The next installment of the Call of Duty is finally here after a long wait. Does Black Ops fill the boots of the other call of duty games, or does it fall flat on its face? There are some minor issues in the game, but that’s not to say that you won’t be blown away by it. In the Black Ops campaign you start as Alex Mason, a soldier who is being interrogated for information on numbers that are being broadcast that have something to do with a terror plot on the world.

The story is quite hard to follow at the start and you may not know what is going on. But near the middle and defiantly by the end you will understand what you have been doing this whole time. The campaign layout is relatively the same to the other Call of Duty game like modern warfare 2 where you shoot up the bad guys and complete objectives. However I found the campaign to be a lot more intuitive and fun.

The enemy’s intelligence has also improved. For example, in World at War the enemy would just stand in front of you and wait to be shot. But now if they are hit in the leg or see you coming the will run for the nearest cover. The campaign also lets you drive some vehicles like helicopters, motorbikes and boats which give the game a lot more interactivity instead of just hoping in the back seat and shooting a gun. You will also meet some friendly faces from previous call of duties. Overall I think Treyarch have built a well-rounded campaign with lots to do and unique characters.

Black Ops MultiPlayer

The part most people will be interested in, is the multiplayer. This is where I think Treyarch have really pulled it off. Creating the same addictive experience will some great new features.

The biggest update to the multiplayer has to be the introduction of CoD points. Instead of just unlocking weapons, perks and camouflage at certain levels, players have to buy them with these points which are earned by leveling up, completing contracts or winning in wager matches. Customization has also been something that has been on Treyarchs mind. Players can chose what their gun camo looks like, what their character looks like or even what their dot sight (reticle) looks like. Players can also customize their emblem allowing every player to be unique.

Wager matches are also a new feature in the game. The main element in these games is the CoD points. Before playing each player has to ‘buy in’ with CoD points. If you are in the top 3 player at the end you are ‘in the money’, if you aren’t in the top 3 you are ‘out of the money’. There are about 5 unique wager match game modes. But in my opinion the best ones are ‘One in the Chamber’ which focuses on accuracy and ‘Gun Game’ which focuses on your ability to utilize every weapon in the game. I have had some experience of extreme lag in wager matches and some disconnection problems which are quite a nuisance and spoil it for me sometimes.

With all this action going on in multi-player, you will certainly want people to see how awesome you are, right? Well Treyarch have done just that. Theater mode lets you playback entire games, from 3rd person and 1st person. It even lets you see other peoples load outs. I got a great kill on one in the chamber just before writing this. Here it is:

However, the stability of the online servers has been questioned since the release, there have been reports of people randomly disconnecting, huge lag spikes. When I leveled up to level 5 and went to create a class and made my character, but when I went on the next day I was level 3 and was unable to access create a class.

Zombies have also made their way back into Black Ops with 3 great new maps, new improved gore, lots of new weapons and even 3D. I have not yet to play in 3D but I have heard that it makes the frame rate drop quite a bit.

Black Ops certainly lives up to the addictive, quality game-play that the Call of Duty series is famous for. The campaign is of the best I’ve ever seen. And the multiplayer is just as amazing as the last if not more amazing. My only issue with the game is the buggy wager matches, which I’m sure, will be fixed. In all honesty, Black Ops is truly a gaming masterpiece and defiantly worth buying. It certainly fills the boots of its predecessor.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 getting £250 “Ear Force” headset

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How much would you be prepared to pay to hear Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at its best? If the answer is "between £90 and £250" then you might be interested in the range of new premium headsets from Turtle Beach, improbably named "Ear Force." Ear Force!

The best headset is called Ear Force Delta, because, according to action movies, delta team is always best. It has its own carrying case (Carry Force?) and comes "pre-loaded with unique custom Modern Warfare 3 presets and voice prompts." Ear Force Delta is specified as coming to the Xbox 360 and the PS3, with no mention of a PC release yet, so Modern Warfare 3 PC enthusiasts may have to look a little further down the list. Ear Force Bravo offers the same Modern Warfare 3 presets as its more macho Delta cousin, but at the low, low price of £169.99. 

If that's a little too steep, then consider Ear Force Charlie. It has "eight amplified, acoustically-angled speakers delivering discrete surround sound" and is described as being "tournament grade." The final grade is Ear Force Foxtrot. Those cans will set you back £90 - the equivalent of just seven Call of Duty: Black Ops map packs.

