Call of Duty Ghosts: DLC 2 - Devastation

With the impending release of the second Call of Duty: Ghosts DLC you are finally able to play maps from the first DLC in a rotation.  OH BOY!  We only had to way a month or so for this to become available.  Thanks, so much Activision!

The maps aren't bad.  They are the standard smallish CoD maps that you are used to.  Fog is an incredibly annoying "campsite" map.  There is a cave with a death fall and several building for the camping folk to hang out in.  You might get to hear some creepy Halloween music if you are lucky.  Containment is a decent map that gives you a large ditch full of excitement between two small parts of a town.  Lots of cover, but not a whole lot of areas for sniping, which keeps the games running pretty smoothly.  Bayview is a shopping center area with a cart that goes through the map.  The cart is somewhat of an annoyance, but not nearly as bad as the shops that walk in and greet you with a load DING.  Easily my least favorite of the new maps.  Ignition is pretty straight forward.  Some buildings to hide in and one well guarded camping area make it a camping paradise, but it isn't too bad.

The maps all resemble something you've played before in CoD or maybe another FPS on a smaller scale.  Nothing new or groundbreaking, but it adds a little flavor to the original maps.  The new DLC will hit the XBox first and will become available to other platforms later.  The new gun looks... interesting.  It is a hybrid weapon they are calling The Ripper.  You can switch between SMG and AR on the fly.  How useful this is remains to be seen, but it is kind of cool.  We won't be able to play any of these maps until closer to the next DLC most likely, so going over what is in store seems pointless.  The gun, however, will be available when the DLC comes out just like the Maverick was.

Call of Duty is incredibly generic, but the product is solid.  There are still some performance issues on the PC, but a lot of the problems have been addressed.  The way that they use their maps and game modes is incredibly dull, but it works.  People enjoy it and wish a solid product it is a lot easier to digest.  Their willingness to add co-op options into the games that are fun an interesting is also great.  The new Extinction story is actually really cool.  Sure, it seems like Left4Dead with aliens, but it isn't bad.

Obviously I will stick with this for a while.  I will update for the new maps... once they are available, that is.  I don't understand the rollout, but that isn't my job.  For now I'm going to attempt to kill people and at least be decent at it.  I really wish there were more active players and less cheaters, but nothing is perfect.  Since BF4 is a huge letdown, this is going to have to hold me over until another FPS comes along or the WoW expansion releases.