Call of Duty: Declassified for the Vita is horrible

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It’s depressing to think that just a few short months ago, we thought that the 2012 holiday season was going to be a great time to own a Vita. There were big-name games coming out, attached to huge franchises. A portable Assassin’s Creed game? YES! A Call of Duty title exclusive to Sony’s handheld? That’s going to drive massive amounts of sales. Sony even announced a bundle that packed Black Ops: Declassified in with new Vita systems. That will get people excited about the hardware again, right?

The Vita isn’t just struggling in the market, it’s drowning. Sony has had to decrease expectations for portable hardware sales multiple times, and sales are lower than they were this time last year, before the Vita was even released. In other words, Sony has released new hardware, but sales of the Vita combined with sales of the PSP can’t match the performance of just the PSP last year. That’s not a dip, that’s a death spiral.

The result was a mess. The single-player portion of Declassified can be finished in around an hour. The multiplayer is weak. It barely works. There was a large patch since launch that kind of fixed some of the problems. It would have been disappointing for a $5 mobile game. As a $50 release it’s borderline criminal.

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified is appalling. In dramatic fashion, it completely fails to live up to the high bar of quality gamers expect from the Call of Duty name,” Game Informer wrote in its review, which for a time was amusingly surrounded by ads for the Vita bundle. “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. 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.”

What should have been a glorious release for the embattled portable became yet another debacle for players hoping for a near-console quality experience from one of their favorite franchises. The game is currently sitting at a 29 on Metacritic, and lacks even a single positive review.

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I want this game to be good, but I am not even considering getting it unless they have a demo on the PSN store so I can try it out first.
 
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Precautionary note: If you guys don't bitch about how this thread won't turn out good, it'll turn out just fine. So yeah, don't start.

Yeah, Declassified looked like shit from the very moment it was announced. Word is that Activision wasn't even going to make a COD game for the Vita until Sony actually pushed for it (and apparently is funding it).

But in related news, 3DS outsells Vita 47-to-1 in Japan
 

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Please stay civil.
Warns will be given out like candy on Halloween otherwise.

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Is the game really that awful? Don't suppose anyone has had hands on time to comment on either side.
 

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Declassified > N-Space CoD

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Seriously though, I don't know what exactly people expected from a Call of Duty game on a mobile platform - of course it won't be the home console experience, I'm not sure it's even supposed to be the home console experience. I'm yet to try it out, but seeing that I'm getting a Vita this December, I will soon enough. Until then, I reserve my judgement.
 

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Well, they did CoD on the Wii pretty decently (from what I hear anyway, was basically the same game with incredibly scaled down graphics?) so one would figure a Vita version wouldn't be too terrible.
 
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I think most people tracking the news about the game knew it suck.
  • 4v4 MP game
  • Not focused on single player
  • No zombies
  • Had issues making the game
  • The developer is mediocre
  • Trailer in general
 
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Well, they did CoD on the Wii pretty decently (from what I hear anyway, was basically the same game with incredibly scaled down graphics?) so one would figure a Vita version wouldn't be too terrible.
This. They could have just ported over the Wii CoD and it still would have been better than Declassified.
 

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I still fail to see how 4 vs 4 multiplayer is a bad thing on a mobile platform on which you usually don't have a lot of time for a long match anyways, especially if the maps were specifically designed size-wise to accomodate that amount of player - but hey! That's just me.
 

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Well, they did CoD on the Wii pretty decently (from what I hear anyway, was basically the same game with incredibly scaled down graphics?) so one would figure a Vita version wouldn't be too terrible.
Yeah but the company that made this game is just terrible, anything could have been better than this though.
 

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Taking a console/pc game, and getting nStigate to develop it is just terrible. My proof; everything they have done.
Your original comment was dumb so I fixed it for you.

In the right hands this could have been good, however obviously Activision didn't see that getting a good company and spending money on a Vita only game was good business sense regardless of funding from Sony. Just because something is on a handheld doesn't mean it'll be terrible.
 

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Your original comment was dumb so I fixed it for you.

In the right hands this could have been good, however obviously Activision didn't see that getting a good company and spending money on a Vita only game was good business sense regardless of funding from Sony. Just because something is on a handheld doesn't mean it'll be terrible.

You show me a good shooter on a handheld officially ported from a console or PC, on the DS/3DS/PSP/Vita and I will agree with you.

On paper a console game on a handheld system is wonderful, but if it is executed poorly. Which it has been for a while. It will end up like this, and a lot of other failed games.
 

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I heard that it was strongly rumored that the studio that worked on this was heavily rushed, something like around a month or two of work before everything had to be finalized. Not sure if that's true but, judging by the negative reviews across the board, it doesn't seem that far off.
 

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You show me a good shooter on a handheld officially ported from a console or PC, on the DS/3DS/PSP/Vita and I will agree with you.
You didn't say ported originally and I had no reason to why you meant that what with this thread being about a game specifically built for the Vita and not a port.

Just of the top of my head examples of good 3D shooters that have worked well:
DS: Dementium 1 & 2, Metroid Prime:Hunters (if it didn't have Metroid in the title then this would be more liked), Brothers In Arms, some would say the CoD games were good but to me they were competent at best and awful at worse but again with effort these could have been better.
PSP: Medal of Honor: Heroes 1&2, SOCOM, Chili Con Carnage, Resistance: Retribution, some say CoD: Roads to Victory but I never took a linking to it. There's a number of PSP titles actually that were ported from PS2 but I forget the names...also many PSX titles could probably count.

Of course this is down to personal taste some may not be great but you didn't say great just good and these games did well considering the limitations. My point being that the Vita could easily do console quality shooters if a developer had a chance. Your comment "Taking a console/pc game, and putting it on any handheld is just terrible" to me states that in your eyes, that no handheld is capable of a good FPS game port or otherwise.
 
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I agree with you on SOCOM, so you've proven me wrong. In my edit you'll see my true take on it. I suppose I was incorrect in terms of insinuating that this game is a port. I suppose I really meant the Call of Duty franchise in whole is so far, only good on consoles/PC. Port is the wrong word. With the gameplay style, and overall feel of a CoD game really doesn't feel like it'd work with a handheld no matter who is developing it. If there's ever a good CoD game on a handheld, my opinion will change. However for now, that's my view.

Edit: I was a little presumptuous in bringing in all shooters, and I apologize for that.
 

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Taking a console/pc game, and putting it on any handheld is just terrible. My proof; Call of Duty games on DS.

Oh no's, what about the soon to be released Wii U's game pad, that could almost be considered a handheld. Black Ops 2 better not suck nuts on that.
 

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