First impressions SP

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Picked up BO last night

Xbox360

Installed straight to HD

Checked my router Ports

Xbox 360 - TCP [80] UDP [88, 3074, 22728, 33233]

Run BO got TU

Played SP on Hardened 9-10 Hours with a few breaks

The Story content and visuals are A1 and I'm amazed there still making ground with code considering out of date console hardware

Sound engineering is quality everything fits in enough said

Soundtrack ccr and the stones they shouldn't have done this

This is the reason everyone's gone nuts its corrupted peoples minds

No joking aside i think it was a good choice of rock which fits with the era and new productions that bridge the gap to the wide taste of players

Game engine Runs like a dream no animation lag that waw suffered from

Controls Now it doesn't take long to notice that treyarch have changed motion mechanics now i must admit i was getting wound up bit then i had a break sat back and had a think about the levels i just played and the style of combat i was coming up against and the weapons that are provided and it makes sense i mean it is called black ops so its about rapid controlled takeover of an area not just shooting wildly like on a battlefield and going prone in corner

This makes your playing style more clinical you wont get away with going prone and reloading when the ai are near like waw because they hunt you and kill you and even changing guns requires fairly precise timing

Weapons Gun models as you expect from a COD the stg moison and mp40 remodels are really nice the mission there in is a nice break from the close quarters battle

The IR scope is a refreshing change

There's plenty guns around i picked most things up but if you want to play it safe Ak74u extended mag and a ak74u dualmag or scope when there available

I preferred the Assault rifles and the lighter LMGs i didn't really use the CB or DB not really my thing but they worked

Snipers if your not firing from a well covered position your probably gonna die unless you no scope which works well in emergency's but ain't a tactic like waw but it wasnt useless and once in the right spot was lethal

The aiming system in waw had random direction recoil they have tweaked this to be more realistic in BO alot of people are saying hitmarkers are off but i think its to do with this and to be fair guns dont recoil in same direction when you hold them at different angles

Friendly Ai didn't get in the way much and only got me killed twice so vast Improvement there

I only had it on hardened but there was plenty of nades around but only died once from one and i wasn't having to throw them back for most of the game

Enemy Ai where fairly challenging on hardened the spetnaz hype it up with rolling around laying down shooting round corners

Of course not everything was perfect on first Impressons there's alot of ak74u around which is ok but a few less would make you have pick other weapons this gun is a shortened recalibred ak47 and acts like one

Assault Rifle with shotgun and FF you can empty the clip by the time you swap over and fire no problem for me because i dont use them anyway and its good to have weapons you mess around with

AI telling me over and over to pick up the rockets or hurry up but that can be fixed by turning the voice volume down

I will go back soon after ive played zombies and CT and play again on veteran and then recruit to pick up the Intel and have a good look around

The style of combat turns out to be refreshing and different and some parts feel closer to MP firefights than campaign shootouts the way the enemy rushes in a confined area from all directions

Sure you cant run in to corner go prone whilst reloading get back up again because you double clicked go prone again and shoot the ai that should of killed you because there right in front

Is this a bad thing

So my first impression of SP i was a little confused at first to work out what was going on but i embraced it and enjoyed it

The way the BO community feedback is at the momment feels like the end of all in one cod FPS too many people to please

I know it hasnt really taken off but DLC MP only games look likely and seperate retail Title with campaign and coop