Call Of Duty Black Ops Gameplay
Hello, Gamerjay here. CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS will be released on 9th November 2010 and is one of the most anticipated games to date. I hope you all realize that November is going to be fantastic if expensive month for us gamers. Halo Reach, Assassins Creed Brotherhood, Kinect and I think Gran Turismo 5 are all set for November releases. I suspect Christmas has something to do with it! It will also be interesting to see who wins the war of the 1st person shooters: Call of Duty Black Ops, Medal of Honour or Halo Reach. The latter two are definitely in direct competition. Ive never been a great fan of 1st person shooters, but Call of Duty Black Ops and Halo Reach have changed that.
Anyway back to Call of Duty Black Ops. The game features new additions to the series such as crossbows (with alternative explosive ammunition), Dragon's Breath rounds and ballistic knives. During the campaign, the player will be able to pilot different aircraft: an SR-71 Blackbird and a Hind helicopter have been confirmed.
Call of Duty Black Ops is set during the Cold War. It follows several covert operations groups, the secret units set up by the CIA to engage in deniable actions all over the world. Steeped in conspiracy theory and no doubt paying close heed to declassified government files, the featurest activities in Eastern Europe, in Vietnam and in Cuba. Treyarch won't be drawn on specific dates, but I'm thinking things will focus on the sixties and seventies, right through to 'Nam and maybe even Watergate.
So what do we get with this game? Well it's all about picking off enemy solders from behind rocky cover as the descent of the mountain continues. Sounds familiar. One of the game's new weapons, a powerful, super-silent scoped crossbow, looks like enormous fun.
Hits are contextual, and at several points, soldiers are caught in the legs with bolts and just stagger about the place waiting to be finished off. The player character grabs an AK-47, cutting down multiple enemies before reaching a satellite station that has to be knocked out. The character kicks the hinges off a door, while a computer-controlled comrade throws a knife to silently take out a lone enemy inside. Next, it's just a case of ripping out some wires to switch off a communications relay, then everyone is legging it down the mountain, just as an avalanche begins. In a nod to the climax of Modern Warfare's Crew Expendable mission, it's about charging down the icy ravine as quickly as possible, avoiding obstacles while destruction and disaster follow.
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The next level we see our covert operations unit in Hue City Vietnam, enticingly named Slaughterhouse. Everything kicks off with a wonderfully apocalyptic twilight scene in which dozens of US choppers hover around like an angry mass of bees over a burning mass of bombed-out buildings and incinerated palm trees. The player character is abseiling down from one of the helicopters , when the craft is hit by anti-aircraft fire that sends it into a spiraling death spin. The character swings wildly onto an upper floor of a wrecked office block.
Now, it's all about blasting Viet Cong soldiers while desperately locating an exit, through destroyed furniture and terrified civilians. This time, our Treyarch demo chap is using a SPAS-12 shotgun equipped with dragon's breath shells, which send out horribly pyrotechnic blasts of flame. It's completely nasty stuff, but this devilish ammo is accompanied by some stunningly evocative graphics effects as charred enemies fly across the room. Dragon's breath shells are going to absolutely rock in multiplayer.
Out on the street, and there are several mass battles with VC troops. In one sequence, the player calls in ordinance on a building where the enemy are locked down. Suddenly a shadowed chopper swoops in from above, like some awesome flying behemoth, and immediately spits thousands of rounds of .50 cal ammo into the building. Then the player is running through the street, dodging masses of enemy fire behind an armoured vehicle with 'bottom feeder' scrawled on its side - a sort of hellish revisit of the Exodus level in MW2.
So, we have been waiting a long time and Call of Duty Black Ops is almost here. Intense, epic, mostly linear, intricately choreographed . Call of Duty Black Ops will give gaming fans with many new and different combat experiences - but then, variety has always been the aim of this series. You can look at getting a free copy of Call of Duty Black Ops from OFFERGAMES