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2010 video game

2010 video game

Call of Duty: Black Ops is a 2010 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published🌧️ by Activision. It was released worldwide in November 2010 for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360, with🌧️ a separate version for Nintendo DS developed by n-Space. Aspyr later ported the game to OS X in September 2012.🌧️ It is the seventh title in the Call of Duty series and the sequel to Call of Duty: World at🌧️ War.

Set in the 1960s during the Cold War, the game's single-player campaign follows CIA operative Alex Mason as he attempts🌧️ to recall specific memories in order to locate a numbers station set to instruct Soviet sleeper agents to deploy chemical🌧️ weapons across the United States. Locations featured in the game include Cuba, the Soviet Union, the United States, South Vietnam,🌧️ China, Canada, and Laos. The multiplayer component of Black Ops features multiple objective-based game modes that are playable on 14🌧️ different maps included with the game. Improvements to loadout options and killstreak rewards are made. A form of virtual currency,🌧️ COD Points, allows players to purchase weapons and customization options for their in-game character, as well as attachments and customization🌧️ options for their weapon.

Development for the game began in 2009. Whereas Treyarch worked on both World at War and the🌧️ tie-in video game for the James Bond film Quantum of Solace simultaneously, they focused specifically on Black Ops during this🌧️ development cycle. Different teams within Treyarch focused on a certain game mode. Black Ops runs an enhanced version of the🌧️ IW 3.0 engine used in World at War. The improvements made allowed for bigger campaign levels to be made as🌧️ well as enhanced lighting. Music was composed by Sean Murray, with licensed music by the Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival,🌧️ and Eminem appearing in the game. Avenged Sevenfold also recorded an original song for the game as well. The marketing🌧️ of the game began in April 2010.

The game received generally positive reviews from critics with praise for its story, voice-acting,🌧️ darker tone and multiplayer modes, although some criticized it for its linear gameplay and technical issues. Among other awards and🌧️ nominations, Call of Duty: Black Ops was nominated Game of the Year by numerous media outlets and award shows, including🌧️ the Interactive Achievement Awards, British Academy Games Awards, and Spike Video Game Awards. Within 24 hours of going on sale,🌧️ the game had sold more than 5.6 million copies, breaking the record set by its predecessor Modern Warfare 2 by🌧️ some 2.3 million copies. The game had sold over 25 million copies worldwide, making it, at the time, the best🌧️ selling game of all time in the United States,[4][5] and it remains one of the best-selling games of all time.🌧️ A sequel, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, was released in 2012. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, set🌧️ between Black Ops and Black Ops II, was released in November 2024.[6][7]

Gameplay [ edit ]

Black Ops is a first-person shooter,🌧️ retaining the same gameplay mechanics as previous Call of Duty titles. The player assumes the role of a foot soldier🌧️ who can wield various firearms (only two of which can be carried at once), throw grenades and other explosives, and🌧️ use other equipment as weapons. A player close enough to an enemy can kill with one knife blow. A character🌧️ can take three stances: standing, crouching, or prone. Each affects the rate of movement, accuracy, and stealth. The player can🌧️ drop to the prone stance from the standing stance while running (colloquially known as "dolphin diving"), and can momentarily sprint🌧️ before stopping.

The screen glows red to indicate damage to a player's health, which regenerates over time. When the character is🌧️ within the blast radius of a live grenade, an on-screen marker indicates where it is in relation to the player,🌧️ helping the player to move away or to throw it back. Among the weapons new to the series in Black🌧️ Ops are crossbows with bolts and explosive ammunition, Dragon's Breath rounds and ballistic knives.

A screenshot of Alex Mason firing a🌧️ SPAS-12 Dragon's Breath round

The player assumes the role of various characters during the single-player campaign, changing perspectives throughout the story.🌧️ The playable characters are covert operatives conducting black operations behind enemy lines. Each mission features a series of objectives that🌧️ are displayed on the heads-up display, which marks the direction and distance towards and from such objectives as it has🌧️ been in the earlier versions. The player is accompanied by friendly troops throughout the game. Although primarily a first-person shooter,🌧️ certain levels feature sequences where the player pilots a Hind helicopter and guides friendly troops from a SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance🌧️ aircraft.[8][9][10] In addition, the campaign features several scripted cinematic moments.

Multiplayer [ edit ]

Players can customize their weaponry in the game,🌧️ as seen with this customized FAMAS.

The online multiplayer mode of Black Ops usually revolves around two teams on a specific🌧️ mission. For example, in Team Deathmatch the team with the most kills wins, while in Capture the Flag, players take🌧️ the other team's flags and return it to their base. Additionally, there is Free For All in which players are🌧️ not separated into teams. Not including Downloadable maps, there are 14 different maps.

Black Ops retains the experience points and unlockable🌧️ reward system that has been kept since Call of Duty 4. The multiplayer focuses on socialization and customization. "Create-a-Class 2.0"🌧️ allows enhanced personalization with appearance items as well as upgradable perks;[9] weapons are extensively customizable with writing, emblems, attachments, and🌧️ camouflage painting. Even reticles can be modified.

