User blog comment:Bovell/Opinion: We don't want Black Ops 2/@comment-60.52.21.47-20120221100457/@comment-68.34.254.162-20120225023437

Treyarch doesn't suck, it's just not as good as Infinity Ward. The Concussion Grenade first appeared in COD4, also the only thing that WAW added new was multiple primary grenades. Seriously, that's it. Now I will tell you why BO was worse than (not a terrible game, just not as good) the IW games.

First of all, most of the weapons were too balanced. I can barely tell the difference between most of the SMGs and the assault rifles. Then you have the few guns like the Famas, Galil, AUG, and AK-74u that are too good and everyone uses because the other guns aren't formidable. Also, all of the LMGs besides the M60 are terrible, and only have a 30 round clip. What kind of BS is that? It has the amount of rounds of an assaut rifle so it is useless for suppressing fire and worse accuracy, plus it slows you down. Then there are the shotguns which are terrible except for the Spas-12 and even that is only decent. So there you go; Shotguns and LMGs are useless so everyone uses the overpowered weapons. Let's move on to secondary weapons. Pistols are underpowered and are useless. Even the Python isn't very good because it's orignal reload is one at a time, so you need to use up an attachment for a faster reload. The Special weapons are not serious weapons, just for fun. Which leaves us with launcers. Nobody wants to be a noob, so that makes the RPG and China Lake out. Everybody desides to use the Strela because it takes Killstreaks out better than the Law. So, now your killstreaks die almost immediately after you call it in because everyone is running around with a launcher. Also, the Killstreaks don't stack, so when you do finally get one it just gets shot down. Also, the Chopper Gunner is way overpowered, being only a 9 and it causes you to move slowly when you are shot by it, making it inescapable. Perk time! Nearly everybody used Ghost or Blast Shield, and I didn't mind Blast Shield so much, just that I can never see people with my Spy Plane. There was no Stopping Power to balance out Ghost, so it became pretty overused. Everybody used Sleight of Hand in the Second Tier because the only other useful one was Warlord. And then the Third Tier is almost completely obsolete, so everybody has Second Chance. The map design in BO wasn't that great, personally. They just didn't flow very well. Especially Hanoi and Crisis. They did add fun little things like the rocket launching in Launch, which was great, but map design is a top priority. The map pack maps were better though. And Array was good. Now I'll move onto equipment. Originally I was excited by equipment being a seperate thing from your grenades, like it was in COD4, but it was unbalanced. Now you have people with two C4, and grenades, and if they have Warlord Pro, they have two grenades, three concussion, and on top of that two C4, with maybe an RPG and a grenade launcher on their primary.

Well, that's my rant. BO was a great game and good fun, but overall I didn't like the expierence as much as MW2 or MW3.