The Story in CoD: Black Ops Sucked.

Don't get me wrong.. The locations & settings you visit throughout the game as well as most of the epic scenes were amazing but, the story just made no sense whatsoever half of the time. The entire thing pretty much circulated around this nonsense about some random numbers being in some dude's head..

It's almost as if the story was simply put there as sort of an excuse to just get out there & shoot these mother f**kers.. which is understandable because it's a shooter but come on, at least make sure that the story makes some sort of sense to the player.

[SmokexFFx]

SPOILERS (sorta)
The Fightclub like twist was crazy awesome.

[R2D2]

World at War was not Oscar material.

Infinity Ward is/was the best of the bunch in the war story department.

[Ducky]

... IW made MW2 didn't they?

Anyways, I saw the twist coming midway in the game. It made the game quite creepy... whilst at the same time interesting because I wanted to know what exactly was going on.

The start of the story was mediocre, but things got intriguing after playing as Reznov.
Pacing was way too fast though... wish they added some downtime element in-between.

[deafwing]

that will keep most people to the end and make a reasonable story but I think the point of the article is that it's not a big deal

[ChineseDemocracy]

At least they tried.

[deafwing]

***SPOILERS****

the whole I'm my own worst devil was cool
but overall I wasn't blown away by the story

[Steffl3r]

I really enjoyed it. The story was very engaging. I caught the twist early on but then it kept me guessing more and more.

[showtimefolks]

but i havm't heard anything good about the story for black ops besides the fact its a little longer than mw series

gamers who play cod games are playing for online ad from what i understand that's where they packed enough content to last for a long time

i would still like to play a FPS which has a great story not just big moments and go here shoot this crap, give the gamers some option in directing the story with choices and yes i want that in a FPS

[wedgie]

Bioshock 1 would be the recommendation then

[deafwing]

yet about bioshock (like you know the ending) I highly second that recommendation - rent that game and play it till you beat it.

[felix88]

Play System Shock 2 instead of pretentious crap like Bioshock

[deafwing]

never limit yourself
I enjoyed system shock (well back when I played on pcs lol)

[eagle21]

all these military shooters are stale as hell. :0

[Bull5hifT]

I like in the vietnam part, how much longer till something crazy cool happenes, my friends force me to join them online, cause im the best they know, maybe its cause there like 30 trying to figure tha damn thing out and im 22..... .. BTW i hate that Hanoi level, its the only level i despise playing online, ... Im sorta in the middle of fallout NV and i feel bad i havent played with my Move, i only got 3and a half hours after work to play and like 7 hours every other weekend

[Elimin8]

Are never good...

[NarooN]

Dunno who wrote this article but it "didn't make sense" because they were probably too busy trying to no-scope the A.I. or some stupid shit. The story was easy to follow if you paid attention, and it blows any previous CoD campaign out of the fucking water.

CoD1-3 were just generic WW2 action movies. CoD4 was a generic "zomg US Marines are badass and SAS are badass letz combine em yo and add in nukez n russianz dawg". WaW was just another WW2 action movie but at least it had cool characters. MW2 was yet another action movie, except this time it was filled with tons of stupid plot holes, almost every character in the game got killed (often not long after they get introduced) and the story was just poorly-written.

To say that somehow Black Ops, essentially a psychological thriller action game, is *worse* than any of those is just some proto-IW-nutrider bullshit. I don't even care much for Black Ops but the story was damn good. Those plot-twists were just epic.

[Merivigian]

The story, in my opinion, was really really great. In fact out of Fable III, Force Unleashed 2, and Black Ops (being the most recent that I have beaten) I would rather play Black ops again just for the story.

[MariaHelFutura]

Peter Molyneaux`s cheek is red as hell.

[Gam3s4lif3]

The story/campaign was average and confusing....but it is fun, still play it :D

[ArchangelMike]

Once you get to the end of the game (actually about 3/4) the story becomes self explanatory. Even the 'fight club like twist' was obvious pretty early on.

The story IMO is actually much much better that MW2, and is on par with COD4!

[Motorola]

I liked the BO story, very fun, like a never ending action sequence

[StarScream4Ever]

What? I like the story. The ending pretty much sounds it off. *Spoiler alert*

Kennedy and Castro chillax at the end. :P

[HOSe]

the fact is Treyarch could have released a game with no SP and it still would have sold the same amount of copies. minus a couple thousand. MAYBE

[Merivigian]

If it were pure multiplayer then there would be no reason for me to buy it.. Idk about you but just like movies.. I buy them for the story not the special features.

[Shaman]

Story,pacing and locations were put together extremely nicely.Games story is freaking brilliant for video game,especially fps.

