Black Ops which was developed by Treyarch, has taken that a step further and sold over 10 million copies within it's 24 hour launch. Making it one of the best selling games of all time.
Black Ops takes place during the Cold War, having you perform "Black Operations" which is(too make it simple) really super secret missions that no one knows about, technically you don't even exist.
Story - The single player takes a bit of a different approach than the other COD's. Meaning it's more story driven now, with plenty of twists and turns.
You play as a man named Alex Mason, who is currently in a small room with lots of computers, your basically disoriented as your being interrogated from a unknown man, you only hear his voice which is morphed to protect his identity. As your being interrogated you see many different numbers flashing on the screen, you sometimes hear a women recite the numbers, over and over not knowing why yet. Too make a long story short, whoever this is, they need information on your past Black Operations, and for reasons not known they want the origin of those numbers that you can't seem to get out of your head.
As you tell them all about your past operations, flash backs will occur and this is where the gameplay takes over. You arrive in 1968 taking on many different operations. What it comes down too is the main antagonist "Nikita Dragovich" is your main target, a man named Viktor Renov (who becomes close friends with you) tells you that this man must die. The gameplay is the best so far in my opinion, it's a little more like a story based FPS then just a run & gun military shooter, which plays out nice. There are many action sequences like previous COD's that keep it interesting, many fast paced chases and fire battles that keep you on your toes.
The story although not great, has some good twists and turns, which was pretty neat coming from a military shooter. Not the best story driven game but def a good start to one, I actually enjoyed it a lot.
Sound - There is not too much too say about the music, as far as military based shooters go, it suits the mood. Every tune from a suspenseful moment, to a epic battlefield, it stood out very nicely.
The music is not something I would go nuts for like I would say FF13 or Beyond good & evil, but it adds a nice touch too each and every level.
As far as sound effects though I don't think they could have been better, every sound was so realistic, that if you play with surround sound, you would swear that you were in Alex masons shoes.
Voice acting was very well done with cast members like Gary Oldman, Ed Harris and Sam Worthington, all did a fantastic job. Even with ice cube which I'm still scratching my head on why on earth was he was a cast member in this game, they all had a top notch performance. The one that stood out for me was Gary Oldman who is one of my favorite actors of all time, he display such skill and profession in his work I really hope he wins something for his role as Viktor Reznov.
Gameplay - The gameplay was the best out of the COD series with very smooth frame rate, it was a blast too play. The aiming was nice and sturdy, and felt pretty freakin sweet to nail head shots or to knife someone in the back. Although the buttons did not differ from the other COD games but they did have a few tweaks like for example, when you sprint you can hold circle(B, button) you dive onto the ground which adds some nice dodging strats for single and multiplayer. Some new weapons and many familiar ones such as the Famas, AK-74 and the Uzi. Same choice of grenades such as flash and stun. Bottom line is that the gameplay although didn't improve much from MW2 but it's still a improvement and I had so much fun with it and was content with the gameplay.
Multiplayer - Now the part that everyone has been waiting for.
You might be thinking that the multiplayer of last years Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 will be almost impossible to top. But it seems that Black Ops takes the cake with it's outstanding multiplayer. I feel this is exactly where the multiplayer should be. They have done a much better job with the balance, not perfect I add but it is better. It's not as chaotic as MW2 was, and I like that a lot, seems like they give the non-hardcore players more of a chance to win this time around. Of course the big change in the multiplayer is the Micro transaction system that Black Ops has started. Win matches, kills, assists, and many different challenges, give you what they call "COD Points" which is actually pretty neat, I have really been enjoying the currency system and the way it works, makes the challenges even more worth doing, and to be honest is pretty freakin addicting to collect COD Points. They have also added new modes on the behalf of the Currency system, called "Wager Matches" which is a way for you and your friends to bet on matches and try and rack up some dough to buy many more things, it's very fun and the game modes are very well done, not only Wager matches but all of them. With the MW2 modes plus a ton more, this multiplayer gives the biggest replay value in a game I've seen in a long time.
Final Rundown - Truth is, I was not looking forward to Black Ops, I was sick of the yearly COD's. But I must say I am impressed, with a fairly interesting story and a very long lasting multiplayer (which btw is there best multiplayer yet, by far). i was very happy I decided to give it a chance. Any FPS players out there that love some good multiplayer, give Black Ops a shot, you won't be let down.
+Pros:
-Good Ending.
-Outstanding Gameplay.
-Almost perfect Multiplayer.
-Zombie Mode.
-Tons of customization during online play.
-Cons:
-Not too much innovation.
-Ice Cube is in the main cast.
-Story can be a little cliche at some points.
Review Score -9.0
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