Call of Duty: Black Ops Review

In recent years Call of Duty has shot to the heights of gaming, becoming the single most played game across all formats while crushing sales records in its path. It is now a behemoth of a franchise that strikes fear into other developers, and with the sales it garners annually and its legion of fanboys it’s easy to see why. But the series’ founding studio infinity Ward has been decimated over interior disputes between the company and the games’ publisher Activision over un-paid fees and bonuses, with many of  its key staff leaving over the controversy. Two of IW’s head honchos have defected to EA (Activisions biggest rivals) over the dispute and have founded a new studio under the name Respawn Entertainment. Now Treyarch, generally considered to be the ‘lesser’ studio out of the duo, handled this year’s installment, and considering they did a fairly good job with World At War, the gaming community eagerly awaited what era they were going to set the newest game in the series in.

Welcome to the (Vietnamese) Jungle!

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Into The Afghan Sun – Medal of Honor : Review

Medal Of Honor was a well established WW2 FPS Franchise spawning many games, sequels and expansion packs through pretty much every last gen console – but the franchise was quickly running out of steam so in 2007 they decided to take a creative break before coming back in 2010 with the reboot kicking the franchise into the Modern Day war,  in Afghanistan.   Now its obvious EA saw Call Of Duty’s success when it moved into the modern-day and wanted a slice of their billion dollar pie, they made no attempt in hiding this and openly expressed it as a challenger to its throne and once you play it you’ll see just how hard they’ve tried to ‘imitate’ Call of Duty.

Dusty, EA's new poster boy

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