official Call of Duty: Black Ops

[Tharp Daddy]

Don't forget about zombies and gun game.

Also have you tired capture the flag and other such games?

They require you to move.

I'll give it a shot eventually, i imagine i'll end up playing it anyway since most of my friends who play xbox will be playing Call of Duty. I find it so weird i enjoyed Battlefield: Bad Company 2 so much, yet i don't enjoy the call of duty series. I liked the whole "sniper camping? Blow up his building" concept.

[BoneyardBrew Member]

Well, the PC version is plagued with massive performance issues, so until they sort it out I'm not even bothering.

The game itself seems fine though; nice guns, maps, voice acting, etc.

[SimplySchizo]

I havent had much issues with the MP on 360. Only one would be it taking so long for rooms to fill.

[rajputwarrior]

judging by the steam forums, PC version is borked hard.

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

I'll give it a shot eventually, i imagine i'll end up playing it anyway since most of my friends who play xbox will be playing Call of Duty. I find it so weird i enjoyed Battlefield: Bad Company 2 so much, yet i don't enjoy the call of duty series. I liked the whole "sniper camping? Blow up his building" concept.

Not weird at all, they are two very different games, despite appearing so similar at a quick glance. While I do not dislike CoD, and actually do quite like it at times, I much prefer the BF series and game-play overall.

[nubs]

I have the PC version and didn't notice any problems. But I only played for a short period.

[Chasethebase Veteran]

Yeah, performance issues, campaign is completely broken, can't even play it. Get through to selecting difficulty, plays that first part that you can skip, gets through the intel bit about the first mission then bam, can't do anything.

[Kyle A]

Just finished playing about an hour of MP on the PC... Besides the stuttering and performance issues, which are game breaking (which I hope they fix REALLY SOON), it looks like a game I will enjoy for many hours to come. (Y)

[+.Vamp Subscriber²]

Just finished playing about an hour of MP on the PC... Besides the stuttering and performance issues, which are game breaking (which I hope they fix REALLY SOON), it looks like a game I will enjoy for many hours to come. (Y)

My feelings (and experience so far) exactly :)

[ViperAFK]

Just the new unlock system itself looks like a big improvement to the mutliplayer. Sucks having to grind so much just to unlock a certain weapon or scope, now I can buy the one I want.

[WastedJoker]

Just the new unlock system itself looks like a big improvement to the mutliplayer. Sucks having to grind so much just to unlock a certain weapon or scope, now I can buy the gun which has not been nerfed yet.

Fixed :p

[Chasethebase Veteran]

Ugh, not bothering with the game until everything's fixed tbh. It's just frustrating trying to play it at the moment, with constant lag and stuttering and with SP not even working.

Annoying really.

[Sethos]

Game is a million times better than MW2, that's for sure. Really had a lot of fun, focus is much more on each player's ability with a weapon, rather than the killstreaks and perks taking over.

With that said, the matchmaking servers are getting hammered to hell and there's some core issues to be fixed. We had a party of 6 and it was nigh on impossible to join a game, took us almost 30-40 minutes of constantly going back and forth as host ( me ) joined without anyone else, rest of the lobby got errors. Certain times, only half the lobby would get carried into the game. My connection is the best of the bunch, I always host as I don't have any port / connection / throttle issues. People are skipping around at times on the server, even with green bars and it's micro-skipping, all identical. Kill-cam is all effed' up - Sounds missing, doesn't even show the correct amount of shots fired, doesn't even hit people at times etc. I know the kill-cam was never accurate but it's at its worst right now.

Plus the region search doesn't work. We have "Locale only" set and we CONSTANTLY get thrown in with Americans ... Don't tell me American servers where we get 2-3 bars is the best option on the release day of this years biggest game. So the shell of the game has issues for now, which I know will be fixed eventually, especially when the matchmaking servers decrease in load but the core is spot-on - Fun to play again! I also agree, the new unlock system is a million times better. Get a new weapon and deck it out within seconds, you don't have to be gimped for hours while you work your way through challenges (Y)

Oh and they FINALLY 'fixed' Search and Destroy. It was the de facto mode for quick rank increase in MW1, in MW2 they basically matched it up with Team Deatchmatch kill points and it was rendered useless. Now it's back up to snuff and you get 500 points a kill - Thank you Treyarch!

[Hedon]

Care package glitch infinite FAIL

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/care-package-call-of/707268?type=flv

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

The single player is lame. There is just so much action going on that it's way over the top. Every mission is a super battle vs the computer.. why isn't there any fun levels either? Each mission is shoot and get from point A to point B.

[ViperAFK]

The single player is lame. There is just so much action going on that it's way over the top. Every mission is a super battle vs the computer.. why isn't there any fun levels either? Each mission is shoot and get from point A to point B.

I think you just described every cod campaign. There are later missions that change things up, like a few stealth missions for example. The first missions were pretty much a Michael bay movie on crack though lol.

[Duality]

Thoroughly enjoying this game. SP was fantastic, zombies is as fun as ever and the MP is slightly laggy at the moment but still a lot of fun :)

[The_DINGUS]

I am never buying another COD game.

I've never bought one before, I intend to continue this time honored tradition.

[ViperAFK]

I knew someone would find that post :blush: .

I can't help it, I have to buy anything with zombies!

[rajputwarrior]

I've never bought one before, I intend to continue this time honored tradition.

lol owned...

he's not the only one either

[Hedon]

1,000,000 users already on Xbox Live:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-09-black-ops-hits-a-million-xbl-users

[ViperAFK]

Can anyone else get zombie mode online to work on pc? Everytime I join a lobby, it kicks me right after the countdown to laod the map and says session no longer available.

Also is there a way to choose what type of wager match you play? EVERY SINGLE ONE I have played is 'One in the chamber" I really want to play gungame.

[Baines]

Also is there a way to choose what type of wager match you play? EVERY SINGLE ONE I have played is 'One in the chamber" I really want to play gungame.

I haven't played any wager matches yet, but if you go to Server Browser there is a wager match tab at the top that will list wager servers. Unless their names are incorrect I'm pretty sure I saw some gungames up there.

[ViperAFK]

AH I didn't even know there was a wager tab on the server browser, silly me :). I was going to wager match in the menu, which just brings you to play wager match.

Speaking of one in the chamber it actually is pretty fun. Can be a bit campy obviously but it is interesting. Love doing the running to prone dive move and blasting someone, feels epic.

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

I am personally really, really liking the SP so far. Only played about 45 minutes so far (I purchased it from Best Buy, and will return my Amazon copy to Best Buy once it arrives) but I actually really like the over the top non-stop action. It took me all of one minute to settle down and not let it overwhelm me, and once I did that, I think they did an incredible job of making it feel like an action movie that you control. Really is well done IMO. I think the frantic pace really keeps things fresh, and taking control of all the different items they have thrown at me so far is a whole lot of fun. Makes the MoH SP which I just recently played and as such I am going to compare it to, seem like absolute child's play.

The one and only negative I will say so far is I noticed a HUGE drop in frame rate in one certain area in particular. The frame rate literally dropped to an absolutely horrid rate. For a series that has always, always prided itself on a solid 60 FPS, I was actually shocked to see it, and it is making me think that perhaps it is just another 360 that is about to RROD on me, as I have never seen such a poor performance from a recent COD release. Hoping it was just a weird glitch, as it really was mainly just one scene, but it lasted a good 10-15 seconds. Seemed really odd. I have not seen it other than this one instance, and it really has been non stop action so to speak, so really just hoping something weird was going on. I installed it to my drive right away before I played, so it was not disk read related, I can rule that out.

Overall though, really damn impressed with the SP.