For fans of FPS games, 2010 was a haze of Favela, Scrapyard, Afgan, titles, call signs and countless lost hours as COD: Modern Warfare 2 consumed us all. Although not perfect, Infinity Ward did an awesome job with MW 2 and set the standard for FPS games to come. This time the task was handed back to Treyarch to keep us occupied for another year and looking at the trailers were are in for a cracker!
So what’s new in Call of Duty: Black Ops?
If you take a look at the latest multiplayer trailer, here are some of the exciting new features you can expect to see in Black Ops
Customisation:
Like in MW 2, tiles and call signs are still customisable. Also if you look carefully at the demo video’s you will notice that you can customise the appearance of the red dot sight. In the trailer the player uses a smiley face in his red dot sight.
Spying:
In Black Ops you will have use of a camera spike. This can be placed anywhere and the feed shows up on your hud display where the map normally is. The implications of this can be big. Campers will exploit this to the max of course, but it will have an obvious advantage in games such as domination and search and destroy where you can place it near the flag or bombsite.
Diving:
Player will now be able to dive to the ground to get out of harms way. How exactly it’s going to work is still uncertain. The implications are huge in the land of multiplayer. It could either ruin the experience if people can exploit the mechanic (diving under levels or into objects) or it could change the entire series for the better. It’s just up to Treyarch to solidify the mechanic so there isn’t a bug in sight.
Arrows that goes BOOM:
In Black Ops, players will now be able to use crossbows and if that’s not cool enough, they also come with exploding arrows (FMJ style weapon upgrade perhaps? ). What we are assuming is that a crossbow can be use as a silent weapon and it won’t show up on enemy radar, however when you use explosive arrows that will change, but as we said that is just a guess.
Rc Bomb Buggy anyone?
This is gonna be the coolest kill streak reward we reckon… an rc buggy that goes BOOOM!! You get it after a 3 kill streak, so be prepared to see a lot of them. We can just imagine the the mad scramble as players try to stop it before it gets to them and detonate. If you pre order the prestige edition, available now at Amazon, you also get a real RC Buggy with camera and a mic.
It’s Napalm!!!
Looking at the multiplayer trailer it appears that you will be able to call in a napalm strike. Most likely it will be another kill streak reward.
Here comes the knife!
Another new weapon will be the ballistic knife which shoots, replaceable, blades at the target. In the trailer you can see the player shoots one blade into his target and run up to anther nearby enemy and stab them with the replacement blade before inserting it into the handpiece.
Replay Editor:
The game now stores entire rounds to be used by the player. You can stay in your first-person camera angle or go into free camera mode which appears to give you the ability to freeroam. You then decide which segments are worth keeping and save it in an sequence. Different segments from various rounds can be saved in the same sequence with simple transitions between each of these segments. The whole sequence can then be saved, we presume for uploading onto the web later on or to show them of to friends.
Rocket launch:
At the start of the trailer a big rocket launches in front of the player, whether this is part of multiplayer objectives or just maps cinematic’s ( let’s call them living maps)we don’t know, we will have to wait and see…Either way it will be an exciting addition to the game.
Full multiplayer details will be revealed on September 1st and the game is due for release on November 9th 2010
With multiplayer now pretty much being a must have for any game it is good to know that the good people at Ubisoft has to decided to add a multiplayer layer to the next release of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Assassins’ Creed Brotherhood.
…And they must have done a pretty good job, because the game won the best multiplayer award at E3 this year
In multiplayer, players can help the Templars by using Abstergo to train in the art of Assassination to eliminate the Assassins once and for all. Players can choose from a wide range of unique characters, each with their own signature weapons and assassination techniques, and match their skills against other players from all over the world in different game modes.
But that’s not the only new addition to the game…
According to Stephane Assodourian, Ubisoft’s lead AI programmer, the enemies now have more aggressive AI. A new combat feature is also introduced (and was much needed in Assassin’s Creed II): throwing weapons taken from disarmed foes.
In single player mode, you can now ride your horse in city. Siege towers can be destroyed by using cannons.
Check out these videos to see more of what the game will have in store for us, come release day.
We’ve taken to our website with a sledgehammer, some paint brushes and gave it a fresh new look.
We now have a brand spankin new community section where you will find Gamer News, Featured Products, cool videos, like the latest game trailers and of course the latest from Planet Newbnutta.
We would love to hear from our fans so please comment on the stuff you find here and if you spot anything on the net that you think we should post, let us know.
And, yes, were on Facebook too, so join us there for a chat and some FB exclusive giveaways and more…
Yes that may sound serious, but the man we are refering to is actually a humble moustached plumber called Mario. Making his debut in Donkey Kong in the early eighties, Mario has gone on to set numerous records over the last 20 years.
To celebrate the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2, in May/June, here is a list of some of his achievements according to Guinness World Records, Gaming Edition
Most prolific video game character: Mario has been in 207 titles, including remakes and re-releases.
Longest-running computer game character: Mario made his debut in 1981’s Donkey Kong.
