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Call of Duty: Black
Ops bears the series' standard superbly, delivering an engrossing
campaign and exciting competitive multiplayer.
When a franchise consistently delivers massively popular, high-quality
games, each new entry in the series comes laden with expectation. Call
of Duty: Black Ops has some big shoes to fill, but it does so admirably.
The engrossing campaign is chock-full of exciting, varied gameplay and
drips with intrigue and intensity. The excellent multiplayer boasts some
invigorating new features, and the new combat training mode finally
gives novices a way to enjoy the competitive action without suffering
the slings and arrows of outrageously skilled veterans. Cooperative
zombie killing and video editing tools help make Black Ops the most
robustly featured game in the franchise, and though you may have
expected it to be the case, this is undoubtedly one of the best shooters
of the year.
6283792NoneNothing like a little light assassination to set the Cold War mood.
The single-player campaign is set largely during the 1960s and takes you to Cold War hot spots like Cuba, Russia, and Vietnam. You are an elite covert operative, and your globe-trotting adventures form pieces of a puzzle--a puzzle that your mysterious captors are trying to put together by interrogating you. Each excursion into the field is a memory, and these missions slowly come together to build momentum as each interrogation cutscene puts another piece of the puzzle in place. It's not a very original mechanic, but it gives a coherent context to the action, and a few strong characters and dramatic moments give the story some genuine intrigue. The blurry edges of your consciousness conceal information that must come to light, and the erratic visual effects and eerie audio echoes that accompany your interrogations sometimes bleed into your mission memories, which creates a great tone of uncertainty that plays out in surprising and satisfying ways.
Your interrogation-fueled flashbacks are not beholden to the linear flow of time, allowing your missions cover a wide variety of geography and gameplay. A dramatic breakout from a brutal Soviet prison is one early highlight, and later missions feature frontline conflicts, urban firefights, and mountainous incursions. The environments are richly detailed, and though the campaign is not without a few technical hiccups (like occasionally problematic checkpoint markers and the odd teleporting ally), these moments aren't likely to hinder your enjoyment. In addition to the on-foot action, you use a number of vehicles to achieve your objectives. Some put you in the gunner's seat while others put you behind the wheel, and though the vehicle handling is unremarkable, the thrill of blowing stuff up and speeding through hostile terrain is undeniable. The core running-and-gunning mechanics remain as exciting as ever, and the gameplay variety throughout the campaign keeps the action moving at a great clip.
You're gonna need a bigger knife.
Though the campaign is a rip-roaring good time, it clocks in at a mere
six hours long. The mode that will likely keep you coming back to Black
Ops for months to come is, unsurprisingly, the competitive multiplayer.
At its core, this is the familiar top-notch Call of Duty action that
players have been enjoying for years. You earn experience for doing well
in battle, and as you level up, you gain access to new and powerful
ways to customize your loadouts. New weapons and maps freshen things up,
and one of the new killstreak rewards--an explosive-laden
remote-control car--is a delightfully deadly device that embodies the
frantic, slightly goofy side of virtual online combat. The key new
element, however, is currency. In addition to earning experience for
your battlefield performance, you earn Call of Duty points, which you
can then spend in a variety of ways. Most perks, weapon attachments,
killstreaks, and equipment items are available early on, providing you
shell out the points to equip them. Guns are still unlocked as you level
up, but again, you have to pony up the points to put one in your
loadout. Customization options like face paint, player card backgrounds,
and the new create-your-own-icon tool are all accessed by spending
points. Having to pay your way gives you more loadout options at lower
required levels than in previous Call of Duty games, and the fact that
points are so crucial to improving your arsenal makes them as just as
sublimely satisfying to earn as experience points. (Source )
6283792NoneNothing like a little light assassination to set the Cold War mood.
The single-player campaign is set largely during the 1960s and takes you to Cold War hot spots like Cuba, Russia, and Vietnam. You are an elite covert operative, and your globe-trotting adventures form pieces of a puzzle--a puzzle that your mysterious captors are trying to put together by interrogating you. Each excursion into the field is a memory, and these missions slowly come together to build momentum as each interrogation cutscene puts another piece of the puzzle in place. It's not a very original mechanic, but it gives a coherent context to the action, and a few strong characters and dramatic moments give the story some genuine intrigue. The blurry edges of your consciousness conceal information that must come to light, and the erratic visual effects and eerie audio echoes that accompany your interrogations sometimes bleed into your mission memories, which creates a great tone of uncertainty that plays out in surprising and satisfying ways.
Your interrogation-fueled flashbacks are not beholden to the linear flow of time, allowing your missions cover a wide variety of geography and gameplay. A dramatic breakout from a brutal Soviet prison is one early highlight, and later missions feature frontline conflicts, urban firefights, and mountainous incursions. The environments are richly detailed, and though the campaign is not without a few technical hiccups (like occasionally problematic checkpoint markers and the odd teleporting ally), these moments aren't likely to hinder your enjoyment. In addition to the on-foot action, you use a number of vehicles to achieve your objectives. Some put you in the gunner's seat while others put you behind the wheel, and though the vehicle handling is unremarkable, the thrill of blowing stuff up and speeding through hostile terrain is undeniable. The core running-and-gunning mechanics remain as exciting as ever, and the gameplay variety throughout the campaign keeps the action moving at a great clip.
You're gonna need a bigger knife.
- Reviewed by. Chris Watters
- Originally published on GameSpot
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