Find out more on the Turtle Beach Modern Warfare 3 headsets on the Turtle Beach site. If you're love Call of Duty enough to consider buying a set, you might also want to check out the upcoming Call of Duty XP live event. It's going to have a life size paintball arena based on a Modern Warfare 2 map. Ear force!

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 screenshots show wetsuit warrior and boat war

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Activision have released two screenshots of Modern Warfare 3. The first image proves that, no matter how many pouches you're wearing, it's impossible to look badass in a wetsuit. The second shot shows the impressive scale of the naval battle shown in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 E3 demo. Sadly, most of the boat war on show is background detail for the boat escape that concludes the level, it would be great to go deck to deck, taking down enemy ships one by one like some sort of boat-assassin.

There's also a picture of the Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition, fresh from the factory line, spotted by CVG. There's no news on what's inside yet. Click on the images to blow them up to full size. Boom!

Black Ops' Rezurrection DLC is One Small Step for Zombie-Kind

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Nacht der Untoten. Verruckt. Shi No Numa. Der Riese. These names strike terror in the hearts of anyone that dared venture into the undead playgrounds ofCall of Duty: World at War. The zombie story started there. It ends on the Moon.

Due out on August 23 for the Xbox 360, the Rezurrection donwloadable content pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops combines remastered versions of those four classic zombie packs with a new one called Moon, for obvious reasons. Forget about heading to a remote island to escape the undead hordes; they're spaceborn now, and there's no escape. Expect high-tech weapons, bizarre new weapons, and one hell of a challenge.

The five maps are packaged with an enhanced Zombies Soundtrack featuring three never-before-purchasable tracks and a special Xbox 360 Moon theme, all for the low, low price of 1,200 Microsoft points.

What's that you say? You've already gotten those four maps with the Hardened or Prestige editions of Black Ops? Well fine then, you get Rezurrection for free.

I'm sure the PC and PlayStation 3 players will get a similar deal whenever the content comes their way.

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Call of Duty Black ops Annihilatoin Map Pack Out for PC

New Rease - Call of Duty®: Black Ops Annihilation Content Pack

Product Release - Valve

29 Jul 2011

Call of Duty®: Black Ops Annihilation Content Pack is now available on Steam.

Obliterate the competition with “Annihilation,” the newest downloadable content pack for "Call of Duty: Black Ops", with 4 unique Multiplayer Maps and a wild new locale for the latest in unrelenting Zombies action.

Zombies are also back in "Annihilation," as players unearth the mysteries of "Shangri-La," a legendary shrine lost in an exotic jungle, where new undead species lurk within a treacherous labyrinth of underground caverns. Navigate through deadly traps and solve the dark secrets buried within the shifting walls of this zombie infested temple.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Multiplayer Strategy Guide Tips and Tricks, Glitches Exploits And More.

 

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Call of Duty®: Black Ops - Multiplayer FULL STORIES HEADLINES 13 May 2011Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 plot details leaked. Locations, characters and multiplayer maps revealed

 
Kotaku has dropped a payload of leaked Call of Duty: Modern Warfare details covering everything from the locations and characters of the single player campaign to the precise number of maps in the multiplayer mode. Find out more about the characters you'll be playing as, the new vehicles you'll be driving and the new locations you'll be blowing up in the huge info blowout below. Spoilers ahead.

The single player campaign will be set across 15 missions. It will pick up where Modern Warfare 2 left off with the invasion of Manhattan by Russian forces. As with previous Modern Warfare titels the campaign will skip between many different locations across the world, and have you playing as a number of different characters, not all of whom will survive.

Locations include Manhattan, the catacombs of Paris, India and Dubai. YOu'll be playing as a Russian Federal Protective Services agent, an SAS Operative and a tank gunner. We can also look forward to the return of the AC-130 gunship from previous Modern Warfare titles. Kotaku have released VERY spoilery details of the single player campaign here.

The multiplayer mode will contain 20 maps, though it's not certain at the moment how many of these will be in the game on launch, and how many will be released as map packs after launch. The excellent co-op Spec Ops mode of Modern Warfare 2 will make a return as well, and will be split into "survival" and "mission" modes. Five survival maps and seven mission maps are listed, some of which may be cut or altered before release.

All of the information above comes via Kotaku, who say that they received the information through multiple sources. The game's due out on November 8 this year. The multiplayer maps and single player locations are all listed below some of the leaked first images of the game.











