this one I think its about 9:40 now so I can buy my ticket and drink
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On may way back to the house
I coulda stayed and shot somebody this was go Team Wire day. No software issues, just move the system and plug in some power packs. Oh well it happens that way sometimes.
I may check out some movies tonight so I don't overload on Call of duty. I should probably go back and edit that blog and link to the game on a few sites. We shall see, not really sure just depends on how my night goes, we should hit the hose around 8 o'clock so the night should still be wide open. I know I could have tweeted more since I was just sitting there but, I was trying to not be a total leech today. All I did was carry a few ladders past that services weren't needed.
I guess I could have photographed where we were but wasn't really feeling it, its just a rainy night in South West Tennessee nothing to really see here. Next week is mew phone week, which also means next week is transfer all my data to a new phone week too YaaaaY me. Hopefully I find a puter I can back up my phone on then transfer all my data over.
That would make my life 10 times easier. Probably getting the new curve I may check online and see, but me and touch screens don't really get along too often. Aiight putting this ramble to bed for now just something to keep me up during the car ride.
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I may check out some movies tonight so I don't overload on Call of duty. I should probably go back and edit that blog and link to the game on a few sites. We shall see, not really sure just depends on how my night goes, we should hit the hose around 8 o'clock so the night should still be wide open. I know I could have tweeted more since I was just sitting there but, I was trying to not be a total leech today. All I did was carry a few ladders past that services weren't needed.
I guess I could have photographed where we were but wasn't really feeling it, its just a rainy night in South West Tennessee nothing to really see here. Next week is mew phone week, which also means next week is transfer all my data to a new phone week too YaaaaY me. Hopefully I find a puter I can back up my phone on then transfer all my data over.
That would make my life 10 times easier. Probably getting the new curve I may check online and see, but me and touch screens don't really get along too often. Aiight putting this ramble to bed for now just something to keep me up during the car ride.
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It was a work day deferred but a work day nonetheless
Its like 2 in the afternoon and we on the highway back out to somerville. Honestly I don't know why I'm riding 3rd seat again. If you got K & J the wire team, wire team extraordinare(when they aiin on the Bull) what you need a tech for? Hey we out the house though
We're now at the site and honestly not much for me to do here so back to the blog. I won't lie I'm boooored again I can carry things from the front to the back but honestly this was a wire team job, but maybe the next site. Just the way it works sometimes, while I'm not a big college football fan I am a football fan so I am watching.
Auburn vs. Georgia lots of yellow hankies on the ground and Georgia has taken advantage of every miss step by Auburn, they showed a graphic about auburn coming back from large deficits so let's see if they calm down.
Penn state vs. Ohio state first TD's in Columbus is Joe Pa's history at Penn state wow, hey like I said the other day "all good things must come to an end". So Joe Pa CAN score in Ohio.
Wire team is almost done moving this system across the store so we're about to be on to the next site, maybe I'll be busy, maybe I won't I never know but I let's go on and get there
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We're now at the site and honestly not much for me to do here so back to the blog. I won't lie I'm boooored again I can carry things from the front to the back but honestly this was a wire team job, but maybe the next site. Just the way it works sometimes, while I'm not a big college football fan I am a football fan so I am watching.
Auburn vs. Georgia lots of yellow hankies on the ground and Georgia has taken advantage of every miss step by Auburn, they showed a graphic about auburn coming back from large deficits so let's see if they calm down.
Penn state vs. Ohio state first TD's in Columbus is Joe Pa's history at Penn state wow, hey like I said the other day "all good things must come to an end". So Joe Pa CAN score in Ohio.
Wire team is almost done moving this system across the store so we're about to be on to the next site, maybe I'll be busy, maybe I won't I never know but I let's go on and get there
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Call of Duty: Black ops initial thoughts
I love this game, the opening is a little weird (the whole marathon man/24 vibe it's got going on) the flashback missions have been fun so far, and like I said short learning curve and I'm loving online.
