VG.no: Call of Duty: Black Ops review (single player)

Vg.no writes (please note: rated on a scale from 1 being bad to 6 being excellent):
"It's not exactly a secret that I have a somewhat strained relationship with the game company Treyarch. As the creator of the games "Spider-Man 3" ( diceroll 2 ), "Call of Duty 3" ( diceroll 3 ), "Quantum of Solace" ( diceroll 3 ) and "Call of Duty: World at War" ( diceroll 3 ) they threw away tens of hours of my life.

After all the noise with the show's creator, Infinity Ward, now rests the responsibility for one of gaming's strongest and most popular series on Treyarch's shoulders. And they have grown with the task.

[belal]

i am from norway but almost all the time they are wrong about a game, when they say its a 6, it's usually a 3/4, if they say it's a 3 or 4 it's usually a 6. so in my opinion the game is an 9.2, been playing this game for a while. finished singleplayer and played some online.

[hakis86]

How did you get the game? =O

[Red_Orange_Juice]

9.2? really how do you come up with 9 POINT 2, why not .1 or .3, just curious

[captain-obvious]

well im in the 5th mission already and let me tell you the SP is just good
its not excellent and at the same its not boring or stupid

and the AI is dumb as fuck and some times badguys come out of nowhere

they just popup in front of you
and one time an enemy popped right next to me and shot me to death

the graphics sucks when you just look too much at something but overall they look ok

zombies are fun i'll tell you that
and the MP is not yet online
i give the single player an 7.5 so far
i wont give my overall score until i finish the game, play MP and more zombies

and the single player starts really slow but it gets better as you go on
and there is just too much going on at the same time on the screen
and there are alot of times where you just shoot and blow things up as if you were Rambo
there is a stupid cut scene that plays every time you quite the single player
and you have to wait for another loading when you startup the MP
so yes in order to get to MP you have to go through 2 loading screens and the MP feels like a different game with a different screen and layout and all

[ASTAROTH]

You forget that the multiplayer maps looks boring as hell with lots of camping spots. Also they looked similar to the ones at World at War. The single player doesnt have bad graphics. In fact it looks better than MW2 but the Single player is boring... so boring that I havent finish it yet and I dont feel motivated to do it. Also ... I dont know if Ive been spoiled by how awesome the sounds are in BC2 and Medal of Honor but the sounds in Black Ops... specially the guns sounds very weak in comparison. I like to know if reviewers are going to be as harsh with BO as they were with Medal of Honor. Medal of Honor faults were really overexagerated by the Media and that was a shame...because (even if anybody will ever admitt it) the campaing, graphics and Sound are better than this. The multiplayer is more satisfying too. As I said The media is like a whore... ALWAYS where the money is at..

[RevXM]

Er fail, Gamereactor sine anmeldere er mye bedre i bunn og grunn.

Btw Im interested in WHY you give the game 9.1.

[SuperM]

Actually i find Norwegian reviews to be more trustworthy because they dont stamp a 9/10 on every hyped game. I have yet to see a game given a 3 or 4 that has deserved a 6, and the games that have been given a 6 is usually pretty damn good.

[TOO PAWNED]

gamereactor gave Uncharted 2 8/10, not sure i agree with you or them.

[TooTall19]

yeah that game was more like a 7

[n4gno]

nice try troll :))

11/10 for the best game of the year, but also of the century for most of reviewers and players.

[psman012]

Who the hell reviews on a scale of 6?

[SephireX]

How many seconds in a minute?

[Ezetta]

VG does

[kingteekej]

Dices have 6 "eyes", and if you view the site you will see that they use a dice to view the score.

[RedDragan]

Cats have 6 lives and then another 3 in reserve should they be needed. They can apply two lives at the same time to become SuperKat, however if they die they lose both of those lives.

[Ducky]

There appears to be some loss in the knees.

... interesting.

[Downtown boogey]

Haven't you seen the game play vids? The knees are definitely lacking!

[bananasNmonkeys]

The game will no doubt get 9's but wait a few months and like MW2 expect mods, hacks, glitches and exploits.

[-Alpha]

Well that's not the reviewer's fault if the game gets hacked down the road. Reviews tend to review the SP and basics of MP only.

A big game like COD will be subject to the small community of hackers and glitchers to spread their virus to the whole community.

However, it is up to Treyarch to lay the law down and stay on top of things. IW was too slow. Their "big patch" that was supposed to fix commando and stuff actually got canceled.

Treyarch has the theater mode to catch basic cheaters, and an in-game report system. Hopefully they get serious to issuing bans and mods. People deserve to be reset for boosting, cheaters should get banned for a week, constant offenders should get banned for longer, and exploiters, hackers, etc. should be banned forever.

