Call Of Duty : Black Ops Campaign Review
Call of Duty: Black Ops is an Activision 2010 first-person video shooter game developed by Treyarch. It was launched for Microsoft Windows worldwide in November 2010. It is the 7th title in the series Call of Duty and the 3rd title Treyarch has developed. It is the sequel to the Call of Duty: World at War.
The campaign of the game, set in the 1960s during the Cold War, follows CIA operative Alex Mason as he attempts to recall certain memories in combat in order to locate a numbers station. This station is to transmit transmissions of chemical weapons to sleeping agents throughout the USA. The main playable characters are Mason and CIA Operative Jason Hudson, along with Viktor Reznov, a Red Army soldier on only one mission. The places included Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, the US, Hong Kong, and the Arctic Circle. The game is held for over three years.
GAMEPLAY
The player takes on the role of a soldier who can use various firearms (only two of which can be carried at the same time), throw grenades and other explosives, and use other equipment as weapons. A player who is close enough to an enemy can kill them with a single knife blow. A character's stance can be one of three: standing, crouching, or prone. Each has an effect on movement speed, accuracy, and stealth. While running, the player can drop to the prone stance from the standing stance and sprint briefly before having to stop. The screen glows red to indicate that a player's health has been damaged, which regenerates over time. When the character is within a live grenade's blast radius, an on-screen marker indicates where it is in relation to the player, allowing the player to move away or throw it back. Crossbows with bolts and explosive ammunition, Dragon's Breath rounds, and ballistic knives are among the new weapons in Black Ops.
Throughout the single-player campaign, the player takes on the roles of various characters, changing perspectives throughout the plot. The playable characters are covert operatives carrying out covert operations behind enemy lines. Each mission has a set of objectives that are displayed on the heads-up display, along with the direction and distance to and from those objectives. Throughout the game, the player is accompanied by friendly troops. Although the game is primarily a first-person shooter, certain levels include sequences in which the player pilots a Hind helicopter and guides friendly troops from an SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane. Several scripted cinematic moments appear in the campaign. One of them is a bullet time effect that appears during the "Victor Charlie" level when the player fires on the last enemy of a Viet Cong squad.
As a first in the Call of Duty main series, player characters can now speak during gameplay, whereas in previous installments, particularly those made by Infinity Ward, characters were silent during gameplay even if they could speak during cutscenes.
Both your friendly soldiers and the enemies you face have low artificial intelligence. For the majority of the campaign, both friendly and enemy soldiers act like fools. For a solid 20 seconds, I watched a friendly shoot the back of an armored car that he was using for cover.
PLOT
CHARACTERS AND SETTINGS
The events of Black Ops take place between 1961 and 1968, during the Cold War and the Vietnam War, 16 to 23 years after the events of World at War. It depicts a hidden history of CIA clandestine black operations conducted behind enemy lines. Missions take place all over the world, including the Ural Mountains, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Hong Kong, Laos, South Vietnam, the Arctic Circle, and Siberia. The single-player campaign is centered on an experimental chemical weapon known as "Nova-6." Once broadcasts from an unknown numbers station are transmitted, this weapon is bound to be used by sleeper agents in the United States, who are infused with number sequences.
The protagonist, CIA SAD/SOG operative and former US Marine Force Recon Captain Alex Mason, is controlled by the player. To advance the plot, CIA paramilitary operations officer Jason Hudson and a few other characters are occasionally playable. Alex is frequently joined by Force Recon Master Sergeant Frank Woods and Navy UDT Chief Joseph Bowman, while Jason works with Grigori Weaver, a Russian-born field operative. Viktor Reznov, a key character from World at War's Soviet campaign, makes a return, as does the game's Russian protagonist Dimitri Petrenko. The leaders of Project Nova oppose the CIA: former Red Army General Nikita Dragovich, Colonel Lev Kravchenko, and former Nazi scientist Doctor Friedrich Steiner. Several historical figures appear in Black Ops, including Mason's encounters with John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara, and Fidel Castro.
