***COD Black OPS Spoilers Below**
Gamesradar- "One of the biggest surprises of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 reveal trailer was the appearance of Sergeant Frank Woods as an old man in the year 2025. It was a surprise because I was pretty sure I remembered him getting blown to bits at the end of the first Black Ops.
So I checked and - yeah - pretty much he gets blown to bits. Although the whole gory mess of Frank Woods getting blown to bits actually happens off-screen. Regardless, I still can't see how Woods could have possibly survived."
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Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.
@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol
Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.
If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.
Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.
Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite
I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.
Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts
I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.
Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.
We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.
I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.
I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.
The whole thing about Black Ops is pretty much woods was delusional thinking there was another when it was him the whole time. My reason for how woods survived is that, the story we play in BO1 is actually being told to us (by future Woods) rather then what really happened. He's telling us the story that was written "officially". I think in BO2 we'll end up replaying that mission to see what really happened to woods.
Or, I don't exactly remember everything but the guy who was interrogating woods was the guy who lived at the end correct? Well maybe perhaps that guy was actually Woods, and the guy you saw was really in the chair. All the electric treatment and such maybe was a way to brainwash him into thinking he was Woods.
Woods died for sure, but then Mason confused Reznov for Woods even though they both weren't there at the time. It's confusing.
Doesn't anyone want to hazard a guess about how he not only survived a grenade blast to the chops but is also still around, albeit bound to a chair, nearly ONE HUNDRED YEARS after the events of Black Ops? (1968 > 2055?)
If this is some sort of adverse effect of gunpowder then I'm going to start cooking grenades for breakfast.
Actually he was born in 1930, now do the math...
Frank Woods was the best character IMO in Black Ops... I don't care what happened off-screen in terms of him dying... I am just glad he is back... even at 95 years old... That just shows how badass the dude is even at 95... He would still probably try to get out there and kick some serious ass even in a wheelchair...