Call of Duty: Black Ops Trailer: Exciting?

 
  
The latest multiplayer trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops was released yesterday; what a bummer that trailer was. I have a lot of respect for Treyarch and think they do a hell of a job at making video games. Some gamers write them off as a weak developer since they aren’t Infinity Ward but I still believe they are a solid company that has their hands on some amazing tech and can go far with it. Clearly though, Treyarch is forced to do what will make them a lot of money and copying the EXACT thing that MW2 has done looks to be what they are doing. How long can they keep releasing the “same game” year after year and get away with it. Obviously forever since many others seem okay with doing it like sport and music titles.

The trailer has its up and down moments: “I think I’ll scope this guy out AHH MISSILE!” The two knive melee and the sorta knife projectile gun or whatever it is has been blowing up on message boards. It’s a knife with another knife and that’s something to highlight in your teaser? Treyarch is saying “*Fuck No” to single knife use; double knife is the future. Video recording is rearing its existence in Black Ops which is definitely the plus that they shouldn’t spent more time on then speeding it up at the end and forcing people to slow the video down to understand it more. Yes, they sped it up at the end “*they will have no idea what all the words say at the end and will be even MORE excited for September 1st.”

Lets break this trailer down. It opens with an idiot walking up to a camera not knowing that he is being filmed or watched. When the player sets up a camera, it pops up a video feed on your HUD (yes, something else to watch on the HUD) where you can set it up and go hide; something else to encourage even more camping. “*Heartbeat sensors got made fun of from our fanbase, so instead of being cheap and having it on your gun; you can place it up like an amateur porno and video tape the enemies.”

The next couple shots are nothing but shooting which we all know how to do and looks way too similar to MW2; even the cards that display your killstreaks are identical. You see Apollo 11 launch off as a war rages on close to then the player pulls out a crossbow HOLY SHIT 2 KNIVES AND CROSSBOWS! (head=blown.) A skewer comes out then reveals the 2 knives followed by a person diving forward which reminded me of how I used to make Link from Zelda run around; constantly tumbling because he goes slightly faster. Not sure if that will be a perk or if it will always be available to use but it looked cool. The rest of the trailer is exactly what you would expect from a COD game but ends with a teaser introducing the ability to capture sequences during the round and save them in a file share. More info will be announced on September 1st.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a hater of the series or anything. I get into the multiplayer for about a month then decide to move on because it becomes stale rather quickly. The games are solid competent shooters that can hold their own with all the others on the market. COD fans will definitely be excited for this one, it looks to just continue where MW2 left off. I myself just get bored with these games after a certain point and hardly will ever return to them. I’m not big on other shooters either; I’m a shooter fan but I don’t have a preference. It was funny to hear after the E3 trailer that many fans were saying Treyarch is trying to take Black Ops in new directions, then we get this teaser trailer which teases gameplay we’ve been playing for three years now. Who gives a shit though; you will still buy it, you will still love it, Bobby K. will still be flying his gold jet, and Activision will still remain on top being hated by all gamers that are tired of rehashed games.

*official quotes from Treyarch
 
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