Wednesday, December 15, 2010

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS

         Hi, it’s Hunter again. Sorry about not having posted in a long time, but being stuck in school and other stuff really takes up your time. Not to mention being addicted to Black Ops amazing multiplayer. Black Ops has an amazing online multiplayer. The kill streaks are creative and fun to use. There are kill streaks ranging from three to eleven kills. But there’s nothing like getting a nuke like people did in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. The best kill streak is a gunship. Where you control an attack helicopter and where it goes and where it fires. But, like in modern warfare there are UAVs called spy planes and counter UAVs called counter-spy planes. There are also attack helicopters, care-packages, sentry guns, and chopper gunners like in Modern Warfare 2. But I like Black Ops’ kill streaks better than the ones in Modern Warfare.  The RC-XD is a miniature remote control car that explodes when you command it to. It’s an easy to get yet fun kill streak.  But to other players it’s a cheap kill. SAM turrets are a good kill streak to have. They shoot down any enemy aircraft except for a Blackbird, which is a UAV that always tells the enemy position and which way the enemy is facing. A SAM turret gets you a lot of points and allows you to have an actual sidearm instead of having to pull out the LAW or some other kind of rocket launcher. But I think Treyarch should have given shotgun side arms. Now they are a primary weapon, so the only option is to have a pistol or a ballistic knife (which is a pair of knifes and one of them actually shoots the blade out.) or a crossbow (which is obviously a crossbow, but its tip explodes after you fire it) Anyways, there are other types of kill streaks, air strikes such as, Napalm strikes which lays down fires onto a set pint on the map, Mortar strikes where you pick three areas on the map to be bombarded with mortar bombs. There is also an 8 kill streak which is a valkyrie rocket, which is a guided missile you control and it shows the enemies on the map. It’s similar to a predator missile except you shoot 2 and they come from you on ground level. The other kill streak is attack dogs which you call in after 11 kills and dogs spawn from various points on the map and kill enemies. But, dogs can be killed, they may not count as a kill in team death match or free-for-all but it gives them 30 points for killing them. Now, onto perks, the new perk set-up I think is better than the one in Modern Warfare 2. The blue perks are Lightweight (faster run) which you start out with, Ghost (which is like cold blooded), Scavenger (scavenge ammo), Flak Jacket (which allows you to take more damage from just about anything), and finally Hardline (which allows you 1 less kill for a kill streak) The red perks are Hardened (which is like having FMJ, and you start out with this perk) Scout (gives you longer held breath when firing a scoped weapon) Steady Aim (which gives you increased aim when firing from the hip) Sleight of Hand (faster reload) and Warlord (which is Bling, it allows you to have two attachments) The green perks are Tactical Mask (which protects you from Nova gas you get this as a starting perk as well) Marathon (which allows you to run for a longer duration) Ninja (which allows you to run without being heard) Second chance (which puts you on the ground after being shot only equipped with a pistol to return fire but only for 10 seconds) and Hacker (it allows you to see enemy equipment) I love the new title and emblem set up. You create your emblem by buying pictures and setting them into place and changing the color. There are not as many titles though. But many of them are cool looking. You must buy these with COD points just like you do everything in multiplayer. I like this system better because then you don’t have to complete achievements for attachments on guns.
                But, before you play online I suggest you play its AMAZING campaign.  You play as a man named Mason who is part of a special operation named Black Ops, which is a group that goes behind enemy lines and risks their lives to find any information about the enemy. In the game you were captured and are being interrogated by some people. You are asked to recall the events of the Cold War. In these memories you play as Mason through escape, battles, and search and destroy missions. You also play as other characters, who are trying to capture Mason because he has become a mad man. The Russians have brainwashed Mason to try and get him to kill the president of the United States John F. Kennedy. They transmit numbers into your head, which you see throughout the campaign many, many times. Later in the campaign you find out you’ve been brainwashed and you go out to find where these numbers are being transmitted from. There you end the Cold War by blowing up the headquarters of the enemy. This campaign is very action packed and has a mission for everyone to love. When you finish the campaign, it will take you to zombies.
                I don’t like zombies like everyone else seems to. I guess it’s because I’m not very good at it. I think it’s very hard. You really need three or more people to play because it’s so hard. I love Left 4 Dead, and I love the idea of killing zombies. But I don’t like this one. There seems to be too much stuff to do. You’ve got to find things, set blockades, and MOW through many waves of zombies. But I’m also not the person to talk to about zombie gaming considering I haven’t played that many zombie games. But I did love the arcade mode. I thought that was hilarious. If you haven’t heard of it, when you are at the main menu you press the triggers rapidly and then you get up from you chair, and behind your chair there is a computer and you type in this code. “3ARC UNLOCK” This code works for all systems but I’m unsure of how you get up from your chair on PS3 and Wii. I know that rapidly pushing the triggers gets you up from your chair on Xbox 360 though. Thank you for reading this, and being patient for this review.
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