ArmA II beats COD MW2 for best FPS of 2009

[walker 0]

Hi all

ArmA II beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in the best FPS catagory 2009; ArmA still only came second to Killing Floor. When you consider that ArmA II is a military simulator and not realy made to be an FPS, the fact is beating dedicated FPS games like COD as well as all the other dedicated FPS games is pretty damn good.

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/features/52083/Voodoo-Extreme-2009-Readers-Choice-Awards/p6/c1.

I am quite proud I pointed out earlier in this forum the ArmA was becoming more popular the COD despite its massive advertising budget.

Kind regards walker

[-RIP- Luhgnut 10]

excellent

[Binkowski 26]

woot!

[sparks50 0]

I don't want to spoil anyones fun here, but I seriously doubt that poll has any relevance to what the average gamer thinks.

Its a small poll, and thus vulnerable to groups mobilizing and thus getting a good position.

Edited January 10, 2010 by sparks50

[Zipper5 74]

It's still quite impressive. You'd think everyone would be out in force voting for MW2 given it's popularity.

[Binkowski 26]

Yeah, considering the fact that ArmA2 and this series isn't exactly "main-stream" this is quite nice to see.

(off-topic. so don't punch mehh.)

Zipper, you broke the 1,000 post mark! Wewt!

[Pulverizer 1]

Woah! Way to give it a spin, Walker ;D

Find the odd user poll statistical anomaly from some backwater nerd forum with a very narrow user base and then make a huge preposterous headlie (sic) based on that :rolleyes:

I wish you were right but the fact remains, even fucking COD1 (counting COD + UO expansion) still has more players online than Arma2, not to mention COD2 or COD4. And MW2 sold like a bazillion copies, breaking all kinds of records.

Edited January 10, 2010 by Pulverizer

[Trauma.au 10]

It's still quite impressive. You'd think everyone would be out in force voting for MW2 given it's popularity.

Well I play MW2 and enjoy it most of the time, but far far too often I am reminded of how they are rewinding the clock back 10 years with IWnet, MW2 is the end of the COD series for me, wont be buying another unless they bring dedicated servers back.

In terms of depth and game life Arma II will and always would have walked all over any COD game, especially MW2. Simple reason being Arma II is a PC game.

[sparks50 0]

It's still quite impressive. You'd think everyone would be out in force voting for MW2 given it's popularity.

MW2s popularity doesn't matter if the people who like MW2 doesn't turn up for the vote.

Perhaps the best indication of this vote being invalid is Killing floor being on the the first place. I checked Steam Stats. Killing floor were being played by 4 000 people. MW2 124 000.

Now read this front page article on the Killing floor main website:

http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/2010/01/05/we-need-your-vote/

Case closed. We also had a similar topic about the poll on this forum, urging people to vote for Arma 2.

Edited January 10, 2010 by sparks50

[Zipper5 74]

Well I play MW2 and enjoy it most of the time, but far far too often I am reminded of how they are rewinding the clock back 10 years with IWnet, MW2 is the end of the COD series for me, wont be buying another unless they bring dedicated servers back.

In terms of depth and game life Arma II will and always would have walked all over any COD game, especially MW2. Simple reason being Arma II is a PC game.

Yes, I too play MW2 quite often, and I too am starting to get annoyed at the matchmaking. It was ok to deal with when it launched, but then a patch was released that made it go through each ping between 50ms to 150ms in 10ms increments, and now it's getting ridiculously annoying to get into games. Especially when you have to wait until it gets to 150ms only to have it say "Could not connect to host" and makes you start all over again...

[CarlGustaffa 4]

As much as I like seeing MW2 being beat by Arma2, it's obviously a "fixed" poll with a lot of MW2 players not voted yet. Played through MW2 campaign, which was a great cinematic experience. But then that was it for me, with no dedicated server support and action based gameplay. Time on system, about 10 hours :p

[[aps]gnat 28]

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Australian PC User - Game Products of 2009

ArmAII - Best Tactical First-Person Shooter

If you like first-person shooters of a more realistic bent, then ArmAII is one you should play. This squad based FPS rewards patience and planning as much as shooting skills.

But MW2 got "Best FPS" lol ;)

Obviously they didn't want a split decision or 1 going unmentioned, so they added a "tactical FPS" award category LOL

[Flash Thunder 10]

Modern warfare 2 is Hackers Heaven in my eyes so screw the game.

