Call of Duty: Black Ops
| Call of Duty: Black Ops | |
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| Developer(s) | Treyarch |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Director(s) | Dave Anthony |
| Designer(s) | Corky Lehmukuhl David Vonderhaar Joe Chiang |
| Artist(s) | Colin Whitney |
| Writer(s) | Craig Houston Dave Anthony David S. Goyer |
| Composer(s) | Sean Murray |
| Series | Call of Duty |
| Engine | IW 3.0 |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 Microsoft Windows Wii Nintendo DS OS X |
| Release date(s) |
Windows, NDS, PS3, X360, Wii
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (PS3) 88.36% (X360) 87.56% (Wii) 81.47% (PC) 78.10% (NDS) 73.67% |
| Metacritic | (PS3) 88/100 (X360) 87/100 (PC) 81/100 (Wii) 80/100 (NDS) 74/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | A- |
| Destructoid | 6/10 |
| Edge | 7/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| Famitsu | 39/40 |
| Game Informer | 9/10 |
| GamePro |  |
| GameSpot | 9/10 |
| GameSpy |  |
| GamesRadar | 9/10 |
| GameTrailers | 9.3/10 |
| Giant Bomb | |
| IGN | 8.5/10 (Wii) 7.5/10 |
| OXM (US) | 9.5/10 |
| OXM (UK) | 9/10 |
| PC Gamer (UK) | 64/100 |
| VideoGamer.com | 6/10 |
| X-Play | |
| The Escapist | |
| The Daily Telegraph | 10/10 |
| The Guardian | |
Call of Duty: Black Ops is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It was released worldwide on November 9, 2010 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii consoles, with a separate version for Nintendo DS developed by n-Space. Announced on April 30, 2010, the game is the seventh installment of the Call of Duty series. It is also the first to be set in the Cold War, the third in the series to be developed by Treyarch, and is the sequel to Call of Duty: World at War.
Within 24 hours of going on sale, the game had sold more than 5.6 million copies, 4.2 million in the U.S. and 1.4 million in the UK, breaking the record set by its predecessor Modern Warfare 2 by some 2.3 million copies. After six weeks on release, Activision reported that Black Ops had exceeded $1 billion in sales. On August 3, 2011, Activision confirmed that the game had sold over 25 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling games of all time in the US, UK and Europe. A sequel, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, was released on November 13, 2012.Call of Duty: Black Ops III was released on November 6, 2015 as the sequel to Black Ops II.
Black Ops is a first-person shooter, retaining the same gameplay mechanics as previous Call of Duty titles. The player assumes the role of a foot soldier who can wield various firearms (only two of which can be carried at once), throw grenades and other explosives, and use other equipment as weapons. A player close enough to an enemy can kill with one knife blow. A character can take three stances: standing, crouching or prone. Each affects rate of movement, accuracy, and stealth. The player can drop to the prone stance from the standing stance while running (colloquially known as "dolphin diving"), and can momentarily sprint before having to stop. The screen glows red to indicate damage to a player's health, which regenerates over time. When the character is within the blast radius of a live grenade, an on-screen marker indicates where it is in relation to the player, helping the player to move away or to throw it back. Among the weapons new to the series in Black Ops are crossbows with bolts and explosive ammunition, Dragon's Breath rounds and ballistic knives.
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