As with most war games the first mission is basically an introduction to the controls. They run you through aiming, firing, attachment usage, weapon swapping, weapon pick up/exchange, item usage, and a little bit of driving. In black ops you play a dude called macon, you were part of a 3 man team who was assigned to kill castro. After some Cuban guerillas come into the bar and start throwing their weight around you are on a mad dash out of the bar to escape for the "kill castro" mission. In all honesty killing castro was the easy part, I didn't die til we tried to escape. Word to the wise close up that light machine gun chews up and and all people in front of you, once you are fighting the long distance foes, ditch it for the AK-47 to your right. It may be on single fire but thats all you need to head shot most of Castro's special protection force.
Oh and keep your ears open for the "lets keep going cues" I took quiet a few shells in my kiester behind not listening to those. Now if this is your first call of duty game, get ready unlike Modern Warfare 2 there is no "we're gonna train you in the safety of a firing range" tutorial, it's figure out what is the same and what is different and get to it. Oh and by the way those cuban police cars do not blow up quickly when hit with a grenade from your gun, just warning you if you roll out there like your name is Leroy Brown they will bury you on the spot.
I also finished the russian labor camp mission, let me just say the russians cheat BADLY, you start out with a knife and will be able to pick up other guns along the way(and trust me you want to do so, oh and stay out of Sergie's way just trust me). You get to use quite a few interesting weapons dring the Russian labor camp mission.
Now let's be honest ain nobody that interested in teh campaign, it's a first person shooter in 2010 yes some Trophy collectors may play through the whole mission, but what you want to know about IS THE ONLINE PLAY. Man I love this game online, it took me a little bit over an hour to start getting as many kills as I had deaths in a match, but I think I mostly got it down. I am having a kvetch moment though I can't figure out YET how to place my C4, past that I have gotten a few care packages, called in a few spy planes got the ability to change my kill streak rewards and have been captain Rc car killer a few times, I mean they give you a verbal warning that it's coming but you still ain ready when it does. By the way hit R1 to get the car to explode, I damn near had 4 people but I didn't know how to make it explode yet.
Just like in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 the "base" configurations Give you access to guns you won't get til later in the game as well as some ordinance. They have also gone from 2 of everything to 3. I mean it's still a primary and a secondary weapon, they haven't given you three weapons, or let you go all I got it all like in Halo:Reach, but they have gone from 2 grenade types to 3 carry along slots, you get a Lethal(you frags, Semtex and one more that slips my mind right now I've only played it through the one sitting), a tactical( willie pete, concussion, nova gas, one more).
Let me pause for a second, to all my Willie Pete, or White Phosphorous users in previous online games this ain the blow them up as set anybody nearby on fire Willie pete's that you are used to. This one does a LITTLE bit of damage and obscures the view instead, of course this is supposed to be a more covert game so I guess the big explodey damage of the old willie pete was a little much. Okay back to the online discussion.
You also get an item, C4 falls in the item category(where before it would take the place of your main grenade)(camera spike and 2 more) so you roll out with 3 ways to distribute death on people besides your two main weapons. So if you've seen someone toss their one lethal and their one tactical don't get too happy they may be on their custom configuration and may have sucked you in for a trip to ride the C4 train.
You also get 3 perks now and they have broken them into separate sections So now you can not only do Scavenger and Ninja at the same time, you can add on one more bit of fun past that. Remember these are my first initial thoughts after playing for about 4 hours before I went to sleep last night, I haven't really gotten in depth yet.
Another new change to online play is "cod" points. Not only do you still gain experience and level up but now instead of having to WAIT to level up and complete challenges earn a lot of you add ons, attachments, and new equipment types each match you points instead so wait that red dot scope? Kill enough people to buy and and you can have it. By the way you can buy a flamethrower attachment right out the box now after you play a few matches in the early levels. I have bought some crap haven't really gone through and decked out my weapons like I did in MW2 yet, I have shot up to level 11 quick as hell though. You still will get in some rooms with people with lousy connections(yes the red dot kings will still exist, why don't you folks get some real broadband so we can all play evenly) but this game is a lot more frantic.
