The King of Shooters, The King of Games

The king of shooters sits in his throne holding his cup of libation in one hand and his Famas Assault Rifle in the other as laughs at all his challengers below. Treyarch has good reason to sit on top of their high horses right now. One big reason is that Call of Duty: Black Ops sits on top as the game of games. It beat out not only other shooters but all other games as well.

Last month was very good to Treyarch and Activision as Black Ops sold 535,000 copies for February making it the Top game in the United States. I mean everybody and their mama plays this game. I know because I've lost in too many multiplayer matches to count. I'm lucky if I last a good 2 minutes in a match. The people that play are good and come for blood.

From the Xbox alone, approximately 166,000 have accumulated over 2 million hours of gameplay. Averaged out that about 12.05 hours per player. Thats half a day's worth of playing the game. I'm sure most of that is spent playing in multiplayer matches. I guess the campaign is treated as a bonus. The multiplayer portion of the game is the main feature. Right now, if you check http://raptr.com/game/360/Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops, there are over 12 million accumulated hours of gameplay amongst players. That really says a lot about this game.

Not only is Black Ops the present king of shoots, it currently serves as reigning king of games beating out notable titles such as Halo Reach, Modern Warfare 2, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Bulletstorm, AC: Brotherhood, Dead Space 2, Gears of War 2, and several others according to GameSpot.com.

So, to sum it up in one word, this game is fire. I had Call of Duty: Black Ops for a short while but I didn't like it. In the end I had to take it back. I'm not knocking Black Ops, its a great game, but I'm more of a Gears of War fan myself. I'm thinking with the release of Gears of War 3 it will slowly fall from grace and Gears will serve as the new king.