One of the most popular games recently released is Call of Duty: Black Ops for Xbox and PS3 gaming consoles. This game has been a big hit ever since it was out in the market on November 9, 2010. It is a first-person shooter game that was developed by Treyarch and published by Activision.
Black Ops is the seventh installment in the Call of Duty franchise but is only the third game to be developed by Treyarch. Black Ops is the first in the series on the Cold War but is the sequel to the Call of Duty: World at War game.
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It has accumulated more than Billion in sales in the first six weeks upon release. It has broken records set by its predecessor Modern Warfare by at least 2.5 million copies. Its popularity keeps on growing all over the world. In Japan, there were game releases with subtitles and dubbed versions 1 month after the game was released into the market.
Call of Duty: Black Ops enables a player to assume the role of a soldier with access to various firearms (at most 2 can be carried at anytime), use lots of explosives including grenades, and use various weapons. The game closely resembles an adrenaline-rush battlefield and employs a kill or be killed strategy. A player can even choose to kill an enemy using a knife with just one blow.
The game depicts a realistic take on how people who go into battle. Players can easily be controlled to jump, run and walk. A player's posture can also be controlled. For instance, a player can take in a standing, crouching, or prone stance. Each stance will affect the player's speed, stealth and accuracy. A player can run for a short time but will become tired.
The player's health is indicated on the screen which will turn red to show extensive damage. One of the exciting features of this game is that when a grenade is thrown, a marker that indicates the grenade's direction will appear which can help the player either flee or throw back the grenade as long as the player is within the radius of the grenade's blast. Aside from guns and explosives, other weapons that can be used in the game are ballistic knives, crossbows with explosive ammunition and bolts, and Dragon's Breath rounds.
A player can assume the role of various in-game characters in the course of the single-player campaign with lots of perspective changing all throughout the game. The characters that can be played belong to the Special Forces group who are conducting black operations inside enemy territory.
Call of Duty: Black Ops features plenty of scripted cinematic moments including a bullet time effect in the "Victor Charlie" stage which is activated when the player shoots toward the very last member of a Viet Cong squadron.
One of the best features in Black Ops is that it can be used to play multiplayer online matches with other people from around the world. Players are divided into two teams that have different missions. In Team Deathmatch, the objective is to have more kills than the other team while in Capture the Flag, the players need to take the other team's flag and bring it into their base. There is also the "Free For All" setting where its every man for them self, players are not divided into teams in this setting.
Black Ops already has 14 maps and additional downloadable maps. It still retains the unlockable reward system and experience points that have been with the franchise since the fourth game. It also has a "Zombie cooperation mode" which was originally included in the World at War game.