Call of Duty: Elite

Do we really need another social network? Activision thinks he's safe and to the point of having a whole development team, the Beachhead Studios, specifically to create one and keep it operating. Certainly not a traditional social network, of course, but for the millions of passionate players of multiplayer mode of Call of Duty.

Exactly, we speak of millions. At least 20 million each week playing CoD online and it looks amazing, seven million begin playing every day. We are at the levels of Farmville! You talked about a great cos market that at one point tried to Activision would get trying to pay a monthly subscription to anyone who wanted to participate. Until this time was not successful and in a recent press conference, the publisher has reiterated its intention to maintain free multiplayer experience In Call of Duty announced, Elite and here that they began to talk about social networks.

CoD Elite was created to organize fun pi players and, if possible, increase it. Offers the possibility of storing all statistics in a single profile, which also is evolver, based on new games that Activision will issue. A part of the contents of elite sar type Premium, and you can assume that require a registration, but the vast majority of service should be free and accessible to all. For those who enjoy fighting online it is a very interesting perspective.

Activision's strategy develops on most levels and aims to offer Elite either through the Internet or through mobile App to the world and the same CoD games. The service, in any case, you can alter depending on the type of platform that hosts by varying the type of content. The App for the iPhone, for example, include with every chance of friends lists, comments, and guides to the program, while the PC version should be the most complete of the lot. At launch, the service supporter Modern Warfare 3 and already mentioned Black Ops, whose contents are exactly those shown during the presentation to the press.

On PC, Elite looks clearly influenced by Steam. Once connected, you are to observe a black background with different content divided into four tabs on the side of the screen: Career, Connect, Compete and Improve.

The Career of course the most rich, since it offers a feature called Elite Summary which introduces a box in the style of status with Twitter feed for updates. Here you can find information about friends, on the players and especially the Player Card. This seems to be the heart of Elite and in essence the card that summarizes all the information on the career of the player.

What was shown on Black Ops contained overall statistics to provide specific information on recent games, favorite classes, the best results and even a space for the screenshots! Anytime you can compare these figures with those of friends and adversaries at an unexpected level of depth.

If you expect the percentage of WINS, the experience points earned and the percentage of hits, most amazing face to maps that include information about where we were and who we were shooting in the last ten games. You can even examine these data in the form of a graph! Imagine the account of a shooting at a tidy Excel sheet!