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How Treyarch Failed Themselves With Zoo in Escalation

The second map pack for Call Of Duty : Black Ops was announced a while ago, there were 4 multiplayer maps and also a zombie map that would be included in this map pack, however one that caught my eye and many others was the zoo map, back then, we did not know anything about it, all we knew was that it was called zoo, and there was a faint image of it on the leaked Escalation poster.

QuodEratDemonstrandm4791d ago (Edited 4791d ago )

Reason #12 for thinking I would be raising the bar for gaming journalism comes in the. Form of this question: which is abandoned? The Zoo? Or the map of the zoo? To put it another way, is it a map of an abandoned zoo? Or was that map scrapped altogether?

If it's a map of an abandoned zoo, then all you get are a bunch of rotting animal cages. If the map was scrapped, you don't even get that.

(any other studio - creativity) = Treyarch

Update: it occurs to me that Treyarch would not have mentioned the Zoo map if it was abandoned... so the highest probability is a map of an abandoned zoo. Maybe you can take POWs and lock them in the cages.

Beahmscream4791d ago (Edited 4791d ago )

Curse you Activision, that is all.
Beahm out.

xstation794791d ago (Edited 4791d ago )

Yeah darn you activision because you are a company that cares about money. There is no other company that works for money, only activision. Everyone else just works for the hell of it, because they have nothing better to do

NiKK_4194791d ago

Yes, but good companies rely on quality to get consumers to buy their product, but companies like Activision rely on a name alone, because other companies care about money, yes, but they also care about their fans

BlackTar1874791d ago

I am such a sucker for zombies maps. i wish they would release 2-3 at a time instead of this 1 at a time BS

xtremexx4791d ago

the zombie map was the reason i bought the map pack

beavis4play4791d ago

me too! can't wait to get my hands on "call of the dead". i'll probably never touch the other maps.

Rybakov4791d ago

they failed themselves by signing with activison to only make call of duty when they could have had potential and make something new and fun....but now there worthless

QuodEratDemonstrandm4791d ago

Spider-Man 2 for the ps2 was nice. Treyarch made that one. Now they're worthless. Apparently, the only Activision developer that's worth more than a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys anymore is Radical. Prototype is pretty good.

InLaLaLand4791d ago

Still people are going to buy it no matter what the price is. Youtube is going to be free advertisement for Treyarch and Activition.

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All Call of Duty Black Ops Games Ranked

The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."

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Rynxie2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Black ops 4, because it was the last cod of duty I was able to dominate with a +2 k/d ratio. Before all the freaking cheating started to happen. It was nice catching people off guard and shooting at them first and getting the kill. Unlike now, where I shoot people first, but they gun me down with less hits, less time, literally feels like they can kill me in a split second. At times, they are able to run away after me shooting them way more than necessary, yet, the second I'm spotted, I'm dead, there's no me running away to cover. They can do cartwheels, summersaults, backflips and gun you down perfectly. They can shoot you across the map with perfect accuracy. They can jump around like morons and gun you down without even having to correct their aim. They have superman split second perfect reactions. That's the best way to describe it, everything they do is spot on perfect. They can spam and spray (no praying) their gun from far away, because they have no recoil or bullet spread. It always feels like I have to aim and also correct my aim when moving around, while these pricks don't have to do the same.

And yes, I know how to play fps games. I dominated many fps games like: Resistance 1&2, kz 2&3, Socom, MAG, Crysis, Gotham City Impostors, blitz brigade etc. all with 2-4 k/d ratio. Kz2 (lag input controls) and resistance (no aim assist in resistance) being the hardest and were the games I reached either close to a 3 k/d ratio or above.

I truly got to enjoy blacks ops 4 and got my money's worth out of it. Afterwords, I would either stop playing cod games after a while, because of the cheating, or would skip buying cod games for a year or two before buying another.

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Modern Warfare 3 Ranked Play Coming During Season 1, Treyarch Handling Development

Modern Warfare 3 Ranked Play will be arriving sometime in the middle of Season 1. Treyarch is once again handling development of it.

Kaii241d ago (Edited 241d ago )

I'll bite.
I don't min/max or alter controller schemes anymore because the default options suit me fine aside from aiming sensitivity, which was freakishly low on default.
But the matchmaking system still does that dissemble-reassemble which I hate and knew that my following games after my first overall score would increase In difficulty, i.e. drop shotters (many more examples)

You've got this ranked play but you have this spm scale that throws you against the sweatwall of hell (2 good games>1 bad game)

Swiftly uninstalled and I save 110+gb

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MW3 loses a veteran Call of Duty developer of 18 years

Just 24 hours following the Modern Warfare 3 reveal, former Treyarch Studio Design Director David Vonderhaar has announced he’s stepping away from both the Call of Duty studio and Activision.

MrDead289d ago

Call of Duty development, what's that? They just make the same basic game and keep adding more and more MT's

anast289d ago

He probably should have stepped down 10 years ago.

Harkins1721288d ago

Might as well just quit your job now.

anast288d ago

I am sure you know what you are saying...I think.

Rocketisleague288d ago (Edited 288d ago )

He's a developer in one of the most successful franchises and works from Activision, do you know the benefits you get working there? Or the pay?

Half of the peasants on this site don't understand developers are humans and are working mostly for necessity like the rest of us

Stanjara289d ago

He couldn't have done another one.
Best of luck. Good decision.