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Call of Duty: Black Ops Announced
UgLyPuNk writes "In amongst all the lawsuits and signings, Activision and Treyarch have found the time to announce the latest in one of the world's best-selling video game franchises: Call of Duty: Black Ops is due to hit shelves November 9."
The official site has a trailer, which has been dissected for details by the folks at GameTrailers.
In one of the missions, you have to dissect someone for details.
I couldn't access the site as it demanded personal information.
Direct link to the trailer on the Youtube
rather than try to emulate counterstrike/rainbow six -AGAIN-
This game will:
* have at least half of the playable characters dead by the end of the plot
* have a "shocking" sequence for that extra controversial touch
* not have any dedicated servers
* have a multiplayer section with unbearable lag and bugs exploited within the first hours after the release
* still be most successful game of the year
Am I the only one that's completely tired of these war games? I think we've shot enough nazis/russians/muslims.
Why must every great Call of Duty be followed by a relatively mediocre one?
Slow news day eh' ?
Let me go get some Astroglide before I have to deal with the DRM that will come with that game. :(
Fool me once, shame on you, you won't fool me twice.
I wonder if I get to kill terrorists instead of join them this time! ...
who am I kidding, I liked gunning down civilians.
Even if this were to be the best CoD game in the franchise, I will not give any further economic support to a corporation that so easily and freely violates the contracts they have with their employees. I also will no longer support corporations that no longer listen to customers and give them what they want in a product(MW2 was just one of the many examples). I quit purchasing EA games after Ubisoft started screwing customers with the "constant internet connection" fiasco.
This is a really sad time, as there are some good games on the horizon, but they are backed by ethically corrupt corporations.
...as an angry mob of rightwing Christian/'Think Of The Children'/Reactionary Old Priests/Shills For Any Of The Above Actually Working For A Rival Media Corporation pressure groups attacks this game for its graphic depiction of secret illegal military operations inside the sovereign territory of a fellow member of the United Nations with which the United States is not legally or officially at war with.
Nah... that's too long and complicated. They'll just say its violent and ban it in Australia.
Call of Duty/Modern Warfare is dead to me....I got screwed on MW2 and I won't do it again, and I can hold a grudge for a long time, my PS2 died shortly after launch, and guess how many Sony products I've purchased in the last 9 years? Can you say 0? That includes Sony movies, music, music players, computers, games, etc... screw em. Activision can find out the hard way too.
Too bad. I enjoyed World at War very much and was looking forward to the Korean War and/or Vietnam.
This is really pissing me off. This game launches 2 days before Remembrance Day. MW2 launched the day before. I have more than enough respect for veterans and people serving right now, that I'm not going to respect any company that employs such cheap and tasteless marketing tactics. Even if it is the best game ever - they will never see one cent from me for this game nor will I ever play it.
Should they decide to move the release date, I might consider it at some future point. I realize that it is being released Christmas so there is some logical reasoning. It would be welcome to hear from the publisher exactly why this particular date was chosen to launch the game.
I don't know about you, but I'm pre-ordering my copy of Call of Duty: Go Fuck Yourself today!
If you announce it to the world.
Or is it just going to be one of those copy and paste deals where they reuse the engine that IW coded and just reskin the game? I think the latter is more likely.
Black Ops?
What do they do? Hidden things like killing rebellious developers? You know what I'm talking about.
I can see why you would assume this is a game about covert action, but in reality, it's about combat in total darkness.
They saved a ton of time and money on the graphics.
As long as it has a Zombies mode, I'll pre-order.
Said the Anonymous Fuck to ignorant to realize everyone will see through the fact that you are Immostlyharmless posting anonymously in response.
I could say the same to you, but then we risk going into infinite recursion. :)
Agreed about CoD 4. As a Mac OS X user, I find myself playing CoD 4 quite often, to this day. Partially, that's because I own the native OS X version and there aren't a whole lot of good game options for native OS X out there. But it's ALSO largely because it's a good enough game to have that kind of "staying power". To this day, I keep finding custom servers to connect to that download all sorts of modified maps and games. Many are taken from mods done for earlier 3D shooter titles (like Unreal Tournament) -- but they're still just as fun, if not better than ever, on a more modern game title.
(Just last week, I played a "freeze tag" version of a Team Deathmatch game on a custom CoD 4 server. It was a LOT of fun, and I wasn't expecting it. When you shot an enemy, you froze them in a block of ice. Then they were only able to sit and observe the game going on around them, unless/until a team-mate was able to run up to them and hold down a button to thaw the ice (took a few seconds to fully melt the ice too - so there was a risk of getting shot while in the middle of a rescue).
With the restrictions on Internet multiplayer in the newer CoD titles, all of this is completely "out the window" and makes me uninterested in buying them -- at least at anywhere near their asking prices.
I am still waiting for my Call of Duty: Grenada.
Don't rush me, Sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
Meh. Respawn will make something superior.
Infinity Ward is the only company that's made decent COD games, COD 3 and 5 were both worthless. The contrast and playability sucked compared to COD2, COD4 and MW2.