STORY
Mason, Woods, and Bowman take part in Operation 40 to assassinate Fidel Castro and assist the CIA-sponsored Cuban exiles during the Bay of Pigs invasion on April 17, 1961. Mason unintentionally shoots Castro's body double, but chooses to stay behind to protect the extraction plane carrying Woods and Bowman from an impending blockade before being captured by the real Castro and transferred to Russia. Mason becomes friends with former Red Army soldier Viktor Reznov while imprisoned at Vorkuta Gulag in the Soviet Union. Reznov reveals their adversaries' identities to Mason: Major General Nikita Dragovich, his right-hand man Colonel Lev Kravchenko, and ex-Nazi scientist Friedrich Steiner, who defected to the Soviet Union. Reznov, Petrenko, and their platoon were dispatched on October 29, 1945, to extract Steiner from a Nazi base in the Arctic. Dragovich, however, betrayed them by testing Steiner's nerve gas known as "Nova 6" on Petrenko's squad, killing them. Reznov was saved when British commandos, who were also interested in acquiring Nova 6, attacked the Soviets. Reznov destroyed the Nova 6 and fled, only to be apprehended by the Soviets and sent to Vorkuta. Nova 6 was later recreated by the Soviets with the assistance of a British scientist, Daniel Clarke.
By 1962, Mason and Reznov have instigated an uprising to escape the prison. Reznov gives up his life to help Mason escape. Mason meets with President John F. Kennedy on November 10, 1963, and he authorises a mission to assassinate Dragovich. Mason, Woods, Bowman, and Weaver are sent to the Baikonur Cosmodrome to disrupt the Soviet space programme and eliminate members of "Ascension," a Soviet programme that gives Nazi scientists sanctuary in exchange for their knowledge. The team destroys the Soyuz spacecraft, and Woods appears to kill Dragovich in a car explosion with a hijacked BTR.
Mason's team is sent to Vietnam as part of MACV-SOG on January 21, 1968. They recover a dossier on Dragovich from a Russian defector held by the North Vietnamese Army in Hue City during the Tet Offensive after defending Khe Sanh from a North Vietnamese assault. Reznov, the defector, joins them as they enter Laos to recover a Nova 6 shipment from a downed Soviet plane. At the crash site, they are apprehended by Viet Cong and Spetznaz forces. Bowman is executed, but Woods and Mason escape by hijacking a Mi-24 Hind and destroying the Ho Chi Minh trail before rescuing Reznov from Kravchenko's base. When they confront Kravchenko, Woods stabs him, but Kravchenko pulls the pins off grenades strapped to himself, forcing Woods to sacrifice himself by pushing both himself and Kravchenko out of a window. Mason believes the two are dead as a result of the incident.
In the meantime, Hudson and Weaver question Clarke in Kowloon City. Before being killed by Dragovich's men, Clarke reveals the location of a hidden facility on Mount Yamantau. As Dragovich begins killing loose ends, Hudson and Weaver destroy and receive a transmission from Steiner requesting a meeting at Rebirth Island. Mason and Reznov arrive at the same time to assassinate Steiner, and they succeed just as Hudson and Weaver arrive. Unbeknownst to Mason, Hudson and Weaver had witnessed Mason performing the act alone while claiming to be Reznov, prompting the pair to question him.
Dragovich has sleeper cells in each US state capital that, when activated by the numbers broadcast, emit the Nova 6 gas. As a result, the United States, now at DEFCON 2, is preparing a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, resulting in World War III and Mutual Assured Destruction. Mason is the only person who knows the location of the station now that Steiner has died. Dragovich brainwashed Mason into becoming a Soviet sleeper agent and assassinating Kennedy, according to Hudson. Reznov was killed during the breakout, and the Soviet defector in Hue was killed before Mason could reach him. Mason's visions of Reznov are the result of a brainwashing-induced dissociative disorder. Reznov reprogrammed Mason prior to the Vorkuta uprising to assassinate Dragovich, Kravchenko, and Steiner instead. Mason finally recalls the broadcast station's location: a Russian cargo ship named Rusalka off the coast of Cuba. The assault on the Rusalka begins, with Mason and Hudson infiltrating the underwater submarine base that is guarding the ship. Hudson orders the destruction of the Rusalka by the US Navy. Mason and Hudson confront Dragovich in the facility's lower levels, where Mason strangles and drowns him before fleeing with Hudson. They regroup with Weaver, who declares victory.
The film shows archive footage of President John F. Kennedy before his assassination on November 22, 1963, revealing Mason was among those who watched Kennedy disembark from Air Force One at Love Field. Mason's presence, as well as Dragovich's taunt before his death, imply that he carried out his initial programming.
GRAPHICS
The overall graphics of the game is very great. There were hardly any glitches and bugs in the game. The game also didn't stutter at all and the FPS was mostly stable throughout the game.
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