There is more than one style for an attachment, which allows for a lot🌧️ more personalized weaponry; for example, the player can choose between a red dot sight or a reflex sight, both of🌧️ which share many of the same traits, although the red dot fills up less of the screen (something desired by🌧️ many players). Character models depend on the first tier perk instead of the weapon's type. Furthermore, face paints can be🌧️ unlocked.[11] New custom killstreak rewards include explosive R/C cars, guided missiles, and controllable attack helicopters.[12]

A currency system has been implemented🌧️ allowing players to buy weapons, accessories, and clothes. Players can gamble with their "COD Points" in a free-for-all based playlist🌧️ called "Wager Match", which is composed of four game modes.[13] Time-limited objectives known as "Contracts" can be purchased to gain🌧️ more currency and experience points.[11] The progression system is not featured in the local split-screen multiplayer. In the local split-screen🌧️ play, all character customization options are already unlocked. Players can no longer define game rules such as win conditions.

Players can🌧️ play alone or with friends against AI opponents in "Combat Training" with a separate progression system.[14] Online split-screen is re-introduced🌧️ on Xbox 360 and PS3. The guest account can rank up but is reset after each sign out. Only on🌧️ Xbox 360, a second Gold Xbox Live account can be used to keep the second player's progression.[15] Aside from the🌧️ Combat Training mode, Xbox users can also have up to four players in split-screen mode play against AI opponents even🌧️ without having an Xbox Live account. This is done by configuring the Local Split Screen settings and setting the number🌧️ of enemies to a value greater than zero.[16]

For the first time in the series, clips from online gameplay can be🌧️ recorded. Some specific features that have been removed from the PC version of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 return, such🌧️ as lean,[17] mod tools, the developer console,[18] and dedicated servers.[19] Dedicated servers are exclusively provided by Game Servers.[20] Steam is🌧️ the exclusive platform for Black Ops on PC, and the game is protected by Valve Anti-Cheat.[21]

The Wii version of the🌧️ game includes in-game voice chat. This is the first Call of Duty title to include the voice chat feature for🌧️ the Wii. Nintendo and PDP have partnered to release the first headset to be used with the Wii known as🌧️ PDP's Headbanger Headset.[22]

Zombies [ edit ]

A zombie co-op mode, titled "Zombies", can be played with four players online or as🌧️ a two-player split screen co-op mode. Originally featured in World at War, it was revamped to be included in Black🌧️ Ops and future titles.[23]

In this mode, one to four players fight an unlimited number of waves of zombies, beginning with🌧️ an M1911 pistol. Players earn points for killing zombies or repairing boarded-up windows, which are used to expand areas of🌧️ the map, access stronger weapons, or upgrade existing weapons. Zombies routinely break the windows to enter and attack the players;🌧️ if a player is attacked enough times, they fall and will need to be "revived" by another player in a🌧️ certain time, or will respawn in the next round with their weapon progress reverted if they are not revived. The🌧️ game ends when all players are damaged enough to fall. The base game features three maps, "Five", "Kino Der Toten",🌧️ and the unlockable "Dead Ops Arcade".

"Kino Der Toten" takes place in an abandoned Group 935 facility located within a theater🌧️ in Berlin during 1963. The playable characters in this map return from the World at War Zombies mode: Edward Richtofen,🌧️ a mad German scientist, Takeo Masaki, an officer of the Imperial Japanese Army, Nikolai Belinski, a Red Army soldier, and🌧️ Tank Dempsey, a Marine from the United States.

"Five" takes place in The Pentagon during a chain of events that differ🌧️ from the storyline of the campaign mode. The playable characters, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, and Fidel Castro[24][25]🌧️ are interrupted from negotiations by an outbreak of zombies.

Dead Ops Arcade is an unlockable game mode that the player can🌧️ unlock by typing "DOA" within the data terminal of the main menu.[26] Once unlocked, the player is transferred to play🌧️ a retro arcade version of the main zombie's game mode. New elements like extra lives, unique mini maps, and zombie🌧️ bosses are present within the game mode. Dead Ops Arcade includes co-op playthrough through either Xbox Live or split screen🌧️ of up to 4 players.[27]

The game also includes four downloadable content packs. One of the DLCs is "First Strike" which🌧️ includes the zombie map "Ascension". This map takes place in a Soviet space center with new perks such as PHD🌧️ Flopper and Stamin-Up that enhance player abilities. New features were added, like the Gersch Device and lunar landers. The Gersch🌧️ Device sucks in zombies when used, and lunar landers allow the player with possession to access the portal between different🌧️ areas of the map.

The second DLC is "Escalation" which includes the zombie map "Call of the Dead". On this map,🌧️ players are in a snowy, foggy landscape. This map stands out for its celebrity guest appearance and the wonder weapons,🌧️ Scavenger and Vr-11. The Scavenger is a sniper that creates explosive damage, and the Vr-11 turns zombies into humans. The🌧️ map ultimately serves as a homage to the works of George A. Romero which had already been drawn from as🌧️ inspiration for the mode. Romero features in cutscenes and is the primary antagonist of the map. The in-game incarnation of🌧️ Romero has fostered a reputation of infamy, as many players expressed their annoyance at the challenging boss.