Warning to my fellow new players, Nuketown is a kill box. It doesn't matter if you like close in maps if this is your first map expect to get spawn raped(for those who don't know what spawn raping/camping is basically it's when someone is waiting in your respawn point after you die to RAPE YOU WITH BULLETS repeatedly, yeah just enjoy that) if you don't know all the doors, windows and openings(and no you don't so don't even mention your superior skill right here) somebody is either gonna team up on you or else they are going to rush you and it's going to get real ugly real quick. The online pacing was good though. They have spread out maps, they have close in maps they have medium maps as the campaign seems to jump through various points in recent(last 40 years) history some of the maps I have played are: Hanoi, Nuketown(think Indiana jones and the crystal skull, yes THAT type of NUKETOWN), Firing Range(which really is a training firing range, with moving "targets"), WMD, Jungle, and this weird kind of looks like an oil refinery place so far. lots of places to sneak around and get snuck up on.
As you level up new options are available to you(you don't get to create a custom class until you hit level 4), new ways to tweak your configuration(I believe you get 8-10 custom classes now), you get access to challenger, contracts, new ways to customize your online characters look. The contracts system is fun, bet a little bit(or a lot if you are feeling froggy) of you already earned COD bucks that during the next match or series of matches you can complete up to 3 types of contracts:number of kills over a period of time, Number of wins over a period of time(or ranking in a match, during a win over a period of time) and I forget the last one. And by period of time the counter is on the body and it says "In game life", which means actually playing missions, so if you have a long drawn out match with not a lot of kills and you took a "kill" contract expect to lose your money(or have to hustle in the next match). The harder and more detailed the contract the more money you win. So the just 20 kill contract doesn't pay as much as the 25 kills with the dragonov contract, or the 75 with the shotgun(which I'm not touching til I get the spas-12). You also have to level up to unlock certain weapons before you can buy them, but once bought got the COD dough you can trick it out.
So far I have tried 3 weapon classes SQB, Assault, and the one with the shotgun as the main weapon, oh did I forget to mention that shotguns are no longer secondary weapons, you can use shotgun as your main and have a pistol, a launcher or a "special" as your secondary weapon. The special I saw was a bowie knife and something else but you get a single canister launcher, an RPG, and a china lake as your launchers now, your basic pistols I have access to a makarov, m1911(I think) and the one you start with, it's nothing special. You can add attachments to your pistols.
They've made the AUG an assault rifle now, it's dropped in class from an LMG. Oh another nice new feature you can upload your "favorite match moments" (up to 6 of them) to the community theater, as well as clips of your favorite matches(did you go on a 6 kill or 17 kill run, cut that clip out and load it up to clips) or if you have a funny screen shot from when you got somebody hey snip that and let folks see that too. So it seems they have gone along with everyone else and included some bragging rights items into Black ops it's kind of fun, you can actually watch your whole match over again and see it from other peoples angles see how you got somebody and how they got you. I was trying to get some sleep last night so I didn't go through and super parse any of my matches yet, I'm at a .66 ratio so yes I had died lots but I'm starting to either even up or else stand kills on top of deaths in many matches now(it's been 4 hours and I haven't played every map I'm still gonna be under for a while). Oops by .66 ration I mean kill to death ratio: when you divide my kills by my deaths I have more deaths than kills, I've had a few matches where I had a bunch more kills then deaths(haven't run the table and not died yet, who doesn't die in a FPS). I've been playing team deathmatch I haven't engaged in a lot of trash talking yet because I'm still getting my feet wet, there are folks who have had this game since 12:01am Tuesday morning(NEEEEEEEEEWBS) so there will be some spankings I am going to take, but again it's only been 4 days you ain that far ahead of me yet, and it's a first person shooter point and shoot, Aim Down the Sight and it's all gravy.
Okay word of warning I know some have seen the scenes where you can sick dogs on people, well you can also shoot those dogs to keep them from killing you. So while it's not a MAIN portion of the game yes you may hear some dogs whimpering. that means somebody almost got the jaws of death and weren't having it. I just got to the level where I could switch my kill streaks(not too long ago) so while I have gotten the rc car(3 kills once you can switch) I haven't doused anybody with napalm YET, I did get a Valkyrie missile though from a care package, gotta learn how to use those better supposedly thats a remote control missile.
Aiight I called this initial thoughts so that I could get some sleep last night and then finish playing it today to get a more in depth take on it, the full review will be coming in a few days but I just wanted to talk about what I liked.
