Game Overview

Call of Duty Black Ops

Call of Duty Black Ops

Call of Duty Black Ops is a first-person shooter. The player assumes the role of a foot soldier and thus has access to various firearms, of which two at a time can be carried, as well as explosives such as grenades and other equipment to fight enemies.

When players are close enough to an enemy, they can perform a melee attack which ensures a one-hit-kill. A character can be positioned in one of the three stances: standing, crouching, or prone; each affecting the character’s rate of movement, accuracy, and stealth. The player can directly dive prone from a standing position. The player can momentarily run faster before getting tired.

When the character has taken damage, the screen glows red. Health regenerates by avoiding damage. When the character is within the blast radius of a live grenade, a marker indicates the direction of the grenade, helping the player to either flee or throw it back.

The game features weapons like crossbows (with alternative explosive ammunition), Dragon’s Breath rounds and ballistic knives.

Brutality and gore are present, with a dismemberment feature.

3 game modes: single player campaign, cooperative (up to 4 players) and multiplayer. Game development started shortly before the release of Call of Duty: World at War (November 2008). Nearly 250 people work on the game. The game was designed with the same motion capture techniques that the film Avatar. Treyarch has hired professional actors and recorded body movements, facial expressions and voice simultaneously. The multiplayer mode was the first site of Treyarch. The game uses an enhanced version of the graphics engine of Modern Warfare 2.

Check out the Call of Duty Black Ops Trailer.

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