We are left without a knock on the table. Warzone had been putting honey on our lips for a long time with that nuclear bomb that would destroy the map , but he has decided to play very safe and the bittersweet aftertaste is palpable wherever you look.
The arrival of Verdansk 84 and its few novelties is not, by any means, what one would expect from a company with infinite resources and a community that, now even more so, has won heaven. Call of Duty can’t afford to lag behind and right now there are two other battle royales, Fortnite and PUBG, giving you soups with slingshots.
Call of Duty’s best nuclear explosion is 13 years old
Creating a thread that has been tripping and abandoning, the nuclear bomb reached Warzone in the simplest possible way. An event with zombies and weapons that could well be an additional mode – in fact, it already was – gave way to a cinematic in which the bomb fell on Verdansk to destroy the map completely.
Two notes, to stop and delve into the latter. In the first place, it seems to me that the franchise that occupies the top sales positions year after year -or even the first- uses a resource as outdated as casting a video to shape an action like this.
The game that changed everything for the franchise, the first Modern Warfare, prides itself on having made us experience one of the most spectacular moments in video game history.
A helicopter ride with a nuclear bomb exploding in the background that, even faked as a single player event, would have been more spectacular than what was offered in Warzone .
13 years have passed since that time and, far from getting better as it might seem logical given how the medium has progressed at a technical and narrative level, we have clearly gotten worse.
” It is that putting a nuclear explosion in a game like that is very complicated .” Look, no. And it stings because it hurts more the more true it is, but Fortnite has launched a rocket at you, has dressed the map in ice and snow, has put a giant robot to fight against a kaiju, and has set you up on a Marvel Cinematic Universe adventure . All this live and without the servers hitting the first change.
Much room for improvement
The few times Fortnite has opted for a video it has been to offer a huge map change. Not always satisfactory, eye, that not all the forest is oregano, but of course it is significant.
A strategy that, on the other hand, has also exploited PUBG with a completely different approach. There the changes may be minimal, but every so often they offer one more reason to come back in the form of new maps.
It is true that everyone can do whatever they want with their game, it would be missing more, but it is inevitable to have the feeling that the team behind each new Call of Duty wants to get involved in a project that lacks continuity, logic and ideas. clearer guidelines.
To finally unleash its full potential, Warzone needs to separate itself from what Modern Warfare, Black Ops, or whatever comes next can offer. Ok to the winks to try to boost sales when a new installment comes out, but to condition the experience to have other games to be able to complete challenges, and that each study that arrives tries to reach out to take it to its field, it seems to me a tremendous mistake.
If it gives more anger than it should – after all, the game is fabled and the fall of its servers is a good example of the attention it arouses – it is because you know that the possibilities could go much further with a little of mime. It could be a seamless game .
Warzone is a free-to-play that could wipe the competition off the map with a stroke of the pen if it were seriously proposed to do so, but it does not do so because continuing to approve by the hair by doing the right thing is already profitable. And when it is not like that, well, I have already shelved something else, which would not be the first or the last to go from heaven to hell in the arms of Activision .
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