As with most war games the first mission is basically an introduction to the controls. They run you through aiming, firing, attachment usage, weapon swapping, weapon pick up/exchange, item usage, and a little bit of driving. In black ops you play a dude called macon, you were part of a 3 man team who was assigned to kill castro. After some Cuban guerillas come into the bar and start throwing their weight around you are on a mad dash out of the bar to escape for the "kill castro" mission. In all honesty killing castro was the easy part, I didn't die til we tried to escape. Word to the wise close up that light machine gun chews up and and all people in front of you, once you are fighting the long distance foes, ditch it for the AK-47 to your right. It may be on single fire but thats all you need to head shot most of Castro's special protection force.
Oh and keep your ears open for the "lets keep going cues" I took quiet a few shells in my kiester behind not listening to those. Now if this is your first call of duty game, get ready unlike Modern Warfare 2 there is no "we're gonna train you in the safety of a firing range" tutorial, it's figure out what is the same and what is different and get to it. Oh and by the way those cuban police cars do not blow up quickly when hit with a grenade from your gun, just warning you if you roll out there like your name is Leroy Brown they will bury you on the spot.
I also finished the russian labor camp mission, let me just say the russians cheat BADLY, you start out with a knife and will be able to pick up other guns along the way(and trust me you want to do so, oh and stay out of Sergie's way just trust me). You get to use quite a few interesting weapons dring the Russian labor camp mission.
Now let's be honest ain nobody that interested in teh campaign, it's a first person shooter in 2010 yes some Trophy collectors may play through the whole mission, but what you want to know about IS THE ONLINE PLAY. Man I love this game online, it took me a little bit over an hour to start getting as many kills as I had deaths in a match, but I think I mostly got it down. I am having a kvetch moment though I can't figure out YET how to place my C4, past that I have gotten a few care packages, called in a few spy planes got the ability to change my kill streak rewards and have been captain Rc car killer a few times, I mean they give you a verbal warning that it's coming but you still ain ready when it does. By the way hit R1 to get the car to explode, I damn near had 4 people but I didn't know how to make it explode yet.
Just like in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 the "base" configurations Give you access to guns you won't get til later in the game as well as some ordinance. They have also gone from 2 of everything to 3. I mean it's still a primary and a secondary weapon, they haven't given you three weapons, or let you go all I got it all like in Halo:Reach, but they have gone from 2 grenade types to 3 carry along slots, you get a Lethal(you frags, Semtex and one more that slips my mind right now I've only played it through the one sitting), a tactical( willie pete, concussion, nova gas, one more).
Let me pause for a second, to all my Willie Pete, or White Phosphorous users in previous online games this ain the blow them up as set anybody nearby on fire Willie pete's that you are used to. This one does a LITTLE bit of damage and obscures the view instead, of course this is supposed to be a more covert game so I guess the big explodey damage of the old willie pete was a little much. Okay back to the online discussion.
You also get an item, C4 falls in the item category(where before it would take the place of your main grenade)(camera spike and 2 more) so you roll out with 3 ways to distribute death on people besides your two main weapons. So if you've seen someone toss their one lethal and their one tactical don't get too happy they may be on their custom configuration and may have sucked you in for a trip to ride the C4 train.
You also get 3 perks now and they have broken them into separate sections So now you can not only do Scavenger and Ninja at the same time, you can add on one more bit of fun past that. Remember these are my first initial thoughts after playing for about 4 hours before I went to sleep last night, I haven't really gotten in depth yet.
Another new change to online play is "cod" points. Not only do you still gain experience and level up but now instead of having to WAIT to level up and complete challenges earn a lot of you add ons, attachments, and new equipment types each match you points instead so wait that red dot scope? Kill enough people to buy and and you can have it. By the way you can buy a flamethrower attachment right out the box now after you play a few matches in the early levels. I have bought some crap haven't really gone through and decked out my weapons like I did in MW2 yet, I have shot up to level 11 quick as hell though. You still will get in some rooms with people with lousy connections(yes the red dot kings will still exist, why don't you folks get some real broadband so we can all play evenly) but this game is a lot more frantic.
