Gaming Official: Call of Duty Black Ops

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It's official: The new Call Of Duty will be called Black Ops.

The official website for the title - the seventh in the series - has gone live early today.

The confirmation of the Black Ops name seems to suggest that previous speculation about the title is true.

According to the story which broke the Black Ops name, the Treyarch-developed title will be set throughout the Cold War, and will feature key battles from across the period.

It will culminate in the famous 1980 storming of the Iranian Embassy in London by the SAS.

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Sweet

Released worldwide on November 9th.
 
Should definitely serve up some interesting maps.

Hopefully we see the inclusion of a Night-Vision goggles map like Wetworks in MW1. Possibly also a thermal multi-player map also. Weapons will be interesting, I assume the campaign will be mainly silenced and stealth based which should be good fun.
 
Treyarch has dubbed Call Of Duty: Black Ops a "riveting experience" - as the official website for the title goes live.

Activision has confirmed the small amount of info that leaked this morning - including the name of the game and the November 9 release date.

"We can't wait for our community to experience Call of Duty: Black Ops," said Mark Lamia, Studio Head for Treyarch.

"We have focused our entire studio on this game, with dedicated multiplayer, single-player and co-op teams creating the most intense, gripping and riveting experience possible for our fans on all fronts."

An official trailer's due to go live tonight.
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Trailer should be interesting.
 
Hang on a minute. What is this? I thought the next COD was WW2 and set in Vietnam?
 
It would be cool to play as the SAS storming the Iranian embassy.
 
It is set throughout The Cold War, so there will be missions in Vietnam.
 
Can't wait! Was disappointed with Modern Warfare 2. World at War is my favourite title.
 
esmufc10 said:
Can't wait! Was disappointed with Modern Warfare 2. World at War is my favourite title.
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Disappointed with which element? The single-player campaign or the multi-player?

To be fair, MW2 is outstanding online.
 
Yeah. MW2 has been getting some bad rep of late, but I think the online is brilliant, even if it is full of faggots and modders. If I go back to COD4 or WaW, it just seems so boring in comparison.
 
The first gameplay details for Call Of Duty: Black Ops have been revealed by UK retailer GAME.

According to the chain's online product listing for Black ops:

Now you will witness the birth of the Elite Special Forces and take part in off-the-record missions using unconventional weaponry to get the job done!

From Cuba to the Arctic and the jungles of Vietnam, Call of Duty: Black Ops features stunning cinematic graphics and intense gameplay that puts you right at the heart of the action!
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Sounds good.
 
So which chapter of the cold war will this game be based on, or is it going to be everything from 1947 to 1991?
 
AdZzUtd said:
Disappointed with which element? The single-player campaign or the multi-player?

To be fair, MW2 is outstanding online.
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Both were OK, but I much preferred the single player campaign of World at War and the mulitplayer of COD4. I dunno, it's become so big now there are far too many people on it, far too many cheats, and it's taken a lot of the fun out of it.

Rainbow Six Vegas is still the best multiplayer game I've ever played I think, mainly because I kicked ass.
 
esmufc10 said:
Both were OK, but I much preferred the single player campaign of World at War and the mulitplayer of COD4. I dunno, it's become so big now there are far too many people on it, far too many cheats, and it's taken a lot of the fun out of it.

Rainbow Six Vegas is still the best multiplayer game I've ever played I think, mainly because I kicked ass.
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Rainbow Six Vegas was amazing online too that is true. I remember playing Rainbow Six: Black Arrow back on the original Xbox on live with my mates from School it was fecking banging! We had a clan because you only needed 4 minimum so we had about 5 of us and ended up being rated pretty high even though we were just having a laugh and not taking it seriously.

Had one of the best multi-player maps I've ever been on in that game, Hotel.
 
Some SOG missions would be awesome to play. Also hope they add a bit of spy missions to it deep in Soviet territory.

It looked like the Steyr Aug Para was in a few scenes, so I'd expect some missions in South America.
 
I see that it's developed by Treyarch and not Infinity Ward. The IW games were infinitely better than the others, but the problems Activision had with them probably killed any possibility of that.
 
