COD: Black Ops

Never been keen on the Treyarch CoD games, didn't think much of MW2 either. So in the words of some Dragons, "I'm Out".

Loved CoD:MW though, last one I played to completion.

All bow down to CoD2 though.
 
my lad has pre ordered and it was dispatched friday
he is hoping to get it tomorrow morning
 
terryuk said:
my lad has pre ordered and it was dispatched friday
he is hoping to get it tomorrow morning
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owch the company is going to be in alot of trouble if tenyach find out

no one is meant to release it till today ie for sending or there going to get there accounts closed down with them

shopto normalyl sends between 1- 2 day early and have put up a strict words on there forum annoucing that they will be sending today and no earlier
 
I've loved every COD game so far and im sure this one will be no exception. i will be at my local GAME store for midnight
 
wegotitugetit said:
owch the company is going to be in alot of trouble if tenyach find out

no one is meant to release it till today ie for sending or there going to get there accounts closed down with them

shopto normalyl sends between 1- 2 day early and have put up a strict words on there forum annoucing that they will be sending today and no earlier
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its been going on for years though
it turned up this morning and he has just got in from college so thats it we wont see him till tomorrow :lol:
 
Well I went and traded in a few games.

Forza 3 - £8
Left4Dead 2 - £7
MW2 - £10

I know I could have sold them on ebay for more probably, but sod it.

I've now got a £25 gift card in my pocket, and I might pop back into Asda tonight and pick it up. I know how many they're getting/got so I know there'll be enough to go round :p
 
wegotitugetit said:
owch the company is going to be in alot of trouble if tenyach find out

no one is meant to release it till today ie for sending or there going to get there accounts closed down with them

shopto normalyl sends between 1- 2 day early and have put up a strict words on there forum annoucing that they will be sending today and no earlier
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lol, i doubt they'll be in trouble, it happens every year.
 
Plenty of people have had it for a few days already. There have been live streams up on justin.tv for a while. Have to say I'm completely underwhelmed by what I've seen. I'll be saving my money this time around!
 
I got mine early today too, but haven't opened it yet as Morrisons are rumoured to be selling it tomorrow morning for £25 like they did with MW2 so gonna pop along in the morning at opening time and if so then I'll send the full price one back saving myself £20.

then if it's pants I can sell it for the price I bought it for and not lose ought!
 
It will end up like mohaa,a haxer,s paradise,that game was ruined by haxer cheats.:bang:
 
no it won't. it will be like cod4, everytime the hack was out there they released an update to fix it. it's only cos cod4 is now ages old they don't fix the hacks.
 
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joescrivens said:
I got mine early today too, but haven't opened it yet as Morrisons are rumoured to be selling it tomorrow morning for £25 like they did with MW2 so gonna pop along in the morning at opening time and if so then I'll send the full price one back saving myself £20.

then if it's pants I can sell it for the price I bought it for and not lose ought!
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That's going to be hard to resist! I played MW2 to death.
 
Aaaaand I'm back in. Queued for just over 1:15.
Gonna make a coffee, then put this bad boy on!
 
Little boys & their toys.:p:D:lol::wave:
 
I'll be getting it too. Love COD games and i'm an old git!!
 
Just got MOH Teir I Edition in mint condition through the post. I think I will give that a play and then if it's pants trade it in and put the £7.99 towards it for Black Op's

Judging by the loss of Marcel since the early hours Black op's may be a winner :)
 
Well the verdict is...It's good.

But I suck :(
 
I went to the midnight opening at Gamestation in my local town, got a poster and a laser film cell thingy which is pretty cool. I was 5th in the queue, the guys on the till were pretty shocked when I asked for the PC version since everyone else wanted the Xbox 360 or PS3 :lol:

My thoughts so far:
one major exclusion for me is titles and emblems unlockable by challenges I used to love playing in a certain way to enable me to unlock them - now you can still edit your 'player card' but its basically you have to buy (using the COD currency may I add) a background and buy 'layers' which are little cheesey clipart symbols like a nuclear symbol etc. and you have to buy the layer then the clipart it would have been nice to retain 'winning' emblems and titles, it was one of my favourite things about MW2 and all the cheeky titles were awsome.

The gameplay feels a bit more..umm...natural shall we say but at the moment it makes it feel a bit less flowing - BO with marathon and lightweight feels like MW2 with neither of them attached. It could just be because I'm used to WM2 and would I not feel this had I played BO straight off the bat

The maps from what I've played don't seem to be as 'classic' as MW2 at the moment, they are a bit more diverse and it's not quite immediately apparent of the point of the maps (for example in MW2 Derail and Afganistan were blatent good-for-snipering maps). I reckon this will come with time

I currently don't feel as involved in the gameplay as I did with MW2, this could just be because I was just starting to learn domination on MW2 like the back of my hand and knew every little trick and stuff and now I'm like errr, I'm playing domination but it's different :-s

