Gamezine:
"We brought you the story of Akira, a 78-year-old Japanese gamer who was in love with first person shooters. Today we exclusively bring you an interview with Stanley Thompson, a 70-year-old British gamer with a taste for online shooters.
No he's not as old as Akira, but you could say his hobby goes that one step further. He's got a penchant for competing online in video games as recently released as Call of Duty: World at War, and he's even a prominent member of an online clan. We bring you Stanley Thompson."
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Call Of Duty is back with its yearly instalment, but is Modern Warfare 3 breaking new ground, or just a lazy cash grab? The answer may not surprise you in today's review from JDR.
perfect age for it. No worrys, just chill, relax, collect pention, play games etc
Haha great story.
This guys is f*cking rad. COD:WAW on all difficulties!? He even says "LOL". His grandson must be like "My grandad is friggin cool!"
It's obviously unusual that somebody so old is playing FPS games. and yet when we're all that age it's going to be considered very normal.
I just hope I can still see by the time I'm 70. I started staring at monitor screens at a much earlier age than Stanley :)
respect.....as wibble has stated it will probably be the norm by the time most of us get. Stanley is proof that games need not be viewed as just for the young. Gaming has come on a long way since the days of pacman and frogger and the people that play them have changed greatly too.....