The third DLC is🌧️ "Annihilation" which includes the zombie map "Shangri-La". This map is in the Himalayan jungles, based around an ancient temple. “Shangri-La”🌧️ has deadly traps such as swinging spike traps and mudslides. The wonder weapon is the 31-79 JGb215 (known in the🌧️ game files as "Shrink ray" and affectionately called the "Baby maker" by fans") which is used to shrink zombies down🌧️ to a small size, allowing them to be killed when a player walks into them.

The fourth DLC is "Rezurrection" which,🌧️ unlike the other DLC packs, is Zombies only. It includes the new zombies experience "Moon" and four remastered zombie maps🌧️ from the previous Treyarch game World at War. On “Moon”, gameplay takes place primarily on a Nazi facility on Earth's🌧️ moon. The moon's low-gravity surface allows players to jump higher and cover larger distances quicker. The Wave Gun is this🌧️ map's signature weapon, which, when shot at a zombie, will release a laser that makes the zombie have a zero-gravity🌧️ effect and explode mid-air.[28][29] This DLC pack added the new Perk-a-Cola "Mule-kick" to "Moon" as well as all previous maps.🌧️ The Perk allows players to carry 3 weapons at once.

Plot [ edit ]

Campaign [ edit ]

Characters and setting [ edit🌧️ ]

From left to right: Alex Mason, Jason Hudson, and Robert McNamara

Black Ops takes place between 1961 and 1968 during both🌧️ the Cold War and the Vietnam War, 16 years to 23 years after the events of World at War. It🌧️ portrays a secret history of black operations carried out behind enemy lines by the CIA. Missions take place in various🌧️ countries around the globe, including Cuba, the Soviet Union, the United States, South Vietnam, China, Canada, and Laos. The single-player🌧️ campaign revolves around the CIA's attempts to stop Soviet sleeper agents embedded in the US, to be activated via broadcasts🌧️ from a numbers station, from deploying an experimental nerve agent and chemical weapon known as "Nova 6".

The player controls the🌧️ protagonist, CIA SAD/SOG operative and former Marine Force Recon Captain Alex Mason (Sam Worthington). Other characters are occasionally playable, such🌧️ as CIA paramilitary operations officer Jason Hudson (Ed Harris). Mason is often joined by fellow operatives Force Recon Master Sergeant🌧️ Frank Woods (James C. Burns) and Navy UDT Chief Joseph Bowman (Ice Cube), while Hudson works with Grigori Weaver (Gene🌧️ Farber), a Russian-American field operative. Viktor Reznov (Gary Oldman), a character of the Soviet campaign in World at War, returns🌧️ along with protagonist Dimitri Petrenko (Boris Kievsky), now no longer silent or faceless. Oldman also voices Daniel Clarke, an English🌧️ scientist assisting in the development of Project Nova. Opposing the CIA are the leaders of Project Nova: Soviet Army Major🌧️ General Nikita Dragovich (Eamon Hunt), Colonel Lev Kravchenko (Andrew Divoff), and ex-Nazi scientist Friedrich Steiner (Mark Bramhall). Black Ops also🌧️ features several historical figures; during the story, Mason meets Fidel Castro, Robert McNamara, and John F. Kennedy.

Story [ edit ]

In🌧️ April 1961, Mason, Woods, and Bowman participate in Operation 40 to assassinate Fidel Castro and assist the CIA-sponsored Cuban exiles🌧️ during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Mason kills Castro's body double and stays behind, allowing Woods and Bowman to flee🌧️ in an extraction plane. He is captured by the real Castro, who gifts him to a Soviet Army Major General🌧️ named Nikita Dragovich. Imprisoned in a brutal gulag known as Vorkuta, Mason befriends a former Red Army soldier named Viktor🌧️ Reznov, who gives him the identities of their enemies: Dragovich, Colonel Lev Kravchenko, and ex-Nazi scientist Friedrich Steiner. In October🌧️ 1945, Reznov, Dimitri Petrenko, and their platoon were sent to extract Steiner, who wished to defect, from a secret Nazi🌧️ base on Baffin Island. Upon being rescued, Steiner provided the Soviets with the location of a disabled cargo ship carrying🌧️ the weapon he had originally developed for Adolf Hitler. However, Reznov and his men were betrayed by Dragovich, who wished🌧️ to see the effects of the gas first-hand; Reznov was forced to watch Petrenko die horrifically, only being spared himself🌧️ when British Commandos, interested in also acquiring Nova 6, attacked. Reznov detonated the V-2 rockets onboard the ship during his🌧️ escape, destroying it and Nova 6, only to be captured by the Soviets and imprisoned in Vorkuta. The Soviets later🌧️ recreated Nova 6 using British scientist Daniel Clarke.

