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It has been less than two months since the Call of Duty Black Ops map pack has come out. As you may recall the map pack that was released for PlayStation3 on Mach 1 of this year is to be followed up with a release of another map pack on May 3 this year. As you might recall from my March 17 blog about online content video game creators are always looking for new and innovative ways to keep players interested in their games.
The video below does a really nice job of explaining just what game players will get if they buy this new map pack. The highlights, for those of you that will not watch this video, are five new maps including four online multiplayer maps and one new zombie map.
Official trailer of new map pack Escalation.
Since launching last November, Black Ops has single-handedly swept the entire gaming industry, becoming the best selling game in U.S. history only four months after hitting store shelves. While gamers wait in anticipation for the next Call of Duty game, arriving this fall, Activision has announced the second DLC for Black Ops, titled Escalation.
The game that is referenced in the above quote is Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. This will be the eighth installment in the Call of Duty line. There is no official release date as of yet, but it is rumored to come out in the fall of 2011, many fans believe sometime in November. Unlike most other franchise games that release a game every two or three years Call of Duty will be releasing another game only a year after the release of Call of Duty Black Ops.
The release of this new map pack for Call of Duty Black Ops just shows how important new downloadable content is to the gaming industry. I could not find information on how many of the first map packs were sold, however I did find that more than 20 million map packs were sold, for Call of Duty Modern Warfare2, making Activision about $300 million in sales.
So you may ask, what draws players into these new maps? First off the new maps only cost players $14.99 to download. Second the new maps are more interactive and new. In the first map pack that was released for Black Ops players could use zip lines in one of the maps. In the new map pack that is coming out soon, players can open and close garage doors something that was not possible in the original version of the game.
Video of a player using the zip line mentioned above.
This is the same video as my first one but if you focus on the time between 1:35 to 1:50 you will see the usable doors I mentioned above.
I think you did a great job this semester with your blogs. It was interesting to see someone with the same topic as me take it in a different way than I did. My top five posts that I enjoyed would consist of; EA Sports vs. Former NCAA Player, Growth of Social Media=Growth of Video Games, Call of Duty Black Ops to Get Another Map Pack, PlayStation Network Down and Out!, and Next Stop 3rd Dimension! I think that you have shown great improvement in your blogs, including the fact that you have been using different forms of multimedia and more sources as well. (Make certain you go back into your title of “Call of Duty” because the word Another is spelled wrong).
ReplyDeleteGreat job this semester with the blog, it was fun and interesting to read and your posts were always relevant and had good sources and supporting material. That being said, for the final portfolio I would use your most recent 5 posts, Call of Duty Getting another Map Pack, PS network down and out, Next stop 3rd dimension, video games and down loadable and finally, and most relevant to the course, growth of social media= growth of games.
ReplyDeleteI think that almost any of your posts would work well but since you refer to information in older posts with these posts, it gives a well rounded view and scope of what you accomplished throughout the semester. You showed great progress as a blogger and the last 5 posts have all been recent news stories and great topics to blog about.