Warning to my fellow new players, Nuketown is a kill box. It doesn't matter if you like close in maps if this is your first map expect to get spawn raped(for those who don't know what spawn raping/camping is basically it's when someone is waiting in your respawn point after you die to RAPE YOU WITH BULLETS repeatedly, yeah just enjoy that) if you don't know all the doors, windows and openings(and no you don't so don't even mention your superior skill right here) somebody is either gonna team up on you or else they are going to rush you and it's going to get real ugly real quick. The online pacing was good though. They have spread out maps, they have close in maps they have medium maps as the campaign seems to jump through various points in recent(last 40 years) history some of the maps I have played are: Hanoi, Nuketown(think Indiana jones and the crystal skull, yes THAT type of NUKETOWN), Firing Range(which really is a training firing range, with moving "targets"), WMD, Jungle, and this weird kind of looks like an oil refinery place so far. lots of places to sneak around and get snuck up on.
As you level up new options are available to you(you don't get to create a custom class until you hit level 4), new ways to tweak your configuration(I believe you get 8-10 custom classes now), you get access to challenger, contracts, new ways to customize your online characters look. The contracts system is fun, bet a little bit(or a lot if you are feeling froggy) of you already earned COD bucks that during the next match or series of matches you can complete up to 3 types of contracts:number of kills over a period of time, Number of wins over a period of time(or ranking in a match, during a win over a period of time) and I forget the last one. And by period of time the counter is on the body and it says "In game life", which means actually playing missions, so if you have a long drawn out match with not a lot of kills and you took a "kill" contract expect to lose your money(or have to hustle in the next match). The harder and more detailed the contract the more money you win. So the just 20 kill contract doesn't pay as much as the 25 kills with the dragonov contract, or the 75 with the shotgun(which I'm not touching til I get the spas-12). You also have to level up to unlock certain weapons before you can buy them, but once bought got the COD dough you can trick it out.
So far I have tried 3 weapon classes SQB, Assault, and the one with the shotgun as the main weapon, oh did I forget to mention that shotguns are no longer secondary weapons, you can use shotgun as your main and have a pistol, a launcher or a "special" as your secondary weapon. The special I saw was a bowie knife and something else but you get a single canister launcher, an RPG, and a china lake as your launchers now, your basic pistols I have access to a makarov, m1911(I think) and the one you start with, it's nothing special. You can add attachments to your pistols.
They've made the AUG an assault rifle now, it's dropped in class from an LMG. Oh another nice new feature you can upload your "favorite match moments" (up to 6 of them) to the community theater, as well as clips of your favorite matches(did you go on a 6 kill or 17 kill run, cut that clip out and load it up to clips) or if you have a funny screen shot from when you got somebody hey snip that and let folks see that too. So it seems they have gone along with everyone else and included some bragging rights items into Black ops it's kind of fun, you can actually watch your whole match over again and see it from other peoples angles see how you got somebody and how they got you. I was trying to get some sleep last night so I didn't go through and super parse any of my matches yet, I'm at a .66 ratio so yes I had died lots but I'm starting to either even up or else stand kills on top of deaths in many matches now(it's been 4 hours and I haven't played every map I'm still gonna be under for a while). Oops by .66 ration I mean kill to death ratio: when you divide my kills by my deaths I have more deaths than kills, I've had a few matches where I had a bunch more kills then deaths(haven't run the table and not died yet, who doesn't die in a FPS). I've been playing team deathmatch I haven't engaged in a lot of trash talking yet because I'm still getting my feet wet, there are folks who have had this game since 12:01am Tuesday morning(NEEEEEEEEEWBS) so there will be some spankings I am going to take, but again it's only been 4 days you ain that far ahead of me yet, and it's a first person shooter point and shoot, Aim Down the Sight and it's all gravy.
Okay word of warning I know some have seen the scenes where you can sick dogs on people, well you can also shoot those dogs to keep them from killing you. So while it's not a MAIN portion of the game yes you may hear some dogs whimpering. that means somebody almost got the jaws of death and weren't having it. I just got to the level where I could switch my kill streaks(not too long ago) so while I have gotten the rc car(3 kills once you can switch) I haven't doused anybody with napalm YET, I did get a Valkyrie missile though from a care package, gotta learn how to use those better supposedly thats a remote control missile.
Aiight I called this initial thoughts so that I could get some sleep last night and then finish playing it today to get a more in depth take on it, the full review will be coming in a few days but I just wanted to talk about what I liked.
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