In October 1963, Mason and Reznov spark an uprising to flee the prison;🌧️ Reznov stays behind to facilitate Mason's escape. Upon his return to the US, President John F. Kennedy authorizes a mission🌧️ to assassinate Dragovich; Mason is plagued by anxiety and murderous visions during his meeting with the President. Mason, Woods, Bowman,🌧️ and Weaver are dispatched to the Baikonur Cosmodrome to disrupt the Soviet space program and eliminate members of "Ascension", a🌧️ Soviet program giving sanctuary to Nazi scientists. The team destroys the Soyuz spacecraft, while Dragovich is seemingly killed in a🌧️ car explosion.

In January 1968, Mason's team is sent to Vietnam as part of MACV-SOG. After defending Khe Sanh from a🌧️ North Vietnamese assault, they recover a dossier on Dragovich from a Russian defector being held by the North Vietnamese Army🌧️ in Huế during the Tet Offensive; the defector is revealed to be Reznov. When Dragovich resurfaces, the team penetrates Laos🌧️ to recover a Nova 6 shipment from a downed Soviet plane, but are captured by Viet Cong and Spetsnaz forces🌧️ at the crash site. Bowman is later executed during a forced game of Russian roulette, but Woods and Mason escape,🌧️ hijacking a Mi-24 Hind and crippling a part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail before rescuing Reznov from Kravchenko's base.🌧️ They confront Kravchenko, but he primes grenades strapped to his body, forcing Woods to push himself and Kravchenko out of🌧️ a window; Mason presumes the two dead.

Hudson and Weaver interrogate Clarke in Kowloon Walled City, with Clarke revealing the location🌧️ of a facility in Mount Yamantau before being killed by Dragovich's men. Hudson and Weaver infiltrate and destroy the facility🌧️ before receiving a transmission from Steiner requesting to meet at Rebirth Island, as he suspects Dragovich will kill him in🌧️ order to cover up Nova 6. Mason, now going rogue, travels there with Reznov to assassinate Steiner, succeeding just as🌧️ Hudson and Weaver arrive. It is revealed that although Mason supposedly witnessed Reznov executing Steiner, Hudson and Weaver saw Mason🌧️ carrying out the act alone while calling himself Reznov. With Steiner dead, Mason is now the only individual left who🌧️ knows the location of the numbers station, prompting Hudson and Weaver to interrogate him.

Hudson explains that Dragovich has sleeper cells🌧️ stationed within each American state capital, which, when ordered by the broadcast of a series of numbers from his station,🌧️ will release Nova 6 and pave the way for a Soviet invasion. In response, the US, now at DEFCON 2,🌧️ is preparing a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the Soviets. Hudson reveals that Mason was brainwashed by Dragovich at Vorkuta to🌧️ serve as a sleeper agent and assassinate Kennedy. Reznov died during the breakout, and the Soviet defector was killed; Mason's🌧️ visions of Reznov are an illusion caused by the brainwashing. Prior to his death, Reznov reprogrammed Mason to kill Dragovich,🌧️ Kravchenko, and Steiner to complete his own revenge. Mason finally remembers the location of Dragovich's broadcast station is a Russian🌧️ ship named the Rusalka in the Gulf of Mexico. An assault on the ship is carried out the next day,🌧️ with the US Navy called in to destroy it. Mason and Hudson confront Dragovich in the underwater submarine base protecting🌧️ the ship, with Mason killing Dragovich before the two escape.

Footage of President Kennedy before his assassination on November 22, 1963,🌧️ is shown, revealing Mason was among onlookers who watched him arrive at Dallas Love Field, suggesting Mason may have carried🌧️ out his initial programming.

Zombies [ edit ]

Characters and settings [ edit ]

The Zombies story takes place over various eras of🌧️ time, mostly during the final year of World War II and the 1960s. The story mainly follows four soldiers: "Tank"🌧️ Dempsey (Steve Blum) of the United States Marine Corps, Nikolai Belinski (Fred Tatasciore) of the Red Army, Takeo Masaki (Tom🌧️ Kane) of the Imperial Japanese Army, and Doctor Edward Richtofen (Nolan North) of the Wehrmacht. Other characters include Doctor Ludvig🌧️ Maxis (Fred Tatasciore) and his daughter Samantha (Julie Nathanson). The map "Five" features historical figures: John F. Kennedy (Jim Meskimen),🌧️ Robert McNamara (Robert Picardo), Richard Nixon (Dave Mallow), and Fidel Castro (Marlon Correa). "Call of the Dead" features the appearance🌧️ of celebrities: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund, Danny Trejo, Michael Rooker, all playing themselves and George A. Romero.

