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Manufacturer's Description
Call of Duty tackles a whole new era as Black Ops plunges you into the murky height of the Cold War and history's most secretive battles. The world's most popular first person shooter places you in the most dangerous conflict zones of the late '60s.
One of publisher Activision's biggest internal studios, Treyarch have worked on many of the company's best known titles - including multiple Spider-Man games and the Quantum of Solace tie-in. They're also behind Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: World at War.
 Call of Duty dives into the secret world of the Cold War |
 Call in deadly attack choppers in Vietnam |
 Attack a Soviet outpost in the frozen Ural mountains |
 Use new weapons such as a Dragon's Breath shotgun |
From the jungles of Vietnam to the snowy wastes of the Ural mountains, you and your team must operate behind enemy lines and using only the limited technology of the time. Luckily this includes air support such as the SR-71 Blackbird stealth plane, as well as deadly attack helicopters and armoured personnel carriers.
Like any Call of Duty game the multiplayer will set the standard for all other console games, with enhanced customisation tools, playable vehicles and a revamped scoring system.
- Retro Warfare: Call of Duty explodes the myths of the Cold War as you join a team of Black Ops soldiers caught up in the fight against communism in Vietnam and beyond.
- Ammu-Nation: Use new special ammo including an explosive crossbow, Dragon's Breath flame rounds for your shotgun and a range of other period weapons.
- Twisted Metal: Take the controls of the iconic SR-71 Blackbird as you direct operations from high above or jump into an attack chopper in Vietnam for some close-up action.
- Online Perks: Create-a-Class 2.0 customisation tool lets you personalise your online battles even more, with new perks and revamped rules for killstreaks.
One of publisher Activision's biggest internal studios, Treyarch have worked on many of the company's best known titles - including multiple Spider-Man games and the Quantum of Solace tie-in. They're also behind Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: World at War.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops is the latest installment in the massive Call of Duty series which sees you taking on some of the most secretive missions at the height of the Cold War.
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55 of 60 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PC|Edition:Standard
Fun:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I was very apprehensive about buying black ops after the problems with MW2 and the connection issues mainly but after all the hype I gave in and forked out £40 for this BETA test....
The game has connection issues even on dedicated server's connections don't hold brilliantly and I can't even connect to a zombie online game whatsoever!
Countless PC gamers haven't even been able to play the game as it stutters due to poor conversion from a console version (a recent patch has made it playable for many but not 100%, with some people noticing no improvement)
The campaign is one of the shortest I've ever played and doesn't offer much variation from the run & gun like the previous titles did it seems to focus more on the cut scenes than interesting game play
Vehicles controls are clunky and by far not as good as they could be
In MW2 there were a couple of maps where snipers could be a viable class on pretty much all the BLOPS maps sniper is greatly UP and of no good unless you've got a hack (of which there are loads already)
Avoid this game until a massive overhaul has been done to iron out glitches and bugs.
The worst part I've not seen any real apology or word from Treyarch or Activison apart from moaning on their twitter about how people are angry it's disgraceful!
The game has connection issues even on dedicated server's connections don't hold brilliantly and I can't even connect to a zombie online game whatsoever!
Countless PC gamers haven't even been able to play the game as it stutters due to poor conversion from a console version (a recent patch has made it playable for many but not 100%, with some people noticing no improvement)
The campaign is one of the shortest I've ever played and doesn't offer much variation from the run & gun like the previous titles did it seems to focus more on the cut scenes than interesting game play
Vehicles controls are clunky and by far not as good as they could be
In MW2 there were a couple of maps where snipers could be a viable class on pretty much all the BLOPS maps sniper is greatly UP and of no good unless you've got a hack (of which there are loads already)
Avoid this game until a massive overhaul has been done to iron out glitches and bugs.
The worst part I've not seen any real apology or word from Treyarch or Activison apart from moaning on their twitter about how people are angry it's disgraceful!
102 of 113 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. P. Ridge
Platform for Display:PC|Edition:Standard
Fun:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hmmm ... I got it on the day of release and I'm really not sure about it.
I'm strictly old school when it comes to FPS games and only consider playing them on the PC whether they're solo or multiplayer: you just get way more accuracy and control with the WSAD/Mouse combo and I have been playing that way since Doom came out in 1993, which is nearly twenty years, after all.
I own a Wii, but generally don't get on with consoles in general as I find it really hard to use the controllers. There is a new gizmo coming out shortly that allows a keys/mouse set-up to be attached, but ... what's the point?
You may as well just play PC as do that ...
ANYWAY !
Black Ops.
Review.
