over the past month, i've been playing through all the zombies easter eggs with my brother. and after finishing forsaken last night, i think i feel about this game the same way football enjoyers feel about madden
there is a LOT negative i can say about this game. the maps (aside from mauer) are pretty bland and uninteresting. the removal of a set group of player characters in favor of operators from the multiplayer mode takes any sense of charm out of the characters. remember when player characters would banter with each other? yea, now the only thing you'll hear is your own character saying things like "cracked your skull like a walnut" over and over. the story and voice acting and dialogue is awful, and at the end, i was glad to see that every single character in the game was in a worse place as a result of our actions
the worst thing this game does is make the easter eggs the whole point of the maps. where in previous games they were completely hidden, this whole extra game that unlocks from you doing all these weird and obscure tasks, cold war puts it front and center. in firebase z, immediately on loading up, you are given an objective marker to talk to a guy that starts it off. in all maps, you are randomly given dialogue telling you to do your easter egg tasks even if you aren't planning to do it in this session.
sure, you can play these maps on mute and ignore the story and play normally. but the intended experience is to do the easter eggs. this leaks into the map designs. these are the main point of the maps. which i think is completely backwards.
and despite all this, i had a lot of fun playing this game. i'm disappointed because i see the potential behind these games, but at the end of the day, it's still zombies. it's still sitting down for a couple of hours with my brother and shooting stuff.
i'm glad i did this. it was very nice to relive my childhood for a month. i would gladly do it again :)
there is a LOT negative i can say about this game. the maps (aside from mauer) are pretty bland and uninteresting. the removal of a set group of player characters in favor of operators from the multiplayer mode takes any sense of charm out of the characters. remember when player characters would banter with each other? yea, now the only thing you'll hear is your own character saying things like "cracked your skull like a walnut" over and over. the story and voice acting and dialogue is awful, and at the end, i was glad to see that every single character in the game was in a worse place as a result of our actions
the worst thing this game does is make the easter eggs the whole point of the maps. where in previous games they were completely hidden, this whole extra game that unlocks from you doing all these weird and obscure tasks, cold war puts it front and center. in firebase z, immediately on loading up, you are given an objective marker to talk to a guy that starts it off. in all maps, you are randomly given dialogue telling you to do your easter egg tasks even if you aren't planning to do it in this session.
sure, you can play these maps on mute and ignore the story and play normally. but the intended experience is to do the easter eggs. this leaks into the map designs. these are the main point of the maps. which i think is completely backwards.
and despite all this, i had a lot of fun playing this game. i'm disappointed because i see the potential behind these games, but at the end of the day, it's still zombies. it's still sitting down for a couple of hours with my brother and shooting stuff.
i'm glad i did this. it was very nice to relive my childhood for a month. i would gladly do it again :)