Story [ edit🌧️ ]

During World War II, Doctor Ludvig Maxis formed Group 935, a group of scientists intended to improve the human condition.🌧️ Lacking funds, they soon turned to creating superweapons to aid the Nazis. Their discovery of Element 115 from a meteorite🌧️ in Japan led to zombies' creation. Maxis and his assistant, Dr. Edward Richtofen, also work on other projects, leading to🌧️ the creation of teleportation devices and 115-powered weapons. Attempting to use himself as a test subject, Richtofen accidentally teleports to🌧️ a catacomb within the Moon, where he comes into contact with a mysterious pyramid device that causes him to hear🌧️ ghostly voices, slowly taking away his sanity. He is later teleported to an exotic jungle known as Shangri-La, where he🌧️ spends three weeks studying the Vril energy force. Upon returning to Germany, Richtofen secretly forms a plan to kill Maxis🌧️ and gathers many members of Group 935 to build a Moon base known as Griffin Station. While maintaining his cover🌧️ with Maxis and the rest of Group 935, Richtofen manages to capture three soldiers: Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, and Takeo🌧️ Masaki; he begins to experiment with Element 115, causing memory loss for all three soldiers.

Maxis continues his work on other🌧️ experiments, attempting to use his daughter's dog, Fluffy, as a test subject for his own teleportation device. However, the experiment🌧️ fails, and Fluffy is transformed into an undead Hellhound. Richtofen takes the opportunity and traps Maxis and his daughter Samantha🌧️ inside the teleporter with Fluffy, believing they will die. Richtofen escapes as Der Riese is overrun by zombies with his🌧️ three captured soldiers and arrives at the Rising Sun research facility in Japan, where Element 115 was first discovered. After🌧️ gathering a sample of 115 at the site and recovering a weapon known as the Wunderwaffe DG-2, they return to🌧️ the Der Riese factory in Germany. In an attempt to escape the zombie horde, the group accidentally overloads a teleporter🌧️ with the DG-2, sending them forward in time. They arrive at an abandoned Nazi theater in the 1960s, where Richtofen🌧️ discovers several recordings left behind by Dr. Maxis. Samantha, having survived and managing to control the zombies, continues raising the🌧️ undead to hunt down Richtofen.

In 1963, the United States government manages to grab hold of several of Group 935's inventions,🌧️ keeping them hidden in the Pentagon. Zombies breach the Pentagon, trapping John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, and Fidel🌧️ Castro inside and forcing them to fight their way out. Meanwhile, Richtofen's crew arrives at a Soviet Cosmodrome site, where🌧️ Richtofen intends to travel to Group 935's Moon base, Griffin Station.

The crew is contacted by Gersh, a member of the🌧️ Ascension Group who requests to be freed from Samantha's grip. After freeing Gersh, the four of them are teleported further🌧️ in time and arrive at a Siberian lighthouse sometime in 2011, once used by Richtofen as a secret lab. However,🌧️ they are trapped within a locked room and forced to rely on four movie actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Danny Trejo,🌧️ Robert Englund, and Michael Rooker, who are filming a zombie movie on-site along with director George A. Romero, who had🌧️ been infected as well. Richtofen requests the four celebrities to find a golden rod, a Vril generator device, which he🌧️ then uses to fix the teleporter.

He transports himself and the other three soldiers back to Shangri-La, leaving the celebrities behind🌧️ to continue fighting Romero and the horde. At Shangri-La, the group discovers two explorers, Gary and Brock, who died trapped🌧️ within a time loop while trying to discover the secrets of the mythical Agartha realm. The group saves the explorers'🌧️ lives by traveling back and forth in time, altering the environments of the temple in the process. They discover an🌧️ altar within the temple with Richtofen's name written on it and a piece of a meteorite containing Element 115. However,🌧️ the explorers remain stuck in the never-ending loop.

With the Vril generator and the meteorite piece, Richtofen believes he can control🌧️ the zombies and returns to Griffin Station. Here, they attempt to activate the MPD, a machine that controls the Aether🌧️ energy, which opens to reveal Samantha inside; instead of dying by Richtofen's trap, Samantha is teleported to the moon while🌧️ Maxis is sent somewhere else. Samantha accidentally triggered the MPD and was trapped within the device, but this also allowed🌧️ her to enter the Aether realm. Maxis, who was retrieved by Group 935 scientists, apologized to his daughter and committed🌧️ suicide in front of her, prompting her to assume control of the zombies and seek vengeance on Richtofen. Richtofen fuses🌧️ the golden rod and the meteorite piece and, using it to switch souls with Samantha, takes over as the new🌧️ zombie controller. This causes his former allies to feel betrayed, and they ally themselves with Samantha (who now resides in🌧️ Richtofen's body). Maxis is revealed to have become a sentient artificial intelligence living within the systems of Griffin Station, and🌧️ he guides his daughter and the three soldiers to launch three missiles at the Earth. This severs Richtofen's link with🌧️ the Aether, but the launch results in the catastrophic destruction of the Earth while still leaving Richtofen in control of🌧️ the undead.

