Thread: Black Ops - Insight

Settings: Vietnam, Cuba, the Arctic, Laos and Russia have been confirmed as locations in the game.

Factions: Friendly: SOG (Studies and Operations Group); Enemy: North Vietnamese Army (NVA), Viet Cong, Russian Forces

Multiplayer: Vehicles will return, but they will be very different than those of World at War.
There will be a dedicated co-op campaign for up to four players that uses different levels than the singleplayer.
Matchmaking is being changed so that it is easier for friends to play together.
Some campaign levels will be based off of multiplayer maps instead of the typical vice-versa.
Create-a-Class 2.0 will allow the player to customize their appearance in addition to their loadout.
The PC version of the game has dedicated servers

A very large article with a lot of interesting information can be found here NextGenUpdate - View Single Post - *NEW* Black Ops Information

IGN

Pre-orders for Call of Duty: Black Ops are outpacing those of its predecessor Modern Warfare 2 as Treyarch's Cold War shooter is set to shift 12 million units in the months following its November release.

That's still shy of the 16 million that Modern Warfare 2 shifted over the Christmas period last year, but it's a sign that headshots and killstreaks will once again dominate the festive period.

It also suggests that the ongoing Infinity Ward saga – which shows no signs of running out of steam – hasn't had a significant impact on the popularity of the franchise.
Treyarch is taking the reins for Call of Duty: Black Ops, and it's all looking mighty impressive so far.

Thanks for the details, gamesindustry.biz.

I'm hoping the release will come with public server files and a linux version too. Fingers crossed.

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Wow, looks like they really put efforts in it. I seriously hope we're not going to be disappointed this time (as we were in mw2) but I think it looks really really good so far. I think I might even buy it, as soon as it is available here in Germany and if it's not too expensive. That's actually my biggest worry about the game.
Well anyways, looks like Treyarch tries to go for the best game 2010 here and I appreciate that. Crossing my fingers, too

lol@ cabry's sig


Ya i hope that it is going to be good... Not sure how i feel about possibley buying ARMA2 and COD7 very close too each other... but its fine xD

lol they are brining back the AUG HBAR??? in the video i swear i saw it. and customizing your character look is sorta niceee

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YES no shotgun secondary.
I love the shotgun primary and having it as a secondary is stupid
Just keep pistols honestly and i cant wait to use the crossbow holy hell thats gonna be sweet

oooooooooo, I can't wait looks pretty awesome. Here's to hoping we can host a server, or two, or three, or ... ^^

man, this is so damn graphic...FINALLY! lol

Is there any news as to the reccomended requirements???

There are no official system requirements yet, however from the insight and game footage, you can make some guesses.

They say the game will use state of the art technology, that hasn't been used much before, can also see there are a lot more environmental features and dynamic lights, than in Modern Warfare 2. So, if you can run modern warfare 2 well, my guess is that you'll be able to run Black Ops, low or okay.

The dynamic lighting and environment, etc.. has been compared to that of the avatar game, so have a look at those. Have a look at the in-game recordings in the insight/ trailers then compare it as to how you see mw2 or another high detail game, then make some guesses.

But remember, trailer footage, is always better than the actual game, its pre rendered and adjusted.