I don't like create a class 2.0 at the moment. I advanced 10 levels, created one custom class based on assault rifle, bought an enfield with red dot sight, unlocked hardline, sleight of hand, second chance (last stand), semtex and flashbang and that was all my dollar gone from 16,000COD - from one class. It seems disjointed - 50 levels before prestige, I'm already level 10 (in about 2 hours with lots of messing around with controls and stuff) and I've got less than you would start with by default on MW2. I hate that you have to buy stuff tbh, I much preferred leveling for stuff because it gave you clear cut aims. Maybe I'll get used to it though

the perks seem a bit disjointed in the way they are arranged in the slots, they made good sense in MW2 but now its a bit mixed up, it gives some variety but some are out of place imo

postive aspects of the game:
the XP system is pretty good, you get XP for alot more stuff such as knifing in the back as oppose to knifing in the front
the RC buggy is awsome, the action is pretty wicked overall, there is no intermission between matches (at least not on domination) - this is a blessing and a curse though since intermission was good to switch around classes and play with unlocks and review match stats, but it does mean you can get more matches in with less delay helping the overall flow, the prone is wicked especially running to prone - you literally dive to the ground! There is alot of choice in servers and you can review which servers you want to play on instead of jumping onto a random server, that used to annoy me no end with MW2 where you'd leave a server because its full of 10th prestige campers and n00btubers and you go back in the hope of a new server and it places you back on exactly the same one
The scenery in the maps is pretty awsome, one map has gargantuan soviet machines/cranes moving in the background.
snipering is much harder imo, I've only got the druganov at the moment but quick scoping is a no go with it, makes it better for not being picked off too easily by n00bsnipers. Carepackage drops seem a bit slower but easier since there are more places to hide.
I haven't looked fully at all the challenges but there are plenty to go around, not too sure about the acessability of them, they were a central part to MW2 but they're not so obvious in BO but there seems like some good challenges like I got x number of kills overall (weapon independant) last night and got 2500XP for it.
Contracts look very interesting, some are just impossible at the moment without learning the game inside out (20 headshot kills with the sniper within 1hr) but one was something like get 20 kills with one of the SMG's within 1hr20 game play, cost COD150, reward COD500 and 500XP - well I already got 20 kills with said SMG anyway within about 20 minutes.
Visually its pretty nice, running 1920x1080p, 4x AA, 'extra' textures, full anisotropic filtering, however I'm not in shock and awe at the visuals of the multiplayer, its not a huge leap over MW2 but I'd rather it runs nice max everything than having to turn stuff down to get a smooth FPS.

Alot of people have had extreme lagging on Steam, major complaints apparently, I experienced no such issues, just a few regular latency lags but gameplay otherwise was silky smooth

overall as a standalone game its awsome and new players to the series will love it, I just can't help thinking Infinity Ward did a better job than Treyarch

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My verdict is simply, Its very much like the game play of W@W, but with newer guns and equiptment.

I do prefere the MW2 gameplay but this will keep me busy.
 
If you dont like these new games you can always post them to me.
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what you all playing it on? ive gone for the 360 as my PS3 is in the bedroom getting little use, its not arrived today though :shake:

add me if ya want :D

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gazedd said:
My verdict is simply, Its very much like the game play of W@W, but with newer guns and equiptment.

I do prefere the MW2 gameplay but this will keep me busy.
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I prefer 1 player Treyarch but feel Infinity Ward have the edge online, I proper loved WaW
 
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Marcel said:
Aaaaand I'm back in. Queued for just over 1:15.
Gonna make a coffee, then put this bad boy on!
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wow, you should live in a small town, no queue at all at my local morrisons.

it is very very cool. the wager mode is awesome, love the gun swapping game, the one in the barrel is a birt dirt because you just have campers sitting up waiting. very good gameplay, this is miles better than mw2 and i think will be as good as cod4
 
the main thing all the games since cod4 have lacked is the sound. i have surround sound and would always go deadly silence in cod4, i could hear where everyone on the map was by their footsteps. since that game none of the others have had the same sound level for the footsteps and that i really miss cos you can't hear anyone
 
Just picked my copy up. Will be giving it a crack tonight(PS3)
 
its almost perfect bar the footsteps thing, they've made it so that ninja class it pretty much irrelevant, someone can literally walk right past you without it and you dont hear them. they need a patch to fix this in my opinion.

love gun game and sharpshooter
 
managed to get a few games in just now, think its great so far but still need to give it a good run through. :thumbs:
 
im amazed at how many copies are still hanging around, i remember when MW2 came out you couldn't get them for love nor money for about a week after round here.... but my local tesco express has over 100 copies left as of 30 mins ago.

Was almost tempted to buy it, but will wait until the hype dies down :)
 
stokes said:
im amazed at how many copies are still hanging around, i remember when MW2 came out you couldn't get them for love nor money for about a week after round here.... but my local tesco express has over 100 copies left as of 30 mins ago.

Was almost tempted to buy it, but will wait until the hype dies down :)
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its because everywhere has more stock. when mw2 came out the morrisons near me had 30 copies for ps3 and 30 for xbox, they sold out in an hour. today there were easily 50 people queing at 8am but they had hundreds of copies and i mean hundreds. which is good really as there is nothing worse than not being able to get a copy on release day, looks like the production was ramped up to stop that happening
 
so far, I like the game..... however there's a down side to this
- aiming is very slow
- firing is slow
- attachments require a purchase
 
AndyJ1980 said:
so far, I like the game..... however there's a down side to this
- aiming is very slow
- firing is slow
- attachments require a purchase
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i'd heard attachments still came with points, but purchasing was an option?
 
If it's anything like Treyarch's last attempt, I'll not be bothering thankyou!

More importantly, Kinect will be landing with me tomorrow morning!!! :D
 
I don't like what I hear about buying stuff, I really really liked the way you could earn upgrades for your fav weapons in one of the MoH games
 
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