分类： IT职场
2014-02-18 11:28:25
When I started, the keys used to buy my character special items—ammo crates, turrets, and so on—werent even bound. My options were indicated with a four-way cross which looks like it meant for a D-pad, and when I did bind the keys, the menu called them “killstreak rewards.The aliens eat sunsets. Give us your sunsets!That doesnt damn Ghosts as an icky console port, because my experience was otherwise well-optimized for medium to high-end PCs. I ran it fine on a mid-range build, and on a silly-powerful machine (Core i7-4950X, 16GB RAM, and two GTX Titans) the campaign ran at a silky and gorgeous 100-plus frames-per-second, with water and lighting effects that made me stop to gawk a few times (when I was allowed to).
The only technical problem I encountered was sudden framerate dips in the menus, which are a just a nuisance—the same never happened to me while playing.The netcode in multiplayer is as robust as usual, but not better than previous CoD games. There were still a few times where I swear a hit registered on me before I saw my opponent character model round a corner. These details have become a part of serious CoD play—some complain, but others master the nuances to gain an advantage. Im not in either camp: Im only bothered when synchronization issues cause frustration or feel unfair, and so far theyve been too slight and sporadic to bother me.In multiplayer, you have about 30 frames in which to shoot first.What does bother me is how tired and cold Ghosts feels.
I didnt touch on the campaign story much, but its attempts to tug heart strings are cringe-ably cheesy, and the multiplayer seems bored of itself, changing systems just so theyll be different from Modern Warfare.I dont doubt that every gun, perk, and killstreak reward in Ghosts was implemented and tweaked with a fine brush, but painting in every individual eyelash of the Mona Lisa wouldnt make it a better painting. That what been happening to Modern Warfare since 2007—little bits have been scraped off and painted over again and again. With a broader brush, Activision and its studios might stop noodling around in the corners of Modern Warfare greatness and paint something actually modern.VerdictThe campaign is exciting but only passively entertaining, and the multiplayer tweaks the knobs of established Call of Duty games to little effect.
