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Call of Duty: Black Ops
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The seventh installment of the long-running action franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops puts players into the early era of the Cold War (including the Vietnam War) as a member of the United States black operations unit known as the SOG.
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"Black Ops takes the kitchen sink approach by throwing in a ton of modes and options, but the core action remains mostly intact."
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We live in a world...where everything you know...is right.

I had heard a lot about this one going in. Great voice acting (especially Gary Oldman and Sam Worthington), amazing graphics for its time that still hold up nicely, and a thrilling story with a great… Read more

Black Ops redifines the shooter experience

Game play: Call of Duty Black Ops really had its mindset on the right development ,the amazing action sequences in the game are a very delicate experience. You are seeing Mason’s flashback troughout h… Read more

Doesn't change much, but still very enjoyable

Pros: -Campaign is solid and varied -Good storyline -Zombie mode is fun -Wager Matches provide a fun and unique experience -Great multiplayer that is packed with features -Same great COD gameplay Cons… Read more

COD is still fun

The Call of Duty series is probably one of the biggest video game franchises on the market.The Modern Warfare spin-off series alone has sold millons but the Treyarch games don't get no praise.Well ste… Read more

My favourite CoD.

Now, while I'm a BF fanatic, I like to give credit where it's due, and in my own personal oppinion... Black Ops is the best CoD so far. When I first played it, I was thinking "I have to finish the sto… Read more

Very much the same as the other COD Games.

First off, let me start of my saying that I don't want t start any flame wars over this review, this is just my honest opinion of the game. The game feels nice, but how many shooting games can you mak… Read more

A great story with both great multiplayer and zombies mode.

The Good: Campaign has plenty of intense action - Story is quite intriguing - New theater mode allows you to save your favorite matches or moments from the multiplayer - Zombies mode is better than ev… Read more

Basically Good

While very little is "revolutionary", it does all the basics well. Single-player in engaging and fun, multiplayer is on the addicting side, and Zombies gives you a great mode for having friends over a… Read more

Black Ops plays it safe

The resounding success of Modern Warfare 2, both critically and commercially left no room for error as Treyarch unravelled Call of Duty Black Ops. It could easily represent the most ambitious entry in… Read more

Black Ops plays it safe

The resounding success of Modern Warfare 2, both critically and commercially left no room for error as Treyarch unravelled Call of Duty Black Ops. It could easily represent the most ambitious entry in… Read more

A supremely positive experience on Wii

The resounding success of Modern Warfare 2, both critically and commercially left no room for error as Treyarch unravelled Call of Duty Black Ops. It could easily represent the most ambitious entry in… Read more

Bad PC port aside, Black Ops plays it safe.

The resounding success of Modern Warfare 2, both critically and commercially left no room for error as Treyarch unravelled Call of Duty Black Ops. It could easily represent the most ambitious entry in… Read more

CoD: BO: Because the Numbers told me to.

Down through the years, there has always been that game series that seems to succeed due to its loyal fanbase. Now I admire these people, they never lose faith in what they follow. Despite shortcoming… Read more

black ops multiplayer review

This review is going to focus solely on the multiplayer of Call of Duty:Black Ops for the PS3 and is basied solely on my experiances.So what do i think of the multiplayer? well it follows the formula… Read more

I hate this game

I couldn't play through this game. It is unplayable. It is truly broken. This is your brain. This is your brain on COD Black Ops. Any questions? Read more

blops

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How does a game this epic feel so boring?

Full disclosure -- I don't play much online multiplayer, and I don't like playing FPS games with a controller, so that basically rules me out of Call of Duty's target audience. That said, I still love… Read more

Not a review... A Treatise!!!

When I was at school, I used to play rugby. I was never very good, but I was big so the collected wisdom of the school’s council of PE teachers placed me in the second row of the B-team. It was quite… Read more

poor 'conversion'

I have an XBOX360, PS3 and PC (Yes, I am rich) and bought Call of Duty Black Ops for all 3 platforms, therefore I have no bias towards any particular or given platform. Having now had ample opportunit… Read more

At its best !

