Black Ops is the seventh game in the call of duty franchise. The main thing to note is that this game was developed by Treyarch, the same guys who brought us world at war.
Fans of the CoD franchise will be familiar with the game mechanics on black ops as they haven't changed. You assume the role of a foot soldier who can use a number of firearms; throw grenades and other explosives. Pretty much the same as most FPS.
I won't go too much into the story line as I don't want to spoil it for you but basically it's made up of flashback setting at the end of WW2; some period during the cold war and then in Vietnam. The story unfolds throughout the game like you'd hope and is pretty easy to understand and follow; I don't remember ever wondering where this section of the story is set or wondering what is going on here.
Gameplay may not be for everyone since it is a very fast paced corridor shooter opposed to battlefield games. Throughout the game however you get the chance to use a few vehicle such as a hind helicopter which is great fun if not a little difficult.
Talking about difficulty, there are 3 modes, recruit, hardened and veteran, veteran being the hardest. On recruit mode you can steam through the game within a day possibly it's that simple. Crank up the heat with veteran mode and it gets a lot harder if not ridiculous. Now it's not impossible to finish the game on this mode, if you're like me however, there will be countless of times where you just wanna snap your disk in half. The enemies seem endless and if you do not push forward they will never end, what's more annoying is the fact that the game forces you to move forward and to move out from cover into the line of incoming fire by making the enemies have unlimited grenades. Now when I say unlimited I really mean unlimited and the bad guys all love to throw them! you can be hiding behind prefect cover which allows you to pop and shoot and then all of a sudden there's 4 grenades at your feet, which a lot of the time ends up killing you because there's no way of moving away from them.
Graphics are nothing special and kinda out dated. In other words there are better looking games out there such as MW2!
ZOMBIESS!!!!
It has returned and it is more amazing than it was in world at war. This time there are more undead creatures to lay waste to, I won't list them because that will spoil the fun of it when the game goes quiet and you have no idea what's coming next.
Weapons, weapons, weapons, zombies mode has loads. Most of the weapons appear in the main single player game with the addition to some extras such as the ray gun, thunder gun and winters howl just to name a few.
Since writing this review all map packs have been released and although there about £11 - 15 the last pack which includes moon is really the only one worth getting considering it unlocks all the old maps from world at war. If you're a hard-core zombies fan and don't mind spending around £60 to unlock all maps then I definitely recommend doing so as they unlock hour upon hours of zombie killing fun. Countless of times I've found myself still playing zombies at silly o'clock in the morning, it's that addictive!Multiplayer mode is what it is and fans of the franchise will fit right in and notice the slight changes. The level system is still in place and so is the guns unlocking system but with a twist as you now have to buy your guns using COD points. You can earn these points by playing the multi player game, levelling up, completing challenges, contracts or by gambling them with the new game modes. These modes include:
Sticks and stones - you fight with only crossbows and tactical knifes
gun game - kill other players to cycle through different weapons levels, the player to reach the last level first wins.
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