Strapped to a chair and by speakers squeezed by a combination of numbers - that you know maybe from your last doctor visit, when you do not pay the consultation fee wanted. The agent Alex Mason, however, it is a completely new and completely unfamiliar experience. When the combination is of course not the PIN number of his debit card, but a much greater mystery.
Call of Duty: Black Ops begins immediately awakens the mysterious and playful curiosity: What is behind these seemingly innocuous numbers? Why Mason with electric shocks and nerve poison is being tortured? Why would he kill Fidel Castro? And why he does not remember anything more? First time in the staging of highlights rich and poor in content feats CoD series, does the action. A few minutes are enough to ensure not only the desire for an even bigger, more bombastic blast your only drive, Black Ops to play until the final credits.
Of course, the story of chemical weapons in Russian hands no masterpiece, but it gives the characters edges - what could be said of Modern Warfare 2.
The story is more than a mere cues in order to put in James Bond-style one exotic location after another in ruins. Here a lesson from Infinity Ward Treyarch Modern Warfare 2 has learned: A never-ending trail of blood is not a thread that binds the player to the game permanently.
But under the ambitious and explosive action of the story is hidden behind only a delicate touch of Nothing: The gameplay is so ready to suck like the thumb of a
early weaned infant and enemies as smart as brain-amputated grouse.
Each Call of Duty game is faced with the same Problem: The expectations of fans worldwide are in a tight corset, which provides specifically for a good figure, but innovation and originality can hardly breath to breathe. Therefore, it falls on the more positive, if Treyarch kept trying to pump fresh blood into the parched genre. But the impressive sequences, such as a lead-based tour boat in Vietnam or the outbreak of a Russian prison you Black Ops always sends back to the shooting gallery.
If an opponent across wave after another slosh over you, then pushing with increasing pain in the sustained fire fingers always more a question: Would have been such a deeper grip in the mothballs of game design really necessary? Again and again have to run it only after a certain action and thus trigger the story script before the attackers tide ebbs. In these sequences, it seems almost as though Treyarch is afraid of its own size and seeks salvation in the flight into long forgotten genre bad habits.
But when we thought that Black Ops developed a disappointment on a high level, we had finally geballert by two-thirds of the game and blown up - and get only a glimpse of the furious finale. The more you play, the more adrenaline flowing through your veins. Towards the end of the story plays cleverly on the keyboard of emotions.
Time and again statistics are circulating the net that many players give up well before the credits - all the more incomprehensible that Treyarch only in the last third of an ace after another out of his sleeve and shaking has chosen such a high degree of difficulty: If you just your first steps in shooter genre dares to draw you some passages from Black Ops away even on the normal difficulty level the ground under their feet. In addition, the storage areas are often more than just a single forced march away from each other. Your frustration tolerance should therefore be at the same level as your ammo consumption, so that your pad or your mouse does not end up furiously in the corner.
From each and every cutscene scripted event of Black Ops flows the ambition to cast very big Hollywood movies on the screen. The graphic was with great attention to detail, polished to a shine, even though the engine already patina attaches. But except for some muddy textures and low detail PS3 and Xbox 360 can be found even with a magnifying glass no criticisms. The sound of your neighbors could lead to panic buying at the supermarket and then barricading in the basement. But the Russians are coming to the game - but which quite formidable.
The German audio mix is, however, a single declaration of war on the atmosphere: Far too often parrot the undoubted professional speaker just talk - no matter whether it even fits the current game. This criticism might seem petty as an arithmetic book A8 DIN, but the seriousness of the situation is thus completely flutes. The Russian dialect sounds also so oversubscribed that the speaker would certainly also in the word "cliché" one more "R" displayed on the reels.
With a playing time of 6-7 hours is Call of Duty: Black Ops is intense, but very short ride to hell - but after the single-player campaign before multiplayer. Finally ignites Treyarch the fun-grenade and a simple but ingenious product is the motivation even further pushed: You can count on the outcome of the current round of betting - if your whole money is in the internal currency in the game, then takes her nerves of steel, so that your fingers tremble with excitement. More about the multiplayer mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops can read it here.
Final Thoughts
Light and shadow, joy and sorrow, Black Ops and the player: Treyarch sends you a hell of a ride with thrilling scripted passages that bring the first play through the satisfaction of the impression of playing a Hollywood movie. But as much as the effective staging also tried to drown the banal gameplay with loud explosions and to drown in the blood of the enemy - it is futile. If the guns are silent and the muzzle flash is off, then the brain starts to rattle:
How often I want to drink old wine from new bottles and how many times I just want food warmed up from the previous day purely dig into me? Instead of using the success of its predecessor, to maneuver the Call of Duty series into new waters, Treyarch is due to a more pabulum to the proven formula for success. Only the ambitious story stands out positively, while the otherwise broad power to disillusion damn high. Black Ops has lost something in the footsteps of the predecessor's larger than life and takes too many game elements. According to the copy cat meowing so passes to the players legs, while heart, brain and dogs have to remain outside.
Overall Rating: 8.6/10
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