I remember an article when MW was released. When Game Informer was testing MW, they had a look at the development files and saw that they were all titled COD3. When asked about it, IW made a comment to the affect that MW was the real COD3, not the game that had been put out by Treyarch. They've always seem pissed off that Activision let someone else in on the development of the COD titles.
 
The original CoD was my favorite by far. MW was good, but the non-IW games weren't nearly to that level. Honestly, if I had made one the best fps of all time, I'd be damn pissed if the parent company took the development away from me.
 
Sir Matt said:
The original CoD was my favorite by far. MW was good, but the non-IW games weren't nearly to that level. Honestly, if I had made one the best fps of all time, I'd be damn pissed if the parent company took the development away from me.
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COD WaW would have been the best COD when it was released, had it not been for the MP40. And no one took the development away from IW.
 
Remember the outcry when activision priced call of duty: Modern warfare 2 at £55 - a a fiver more than your usual 360 or ps3 title?

It looks as though the publisher's going to do the same with call of duty: Black ops, if uk retailers' pre-order listings are to be believed.

Gamers can now pre-order the title from the likes of amazon, game, play.com and more.

However, the retailers are listing the title as having an rrp of £54.99 - although most of them have sliced £10 off that.

The row over the 'premium' pricing of modern warfare 2 erupted last year, but it didn't seem to hurt the game's sales: It went on to become the second-highest grossing video game of all time in the uk.

An activision spokesperson told cvg: "with regards to black ops, we haven't confirmed any pricing details at this stage so have nothing to comment on.
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pfffffffffffftttttt.
 
I got MW2 on day of release for £29.99 so I don't imagine it will be much of an issue.
 
For feck's sake, I'm going to fail uni.
 
look forward to it love Modern warfare 2 may have to get the first modern warfare and play that. Have World at War and played half but for some reason I can't get the save to work on that.
 
The first details on Call of Duty: Black Ops are in, via new issues of Official Xbox Magazine and PC Zone.

As reported, Black Ops is a Cold War-era deniable-ops shooter that tackles Vietnam, the frosty Russian Mountains, the Loation undergrounds and everything in between. Developer Treyarch hopes the locations will inject some much needed variety into the CoD series.

OXM describes Black Ops as "unbelievably gorgeous", with snazzier smoke and fire effects, better draw distance, more convincing character animation and "incredible" lighting in some scenes.

You play as a member of the Studies and Operations Group (SOG), a pocket of CIA-sanctioned forces whose methods are unconventional and actions deniable.

SOG missions the mags saw include rappelling out of a helicopter into Hue City to verify that the Russians are setting up shady backroom deals, and a stealthy operation in the Ural Mountains called 'WMD' which has you repelling down the side of a ridge, Modern Warfare style.

Another level, which kicks off with a helicopter crash into the Huong River, has you swimming a diving through the murky waters - with only your knife for company.

New weapons include the Crossbow, which can be used for both stealthy kills and an explosive tip secondary fire shot, the M202 rocket launcher and an incendiary shotgun.

Of course as you'd have seen in the debut trailer that Black Ops also features pilotable vehicles, including the SR-71 Blackbird (which has you guiding troops on the ground past guard patrols - a bit like Modern Warfare's own air missions) and the helicopter, which OXM stresses is fully controllable - you even have helicopter-on-helicopter gun fights.

As far as multiplayer goes Treyarch is staying quiet, though vehicles will return (but "not the way you remember them"), some kind of co-op mode as well as increased character customisation.
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Oh, and:

Activision might have inadvertently dropped a hint at the future of the Call of Duty series, via a series of domain registrations that've appeared online.

Call of Duty: Future Warfare, Advanced Warfare, Secret Warfare and Space Warfare have all had internet domains registered by the publisher, which is a not-so-subtle hint as to the direction the series is looking to head.

Speculation's already kicked into gear that this new, multiple-named futuristic CoD could be the entry in development at Sledgehammer Games.

However, from our understanding all Call of Duty games set in the present and future come under Infinity Ward's jurisdiction, so we're a bit confused.
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I wonder if they're far from confident about winning their case against the former IW employees. If Respawns lawsuit is succesful, they then hold claim to the Modernwarfare name and all intellect associated with the series as well as a mother load of dosh.
 
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