Call Of Duty: Black Ops

So it turns out that throughout the entire game Mason is actually strapped to a chair being interigated (don’t forget to use the fire button to brake loose from the chair in the title screen for an achievement). So all of the mission you play are actually flashbacks mason is having. He is having these flashbacks because his interigators are playing a sequence of numbers that they keep asking him about. The whole reason he is being interigated is because of these numbers. They are being broadcast from a secret location and apparently only Mason knows where and why, but he doesn’t know why his interigators think that. Well SPOILER ALERT! Turns out that Alex was brainwashed while prisoner in a russian work camp after being captured during a botched assassination attempt on Fidel Castro. Your main target of the game Nikita Dragovich was trying to brainwash Alex into assassinating JFK. Unfortunate for him that Mason is too strong willed for that to work. Little did anyone know that Reznov snuck into the operation room and did a little programming in Mason’s mind himself. His mission, kill Dragovich and all his assossiates along with anyone who stood in the way. Once he realizes this Hudson lets mason go. Oh, did I forget it was actually Hudson interigating Mason? Anyway, after a little psychotic episode Mason comes to terms with his brainwashing and remembers where the broadcast station for the numbers is. So the last mission is Mason and Hudson with their team taking out the station and Alex gets to choke that son of a bitch Dragovich ::Primary Objective Completed::

I would have to say that this storyline is the most enjoyable out of all the Call Of Duty games. I think it could be because that it’s the only one that wasn’t just a history lesson. The combat in the campaign is the pretty much the same as in the past few Call Of Duty title releases. The change in gameplay is in the multiplayer. In this title you don’t just unlock weapons, equipment, and perks as you level your character you instead earn money to perchase those things. This enables you to only buy the things you really want. You of course still need to level up to unlock more weapons and equipment but I love the fact that, if you have the money for it, you can buy whatever attachments you want for a gun you just unlocked without needing to use that gun forever to earn the equipment. Plus all of the perks are available from the get-go. You need to buy them of course but it’s just a matter of owning at a couple of matches before you can buy the perk you find most usefull, like ghost for instance (it was the first one I bought so that spy planes would give away my position, essential for sniping).

Another thing to love about Black Ops is the return of zombie mode. Not only do you have the characters from world at war’s zombie mode returning, but you also can play as Castro, JFK, McNamara, and the all mighty Nixon. One more addition to zombie mode is the classic arcade style shooter. In some ways it is more hectic and challenging than the original zombie mode. It’s great because if you have older family members who have only played those classic arcade style games then it wouldn’t be hard for them to pick up the controller and play.

As with any new release, there is obviously an upgrade in graphics. With everything that has been added to the game while keeping all of the best attributes from the previous titles, I give Call Of Duty Black Ops 9 headshots out of 10. Don’t forget to use the star bar below to give your own opinion on the rating of the game. Also leave a comment on what you think about the game.