FourZeroTwo, known to his mother and close friends as Infinity Ward Community Manager Robert Bowling, went off on Treyarch producer Noah Heller because, according to Bowling, Heller has mentioned Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare entirely too much in his interviews about Call of Duty: World at War.
The rage was spawned by an interview Heller did with CVG, in which he made the comment that in previous Call of Duty titles, it would take three-or-four rounds from a bolt-action rifle to take an enemy down where as in Call of Duty: World at War a shot from a bolt-action rifle is an insta-kill. That accusation spawned this emotional rebuttal from Bowling:
WTF are you talking about?! “in previous Call of Dutys blah blah blahâ€. First of all, you didn’t work on “previous Call of Dutysâ€, so don’t talk as if you’re down with how / why things were designed the way they were. Second, you’re completely fucking wrong.
Bolt Action rifles are one hit kills in every Call of Duty we (Infinity Ward) made!!
I won’t compare it to World at War’s Bolt Actions, I can’t speak to that because I don’t work there. Just like you don’t work here, so please stop talking about our games.
A rule of thumb I like to use is…. when promoting your game. Promote YOUR game. Don’t compare it to another game, or reference what OTHER games did in the past, pitch YOUR game. I mean, you have lots of cool things you could talk about… like Nazi Zombies….
Bowling fails to remember that while Infinity Ward may have given birth to the Call of Duty franchise, they neither own it or have done every entry in it — one recalls Call of Duty 3 being done by Treyarch, and Call of Duty: Finest Hour being developed by Spark Unlimited.
I’m not about to drag our humble website into the middle of this giant shitfest, but this doesn’t smell particularly good. And I like FourZeroTwo. But this just screams of pettiness.
Then again, maybe this is just sour grapes because PSW said Treyarch’s World at War was better than Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare. In fact, the words used were “That’s right, Treyarch has toppled Infinity Ward”, I believe.
*Note: Props to OXM for getting Bowling’s name wrong. Repeatedly. By calling him “Bowning”, “Dowling” “Downling”. Really, good job.
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FourZeroTwo is the man and only speaks truths. Good for him for defending CoD4. Now he just needs to get new maps and playlists up.
Having just purchased World At War, and also having owned most of the Call of Duty titles, I must say that while the graphics are nice, the new game just doesn’t live up to the hype.
Neither does a review saying Treyarch toppled anyone. All games have bugs when they first come out, but I must say, that World At War perhaps has more bugs than any other I’ve played in recent years. It won’t even load onto many XP users’ computers. When installed on my Vista machine, I had to go into the game’s directory, and copy and paste the icons onto the desktop. It never asked if I wanted the option to have them anywhere, let alone not on the desktop, just a default setting for Vista. I’m not the only one with that issue, either. Server’s crash after a few maps, and yes, I rent and run one. Not my first COD-series server, either.
I’ll be sticking with COD4 until IW releases COD6, at least IW gets it when it comes to what PC-gamers want. Treyarch surely doesn’t.
spend $50.00 on cod5 and 3 maps crash my computer because i use
a 9500gt nvidia card!
asylum,dome and outskirts cant be played because the idiots that work
for treyarch cant use the same shading method for all the maps.
but more importantly cant support 9 series cards.
glad i went from cod2 to 4 bypassing treyarchs other disaster cod3.
i wont be buying any of his crap again…cod should be left to real
programmers (infinity ward).
treyarch can work on projects with microsoft helping create other messes like windows live..he and his team would be good at it.
Cod Waw topples Cod4 lol. The guys dreaming Cod Waw is buggy as hell. Yay for disappearing profiles on Waw. Besides that Cod Waw is a good game bout an 7 out of 10. Cod4 would be a 10 out of 10 imao. Id say on the server i play on we lost at most 20% of regular players to Cod Waw. Alot like me bought Waw but just found Cod4 so much better both single and online multiplayer. About Roberts comments well i totally agree and alot of gamers would. The fact is Cod waw hardcore was way to soft at 1st and u didnt get 1 shot kills with bolt actions. Cod4 bolt actions center mass are a 1 shot kill without stopping power in hard core. So who knows what this other wally is talking about. Anyway its never easy being 2nd best and im sure the Treyarch lads know all about that. Infinity Ward is the sh*t when it comes to Cod.
God bless people still expressing the CoD4 love.
This game doesnt even work, I bought it for a friend who plays COD modern warfare, Fallout3, GTA but for some reason this game doesnt work on his perfectly capable PC. This is bull S#***, Treyarch should be ashamed of themselves, They were riding on infinity wards cape feathers and still f***** up majorly. They used the COD4 engine why the hell did they screw with crap that makes it crash on over 50% of PC gamers rigs. Vista owners have to go through crap just to get it to work. Some XP users, including my friend, are SOL. what a waste of hours tiring attempting to fix their F*** up not to mention the wasted 50 bucks given so a d*** head can brag about how awesome their game is. This f***** s*** is nothing more then a scam, they couldve at least fixed their Bull S*** game with a patch instead of wasting everyones time bragging on themselves