Treyarch kicks some Infinity Ward butt |
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| BY Adam Sandberg Nov. 18th, 2008 | More on: |
Infinity Ward has always been considered the maestros of the Call of Duty-series, with their latest addition CoD: Modern Warfare reaching staggering sales and to this day being strong in the multiplayer scene. Treyarch on the other hand didn’t receive any overwhelming credit their CoD2: Big Red One and CoD3. That’s why the anticipations for CoD: World at War wasn’t sky high at first. Sure, it had a flamethrower and was built on the Modern Warfare-engine, but it had gone back to World War II and the developer’s earlier achievements were still lurking in our heads.
Dear readers, we were all wrong. The gameplay videos looked great, the early reviews gave eleven thumbs up and Treyarch is even handing us zombies to set on fire. To further set things in stone, the first week’s sales showed that CoD 5 has outsold CoD 4 with a 2 to 1 ratio. The game is topping the sales charts on every platform in the UK, and Christmas is still over a month away. Activision Blizzard are bound for some serious cash flow considering they’ve also released World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.
November 18th, 2008
at 7:06 pm
well good sales aren’t everything.
The reviews are nowhere near as high as for COD4 and rightfully so
The single player really lacks the narrative and amazing set pieces of COD4
and the multiplayer is copy and paste with a different coat
It’s an average game basically.
Infinity ward are still the masters and who doubts that the next COD will outsell this one?
November 18th, 2008
at 8:46 pm
yea… the sales numbers are only that high because of the massive effect of COD4’s fan base being eager for more…
if infinity ward was to throw out a map pack for COD4 right now with like.. 5 maps… you would see a huge decimation in the numbers of people actually player WAW.
WAW is a great game.. but it definitely has some major flaws in it that i dont think an infinity ward product would contain…
i.e. horribly wonky hit detection, server and host migration issues, graphical glitches (i wonder why that door flashes brightly way over there?)… etc.
its a fun fun fun game… and who doesnt love killing zombies?
but still… i definitly think infinity ward is a much better production studio and the only reason im playing WAW is because ive done the COD4 maps to death.
and frankly… im already getting a little bored with the WAW maps…
November 18th, 2008
at 9:52 pm
fingers crossed we do actually get the new infinity ward COD next year
November 19th, 2008
at 3:09 am
I’ve only played COD: MW and that was one of the best FPS gaming experiences I’ve ever had. The “kicking butt” was mainly because of the sales figures and because WAW are doing a hell of a lot better than most of us expected a few months ago. I have difficulties believing that the actual game is better than MW, but I have to try it out first. :)
November 19th, 2008
at 11:44 am
Wasn’t it just reported that the CoD: World at War launch actually caused an surge/increase in CoD: Modern Warfare sales.
Its always daunting and not easy to follow up to a game which has already become a legend in itself (i.e CoD: Modern Warfare)
November 19th, 2008
at 12:16 pm
At least Treyarch haven’t made a crap game. And given how good COD4 was, it was a big act to follow. BUT I agree with most of the points above. I’d say most sales are down to the huge base of players from COD4 buying WaW. With the greatest respect to those who fought in the war, isn’t everyone bored of WW2 shooters now? That’s what I liked about MODERN Warfare…the modern weapons!
November 19th, 2008
at 2:57 pm
I was going to post a comment but the others have already gotten to it. Strong first week sales only mean that tons of people loved CoD4, and they’re not informed enough to know a different studio was developing WaW. The thing that would really be telling is if WaW follow’s CoD4’s sales trend, in that it actually went up after it had been out for a few months, because word of mouth for the game was so positive.
November 27th, 2008
at 5:25 pm
I bought CoD: WaW expecting a great game better than CoD 4. I WAS COMPLETELY WRONG! CoD 4 was definetly much better. There are too many things wrong with World at War and Treyarch is a terrible production studio. Infinity ward should have the rights to make every Call of Duty game. and I agree with durabo… if infinity ward came out, CoD 4 would definetly be played more than World at War. I’ve played CoD 4 maps so much and thats the only reason im still playing this crap world at war
November 27th, 2008
at 5:25 pm
if infinity ward came out with more maps****
December 19th, 2008
at 1:02 am
Wow…Never seen so many fanboys in one spot. COD 5 offered more levels perks with more prestiege. COD4 was amazing but threyarch is doubling the sales. Infact it was most IW fanboys who didn’t wanna buy the game. Infact Treyarch was able to port the engine on the Wii which is an inferior system but they did a great job and the Wii controls sure blow my 360 and PS3 out of the water. It is so much funner on the Wii despite the “slightly reduced graphics” and lack of some modes due to late release of the microphone. Give treyarch props for making a good game. And you are a jackass for sying the story isn’t good. Its unbelievable.. specially SGT REZENOV he’s wayy more attaching the COD4’s general. COD4 is a legend but COD:WAW improved upon it. And besides, COD:MW2 is coming out next year
April 10th, 2009
at 12:43 pm
I think both Infinity Ward and Treyarch make good games… but it was Infinity Ward’s CoD: Modern Warfare engine that made the CoD series what they are now, so big time credit has to go to them. However, I was hoping the next title would allow for online co-op and Treyarch did an excellent job at that and expanded on several other things too. I must admit I also was looking forward to the next Call of Duty game, after Modern Warfare came out, to be another Modern Warfare game, but I’m actually glad they went back and applied the engine to a WWII game. It gives you a different kind of war feel playing an older warfare game and the mix of being able to play either is fine with me, plus, I do get tired of playing Modern Warefare all the time, so i switch to either Halo 3 or World at War. As far as Treyarch is concerned i think they do a good job with making games and hope that Activision goes back to them for a title (based when or where ever) after Modern Warfare 2. If they rotate the makers of these games, they give themselves more time to work on their titles, perhaps feed off of each other a little, compete against each other (competition is always good) and ultimately create better FPS games, which as a end user, is all i care about. Go Infinity Ward. Go Treyarch. Go Activision.
July 7th, 2009
at 6:35 pm
I never understood what all the fuss about infinity ward was anyway, CoD2 wasnt brilliant, and MW was good, but only had the CoD tag to bring a wider fanbase, it was never really CoD. Then you get all the CoD4:MW fanboys saying how terrible Treyarch is, but IMO, the campaign for CoD3 was easily the best until then, and it was the first CoD on Xbox Live, and did so extremely well. The class based gameplay required far more strategy and tactic employment than the dumbed down perk based CoD 4, which got boring as hell after about 2 hours, not to mention all te connectivity problems. That being said i dont think there has been a bad CoD yet, I have just had more enjoyment from the Treyarch installments, and I have all the CoD’s there is!