SinglePlayer: excellent story line, starting with the Cuban missile crisis in the Bay Of Pigs in the early 60s. You're actually strapped in a chair and are being interrogated throughout the campaign section of the game, and the various missions take the form of flashbacks. There are numbers popping up all over the screen from time to time and you've obviously been brainwashed or at least severely damaged mentally at some point in the last 30 or so years. The game then moves through various international incidents that have called for strategic initiatives and covert operations, sometimes in the midst of an all out war (Vietnam), sometimes not (a raid on a Russian silo, breaking out of a gulag). In all, there are 15 solo missions and you work back and forth from 1945 to the present day, sometimes as a Russian with western sympathies, but most of the time as an American.
It's gripping as a story, perhaps the most cohesive yet in the series, and the set pieces are - as always - spectacular.... Read more ›
I'm strictly old school when it comes to FPS games and only consider playing them on the PC whether they're solo or multiplayer: you just get way more accuracy and control with the WSAD/Mouse combo and I have been playing that way since Doom came out in 1993, which is nearly twenty years, after all.
I own a Wii, but generally don't get on with consoles in general as I find it really hard to use the controllers. There is a new gizmo coming out shortly that allows a keys/mouse set-up to be attached, but ... what's the point?
You may as well just play PC as do that ...
ANYWAY !
Black Ops.
Review.
SinglePlayer: excellent story line, starting with the Cuban missile crisis in the Bay Of Pigs in the early 60s. You're actually strapped in a chair and are being interrogated throughout the campaign section of the game, and the various missions take the form of flashbacks. There are numbers popping up all over the screen from time to time and you've obviously been brainwashed or at least severely damaged mentally at some point in the last 30 or so years. The game then moves through various international incidents that have called for strategic initiatives and covert operations, sometimes in the midst of an all out war (Vietnam), sometimes not (a raid on a Russian silo, breaking out of a gulag). In all, there are 15 solo missions and you work back and forth from 1945 to the present day, sometimes as a Russian with western sympathies, but most of the time as an American.
It's gripping as a story, perhaps the most cohesive yet in the series, and the set pieces are - as always - spectacular.... Read more ›
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PC|Edition:Standard
Fun:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The last Call of Duty game I played on the PC was World at War, and it was fine. I recently played Black Ops on the PS3 and thought I'd like to have that on the PC. So, Amazon delivered the game in excellent time as usual I then went about installing it.
Now, back in years gone by, PC gaming was a bit suspect. If you were lucky it worked first time, otherwise it would crash randomly and you would wait months for a patch to make it work, or could spend hours creating a start disk for the game or worse still, spend vast amounts of cash on new hardware.
Now fortunately things have moved on, and although I don't buy many PC games these days, when I have they have worked first time, with little trouble - not this game though.
Lets start at the PC Spec level required - you'll see that you'll need at least a Intel Core2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750 in order to run the game. Other key requirements include a HDD space of 12GB and at least a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT or ATI Radeon X1950Pro video card or better. Fortunately my PC falls well above these requirements (Phenom x4, 4GB Ram, GTX560ti 1GB)so I didn't expect too many problems. How wrong could I be....
After installation, the first few attempts to start the game resulted in the PC crashing or hanging at the game intro. Having reinstalled the latest nvidia drivers, the intro then sort of worked, but the audio was out of sync, but at least I got to the main menu where I could adjust the settings. Started the single player game, video playback was ok this time, and finally I started playing. Well, lets just say it wasn't a gaming experience to behold. Sound again was a problem, but the frame rate was SO POOR. The delay between moving the mouse and something happening on screen was huge.... Read more ›
Now, back in years gone by, PC gaming was a bit suspect. If you were lucky it worked first time, otherwise it would crash randomly and you would wait months for a patch to make it work, or could spend hours creating a start disk for the game or worse still, spend vast amounts of cash on new hardware.
Now fortunately things have moved on, and although I don't buy many PC games these days, when I have they have worked first time, with little trouble - not this game though.
Lets start at the PC Spec level required - you'll see that you'll need at least a Intel Core2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750 in order to run the game. Other key requirements include a HDD space of 12GB and at least a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT or ATI Radeon X1950Pro video card or better. Fortunately my PC falls well above these requirements (Phenom x4, 4GB Ram, GTX560ti 1GB)so I didn't expect too many problems. How wrong could I be....
After installation, the first few attempts to start the game resulted in the PC crashing or hanging at the game intro. Having reinstalled the latest nvidia drivers, the intro then sort of worked, but the audio was out of sync, but at least I got to the main menu where I could adjust the settings. Started the single player game, video playback was ok this time, and finally I started playing. Well, lets just say it wasn't a gaming experience to behold. Sound again was a problem, but the frame rate was SO POOR. The delay between moving the mouse and something happening on screen was huge.... Read more ›
75 of 87 people found the following review helpful
By M. Meadows
Platform for Display:PC|Edition:Standard
Fun:
1.0 out of 5 stars
After all the hype from Treyarch with them sucking up to the gamers that whined about MW2 by reintroducing lean and dedicated servers and whatnot, they seem to have forgotten to make this game fun. The first experience I had of CoD:BO was manually setting the resolution because autodetecting my desktop res is apparently too much to ask for, but the left/right selecters don't work in the menus. Really Treyarch; my first view of your game that I've been waiting for since it was announced is buggy menus? Cheers for that.