Multiplayer maps

Alpha
Alps
Bootleg
Bravo
Brooklyn
Carbon
Coast
Dome
Exchange
Hardhat
Interchange
Lambeth
Meteora
Mogadishu
Paris
Plaza 2
Radar
Seatown
Underground
Village

Spec Ops mode

Survival

Carbon
Dome
Radar
Seatown
Village

Mission

Civilian Rescue
Flood the Market
Invisible Threat
Little Bro's
Out of Africa
No Fly Zone
Wing Man

 
*SPOILERS* Single player campaign locations:

Dharmasala, India
New York, New York
A plane transporting the president of Russia
A town in Sierra Leone
London, England
Mogadishu, Somalia
Hamburg, Germany
Paris, France
Prague, Czech Republic
A castle in the Czech mountains
Berlin, Germany
The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Washington. D.C.

Call of duty modern warfare 3 Could be announced this week

 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 could be announced this week

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A voice actor involved in the development of the next Call of Duty game has suggested that the sequel will be announced soon. Craig Fairbrass, who voiced Gaz in Modern Warfare and Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, has spoken on a radio show about his roles in the Call of Duty games, saying that he's recently been finishing up a few final "bits and pieces" for "something that's going to be out in May."

Speaking on talkSPORT, Fairbrass said "I did Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as Gaz and then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games, which is great, and I've just been out in LA doing something that's going to be announced in May... I've just been out there doing some bits and pieces and one of it's to do with... I can't say too much."

CVG note that yesterday's release of the latest Escalation map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops on the XBox, and the announcement of Activision's first quarter financial results next Monday make this week the ideal time to make an announcement about the next Call of Duty game. 

When asked about his Call of Duty voice work, Fairbrass said "I was out there from January to the end of February Activision took me to their hub, I was a guest for the day, and they took me all around and they showed me the game - you know, these games are like $200 million to produce. 

"It's incredible. This place was like the size of 10 factories, there was all these people working."

It's rumoured that the next Modern Warfare game will be out in November, and is being developed by three different studios. We'll know soon enough if that turns out to be true.

Black Ops: First Strike review

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Deus Ex. Half-Life 2. Episodes One and Two. Hm? Oh hi, didn’t see you there. I was just thinking of things that are cheaper than a Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack to pass the time while I camp.

The Ascension map is the best of the bunch.

Knights of the Old Republic. Rome: Total War. GTA: Vice City. I’m camping the Berlin Wall – it’s cool that I can do that and it’s nice to be fighting on a backdrop that means something. Not anything to do with Activision’s bombastic, stupid FPS, particularly, but that’s OK.

Lay of the land

Unfortunately as a map, it’s pretty much just a series of windows looking out onto wide open areas, or ‘noob farms’ as we might as well call them. Players who like to die run around the map, players who like to kill lie in windows and gun them down before their victims have a chance to spot them.

Don't run across any empty spaces, the snipers are waiting.

FEAR. Fallout. Braid. Blam! I shot a guy named AssWhore! This is living. It’s pretty much the same living I was doing on the stock Black Ops maps and because not everyone has these, I’ll probably spend most of my time playing on servers running the old ones anyway. One of the reasons that not everyone has these is that they cost 11 cocking pounds. Luckily, this server is for people who will give Activision whatever they have the balls to ask for, and the new Antarctic map, Discovery, is up next.

I guess if you’re going to give a map a visual gimmick, the aurora australis is a pretty good one to add. You don’t exactly drop your remote control car and gawp at its majesty, but it gives the icy map an eerie feel that distinguishes it from Summit. It’s full of very long sight lines – nice for snipers and a pain for everyone else.

Eleven pounds? You must be joking.

Psychonauts. Both Max Paynes. Far Cry. The other two multiplayer maps are forgettable: Stadium sounds like a nice idea, but the Stadium itself is blocked off: it’s really Awkward Streets Near a Stadium. Kowloon tries to capture the rainslick atmosphere of the Hong Kong section in the singleplayer game, but in practice it just brings the muddy grey of the scenery even closer to the muddy grey of the people you’re trying to spot.

Value for money

Hitman: Blood Money. World of Goo. Darwinia. The best thing about First Strike is a new map for the zombie survival mode. Ascension is set inside a Soviet Cosmodrome, takes place in black-and-white, and features zombie scientists getting battered by a spinning centrifuge, a black hole grenade, and evil space monkeys. It’s tense, funny and stylish.

Ultimately, though, nothing here justifies the brutal £11 price tag. It would be hard to throw £11 without hitting something of better value. If Activision ever stop gouging gamers for content that smaller developers make for free, their mediocre efforts might be worth buying.

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