Activision Officially Announces Treyarch-Developed Call of Duty: Black Ops [Updated]
Activision Officially Announces Treyarch-Developed Call of Duty: Black Ops [Updated]
Posted 04/30/2010 at 9:10pm
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Update: Here's the trailer, which is sure to blast the sleep from your eyes with fast-cut camera work, ominous music, and loud explosions. Sorry Starbucks, your services won't be needed today. Better still, it actually looks quite good, if you ask us. The game appears to be set in modern times, as well, which is a bit unexpected considering the connotations that go along with a potential Vietnam setting. Enough from us, though. Go see for yourself.
Original Article: While Activision scrambles to pick up the pieces from Infinity Ward’s slow-motion explosion, Treyarch’s picking up the slack. As was rumored, the latest entry in the ridiculously popular shooter series will be subtitled “Black Ops.” Videogame publishers who are not Activision, take note: Black Ops is launching on November 9. You can go ahead and delay your games now. We’ll wait.
Problem is, that’s all we actually know about the game right now. Fortunately, the debut trailer is dropping later tonight, so we’ll be sure to update this post as soon as it happens. For now, though, we’ve got some not-quite-concrete info in UK retailer GAME’s near-confirmation that the game will be set in Vietnam, Cuba, and the Arctic – among other locations. But that information has since been pulled.
So yeah. Keep an eye on this space. Huh? What about the other eye? Well we just assumed that you were a normal human whose eyes worked in tandem. What kind of weird alien are you, anyway? Geez, Call of Duty really does have a lot of fans, doesn’t it?
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gamefan456
May 25, 2010 at 8:29am
Check it out! I found a link to the music for the
"Call of Duty: Black Ops" trailer!It's by artist Cliff Lin and
it's called "And Your World Will Burn."You can download it at this link:
http://bit.ly/cbRBNs
DystopianFreak
May 04, 2010 at 7:11am
I'm actually wondering how the game will play now that Infinity Ward is out of the picture. I loved Modern Warfare 1 & 2, and so when I see that they will not be producing the next one, I begin to question the integrity of the game. I can see from the trailer that the graphics are just as beautiful, and so that eases my worries a little bit, but you cannot judge a book by its cover. I am just going to wait for this to come out. Until then, I'll stick with Bad Company 2, and be damn happy of it.
Trooper_One
May 03, 2010 at 12:44pm
.... and I was really hoping to see what happens to Captain Price and Soap...
In anycase, hopefully they'll smash records as well but Treyarch better have their contracts cleared up and solidified!
Trooper_One
May 03, 2010 at 12:43pm
.... and I was really hoping to see what happens to Captain Price and Soap...
In anycase, hopefully they'll smash records as well but Treyarch better have their contracts cleared up and solidified!
IFLATLINEI
May 02, 2010 at 10:41am
We didnt ask you how it looked. If your going to give an opinion on the game then wait till it comes out. All you seen so far are cutscenes put together MTv Style. BIG F'N DEAL. All games look good when cut scenes are put to music that way. If they didnt no one would be getting ripped off for $60 at a time. But we are. The last MW2 was just a reskin off COD4. Thats all that was new. No vehicles, No destruction, No real physics. Crap! ALL CRAP!
Red Flags- Activision "Were going to take the fun out of making video games."
- The best of Infinity Ward walked out and filed suit against a game company we all know sucked anyways.
carnivorousslushee23
May 01, 2010 at 11:24pm
Meh. I'm really getting tired of all the COD games being churned out; COD4 was really the only one I liked, but then MW2 came along and I decided that I was tired of that formula. And now IW is gone, too, and I never liked any of the Treyarch games. It'll be interesting to see Treyarch's take on modern warfare this time around, but I'll just stick to Bad Company 2, as it's a vastly superior game to me. And prettier too.
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Joji
May 01, 2010 at 8:06pm
What happened to Inifinity Ward? I thought they were the only guys who create the Call of Duty series... I'm a bit worried if the gameplay of this "new game" would be any good. I've never heard of this company called "TreyArch". This game better be good, or else it would be one of those games like Halo 2 where the campaign are short and not "wow" enough. :/
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Phosphorous
May 01, 2010 at 8:27pm
You must not know much about the COD series then. They've actually made 3 of the COD games. A COD2 console version, COD3 console version and they also made COD WaW which was console/PC.
Walnut
May 01, 2010 at 10:56pm
It's also worth mentioning that TreyArch CoD games are notoriously worse than IW CoD games. The only reason WaW was even halfway decent is because they nabbed half of their fun mechanics from Modern Warfare.
emperor3d
May 02, 2010 at 8:37am
That's your opinion. There's nothing "notrorious" about this point. I bought MW2 and got bored of it right-quick. The non-dedicated server issue is a joke. The rampant hacking is annoying. I much prefer COD WAW than MW2. Actually, let me re-state that. I love WAW and I hate MW2.
Aiks22
May 01, 2010 at 12:51pm
think it looks good but after all its only a trailer no real gameplay to speak of, but what i wanna see is a
MW3: Bad Company made by Respawn studious
savior
May 01, 2010 at 10:38am
I think BF:BC2 may want to look into there files to see if anyone stole there game plans, this game looks offly like bad company 2....go figure
Devo85x
May 01, 2010 at 6:05am
I watched the trailer, and it looked good. But after the crap they pulled with people ether getting fired or quitting I don't know how it will stack up against MW2...
One thing I noticed though, there was a part in the trailer where it looked like the player was controling a hele. I don't know how this will work out since it isn't Battlefield. We will see though.
smashingpumpin
May 01, 2010 at 5:29am
Darn, yet another potential AAA to the list after BF BC2! Looks like I'll surely be waiting impatiently release date after release date as my wallet and free time would only allow me to buy half or less of my wishlist by the end of 2010.
With all the hyped up games planned for 2010 release- MOH, Crysis2, Fallout NV, Blacklight TD, Ghost Recon FS, Portal2, Arma2 OA, Starcraft2 WoL, Dues EX3, APB, RUSE... bye-bye sunlight!!!, reviews is a must-see and I'm just beggin for a delay on some of it! lol
By watching the amnesia-of-some-sort trailer, one would guess that Treyarch would let u shoot your way through different timelines and therefore have you playing with different guns and equipment based on the setting/era. If that's the case, I find this truly refreshing as I find myself easily bored on just playing either modern weapons and equipment or WW2-Coldwar era guns for the entire whole game- Combining the two on one game is definetely a win on my book! Let's say, I prefer this other than another zombie redo.
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festiva_man
May 01, 2010 at 3:02am
$60 game and no dedicated servers. It is gonna be simply amazing. Can I preorder this right now?
williezzy
April 30, 2010 at 9:48pm
It like your having surgery of some sort done to you, i guess to make you better, I guess that will add some twist to the game. Kinda like your part bionic or something. Anyways, most epic trailer ever!
Scatmanbrandt
April 30, 2010 at 9:30pm
I can see the frat boys now
Woo Awesome
Yeah I AM Teh Sniporz
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