5/5, Campaign is overwhelming and very exciting, although short, but most game Campaigns are short now, but i loved this one, story is very well done, great voice acting, and beautiful graphics, and f… Read more

failed game of the year

this game is as ruined as a call of duty can get. it a week of playing it ive smashed 3 controllers and almost thrown my ps3 out the window. the bs in this game reaches massive levels. i hope activisi… Read more

Great Multiplayer

From now on, Call of Duty is now a multiplayer only shooter franchise, where the single player is tacked on just for the hell of it. At least that's the way it seems with "Call of Duty: Black Ops", wh… Read more

Review-Call of Duty: Black Ops

I understand that the Call of Duty franchise wasn’t made for me. There are certainly a few first person shooters I love, but I’ve never really enjoyed a game in this series. Call of Duty 4: Modern War… Read more

Taking Out the Trash: Black Ops Edition

I'm going to rant, so here it goes: I was a fan of Call of Duty up to Modern Warfare 2... then my love for the series died. That game murdered my love for Call of Duty, it murdered it, shit on it and… Read more

Fun singleplayer, Same multiplayer

Call of Duty: Black Ops marks the third major Call of Duty that has been released by Treyarch (but technically their fifth COD game, including the abysmal Call of Duty 2: Big Red One and the Wii versi… Read more

Good but boring

This game is awesome at its peek , when your playing with friends its fantastic but when playing alone its frustrating and boring . The sniping is crap, its hard to enjoy sniping as they goof'd it, it… Read more

Another solid iteration in the COD franchise.

Treyarch has been under the Call of Duty helm for only a couple of titles now but have failed to hit the mark with iterations that have come off more like stop gaps prior to Infinity Ward´s fullblown… Read more

Stale and incoherent

As a follow up to Modern Warfare 2, last year's superb entry in the Call of Duty series, Black Ops' single player experience is a significant disappointment. In its best moments, the campaign feels li… Read more

Rinse and repeat as usual, same asking price

I'm a PC player, and over Christmas i visited my relatives (as you do) and unfortunately was snowed in for a couple of days while visiting my parents and younger brother and sister, with nothing to do… Read more

Well.. it's better than WAW.

Let me start off by saying Fuck the VGA's. Fuck everything they stand for. Sgt Woods the 'best character of 2010'? The only other original character in the nominations was a Mr John Marston, who actua… Read more

Blops

To begin with, let me just say that Black Ops is in no way, shape or form, a bad game. By all means it's a great game for what it is. Okay.... now that that's over with. Black ops just doesn't grip my… Read more

Call of Duty: Black Ops Review

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the latest installment in the long-running, blockbuster series. After its long stint in World War 2 and in the modern era, developer Treyarch load up the Blackbirds and take… Read more

I should never have bought this game

I should have known from the start that buying Call of Duty: Black Ops was a mistake. I remember being all excited about World at War, then playing it and realising that whilst the story was ok, it wa… Read more

It's Not Just About the Multiplayer... Okay, Well Maybe It Is

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the seventh installment in the Call of Duty series. Set this time in the 1960’s, it shows that the only thing with more longevity than the Call of Duty franchise itself is A… Read more

JFK hires Sam Worthington to rescue America...

My advice for the day is to resist peer pressure in all forms. When your buddy Pete in school is telling you to take a puff of that cig, just say no. You already know the dark path that follows: a dar… Read more

Not many changes, but remains a stellar shooter

This decade's Call of Duty games have been intuitive, fresh and a stepping stone in the first person shooter genre. Dating back to Modern Warfare, COD has been the fan favorite and number one shooter… Read more

Treyarch surprises even me

Let's get this out of the way right off the bat. I was very skeptical about Black Ops from the time I heard the title was announced. I was very disappointed with Treyarch's other two attempts at Call… Read more

Call of Duty: Black Ops Single-Player Review

By -- Richard Jacklin After a massive surge in popularity, it was decided that the Call of Duty franchise would release new installments yearly. In order to make yearly deadlines, the series has been… Read more

The Best FPS available for the Wii

The current generation of gaming has become known for some less savory trends. Tacked on multiplayer , offensive in-game advertising , and of course, " let's make every license into a shooter " all po… Read more

It's your standard Call of Duty, but with a few twists

Say what you will about Treyarch, but after spending numerous hours with Black Ops it seems like this company is fit to be the main Call of Duty developer should Infinity Ward officially shut down for… Read more

Treyarch Delivers a fairly competent entry in the COD Franchise.

