Post: Loads of New Black Ops Details From OXM
05-15-2010, 09:36 AM #1
Caspa
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The Official Xbox Magazine was recently released, with a huge feature on Call of Duty: Black Ops. To check out the full scans of each page, just click the pictures below!

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Here's a summary of the details from codblackopsnews.com, they've written it perfectly:

<h2>General</h2>
<ul>
<li>OXM reckons, unsurprisingly, that this will be ‘one of this year’s very biggest, and best’ games</li>
<li>The graphics, as we saw in the teaser trailer, are amazing – in particular building are demolished brilliantly and ‘dynamic shadows’ that build tension</li>
<li>‘Black Ops has a different, grubbier vibe to MW2′</li>
<li>Treyarch are approaching the game as ‘3 games in one’ – single player, co-op, and multiplayer</li>
<li>There’s ‘dedicated co-op’, suggesting a departure from WaW – Treyarch ‘changed the subject’ when asked about zombies <img src='https://www.codblackopsnews.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt='Smile' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li>Treyarch have taken ‘creative risks’</li>
<li>There are more than 200 people working on Black Ops</li>
<li>The difference between World at War and Black Ops is like the difference between CoD2 and CoD4</li>
</ul>
<h2>Campaign</h2>
<ul>
<li>You’re a member of SOG (Studies and Operations Group) working in deniable ops during the Cold War – we knew that.</li>
<li>There’s fighting in ‘Vietnam, the frosty Russian mountains, the Laotian undergrounds and everything in between’</li>
<li>Naturally, you’ll be fighting the North Vietnamese Army</li>
<li>In ‘WMD’, the mission USA Today played, you are indeed controlling the SR-71, and you issue orders to soliders down below</li>
<li>In ‘Victor Charlie’, you start off in a crashed helicopter in the Huong River, and make your way upstream, swimming, with only a knife</li>
<li>In ‘Payback, you’re in a <strong>fully-controllable </strong>helicopter – you drive it and shoot it</li>
</ul>
<h2>Gameplay</h2>
<ul>
<li>‘Stealth plays a big part’</li>
<li>Rapelling: you’ll be able to feel ‘each crash back into the cliffside with a bone-jarring thud’</li>
<li>You can call in air support to decimate NVA buildings</li>
<li>Your player has a voice, unlike other CoD games</li>
</ul>
<h2>Weapons</h2>
<ul>
<li>The crossbow was confirmed</li>
<li>As was the ‘dragonbreath’ flame-throwing rounds for the SPAS-12 (also confirmed)</li>
<li>The M202 ‘Grim Reaper’ rocket launcher was name-dropped</li>
<li>And, (thanks to WePlayCoD), the guy in the full-page picture is holding a MAC-10</li>
<li>Vehicles return, ‘but not the way you remembered them from WaW’</li>
</ul>
<h2>Multiplayer</h2>
<ul>
<li>Multiplayer began development early on, such that some single player levels are based on multiplayer maps</li>
<li>A beta’s ‘being considered’</li>
<li>We’ve heard it before, but Treyarch will be improving multiplayer from suggestions, and acknowledged the under-the-map glitches that plagued WaW’s launch</li>
<li>Matchmaking for consoles has been improved (although <a href="https://www.codblackopsnews.com/2010/05/14/dedicated-servers-to-return-in-cod-black-ops/" target="_blank">as we learned earlier</a>, PCs will almost certainly get dedicated servers)</li>
<li>Create a Class 2.0 – improved character customization includes kit and appearance items!</li>
</ul>


So overall, a few bits we knew before, a few we kinda guessed, and a few genuinely exciting prospects. I've always liked the stealth missions, so I'm hoping stealth really does play a 'big part' like they say. Customization for Create A Class sounds great, as does a fully controllable helicopter. I honestly can't wait.

New video release with a few seconds of new footage, the world première should be interesting. Cheers to Shadow for the heads up:

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05-15-2010, 04:54 PM #38
glitchplz
Samurai Poster
It keeps looking better and better than mw2
05-15-2010, 05:16 PM #39
schaffinosx
To and fro the island.
I have just been sold.

This news, despite that we knew some of it already, is quite exciting for me, as there isn't one thing I'm disappointed to here. The comparison between Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4 to World at War and Black Ops is also very exciting, as that leads us to believe that it is a massive difference.

The single player, cooperative, and most importantly the multiplayer sound like they are coming along great, and that Treyarch is doing everything they can to prevent another hacking / glitching plague.

I'm glad to see, as I've said before, that Treyarch is going on a limb and being creative this time around, trying things that Infinity Ward had not yet tried.

If there is any game I can I'm absolutely sure I'm going to be getting this holiday season, it is Call of Duty: Black Ops.
05-15-2010, 05:43 PM #40
:O this game just keeps looking more and more amazing
05-15-2010, 09:57 PM #41
ENG JOK3R
ENG JOK3R is B3AST
i believed i just spunked my pants reading this info
05-15-2010, 09:58 PM #42
james_123
Bounty hunter
crosbow = jizz
05-15-2010, 10:38 PM #43
L2K2008
Save Point
very nice thread so much help cant wait!!!
05-15-2010, 11:44 PM #44
wow nice this game looks realy good
05-16-2010, 01:37 AM #45
_Jake_
Banned
Black Ops? Seriously? My opinions, I don't think it will be a good game because Treyarch is making it. It based on what war? Whichever war it was it was probably boring.

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