ive been kicked out of MK games on 3ds plenty of times, there was one day i couldnt get on at all. It happens

@joethebro not sure what you are talking about, but those DS COD didnt get great reviews at least not the last few. there was only one COD on PSP, dont know what it scored. Viper is right in terms of hype. lets contrast this to PSP MOH games, an IP that lost a lot of luster and a game that was getting no hype at all on a system no one cared that much about, at least stateside. Got some pretty damn good reviews probably because people were expecting it to suck.

I've actually reviewed CoD: WaW on the DS. I gave it a better score than any of the critics I've seen for CoD on Vita.
In fact, WaW on DS has a Metacritic average of 75 (8.3 user review).

Is it a better game than CoD Vita? Probably not. But one had hype to be good, the other was expected to suck hard. I'm sure we can all guess which is which.

The issue here is that with the DS and 3DS the games get reviewed as handheld titles.

With the Vita they tend to review them compared to console games, not as handheld titles.

This is just like how Need For Speed on iOS got a higher score than the Vita version, yet the Vita version is easily superior and contains a ton of more content than the iOS version. The Vita version got docked points for lacking content compared to the console versions. Why was this not the case with the iOS version?

It is brought up often that one of Vita's problems is that it tries to be a console on the go. Meanwhile, if they don't make a game play like a console game it gets destroyed critically.

It's in a lose/lose situation right now. Persona 4 seems to be an exception and that is because JRPG can easily be pick up and go, especially if it gives you the ability to save at any time.

I don't deal with anything in the mobile space.   That's a whole new world of shit as far as I'm concerened.

Though I do agree with the notion that Vita gets comapred more directly with the home consoles than it should.  However, Sony is a little at fault for that as they've pushed the Vita to be a portable PS3.   When you tout it as something equivelant, don't complain when people compare them.  Sony said the Vita is home console gaming on the go, so games are going to get compared to the home console counterparts.   I personally believe it's unfair but I can where reviewers are coming from that make said comparisons.

Edge seems to like it:

http://www.edge-online.com/review/call-of-duty-black-ops-declassified-review/2/

*getting there Nikkom. In the next one I'll keep a poker face

^^ you learn fast young one..

You know what the funny part of this is... That first score.. The 4 from pocket gamer... It seems that one is the odd one giving it a higher score then the others...

If it is a bad game, then it deserves bad scores really. But don't fault people for liking them, there are people who like a variety of badly reviewed games like many kinect games, PS Move games, and also many retail games. Look at alpha protocol, dead premonition, and others. A lot of badly reviewed games have fans too, and should be of no surprise if there are people on metacritic who actually like this game.

Game Informer reviewer that was generous enough to give Burning Skies a 7/10 gave Black Ops Declassified on Vita a generous 3/10

45 minutes single player campaign + even more broken and worthless online than Burning Skies

Official Playstation Magazine score made the metacritic raise quite a bit

http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/review/call-of-duty-black-ops-declassified-ps-vita-review/2/