Bungie are the prime example of devs who know how to keep the crap at a minimum. I think Valve does the same for TF2 from what I hear

[AKA]

it was and is more broken then SOCOM CONFRONTATION,
but the reviewers give one game 6's and the other game 9's know tell me who is whats wrong in that picture?
COD is very over hyped and MW2 6's out off 10 and thats been nice.
MW1 a 8.2 out off 10.
you sheep love and thats ok i love SOCOM CON a 7 out off 10 for me but is not ok to defend and not accept that the game is not that great overall and is only great for the few non hardcore.
''fun '' game for sure but overrated and that alone take the fun away for me and many others...

[360nPS3rTheSAME]

how does other people's high opinion of a game take away the fun you have with it? I don't understand that

[DeviateFish]

I think this review is fairly spot on. The reviewer's scores on previous games have been fairly consistent with my own thoughts on the same games.

[belal]

9.2 because, gameplay for med is 9.5, story is 9.0, online is 9.0. overall between 9.5 and 9.0 9.2/3 is somewhat correct isn't it?

[Close_Second]

...an FPS break the mold of having a linear single player and do away with ivisible checkpoints and respawning enemies until you reach those checkpoints.

Yet to play a single player campaign where I feel like I'm actually taking on an enemy lead by anyone with any real intelligence or knowledge of military tactics.

[Ducky]

Crysis or Stalker are... not as linear.
... maybe FarCry can count in this as well?

[huzzaahh]

Operation Flashpoint too.

[TheStorm]

I've always thought Treyarch was good with the series with WaW and it seems BO will be fine too. I find it funny that his other reviews of COD games with Infinity War are praising it to the roof. Seriously? COD (post COD2) really overall has had mediocre single player, not just the ones Treyarch creates. The on-a-rail shooters get tiring, and there is nothing new that any of the companies have brought to it. MW2 was a terrible experience with single player to me.

However I play these games for the superb MP, and could care less of their SP. If I want SP I won't play COD. I play it for the MP.

[MyUS_ARMY_CPTRespect]

I don't know what/who VG review?
If next better IGN, gamespot,and more hope review give over 9-10 score.

If u agree me, VG suck?

[chazjamie]

yeah dude. i agree with all your words. it always makes sense

[Scotland-The-Brave]

lol

[huzzaahh]

LMAO. Nice.

[MyUS_ARMY_CPTRespect]

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[MyUS_ARMY_CPTRespect]

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[pr0digyZA]

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[Organization XII]

you better stop posting on the internet and go find some job man, because we all agree with you

[Ares84PS3]

...trust me.

[d0nT wOrrY]

i've already finished the game two days ago ( got early copy) .. soooo great game.. i love it
zombies is so addicated!

[shysun]

How the hell do you review the SP part only?! Not fare at all. I just think it's bs to do that to a game....ANY game.

[himdeel]

...especially when the MP portion of most games now are a glitch fest or the servers suck or plain old dont work but the whole game is given an above average review score. Likwlewise the experience reviewers have with MP is atypical because they aren't experiencing MP the same way the average consumer will be upon the games release. I rather have two scores for a game that is so heavy in MP.

[shysun]

you want two scores for one game? Id rather them put some time into the sp and mp an give us one score and not rush through the SP an throw up a damn score.

[granthinds]

Really looking forward to this one...

[xyxzor]

I'll prob get my review copy by Thursday unless Step-3 got their shipment in early. Looking forward to reviewing this.

[CombineElite]

Every time I see a still picture of Black Ops it reminds me of Tropic Thunder.

Anyway since the commercial say Black Ops runs better on a 360 does the 360 version get a 9.2 and the PS3 or PC version get a 8.2?

Wait a minute I forgot that Nvidia says Black Ops runs better on a Nvidia card so if I got a PC with a Nvidia card is the review now a 9.2 for 360 and PC and then a 8.2 for PS3 or a PC without a Nvidia card even though Black Ops graphics are still using the id Tech 3 engine and the GPU in a calculator could run Black Ops maxed out but anyway.

Call of Duty: Tropic Thunder I mean Black Ops comes out Tuesday and the reviews from people that i know have played it will let me know if I gonna buy it. I'm sure some one on Steam will PM if it's any good or a complete waste of cash. These online journalist, G4, and Game websites are bogus when it comes to reviews. They will tell you how crappy a game is then give it a 9 and vote it Game of The Year before it's even released (MW2).

[nano88]

everybody going crazy for black ops it might get a 9.0 on ign

[AEtherbane]

Makes me think of how a MWF2 review should sound like. I feel this game will get much harsher reviews since everyone feels bad by giving MWF2 the high ratings it didn't deserve.
IMO, this game will be better than MWF2, but the reviews wont give it justice.

[TheLastGuardian]

I wish I could play games before they come out. I buy most games day 1.

[AKA]

to get games a week earlier or trade old game or buy cheap games

[R_aVe_N]

At the lowest I would give it a 7 for the single player (my friend got it last night) It is not horrible, but I wasn't impressed either. When it all comes down to it people don't buy it for the single player anyways. They pay 60 or more bucks for online play...

[big_silky]

i'll gamefly it someday.