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Black Ops: Early Look

Friday, July 2, 2010 , Posted by Scott at Friday, July 02, 2010

As we all know, Treyarch's newest installment to the Call of Duty series, Call of Duty Black Ops, is due to come to stores in November, and many people like what they see so far. Personally, I can see a few things in the game that might be a bit redundant and otherwise unoriginal. Although I can see many promising aspects from the latest trailers.
One of the main things that troubles me is the graphics. Don't they look familiar? There seems to be a trend in graphics in many FPS games, and are beginning to look the same. Black Ops, Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Medal of Honor all have very similar graphic design. I realize that the obvious argument against this is that the graphics of these games all look more or less real and that you can't make realistic graphics look any different. While that is partially true, it seems like the concentration on realism is taking away from the artistic creativity that has made many games succeed, such as Halo or Bioshock.
Obviously, it is exciting to see Treyarch build off what has made the previous Modern Warfare installments great, and is moving away from WWII to more modern battles. But, Treyarch has added a twist, instead of staying in just one realm of time, throughout the game you switch between different points in time; from the Cold War, Vietnam, and possibly many others that Treyarch has not yet released to the public.
One of the things that we saw in E3 was the use of a helicopter to decimate enemies. I personally am hoping that this will make an appearance in one or more of the multiplayer maps. It would be fun and strategic to destroy other characters from above, but we will have to wait to see. There is hope however, if helicopters do not make it into the maps as interactive vehicles, they could be integrated into the kill streak system like in Modern Warfare 2. I can't go into too much detail on the multiplayer however until a multiplayer trailer or beta is released. As far as I can tell, Black Ops has lots of promise and could be an amazing addition to the Call Of Duty franchise.

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