[NickX]

Oh look it's another cheap trashy site looking for hits by saying Black Ops sucks. Enjoy your two minutes of fame, then you will vanish back into obscurity where you belong until your site goes bust and then you will be flipping burgers in McDonalds. And all will be as it should be.

[jjank11]

I'm currently going through the campaign on Hardened and it is really F'in annoying. It is really not all that enjoyable. The story is decent and has its cool moments but it is really not anything special. Its pretty much the same as all the other CoD campaigns, it gets kind of boring after awhile.

MoH, BC1 and BC2 all have better campaigns BY FAR!!

[Ducky]

MoH, perhaps... but BC2's story was aweful. =/

[jjank11]

I thought it was fairly interesting and the squad chattering was quite funny at times. Which is part of what makes it enjoyable. The sound is really good as well.

[xX TriiCKy Xx]

Well then go back to your precious Battlefield and CoD/BC ripoff Medal of Honor. Hop off CoD's dick.

[AKA]

btw MOH campaign is really great, the MP is good but not original.

[NarooN]

Medal of Honor is a ripoff of CoD? Go fucking do some research.

CoD = made by Infinity Ward

Infinity Ward = company made up (initially) of ex-Medal of Honor PC devs

Early CoD games = Medal of Honor games with prone and aim-down-the-sight

New MoH = modern bandwagon cash-in.

CoD4 and onwards = cash ins.

[NickX]

If you can't handle hardened then put the difficulty down to easy. That was made for people who suck at games like you. I played through hardened and found it quite easy. Oh and Bad Company has shit single player. Fact.

[jjank11]

LOL, thanks big guy, you want a medal. Hardened is quite stupid, as it is on all modes. Extremely predictable, shoot a few guys before they respawn back and push forward, do that again. Simple and easy. The story is not that impressive. Maybe it is good for CoD story. Its not even remotely complex or really all that exciting.

[mrv321]

Call Of Duty MW2 had screwed up pacing, the game got to 11 and stayed that way, no breaks just shoot and keep shooting.

One of the best singleplayer shooters was Uncharted 2, there's a level in that game in which you walk about a village, no tension at all, there's sections where your just climbing and then there's justcalm sections inbetween the building falling or the train level, this sets up great pacing, and makes even the slightest bit of tension 10x greater.

Even MW did this with the nuke level no action it felt like it fitted into the story more so than the space station bit of MW2 or the No Russia joke of a mission.

Out of all the secon gen CoD games, MW is still in my mind the best.

1st gen, was 1, 2 and 3
2nd gen, was MW, W@W, MW2 and Black Ops
It's a shame there isn't much of an IW to start of the 3rd gen of CoD games let's hope they can rework their making once again and almost redine shooters.

MoH:AA, MW, let's see what they can do.

[Hyperguy20]

Best story of the COD series imo, if you don't understand it you must be retarded. The twist was great too.

[DNAbro]

The story was very easily understandable and had a great, yet predictable, twist.

[TheIneffableBob]

Story was decent, but the game could've had better pacing.

These guys need to listen to Valve's commentaries. They found out that establishing pacing with high and low points rather than having non-stop action gave their testers a much more enjoyable experience. And this was way back with Half-Life 2.

Black Ops did have some downtime areas, but they were really brief and the areas weren't very open.

[Ducky]

Totally agree.
Half-life2 has some of the best pacing I've ever experienced.
As soon as a set-piece starts getting stale, the game changes. It's... quite beautiful.

I felt BO's gameplay was on fast-forward. There'd be some cool sequences (such as the stealth) but they'd finish as abruptly as they begin. Or maybe it was intential since most of it was memmories, and no-one really remembers down-time.

[Shaman]

All this Black Ops(COD) hate is getting on my nerves.MW1 was exceptional game,offline and online.MW2 was not so hot,along with being not so hot Activision was greedy as hell so that hit the gamers nerves.But BO is amazing package.Great SP,quite long with great story and characters,fixed multiplayer with lots of features and co op play.What is wrong with COD now?Its great game that deserves AAA status,so shut the fuck up spoiled girls with those stupid articles.

[lucifon]

Well said. It's cool to hate apparently.

[Chuk5]

The story was almost Dead Space like in the end. Loved it.

[34543534798]

I 100% disagree with that title

the story was AWESOME the whole singleplayer experience was awesome

[Drano]

Reznov was in your heart.

[Cryptech]

ya...I always feel a little Reznovy when I wake up in the morning and have my first cup of coffee. UUURRAAAAHHH!

[Bounkass]

Haha, they always suck...