Call of Duty: Black Ops Announced, Due in November

Get ready for another fail in the CoD series. 3 sucked, 5 sucked...here comes one moar.

Well someones gotta say it: its gonna suck.

Regarding Infinity Ward's situation ; we will see how loyal Treyarch is to its PC community and hopefully they wont go stupid as IW did by removing dedicated servers lets hope for the best and i like Cod:WAW alot Treyarch the PC community still hasn't lost all hope make us proud and truely carry out the COD name

Long post. Summary is as follows: You will probably only get one or two missions in Vietnam and this is a good thing.

The rumor that Black Ops was the subtitle of Treyarch's latest entry was accompanied by more info that the game would take place across a wide time period (end of WWII up to present day). Source dating back to March: http://xcastonline.com/index.php/Rumors/rumor-call-of-duty-black-ops-is-treyarchs-new-game-alleged-details-revealed.html

I think Treyarch could hit this out of the park and by consequence become the new caretakers of the CoD franchise. Consider...

- You get rid of a single Soap/Roach protagonist and body hop across many different eras and hot spots. Globe trotting like this will be awesome instead of being locked into one period. Plus, they get to step through key historical events which will keep things grounded. MW2's story got a little too carried away with itself. Most people agree that MW1's story was better.

- Treyarch's campaign/story mode is much more likely to support coop.

- Treyarch has the feedback from MW2's multiplayer and will remove things that didn't work so well. Like MW2's story, most opinions I've heard from players or reviewers say that while MW2 multiplayer is good, MW1 did it better. So, we could see a return to more CoD4 gameplay tenants: less killstreaks, fewer notifications popping up all over the god damn screen (FIRST BLOOD, PAYBACK, LONG SHOT). We can also expect a few new perks, like the dogs they gave us from WaW, plus the guns and perks can now span across 40-50 years.

Bottom line is that if lots of people on my friends list are playing Black Ops then I will too, especially if they bring back my beloved MP5 SD along with the Juggernaut and Martyrdom perks. Oh yes. I said bring back Juggernaut and Martyrdom. I sold MW2 a month ago when I decided the Stimulus pack wasn't worth it. The only thing I'd really miss from MW2 is the riot shield and my throwing knife.

Ugh. Treytarch's games have pretty much been disappointing compared to IW's. :( Meh.

So when is this series going to end? Are they trying to beat Final Fantasy or something? This is number 7 and Final Fantasy is at like 15?

If it has coop: insta-buy. otherwise, i'll probably pass

Cool, I love spy shit, and cold-war era shenanigans. This is going to be fucking beast!

Alas, poor Call of Duty on PC. I knew it well (or at least I will after playing through CoD 2).

I have no hope for this; it's going to be Jesse Stern'd and Hans Zimmer'd and achievement'd into the ground. No platforms mentioned, and Treyarch didn't really do anything good for CoD:WaW PC singleplayer beyond copying Call of Duty 2's interface and NPC bark sounds.

Oh well; Rage comes out in 2012, right?

Pass.

I will give it a shot if there is a demo first. I thought WaW is/was a great game, SP and MP. But that was Treyarch making up for the COD3 suckfest.

I think MW2 is pretty good. I tried it out over that free weekend. But I dont think it was $60 good when my LAN buddies and I have just as much fun playing COD4 or WaW MP.

If this is anything like CoD5 (WaW) in terms of goodness and support....I'll buy it. I think after the CoD3 suck Treyarch did, they totally redeemed themselves in 5.

About time we get a good Vietnam game going!
I believe in you Treyarch!!!

I hope it has Zombies and Co-op. Zombies and Co-op can make any game good.

I liked World at War more than I liked Modern Combat 2. I will give this game a chance.

Rocky 5....thousand.

Looks like Treyarch will be the one to handle COD / MW3 now that IW is / has collapsed or they'll integrate whoever is leftover into Treyarch. I though WaW was excellent so we'll see how Black Ops is.

so they didn't dare to make a genuine story and drama driven vietnam game... atmosphere of the game will be all over the place...

treyarch actually tried to add to the series with zombie mode and vehicles, so im hoping they add even more to this one.

if it's more of the same i think i will leave it.