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Black Ops is receiving a lot of hate from gamers who seemingly refuse to even try the game. Is there legit reasoning behind this hate or is this the fallout of the disappointment known as Modern Warfare 2? In what was surely one of the biggest hype campaigns of all time, we were told COD 6 would be the FPS to end all other FPS titles. Instead, come November we were met with COD 4.5 and it seemed even worse than COD 4 to many folks due to its balancing and hacking issues. Many gamers predicted MW2 would be like this, but most of their complaints and the signs they pointed out were ignored by the bigger crowds. Black Ops is selling great, don't doubt that. But it would seem that group of pre-release doubters has grown and saw fit to label Black Ops a terrible game, without even playing it.

The truth is Black Ops multiplayer does more right than it does wrong. Simply put, the game is great! With the new COD points and Wager matches in multiplayer it is clear there has been more thought put into this game than all the previous COD games combined.

From Sharpshooter where every player starts off with the same weapon and battles it out for points as everyone's weapon cycles at the same time to One in the Chamber where you get a pistol and a bullet. In One in the Chamber you must get a kill to get another bullet and there are only three lives for each person. Gun Game is another greatly designed Wager match that adds a lot of creativity to the title by challenging every player to start off with a pistol and work their way up a universal tier of weapons. Each kill you get bumps you up a notch to a new gun. They get better and better as you go but if you die you must start over.

For those who say Infinity Ward would have done a better job, simply put - you are insane. Take a look at the generic approach taken in the first Modern Warfare title and the incredibly dull follow up Modern Warfare 2 and I don't think it's hard to see that IW preferred coasting rather than setting goals for themselves and implementing additions to the COD brand.

The real issue I see with Call of Duty: Black Ops is that it should have gone even further with innovation. The problem with that is whenever gamers get used to a game, change of the formula is usually met with disdain by their fans. I think Treyarch has absolutely succeeded in bringing change to Black Ops without upsetting the style and fundamentals of the game, but rather improving it.

Just saying, Black Ops wouldn't be anywhere today without MW2 or IW. Also, please don't forget to reward me if I helped or informed you.

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Actually IW put that feature in the game but I can't remember a time when they actually used it. I believe it was a special fun thing you unlocked if you found the certain intel that unlocked it.

If Treyarch can fix their connection issues in Black Ops ...

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Good job to them. It'll be a great game. But currently, the only way I can find it bearable to play is when playing gamebattles or other private matches where the connection isn't much of a problem.

I used to think MW2 was annoying and not a very good game, which it really wasn't. But I went to play MW2 today for the first time since the Black Ops release and despite everybody trying to quickscope, it was cool to play a game that actually depended on skill and not connection.

MW2 and skill in the same sentence shouldn't be used. Ever. Keep on trollin' tryhard.

If it wasn't for Infinity Ward, there would be no Call of Duty franchise. << Note the full stop

"Keep on trollin' tryhard." Well, since I don't know what the hell this means, I will ignore it. As for you saying MW2 takes no skill, that is idiotic to say without backing it up. I'm pretty sure MLG held tournaments and matches during MW2? Gamebattles was pretty big in MW2 with certain teams excelling right? How does any game not take skill? Before you flame at me, know what you're talking about.

My god, you're not a troll you're just ignorant. Let's also not mention in MLG tournaments there are NO explosive OR killstreaks.

Your point...? Excuse my "ignorant" brain for not understanding the crap you're saying.

I'm sorry, but where have you been the past year?

What are you talking about