The SP is a bit longer than MW2, takes maybe 5-6 hours to complete on hardened. The plot is ridiculous, it's boring and ultimately isn't fun. I had no idea what the game was even about until about 4 hours in and by then I really didn't care. I was just grinding to get it finished. Oh and the end? I wasn't even sure if it was finished when I hit the ending. Talk about LAME. After 5 hours of rubbish campaign I wasn't expecting anything awesome, but the game just stops!
VEHICLE SCENES: They lag, not in terms of graphics lag, they just generally feel stiff and nearly all just feel ... wrong. I'm not sure how else to explain it. They should never have been included. A perfect example of this is the escape via motorbike. It feels like you're gliding along the ground, really bad.
INVISIBLE WALLS: Good grief, I thought I'd played some games that take liberties with restricting freedom, but the amount of invisible walls in this game is incredible! Your path through the level is encased in a VERY linear invisible wall. Example: You're swimming into some sort of underwater station thing. You can press forwards, that's it. You can't swim up/down/left/right because the game doesn't let you have that much freedom of movement.... Read more ›
The SP is a bit longer than MW2, takes maybe 5-6 hours to complete on hardened. The plot is ridiculous, it's boring and ultimately isn't fun. I had no idea what the game was even about until about 4 hours in and by then I really didn't care. I was just grinding to get it finished. Oh and the end? I wasn't even sure if it was finished when I hit the ending. Talk about LAME. After 5 hours of rubbish campaign I wasn't expecting anything awesome, but the game just stops!
VEHICLE SCENES: They lag, not in terms of graphics lag, they just generally feel stiff and nearly all just feel ... wrong. I'm not sure how else to explain it. They should never have been included. A perfect example of this is the escape via motorbike. It feels like you're gliding along the ground, really bad.
INVISIBLE WALLS: Good grief, I thought I'd played some games that take liberties with restricting freedom, but the amount of invisible walls in this game is incredible! Your path through the level is encased in a VERY linear invisible wall. Example: You're swimming into some sort of underwater station thing. You can press forwards, that's it. You can't swim up/down/left/right because the game doesn't let you have that much freedom of movement.... Read more ›
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Working game but damaged box
I got the game opened up the packaging and i realized that the top of the box was cracked so now the box does not close the item could have done with more packaging.
Published 2 days ago by Rory McGuinness
2.0 out of 5 stars
I know you've heard it before, but it's the same old formula.
This review is going to be short.
Black Ops has a great campaign, probably the best narrative in a Call of Duty game so far. Read more
Black Ops has a great campaign, probably the best narrative in a Call of Duty game so far. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Adam Hamilton
3.0 out of 5 stars
its ok for a cod game
well well its the cod again, didn't play it much battlefield 3 came out and wiped these cod crap of the war map...
Published 13 days ago by Mr. C. Thomasson
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great storyline but...
I can't believe that I am only awarding 3 stars to a CoD game! As a committed fan of the CoD franchise I was looking forward to playing this game but should have paid more... Read more
Published 24 days ago by Chukkaman
1.0 out of 5 stars
They sent it me in German lenguage
-No way to change the lenguage in steam.
It would be good idea to offer the posibility of buying in other lenguages or to explain what is the lenguage of the game before... Read more
It would be good idea to offer the posibility of buying in other lenguages or to explain what is the lenguage of the game before... Read more
Published 1 month ago by hndeustu
1.0 out of 5 stars
German version
Bought this game from Scotland on amazon.co.uk and recieved the German version. I can't find any way to turn on subtitles but even then I bet that they'd be in German. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Cormac Stephenson
5.0 out of 5 stars
it was great
this product was great because if you die you want to try again, but in most games you just get bored.
Published 2 months ago by spike
5.0 out of 5 stars
favtastic !!
simply excellent !, cant wait to play black ops 2 and 3 !, the perfect continuation of the modern warfare line !
Published 2 months ago by anthony lewis
4.0 out of 5 stars
Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC DVD) Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC DVD)
good game havent finished playing it but would definately think of buying the follow up without a doubt if the price was right
Published 2 months ago by grumandmaz
1.0 out of 5 stars
steam support does not work and does'nt doawnload
i've tried all i can and it has totaly refused to download and as for the steam and it's support, well thats just to say totaly useless!
Published 2 months ago by david
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