Activision Officially Announces Treyarch-Developed Call of Duty: Black Ops [Updated]
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?