360, PS3, PC: Call of Duty - Black Ops
 

Activision has officially pulled the tarp off the next installment in their blockbuster Call of Duty franchise, although it's still shrouded in a fair bit of mystery.

The new game is called Call of Duty: Black Ops and will take place "behind enemy lines." It's being developed by Treyarch, who created the 2008 Call of Duty hit, Call of Duty: World at War, and is due out November 9 of this year.

"We have focused our entire studio on this game, with dedicated multiplayer, single-player and co-op teams creating the most intense, gripping and riveting experience possible for our fans on all fronts,” said Mark Lamia, Studio Head for Treyarch, in a release.

While many have speculated that the next game in the series would take place in Vietnam, the game's debut trailer doesn't specifically disclose the whens and wheres. It does, however, disclose all kinds of awesome explosions:


Call of Duty Black Ops Trailer:
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Upon closer inspection, we can hazard a couple guesses. Several shots show jungle environments filled with modest huts, older vehicles, and even a rickety rope bridge, while soldiers seem to be favoring old-school gear and headbands. Vietnam -- or perhaps the broader Cold War -- doesn’t sound so far-fetched, although that creepy doctor bit sure looked modern to us. Flashbacks, maybe?

The trailer caps off a rollercoaster week for publisher Activision, which includes both a major lawsuit and a major acquisition.

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Saw the trailer for this last night. Can't really say much from that teaser. I wasn't a fan of World at War, but at least this installment is not WW2.....I just wish they would stick with modern warfare.

i think the premise of black ops is :toocool:

not too confident with a Call of Duty title not associated with Infinity Ward

the trailer is short and what a teaser not enough to know if its going to be good or not. Hopefully it'll be some what like modern warfare

I can't wait.

Yeah hopefully this game is better than World at War, I didnt like that game one bit.

But they should have stayed with Modern Warfare(infinity ward) game style.

:werd: Infinity ward has done a phenomenal job with COD MW and MW2

As long as it's not another WWII game, I'm interested.

I was reading this morning that it is cold war based.

And you'll have a chance to pilot a SR-71 blackbird :toocool:

:werd: infinity ward or bust.

But most of IW has left.......

I couldn't find a good trailer on Youtube... so you'll have to click on the link (and enter your birthday :bored: )

http://callofduty.com/blackops

Oh boy...just what I need. ANOTHER game that will totally consume me. My girlfriend will probably make me move to the upstairs bedroom/entertainment room.

That looks bad ass. The crossbow with the explosive tips :what:

Hmmm the game actually doesn't look that bad, more than likely going to pick it up. Well see.

i cant wait for this game until then ill be busy with mw2

cant wait to play this!

are you going to get the prestige edition with the spy RC car :rofl:

no, not expensive enough. i want to spend around $350 on the game. hopefully theyll have a super deluxe limited edition gold version. :wish:

wait, you gotta pay the limited bs edition just to get the rc car? you can't "earn it"?

The prestige edition comes with an actual RC car with built in camera and microphone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUX60iwRzWo

oh, I see.... it's an actual rc car... I thought you had to buy the limited edition for the rc car perk

I must say thou, that's actually cooler than those POS "night vision" goggles I got for MW2.

agree

was it not the real night vision? describe "POS" please.. cuz i thought it was kinda cool, but never saw one in person

I got a new gamer mag and it has a preview of BO. In multiplayer you can now engrave your clan tag into the gun.

$150 for the prestige edition

Post #24? :dunno:

^ Saw it.....just posting the price and a lil more info.

hmmmmm I see some stuff they copied from Rainbow Six

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G94SolEtpnc

Wow. I said I probably wasn't going to get this or Reach, but....

Nice to see FPS games becoming a little like RPGs. Part of why I really liked Mass Effect/2 was how you could customize all your armor, now you can do it with weapons too (probably not new in shooting games, but still). I really liked R6, but IMO it was a little too slow and campy for me. I also really liked Halo for a while but a lot of it is based on what weapons/vehicle you have. Still, they both have people who are better at teamwork than in COD. But I like fast paced CQB, stealthy/silent and indoors combat.

For some reason I never got into the Treyarch CODs.... but I like the dismemberment :D and supposedly being crouched/prone will actually affect your accuracy this time.

damn it Ken, now I wanna play R6V.... too bad I don't have the 2nd one and I sold the first one :sad:

Anybody getting this for PC? I honestly think the multiplayer is going to be a lot better than in MW2. They've taken care of some of the really gay things that IW did with multiplayer. There's not going to be stopping power or gay ass commando or OMA, I don't think cold blooded protects you from helicopters, there aren't as many killstreaks so they should be more balanced. Not to mention there will be gun game, which I LOVED playing in counterstrike, there will be dedicated servers with mod tools released some time after launch, and I'm even going to be able to make a custom penis reticle for my sights that people get to see when I kill them

lol, I still have both :shrug: (but I never touch them)


...and did I see diving? I've been asking for this for the longest time (like as in diving to avoid a grenade).

Sounded really cool up to this point, at which I :spit:

Yeah, honestly.... stopping power is silly. Outside of HC, most people use it as the perk. And commando is quite gay.

If they remove stopping power, then they need to also get rid of that lame ass pain killer death streak (aka Juggernaut). Its very frustrating to be one kill away from a kill streak reward, only to have some guy with pain killer who just won't die. Then of course while you are trying to kill him, someone spawns right behind and knifes you.

Don't even get me started with Commando, that is one of the main reasons I quit playing MW2 (other than one or two matches every week or so). Most people I play with use Commando Pro and Lightweight, which somehow makes them impervious to bullets. I can be pumping bullet after bullet in some guy, yet he somehow teleports through the bullets and knifes me. It looks even more stupid when you see it happen to someone else. One guy is shooting the enemy then all of a sudden the enemy slides 6 feet across the floor and kills the guy anyway. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!

I used to play this MW2 all the time, and managed a 1.63 K/D on my main profile and a 2.40 on my other, but there is just too much frustration in this game with these gay ass perks in addition to being spawned right into airstrikes, bullets curving around corners and on top of this enemies spawn right behind me meaning there isn't a damn thing I can do.

I didn't even get the 2nd map pack because 1.) $15 is ridiculous, 2.) It will just suck me back in to a very frustrating game as the first map pack did.

I'm on the fence about Black Ops because of MW2's issues, the previews seem good, but I'm not getting it until I know for sure the issues with MW2 are not there. Hopefully Treyarch does a better job than IW in both Single player and multiplayer.

Yeah, I really regret buying the 2nd map pack. I said I wouldn't buy the 1st one, said I wouldn't buy the 2nd one, and I went on a playing binge right after I bought each one, then I stopped playing, period. I think Treyarch is under the same company (?) but I hope not.... don't wanna pay $15 for a few maps twice again. If they add maps, they should at least add new content. Would be a bigger draw, and be more worth it.

yea.. i really enjoyed online co-op