Development [ edit ]

In May 2009, publisher Activision was rumored to be looking for licensing regarding Vietnam War-era music🌧️ which led to speculation that Call of Duty 7 would be set in Vietnam.[30] In May 2009, Treyarch employee David🌧️ Kim revealed on his LinkedIn profile that he would work as a senior animator on Call of Duty 7.[31] In🌧️ November 2009, only a few days before Modern Warfare 2's release, Activision officially announced a new Call of Duty title🌧️ for 2010 through their third quarter financial call.[32] In February 2010, a casting call for Call of Duty 7 led🌧️ to speculation that the game would be taking place during the Cold War era with some battles taking place in🌧️ South Vietnam.[33] On April 30, 2010, Black Ops was officially announced.[34]

The game runs on an enhanced World at War engine🌧️ (which itself was improved from Call of Duty 4's) at 60 frames per second across all platforms, excluding the Wii.[35]🌧️ It features a streaming texture technology (also seen in Modern Warfare 2), making bigger levels possible such as "Payback" where🌧️ the player controls a helicopter. Lighting effects have been improved as well.[36] Call of Duty: Black Ops supports 3-D imaging🌧️ rendered by the engine itself.[37] This feature is available on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 versions.[38]

For Black Ops,🌧️ Treyarch focused only on this game unlike past practice. However, it had different teams, each working on separate game modes.[39]🌧️ Treyarch used a motion capture technology similar to the one used in James Cameron's film Avatar, which allows accurate facial🌧️ expressions, capturing the whole performance of the actor.[40] The studio also consulted special forces veterans from both belligerents of the🌧️ Cold War: Major John Plaster (US Army-Ret.) who served in the MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War, and former Soviet special🌧️ forces operative Sonny Puzikas.[41] The latter taught Treyarch how Spetsnaz soldiers would react in combat, such as rolling out of🌧️ the line of fire. Spetsnaz AIs in the game have been modeled after him, from his tactics and his movements🌧️ to his face.[42][43] Although having a historical background, the classified aspect of these Cold War black operations allowed the studio🌧️ to create its own fictional story.[44] The game also allows players to turn down the blood and turn off the🌧️ profanity.[45]

It was announced on November 9, 2024, that Black Ops would become backwards compatible with the Xbox One.[46] It was🌧️ originally meant to be available for backwards compatibility in December 2024, but the date was later changed to some time🌧️ in 2024.[47] Black Ops was originally the sixth-most requested Xbox 360 title to become backwards compatible with the Xbox One.[48]🌧️ On May 17, 2024, the game was made available through Xbox One's backward compatibility.[49] Shortly after, it was reported that🌧️ sales of the Xbox 360 version had increased by 13,000 percent.[50]

Audio [ edit ]

Black Ops features the voices of Sam🌧️ Worthington as Alex Mason,[51] Ed Harris as Jason Hudson,[52] Gary Oldman reprises his role as Viktor Reznov from World at🌧️ War and also voices Dr. Clarke,[51] James C. Burns voices and provides performance capture for Frank Woods[53] and Ice Cube🌧️ voices Joseph Bowman, whose appearance is likened to him as well, and is also the multiplayer announcer for the SOG🌧️ faction.[54][55] Gene Farber voices Grigori Weaver, Emmanuelle Chriqui plays a live-action character called Numbers,[56][57] Eamon Hunt voices Nikita Dragovich, Andrew🌧️ Divoff voices Lev Kravchenko and Robert Picardo voices Secretary Robert McNamara. Dimitri Diatchenko, an American born actor and musician voices🌧️ the Spetsnaz faction and several other characters due to his strong Russian accent.

Call of Duty: Black Ops features Vietnam War🌧️ era music including "Sympathy for the Devil" by The Rolling Stones[58] (played during a gameplay sequence, the credits, and as🌧️ an easter egg in the multiplayer map Nuketown) and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son".[59] Eminem's "Won't Back Down" (featuring Pink)🌧️ is used for the credits as well, and additionally appears as an Easter Egg in the Zombie map "Five". In🌧️ the Call of the Dead zombie map the song "Not Ready to Die" by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold🌧️ is featured as an easter egg.[60] The original music was composed by Sean Murray, who also composed Call of Duty:🌧️ World at War while Kevin Sherwood composed music for the Zombies mode. The soundtrack was released on November 9. The🌧️ use of The Rolling Stones' music in the game has seen a significant increase in the band's music sales since🌧️ launch. "Gimme Shelter" sold 2,000 copies in the week before the launch trailer was revealed, 5,000 the week after, and🌧️ 11,000 the week after the game's release. "Sympathy for the Devil" experienced a similar boost as gamers discovered the band's🌧️ music.[61][62]

The game's score was composed by Sean Murray, and the official soundtrack was released on November 9, 2010.[63][64] In addition,🌧️ a soundtrack for the Zombies mode was released on January 25, 2011.[65]

Marketing [ edit ]

Black Ops was first officially unveiled🌧️ when the website for the game went live on April 30, 2010[34] prior to the release of its debut teaser🌧️ trailer on GameTrailers TV Episode 310.[66] In early April 2010, an unmarked envelope was sent to various gaming news publications🌧️ as well as high-profile Call of Duty fans via mail. It contained a USB flash drive with sound and text🌧️ files. These files were codes to be decrypted, only to find a mysterious teaser site for an unknown game. Other🌧️ codes were updated periodically.

