![]() I can’t recommend Declassified to anyone casual FPS players and Call of Duty fans alike will recognize the train wreck Nihilistic Software has developed.None of these jobs are interesting. It’s also a discouraging sign for gamers like me who shelled out $250 for a Vita in the hopes of console-quality experiences on handheld. In dramatic fashion, it completely fails to live up to the high bar of quality gamers expect from the Call of Duty name. Customization isn’t the only thing that’s been whittled down, as the maps are claustrophobic and uninspired battlegrounds.Ĭall of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified is appalling. All of this is on a much smaller scale than its console brothers, however. You can create classes, customize killstreaks, unlock new weapons, and equip perks. When it does work, multiplayer features many of the series’ trademarks. Even then, I was frequently kicked out of lobbies to a background screen that I couldn’t exit out of (forcing me to restart the system). When I actually got into one, it was filled with enough glitches to make it unplayable.Īfter downloading a near 400 MB patch on the second day, I was able to connect more often. On launch day, I was rarely able to connect to a match. Many Call of Duty fans flock to multiplayer first and foremost, but Declassified’s online play is far from a saving grace for this awful title. Outside of some goofy touch controls for throwing grenades and steadying my aim while sniping, these controls would have been acceptable if the rest of the game was anywhere close to decent. Aiming and shooting may not feel as tight as the console installments, but I rarely struggled to find my target. It’s a shame, as the core mechanics tend to work more often than not. ![]() If you’re looking for a fun single-player shooter experience, you’d be hard pressed to find an experience less complete than Declassified. A time-trial mode gives you a handful of obstacle courses (which I typically beat in under a minute), and the final mode is an uninspired horde clone. All told, I beat the primary single player mode in 42 minutes. These 10 missions can be completed in about three or four minutes each. Most enemy soldiers are content to hide behind a wall and fruitlessly shoot into it until they’re killed. He continued to do this until he died in a fiery explosion. In the same mission, an enemy was shooting at a nearby car that he was using for cover. At one point, I saw a soldier throw a grenade directly at a wall, which then bounced back and killed him. Imagine the mediocre Vita title Unit 13, then subtract most of the missions, throw in some broken geometry, and make the enemy A.I. Instead of an ambitious single-player campaign, this version offers gamers 10 standalone missions with no noteworthy story outside of the inclusion of Black Ops characters Mason, Woods, and Hudson. Releasing on the same day as the solid Black Ops II, Declassified in no way resembles that game’s level of quality. If Call of Duty can’t move units for mainstream gamers, what can? Unfortunately, Declassified is an absolute mess. Vita versions of the Uncharted, Resistance, and Assassin’s Creed franchises proved to be lackluster, but Sony has one last big name to draw on in 2012. We have enjoyable titles like Tales From Space and Gravity Rush, but nothing has made the portable a must-have for mainstream audiences. Nine months after the Vita launched in North America, it still doesn’t have its killer app.
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