Opinions on CoD: Ghosts MP

I’ve been meaning to write about this since the day after Ghosts’ launch. I haven’t been a hardcore FPS gamer for a few years now, but I’ve always bought new CoDs to enjoy some hundred hours of trading bullets on the battlefield. I wasn’t really having any expectations, but I admit I had grown used to the way Black Ops II did things - Black Ops II MP was just amazing. Let’s get into the business though.

The first thing I noticed in Ghosts was that somehow I felt more clumsy. Whether it was tied to the movement itself or the weird feeling I had with the mouse controls, I do not know. I kind of grew used to it and after a while the weird feeling of mouse acceleration was just another thing to keep in mind when spinning around. Oh, I almost forgot, for the first time you could play as a male or female, pretty neat - even if the women didn’t actually look that different from the men, they all look big in armor.

After gaining some levels and tokens to unlock new gear I noticed everything costs A LOT. Plus leveling in the regular ways is very slow in comparison to previous titles. The weekly challenges will boost your progress somewhat however. Luckily you can buy whatever you want in any order you want. This is a great feature and being able to choose more perks by sacrificing other gear is always good. My best loadout just had an assault rifle, grenade and bunch of perks.

Some of the levels were very good, such as the huge castle level, very nice. Most of the levels however rub me the wrong way. Some of them are too open and don’t offer enough variation and the others somehow make spawn deaths very frequent. The weapons are okay, and the idea of default silencers on the guns is a neat idea, but I’m really missing camos for secondary and some guns from Black Ops II. Finally… oh how I hate the killstreaks in the Infinity Wards’ versions of the games. This time the biggest annoyance is the Maniac (10 kills). It turns the player into armored and incredibly quick knife runner. Currently maniac is just way too powerful. This isn’t what broke the experience for me however. Black Ops II was just more polished all around, had better maps, tighter feel and more balanced pace to the combat.

Then again it’s just me…but my opinion is that this is the perfect time to buy Black Ops II and the season pass for it. I actually forgot to mention Ghosts’ fun horde mode with aliens, but again zombies from Black Ops II offer a more deep and varied experience. From what I’ve seen while playing Black Ops is that it’s still extremely popular online and new players are still finding their way into the game, so you won’t run out of people to play with any time soon (plus most of the hackers usually run for the newest game, since more players means more trolling or ego boosting).

I hope I will meet you on the field of battle in Black Ops II!