Similarly to Modern Warfare 2's marketing, the first full-length trailer of Black Ops was aired after the🌧️ 3rd quarter on ESPN during the NBA Eastern Conference Finals on May 18, 2010.[67] During E3 2010, studio head Mark🌧️ Lamia opened the Microsoft conference by playing Black Ops on stage.[68] It was also announced that the timed Xbox 360🌧️ exclusivity for additional content of Call of Duty titles, which began with Modern Warfare 2, extends until 2012.[69] A remixed🌧️ version of the ESPN trailer with Eminem's "Won't Back Down" was released on June 14,[70] prior to the E3 Activision🌧️ conference for which he also performed.[71] A multiplayer teaser trailer was released on August 9, 2010, revealing killstreaks, weapons, and🌧️ other in-game multiplayer features. A full multiplayer reveal took place on September 1, 2010, and revealed many multiplayer features from🌧️ the game.[72]

Chrysler produced a limited-edition Call of Duty Jeep as the Wrangler is featured in Black Ops.[73] In late September,🌧️ viral site GKNOVA6 was updated revealing fuzzy footages of zombies.[74] On October 11, a single player trailer aired on ESPN🌧️ during the New York Jets versus Minnesota Vikings NFL Monday Night Football game.[75] The same trailer was aired the next🌧️ day in the United Kingdom at half time of the England versus Montenegro 2012 European Football Championship qualifying game. On🌧️ October 29, the official launch trailer was released online. The same trailer aired on October 31 during the New Orleans🌧️ Saints versus Pittsburgh Steelers NFL Sunday Night Football game. The trailer features the song "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones,🌧️ and was directed by Rupert Sanders, who later went on to direct Snow White and the Huntsman and Ghost in🌧️ the Shell.[76]

Retail versions [ edit ]

Like Modern Warfare 2, "Hardened" and "Prestige" limited editions are available: the Hardened Edition includes🌧️ a SteelBook case, a medal with its display case, four exclusive co-op levels and an Xbox Live or PlayStation Home🌧️ avatar outfit. The Prestige Edition offers, in addition to the Hardened Edition's content, a real RC-XD remote-control vehicle modeled after🌧️ the in-game killstreak reward, which gives video and audio feedback to its controller.[77] In Japan, the game is distributed by🌧️ Square Enix. Two versions are available: subtitled or dubbed,[78] released respectively on November 18, 2010, and December 16, 2010. Both🌧️ have dismemberment censored.[79] Gore is censored as well in Germany in addition to the removal of "Sympathy for the Devil"🌧️ and Nazi symbols considered "anti-constitutional" in the country.[58]

Downloadable content [ edit ]

Treyarch released the "First Strike" Map Pack on February🌧️ 1, 2011, for the Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 received the map pack on March 3, 2011, and the PC🌧️ version was released on March 25, 2011, through Steam.[80] The Map Pack includes additional maps that can be played in🌧️ the multiplayer mode. These maps include "Berlin Wall", "Discovery", "Kowloon" and "Stadium" and a map for the Zombies mode titled🌧️ "Ascension" which takes place in a Soviet launch site.[81]

On April 11, 2011, a second map pack called "Escalation" was announced🌧️ by Activison and Microsoft. It features 4 new multiplayer maps named "Zoo", "Hotel", "Convoy", "Stockpile" and one new zombies map🌧️ named 'Call of the Dead'. This map is based on the movies by George A. Romero, the revolutionary epic-zombie-horror director.🌧️ The trailer for this map shows the four playable characters: Danny Trejo, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund and Michael Rooker.🌧️ The name is a reference to the immensely popular Dead Series created and directed by Romero. The trailer also offers🌧️ a sneak peek of a zombiefied version of George A. Romero himself, lurking out of water. The map is set🌧️ on a ship, but with the ship's crew as zombies instead of Nazi zombies. It was released on May 3,🌧️ 2011, for the Xbox 360, June 2 on the PC and June 10 for the PlayStation 3.[82]

A third map pack🌧️ called "Annihilation" was released for the Xbox 360 on June 28, 2011,[83] and on July 28, 2011, for the PlayStation🌧️ 3 and PC.[84] It contains four new multiplayer maps named "Hangar 18", "Hazard", "Drive-In", "Silo", and a new zombies map🌧️ named "Shangri La", which takes place in a legendary shrine lost in an exotic jungle.[85][86]

The fourth map pack, "Rezurrection" was🌧️ released on August 23, 2011, for the Xbox 360,[87] and September 22, 2011, on PlayStation 3 and PC.[88] The Rezurrection🌧️ Map Pack is made up of 5 Zombies mode only maps. It includes the first 4 maps from Call of🌧️ Duty: World at War ("Nacht Der Untoten"/"Night", "Verruckt"/"Asylum", "Shi No Numa"/"Swamp", "Der Riese"/"Factory") fully remastered. It also includes a new🌧️ map called "Moon". "Moon" allows players to fight zombies in zero gravity with both the player and the zombies under🌧️ zero gravity influence.[89]

Reception [ edit ]

