Call Of Duty: Black Ops Review

Black Ops

In Call Of Duty: Black Ops you play as Mason. Black Ops leads you on a series of flashbacks that bring you to the point where you're strapped into a chair while explaining why.

Even though the narrative jumps into the shoes of another character, it only does so to help colour in Mason's backstory, while explaining the motives of other characters related to him. It doesn't feel disjointed or bitty, nor do your eyes have to reluctantly drift to the names at bottom of the screen so you can work out who you're controlling.

It feels natural as the narrative flows from that interrogation room through to the end credits without any obvious breaks or seams. While a good plot isn't essential to the success of a good FPS - hell, Valve is only just bothering to do one now for Left 4 Dead - Black Ops shows what a difference a strong storyline makes.

Black Ops is visually dense with detail, as you'd expect from a Call of Duty game, but it has an unpredictable variety that shows Treyarch has really kicked on since the days of its grey-Russia-brown-Japan World at War outing. 

The gameplay remains classic CoD territory. You enter new areas, slowly clear out threats and follow the marked leader, with variety punched in via the odd gimmick - clearing out darkened tunnels with a revolver, shooting out support beams, ensuring your hazmat suit stays intact and so on. Black Ops has maintained the series' standards for polished, accessible gameplay. Even when you're kicked into the seat of a helicopter or behind the handlebars of a motorbike, it never loses its focus on accessibility. It takes only a few seconds to familiarise yourself with the new controls before you're sailing up Vietnam rivers chewing up soldiers from your gunboat while Sympathy For The Devil rings out.

Nazi Zombies has returned, this time as a staple of the game rather than an unlockable, and it has a genuinely surprising cast of bonus characters available when you complete the campaign. Treyarch has also tucked another hidden mode in there, a top-down shooter called Dead Ops Arcade. It's too lightweight and flimsy to find a cult audience as Nazi Zombies did but it helps flesh out a weighty package.



Black Ops delivers the classic bread and butter Call of Duty gameplay which mixes slick accessibility with explosive gunplay. This is the 'proper' Call of Duty fans have been waiting for. 



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