Most successful video game hero: Mario has been in about 125 games that have sold nearly 200 million copies worldwide.
Most critically acclaimed 3D platformer: Super Mario Galaxy received a 97.26% and 97% from GameRankings and Metacritic, respectively.
Best-selling video game series of all time: The Super Mario series, selling over 201 million copies. I’m assuming this includes anything with the Super Mario title on it (e.g. Super Mario Kart).
Most prolific party games series: Mario Party, with 11 entries across six formats.
Best selling non-bundled sports video game: Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, which sold 5.5 million copies worldwide in two weeks.
Best-selling gaming character cross-over: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, which sold over 7.09 million copies on the Wii and 4.22 million copies on the DS.
Best-selling racing game: Mario Kart Wii’s 15.4 million copies beat the previous record, Sony’s Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec, which sold 14.89 million copies. Mario Kart DS has sold 14.61 million copies, making it the best-selling racer on handheld.
Earliest Nintendo game to feature competitive online play: Mario Kart DS
So when you pick up Super Mario Galaxy 2 just think to yourself that you may be helping the little guy get another world record or two.
A MICROSOFT employee may have inadvertently given away the biggest secret in gaming this year.
Project Natal is Microsoft’s attempt to revolutionise motion-control in video games.
An add-on for the XBox 360, it does away with handheld controllers altogether, relying solely on body motion and gestures caught on camera to control the on-screen action.
In a slow year for game fans – at least when it comes to hardware – Natal’s release couldn’t come soon enough.
And thanks to Microsoft marketing manager Syed Bilal Tarig, it may be coming sooner than expected.
In an interview with GamerTag radio, Tariq revealed Natal would get a worldwide release in October – a full two months before the end-of-year date that Microsoft had been peddling.
“I do have great news to share with everybody that Project Natal will be launched in Saudi Arabia at the same time it will be launched in the rest of the world, that is to be sometime in October,” he said.
“Definitely it is going to be October 2010, we will have it in Saudi Arabia for sure.”
He also confirmed that it would be unveiled at the E3 games expo in June, as rumoured.
Project Natal is one of a series of updates to the console that Microsoft claims will enable it to remain relevant for gamers until at least 2015.
It first appeared in public at last year’s E3 expo, where a basic unit showed it was capable of motion-tracking up to four players at once.
1 comment - What do you think? Posted by
admin -
May 14, 2010 at 12:49 pm
A big congratulations to the guys at Rive Gaming for their performance at I39, the UK‘s largest lan event. Rive Gaming were the only e-sports outfit to have finished in the top three of both the major events, namely, Counter Strike:Source and Call of Duty 4. Not only did they get placed in the finals, but remained unbeaten throughout the group stages, proving capable of taking on anyone.
Newbnutta would like to congratulate all the players on a job well done! Rive Gaming is certainly becoming an force to be reckon with.
Coinciding with this year’s event we have released a range of Rive Gaming merchandise including t shirts, hoodies and more for all their fans. Show your support and purchase one of their exciting new products today.
NVIDIA has launched their new 3DTV Play technology that will let you hook up your PC to a 3DTV so you can play 3D games in HD on a large screen.
The NVIDIA 3DTV Play works with a HDMI 1.4 connection, and you will also have to wear a pair of 3D glasses that come with your 3DHTDV. The software will enable gamers to play up to 400 supported games.
“3DTV Play software lets you connect any compatible NVIDIA GeForce GPU-powered PC or notebook to 3D TVs for the ultimate, high-definition, big-screen, 3D entertainment experience. By leveraging the processing power of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, 3DTV Play software delivers the best the PC has to offer: play hundreds of standard PC games in stunning 3D environments .”
The games don’t need any conversion or patches and they will work right out of the box, so you could be playing World of Warcraft or Battlefield 2 in 3D.
The software will be available sometime in the spring for $39.99, but if you are already an NVIDIA 3D Vision user the software will be free.
Details about Infinity Ward’s upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 map pack, titled the Stimulus Package, have been posted on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace website. This download contains five maps in total, two of which appeared in the first Modern Warfare title.
This pack will be available to download on Xbox LIVE starting on March 30. PS3 and PC owners will have to wait a bit longer. Activision has confirmed the pack will cost 1200 Microsoft points ($14.99).
Here are the map descriptions:
Bailout – a multi-level apartment complex
Storm – an open industrial park littered with heavy machinery
Salvage – a snowy junkyard fortified by stacked debris and crushed cars
Crash – a war-torn urban environment (CoD4)
Overgrown – features a massive dry creek bed (CoD4)
Sony has officially announced its new motion controller for their PS3 gaming console and it will now be called the PlayStation Move. Sony will be selling the PlayStation Move in three seperate packages...
Infinity Ward Community Manager Robert Bowling twittered that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has hit 25 million unique players online, which he says is "dominating" Call of Duty 4's numbers.
…And they must have done a pretty good job, because the game won the best multiplayer award at E3 this year
Loading ...