Call of Duty: Black Ops received "generally positive" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic, except🌧️ for the DS, where it received "mixed or average" reviews.[90][91][92][93][94] GameSpot awarded it 9.0 out of ten and wrote "Call🌧️ of Duty: Black Ops bears the series' standard superbly, delivering an engrossing campaign and exciting competitive multiplayer."[102] Edge magazine was🌧️ less positive, giving it a 7/10, writing that "As polished and pretty and fun as Black Ops often is, it🌧️ feels more like a yearly update than a sequel [which] isn't distinct from its predecessors in any important way".[119] Several🌧️ reviewers also complained that the game felt too much like a rail shooter, with PC Gamer branding it "barely interactive".[120][121][122][123]

Reviewers🌧️ also noted that the PC version of the game was buggy and had "a number of frustrating problems", including a🌧️ lag in multiplayer modes which for some players rendered the game almost "unplayable".[124][125][126] Players have also reported serious bugs with🌧️ the PlayStation 3 version, including compatibility issues with 3D televisions.[127] PC World magazine noted that user reviews of the game🌧️ were much less positive than those of critics.[128] As of November 12, 2010, three days after the release, PC, PS3,🌧️ and Xbox 360 versions of the game held average user ratings of 3.1, 3.1, and 1.8 stars on Amazon, respectively🌧️ (on a 1 to 5 scale),[129] with many PC users complaining about lag, stuttering and bugs.

In January 2011, to a🌧️ player complaining about the remaining connection problems for the game on PlayStation 3, an Activision customer service representative threatened that🌧️ they could shut down the servers for the game for the PlayStation Network at any time.[130][131][132] After some days and🌧️ following some game media heat,[133] Dan Amrich, Activision Social Media Manager, declared that even if they could kill the servers,🌧️ they did not plan currently to do it.[134]

The Daily Telegraph praised Black Ops as its "meaty kick of the guns,🌧️ the blistering pace of the action and the sterling soundtrack of explosions, gunshots and whistling bullets all serve to quicken🌧️ the player's pulse and tighten their grip on the controller", and how the game is "compensated for by [the] nail-shredding🌧️ tension and creepy atmosphere".[118]

Official Nintendo Magazine awarded the Wii version 90% and said "Black Ops on Wii is a fantastic🌧️ shooter packed with all the features of its HD brothers, with the only exception being split-screen multiplayer."[135] Martin Gaston at🌧️ VideoGamer gave the Wii version 6 out of 10, complaining of Treyarch's reworking of in-game sequences as movies, poor AI,🌧️ and gameplay problems from lower-resolution graphics.[115]

In February 2011, the Xbox 360 version was named the Xbox Live's top title of🌧️ 2010 by GameSpot.[136]

At the 14th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (now known as the D.I.C.E. Awards), Call of Duty: Black Ops🌧️ was nominated for "Game of the Year", "Action Game of the Year", "Outstanding Achievement in Animation", "Outstanding Achievement in Online🌧️ Gameplay", and "Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering".[137]

Sales [ edit ]

Within 24 hours of its release, Black Ops had sold 4.2🌧️ million copies in the U.S. and 1.4 million copies in the UK, surpassing that of Modern Warfare 2 and establishing🌧️ a new record for largest entertainment launch.[138] Compared to the much anticipated opening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows🌧️ – Part 1, the game earned more than twice as much as the film, earningR$360 million.[139] Only five days after🌧️ its release, sales from the game worldwide reached US$650 million, surpassing the previous record achieved by Modern Warfare 2 which🌧️ earnedR$550 million in five days.[140] By November 22, the game remained the bestselling title in the United Kingdom, despite sales🌧️ dropping by 85%.[141] Some estimates had placed sales of the game as reaching 18 million units sold, earning a revenue🌧️ ofR$818 million. This would fall about 2 million copies andR$182 million short of Modern Warfare 2.[142] By December 22, worldwide🌧️ revenue of Black Ops exceededR$1 billion.[143][144] Sales remained strong months after the game's release, remaining at the top-seller list in🌧️ February 2011.[145] On March 3, 2011, the news magazine The Hollywood Reporter also reported on the best selling video games🌧️ ever. It announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops was the best-selling game ever in the United States of America.[146]🌧️ Black Ops was the best-selling game of all time in the UK until Grand Theft Auto V overtook it in🌧️ November 2014.[147] In August 2011, Activision announced that the game had sold more than 25 million copies.[148] By November 2013,🌧️ the game had sold 26.2 million copies.[149]

Controversy [ edit ]

Cuba has condemned the game for its depiction of American special🌧️ forces trying but failing to kill a young Fidel Castro, killing instead a body-double.[150][151] The Cuba-based pro-Fidel Castro website Cubadebate🌧️ said the game "encourages sociopathic attitudes of American children and adolescents, the main consumers of these virtual games."[150][152][153]

Mobile phone version🌧️ [ edit ]

Black Ops was also released for both mobile phones and smartphones.[154] This version is a side-scrolling shooter. It🌧️ features a different storyline, a different set of characters, and is set in the Vietnam War in 1967. The game🌧️ was developed by Glu Mobile and published by Activision.[154][155]

Notes [ edit ]

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