IGN: Where Is the Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified Review?

[JoeTheBro]

the_dengle said:

JoeTheBro said:

the_dengle said:

JoeTheBro said:

Yeah that is what I think is the problem. In the beginning Sony got the rights and was like "it's going to be amazing guys!" Then they realized it wasn't so they tried to get people to forget about it so that they could slide under the radar with an ok game. Instead reviewers kept to the idea it was going to be amazing so they scored it based off their expectations. COD Vita multiplayer is much better than anything on DS yet reviews are reflecting disappointment instead of actual game quality.

It better be, DS is an 8-year-old console.

For the sake of argument, I'll assume you meant 3DS, in which case I'd point out that I haven't heard of anyone hitting an error screen and being forced to reboot their 3DS while playing Mario Kart or Kid Icarus online. (I also assume you're talking about online multiplayer specifically, because both the 3DS and its older brother wipe the floor with whatever broken multiplayer Declassified has to offer when you bring local to the table.)

No I'm talking Vita COD vs DS COD. Please don't make this another Vita vs 3DS thread.

Ach. My mistake. I haven't even played DS COD.

I still don't think, "It's the best we've got," is a reason to take what is offered. The fact that there isn't a better COD multiplayer experience to be had on-the-go doesn't excuse Activision/Sony/Nihilistic from making a terrible game. Reviewers shouldn't give the game better scores just because it could have been worse.

And even still, I doubt the DS COD hit error screens forcing players to restart their console. Even boring gameplay is better than buggy and unplayable games on most review scales.

But that's why I am so ^#$#&# about this! I bought Resistance Burning Skies on launch day and it had all of these issues and then some. I have yet to see a reviewer that says BS has a better multiplayer and yet COD reviews are less than half as good. This game is basically just a re-skinned version of Resistance with the name COD slapped over it. That leads to the conclusion that Declassified is being reviewed so poorly because it has so much IP to live up to. However that contradicts COD PSP and DS games which were reviewed all about the same as Burning Skies. I'm not disagreeing that the game is lousy and overpriced, but can you figure out why it deserves such horrible scores compared to these similar and arguably worse games?