| Best PC Video Games 2010 Holiday Guide |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Games | ||||||||
| Written by Adam Pizzo - Edited by Olin Coles | ||||||||
| Wednesday, 08 December 2010 | ||||||||
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Call of Duty: Black Ops
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Name: Call of Duty: Black Ops
Platforms: Windows, Consoles
Release Date: November 9th, 2010
Published By:Activision
Developed By:Treyarch
Genre: First Person Shooter
ESRB: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language
Website: http://www.callofduty.com/blackops
Price: $53.99 New from Amazon.com
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Welcome to the future of FPS gaming warfare, or should I say the past? The Campaign portion Call of Duty: Black Ops takes place during the Cold War era of the sixties, while the multiplayer portion is bristling with new customizations and a new progression system. Black Ops is one game that you don't want to miss out on this holiday season.
In the campaign mode you mostly command Alex Mason (voiced by Sam Worthington!), who is a Special Forces Operative, as well as several other characters that specialize in Black Op missions. Your journey in Black Ops leads you through a wide variety of locales including Russia, Cuba, Laos, and even Vietnam as you try to figure out how to stop a deadly experimental Soviet chemical weapon known as "Nova-6" from being activated on American Soil.
Onto the multiplayer game play front. The amount of variety that is available could make the multiplayer a standalone game in my opinion. Not only are classic Call of Duty type matches available, online co-op is back, and also the beloved Zombie mode from Call of Duty: World at War makes a return. For us PC gamers, many of the cool functions that were taken away in the last Call of Duty hit: Modern Warfare 2, make return, such as mod tools, the developer's console, lean, and even dedicated servers! The online play is great and anyone who wants to have a great frag-fest of a time should pick it up just for that!
Overall Black Ops is a blockbuster game with tons of thrills for the adrenaline junky in all of us. Don't miss out on it this holiday season!
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Comments
Yes, I know it sounds dumb, but this is the main reason I haven't bought a new game in years. It's about time though.
Fallout NV: yes. some crazy fans state they go ap tu 200 hours or more IN SOLO. 1st for me from the list. i'm playing it right now. (try to compare with stalker series, metro2033 and other immersive games, HL series maybe to far but for me the etalon. so yes a good game, IMO those mentioned are better, but it works just fine)
Starcraft WoL: yes. good campain, not too big but ok.
Call of Duty BO: yes. been there done that. despite de good or bad rumours, it's a good game.
Tom Clancy, wow: didnt try them, but based on previous releases, yes.
Travel a lot? ok, but prepare with a powerful enough laptop: go Fallout or Starcraft.
I dont want to criticize this review. i guess it's based on sales or some. otherwise games top it's very personal.
BBC2 Forever.................until BF3 is released, lol
On the other hand, optimisation and textures are a pile of wank, the spawn system is laughable, knife horribly overpowered and several guns are utterly redundant. It's still a good game, just a bit...flawed.
SWAT ....... Ex-COD Hacker.
May I ask why you (or did) hack on CoD? I mean, playing computer games is already seen as pretty sad, cheating at them seems even more pathetic...
Are the kids at school picking on you Adam? :p
But come on you must admit that gaming is not exactly seen as the coolest hobby ever, attempt to start up a conversation about it with any normal (non-geeky) person over the age of about 18 and you're likely to make them run for the hills.
Lighten up. Enjoy. And Merry Christmas.
Perhaps I was just born into the wrong part of the world but gaming is still seen as a somewhat geeky passtime around here. But then it is Essex...