Call of Duty: Black Ops

After playing the game for a few hours last night... I think I can say something about Call of Duty Black Ops - but 1st a little back story.

Activision has 2 teams working on the Call Of Duty franchise (COD)- Infinity Wars and Treyarch, each team takes turns brining out a game each year. Now COD was just another 1st person shooter set in WW2 for a long time till Infinity Wars lisened to the fans and came into the modern world.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare came out in 2007 and everyone loved it, not a single gamer has not played it and some still say its the best in the series. The next year there was so much hype that everyone was talking about CODs next game. Trouble is that it was a different studios turn to bring out the game and Treyarch (Still in WW2) did not live up to the high bar set by Infinity Wars.

If you have played the last game from Infinity Wars you will feel at home but I was a little shocked how the games engine is showing its age, the texture's look flat and not as good as Modern Warfare 2. The single player is short so I'm going to take my time with it.

But COD is all about the Multi-player and black ops has everything you need, plus added options to make the it even more fun. There is a few new modes like Wager Match, Combat Training and Zombie's.

If you are like me and you skipped World at war waiting for Modern Warfare 3, this is a lot closer to MW then you would think. the Multi-player is based on the Modern Warfare Multi-player with some extras.

Bringing a credit system to the game adds some nice touches to the game like "Wager Match" betting on yourself to come in the top 3 to win a load of cash(while losing will make you lose all of the bets). You can also use Contracts to earn in-game cash, Contracts are chosen before the game starts and pays you for completing an objective like X head shoots with an M16.

A down side of this COD Credits is that every time you unlock a gun or add-on, You then have to buy it with the same credits and every attachment has to be bought again.

There is more to the game that I have not played yet like the Zombies, Combat Training and the Dead Ops Arcade. This disk is packed with stuff to play with.

All in all I'm enjoying the game and I don't see it leaving my Xbox's disk tray for a while.