Another year, another Call of Duty. I'm starting to fear that the Call of Duty series is going to be put on the same page as Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero as games we all grow tired of. But what shocked m… Read more

Once Again, A Long Awaited Game turned to a Dissapointment

Once Again, Another Call of Duty Game, Wasn't Keen on this game at first cause I felt it wasnt gonna deliever as much tho being the same creators as world war war in which I wasnt a Huge Fan Of. After… Read more

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Black Ops is Treyarch's fourth Call of Duty game, and it seems like they've finally gotten the hang of the series. They've long been seen as a very secondary developer in comparison with Infinity Ward… Read more

Forgive your enemies, but remember their names.

Call of Duty: Blacks Ops is a high octane ride through a surpringly legthy campaign, accompanied by the always addictive multiplayer and the return of a Zombies mode. Black Ops has it all, and all of… Read more

Time is short. Think back! WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN??

I’m not in the business of reviewing multiplayer games. In fact, I’m not in the business of any sort of business. This review of Call of Duty: Black Ops will cover the single-player portion of the lat… Read more

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the sixth game in the popular Call of Duty series and it’s starting to show. While the game is still fun and occasionally thrilling it is starting to become a series of: “be… Read more

COD: Black OPS

Call of Duty as a concept is about large set piece battles and constant feeling of just being one of many soldiers out in the field, struggling to make a difference. The recent "modern" adaptations of… Read more

Treyarch's Best, Despite Numerous Flaws

With Activision screwing over Infinity Ward, it was a tough purchase for me to buy Call of Duty: Black Ops. I have nothing against Treyarch, but they have always made the inferior version of Call of D… Read more

Scripted bore.

Everything in the solo campaign is scripted. If you move up too fast, you can actually shoot enemies and they won't die because they aren't "valid" because their script hasn't started. In that same th… Read more

Nothing innovative, but still a great shooter.

Lets be fair here, the Call of Duty series is long past introductions, as practically everyone who knows about games, knows about this series. Black Ops is the next itteration in the series created by… Read more

Black Ops, SP & MP

I don't usually play multiplayer games online, and when I do it's typically short-lived, but when a mainstream franchise makes a 360 million dollar splash on the first day of sales it's hard to not ta… Read more

Black Ops or Black Oops? (Single Player Only)

Call of Duty: Black Ops is this year’s new installment in the Call of Duty franchise. Most people have heard the name Call of Duty and have made several appearances’ in main stream media; does this ga… Read more

Treayarch's Finest

Call of Duty: Black Ops What if every single story about secret happenings in the Cold War were true...and you actually did them yourself? You play Alex Mason, preternatural badass as you traipse all… Read more

The game remains the same

On the making-of documentaries for "the Lion King", one of the filmmakers remarked that they felt that the "B-team"; they're the team that's making that other Disney film they just happened to be maki… Read more

Liquid Looks At: Call of Duty Black Ops

Liquid Looks At: Call of Duty Black Ops for the PC The Numbers... Cant... Get them... out of my... HEad! (Multiplayer review at the bottom) I'll admittedly say that I am not a fan of the call of duty… Read more

A cold war and a warm gun

Black Ops starts with CIA special forces fumbling the Bay of Pigs invasion. The level isn’t fun as it is interesting. Fighting in narrow streets with scripted road blocks, following a hud marked NPC,… Read more

A classic formula, done well.

Call of Duty is becoming like a holiday. We've been getting one of these every year around the same time and it's hard to be unique when you're just filling a status-quo that consists of: campaign, mu… Read more

WATCH OUT LAG HERE WE COME

While it may be just because there are 2 million people trying to play with different pcs and connections something definitely feels wrong the amount of lag that you see is way more then expected even… Read more

Series Saved!

Multiplayer Review Black Ops delivers more variety from the casual Combat Training Mode to Zombie 1-4 player offline/online right away you will notice that clearly the controversial MW2 Modern Warfare… Read more

Ice T. Black Ops Review.

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