Arma 2 wins for me, most time Ive spent on one game this year thats for sure. :D

[Sniperwolf572 758]

Woah! Way to give it a spin, Walker ;D

Find the odd user poll statistical anomaly from some backwater nerd forum with a very narrow user base and then make a huge preposterous headlie (sic) based on that :rolleyes:

At least it holds more water than mainstream media headlining MW2 as the most realistic war game evaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr.

[Pulverizer 1]

At least it holds more water than mainstream media headlining MW2 as the most realistic war game evaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr.

There difference is, mainstream media is just dumb and doesn't know better. They aren't making blatant lies on purpose and extrapolating absurd bullshit from some single biased and plain corrupt user poll.

[Azamato 0]

Yes well Killing Floor is #1 so you know this is a crappy poll...

MW2 is the best FPS of 2009 for sure. ArmA 2 is the best simulator.

Quit yer bitchin and get over it! :p

[walker 0]

Hi all

Its simple really ArmA II is better than COD. The only thing COD has going for it is marketing. The reason COD players do not vote for it is the same reason DR voters do not vote for that; they think they were sold a not so good game on hype.

This poll was not vote on how many people were hyped into buying COD over ArmA it is a vote of how many people who bought the game thought it was good. On that factor ArmA II beats COD hands down.

Kind Regards walker

Edited January 10, 2010 by walker

[Emberwolf 0]

The number of votes which even occurred on that site is tiny relative to the number of people playing the mentioned games. Also, the number of games in each category is far too small and has strange/misplaced/missing entries.

Such a relatively small and little-known website is susceptible to rallies and joke voting, and that's what certainly happened.

There's nothing to be proud of. The only tangible result of that voting session was figuring out which gaming community even noticed or cared about it.

[sic-disaster 311]

I don't want to spoil anyones fun here, but I seriously doubt that poll has any relevance to what the average gamer thinks.

Its a small poll, and thus vulnerable to groups mobilizing and thus getting a good position.

Which is what happened.

Killing Floor was a mod turned retail by an indie developer called Tripwire Interactive, also known from Red Orchestra, a realism online shooter based on the Eastern Front of WW2.

Basically their entire forums mobilized to vote on KF, RO and RO2 whereever possible to get more attention for TWI :)

And they earned it imo.

[jasonnoguchi 11]

made me wanna cry... GO GO GO!!! :)

[Tankbuster 1744]

4400 votes? Hardly statistically significant is it? Another headline with nothing underneath it.

[Joseph Troska 0]

COD:MW2 and ArmA2?

Apples & Oranges.

One is a mindless first-person shoot-em-up.

The other is a first-person tactical military simulator.

The acronym "FPS" is far too broad in my opinion.

[Pulverizer 1]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer:

123,977 playing. 124,501 peak today.

Arma2:

Players Online: 1,188

And the winner is... Arma2? :rolleyes:

[froggyluv 2135]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer:

123,977 playing. 124,501 peak today.

Arma2:

Players Online: 1,188

And the winner is... Arma2? :rolleyes:

Who really cares that mindless hordes generally enjoy bubble gum. The same goes for movies and music, moar people listen to Britney Spears and watch Tranformers 2, but that doesn't make them better then an artistically crafted movie or song. I think it's great when smaller, independent artists get accolades for what they've accomplished in spite of the daily sell-out.

[BeerHunter 0]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer:

123,977 playing. 124,501 peak today.

Arma2:

Players Online: 1,188

Ah but lets not forget ArmA2 isn't as dependent on MP for it's success as the SP can be just as much , if not more , fun than MP eh?

IMO COD MW2 was a one shot deal backed by very expensive promotional campaign. Even though they "broke all records" with the release , I really wonder how much of those sales actually ended up on the bottom line for share holder dividends.

It also has nowhere to go but down now as word gets out about IWnet , violation of ISP agreements (lots don't allow hosting a server as it eats band width) etc.

ArmA2 has a bright future ahead of it with ongoing sales , free content (ala mods) and BI will make some extra $$'s with their expansion pack(s) which I'm looking forward to.

But the bottom line is you simply can't compare the two.

COD MF2 is basically a Days of Defeat clone. Can be fun if you like to do nothing more than shoot/blow up things.

ArmA2 is in a class of it's own. It has no competition. It can't be compared to anything else out there so can't compete with anything other than possibly SH4 , IL2 ,FSX and other SIMULATOR type games.

Edited January 10, 2010 by BeerHunter