Black (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Criterion Games |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Director(s) | Craig Sullivan |
| Composer(s) |
Chris Tilton Michael Giacchino |
| Engine | RenderWare |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Review scores | ||
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| Publication | Score | |
| PS2 | Xbox | |
| Edge | 8/10 | 8/10 |
| EGM | 6.83/10 | 6.83/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 | N/A |
| Famitsu | 32/40 | N/A |
| Game Informer | 8.5/10 | 8.5/10 |
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| Game Revolution | C+ | C+ |
| GameSpot | 7.4/10 | 7.4/10 |
| GameSpy | |
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| GameTrailers | 8.6/10 | 8.6/10 |
| GameZone | 8.4/10 | 8.7/10 |
| IGN | 8.7/10 | 8.6/10 |
| OPM (US) | |
N/A |
| OXM (US) | N/A | 7/10 |
| Detroit Free Press | N/A | |
| The Times | |
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| Aggregate score | ||
| Metacritic | 79/100 | 77/100 |
Black is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. It was released in 2006 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game consoles. The game is notable for its heavily stylized cinema-inspired action as well as its sound quality and focus on destructive effects during gameplay. Black has been said as having the best graphics for a first-person shooter for its time.
Black takes place in Ingushetia and Chechnya, Russia. The protagonist is a black ops soldier named Sergeant First Class Jack Kellar (portrayed by Marty Papazian). Kellar tells most of the story in first-person at an interrogation four days after the events in the story begin.
Kellar is an inadequately disciplined member of a CIA black ops group and a veteran of several conflicts including Guatemala, Colombia, Iran and Croatia. The unknown interrogator (portrayed by Paul Pape) questions Kellar about an arms smuggling and terrorist operation called the Seventh Wave. Seventh Wave have been responsible for a number of terrorist attacks. Kellar is told that, unless he co-operates, he and his actions will be declassified, he will be dishonorably discharged and imprisoned for life. Though initially resistant, Kellar at last agrees to tell his story.
Four days earlier, Kellar and his group were assaulting a Seventh Wave stronghold in the city of Veblensk. Kellar kills three high-ranking members of the cell but then disobeys orders by rushing inside a terrorist controlled building, where a terrorist ambushes him. However, the man did not kill Kellar, who learned that his captor is an American, William Lennox, a former CIA wetworks operative. After faking his own death in Cairo, Lennox has apparently become the leader of Seventh Wave.
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