Black Ops Info and Opinion

What is Black Ops?

Call of Duty : Black Ops is the seventh main installment of the Call of Duty and is currently being developed by Treyarch. It is planned to be released on November 9, 2010.

Multiplayer:

General:

• The max reachable level is 50 and prestige mode is still there. Nothing really special here.


• The vehicles are back, but they are different than the ones from World at War. Not all of them are map items. Some come as killstreaks.


• But what's really interesting is the new Theatre mode where players can record, replay, edit and upload their own gameplay. There many awesome effects too like changing from 1st person point of view to 3rd person. And adding slow-motion and fast forward! This looks really good and got me real excited! I can't wait to just record a cool kill online and show it to you guys. This just looks incredible!
• In-game currency is used to purchase weapons and upgrades. This is another cool feature. Now you don't level up to unlock new weapons and upgrades, but you actually obtain in-game money to buy those weapons and upgrades!But the player still needs to level up to unlock the upgrades so that he can buy them. There are also some game modes where you can actually gamble the money, called CoD Points, but we'll go into those later!

Gametypes:

• Team Deathmatch is back. But this time, bonuses like headshots will be added to the team's score!
• Capture the Flag
• Search and Destroy
• Demolition
• Hardcore Team Deathmatch
• Headquarters
• Sabotage
• Domination
• Combat Training: A fight against enemy AI.

Contracts:

Contracts, in addition to the classic challenges system in Black Ops, is a system where players buy specific contracts with their CoD points, receive specific challenges, and earn more CoD points

Wager Matches:

In Wager matches, players are able to gamble their money in different game modes, but only the top 3 players earn extra money, whereas the others lose:

• One in the Chamber: Each player is given a pistol with one bullet and a knife. A player earns an extra bullet for every kill, but each player only has 3 lives. This looks real awesome, imagine the pressure when you have just one life left and no more bullets, and you are one of the two still in the game. That would be so awesome!
• Sharpshooter: Each player is given the same random weapon which changes every 45 seconds, players earn perks for kills. This also looks great, mainly because it's the fairest game mode in any Call of Duty game.
• Sticks and Stones: Each player has only a Crossbow, Ballistic Knife and a Tomahawk. But what players should really be worried about is that if he gets hit by the Tomahawk, he is automatically Bankrupt.
• And finally, the best in my opinion, Gun Game: Every player starts with a pistol and after each kill the players weapon is upgraded into a stronger one. The first player to get a kill with all 20 weapons wins, but if a player is knifed, his weapon will return one level.

Campaign:

Not much is known about the Single-player campaign but there will be a multiplayer campaign different than the single-player campaign, where up to 4 players can play. This also looks awesome, I really loved Spec Ops in Modern Warfare 2 but a whole Multiplayer Campaign looks even better!