- TheUseless0ne
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- Elder Mythic Member
I am a penguin. Every day I boogie on down to the water, and eat fish. Once, while fishing in the deepest depths, I saw great Cthulhu... And he said to me "Shine, to thine own self be true. They can't tell you what to do once you've gone guru." Also, I should tell you, "slide".
Inventor of the Bombstache avatar!
Probably not.
The cinematics make promises the actual "campaign" can't keep. The characters are BEYOND FLAT and down-right offensive to listen to... ESPECIALLY PALMER, of whom is one of a rare breed of genuinely interesting female action characters in video games these days who isn't a Mary Sue, written to try too hard to be "one of the guys" or some other lame cliché... UNTIL SHE TALKS IN THE OPS SESSIONS and is a BLATANT attempt to interject "character" into her by making her the most annoying anti-intellectual there is.
Now, recycling maps isn't necessarily bad... But when they make such BLATANTLY LITTLE EFFORT to make each recycling of the map different from another so the encounters feel almost the same each time... it's a little off putting.
The story itself is super uninteresting. There is some crossover with a major enemy character from the post-covenant stuff in the books, and a lot of potential... which they throughly distill into "kill these guys, push button, rinse, and repeat" with Palmer herself telling you not to think about it too much at every chance she gets.
Now, combine this with the fact that it's supposed to "replace" Firefight, a gametype that existed to promote a fun SUSTAINABLE competitive camaraderie, which exists in it's weakest possible, and least repayable form due to the short duration of the missions, the less-than-stellar number of enemies, and the almost completely absent number of customization options for the gametype.
Some missions come CLOSE to stoking those old FF flames (shootout on Valhalla was super popular for reasons beyond it being set on a popular MP map.... though that did undoubtedly add to the experience.
No. SpOps is not something really worth paying for. The only thing worth PLAYING SpOps for... is the potential it presents. And it presents a LOT of potential that it VERY quickly works VERY hard to dismantle.