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Call of Duty: Black Ops

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Seventh installment of the Call of Duty series, based on the live fire conflicts of the Cold War era.

Diverse variety of play setting ranging from urban air and ground combat in SE Asia, to snow combat in Soviet region and jungle combat.
Blending of traditional COD, and new first-person character scenarios designed to both retain the essence of the COD gaming experience and ensure constantly flowing and varied action.
New arsenal of weapons and vehicles tied to the Cold War era, including the SR-71 Blackbird and sited explosive-tipped crossbows.
Wide array of play modes including single player, local multiplayer versus and online co-op and multiplayer.

Call of duty in the news:

The business of violence

Activision Cold War: “Call of Duty: Black Ops” The newest part of the shooter games, Call of Duty “is a blockbuster. The discussion about the violent content of the controversial war, it is likely to play in his success.

It was the best ever start a video game: The shooter game “Call of Duty: Black Ops” was the first day of sales alone in the U.S. and UK sales of 360 million dollars – went to the manufacturer’s Activision in the first 24 hours 5 , 6 million games over the counter. A commercial success, albeit a very controversial.
Interactive Movie

The cost of production, but also the advertising budget for computer games like “Call of Duty” can now compete with those of films. The proximity to the film is already obvious: The graphics of the games is now so advanced that often at first glance does not notice whether there is now a movie or video game. But there is a big difference that may explain the attraction of the Games Movies can be consumed passively, but actively make games.
But just for games, which are dominated by violence as the “Call of Duty” series, the criticism is inevitable. And not by chance: Game manufacturers are increasingly calculated for those games to break the taboo, to put the vending machine in motion. In the recently published offshoot “Black Ops” the criticism came mainly from Cuba, where one of the missions of the virtual game-playing soldiers. It is the time before the (real) invasion failed Bay of Pigs in 1961 – and the goal is nothing less than the assassination of the then young revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

Fidel-Castro-alikes
The national press is not sparing with criticism. The game was “doubly perverse” in that it glorifies attacks and in children and adolescents in North America “sociopathic attitudes” promotes. What the U.S. had not done in 50 years, will now try virtual, it was called on the government website Cubadebate. The mission ends with a Fidel-Castro-alike is shot and the commando unit in Siberia in prison.
But in the U.S. violent games like “Call of Duty” by no means uncontroversial. Recently, a hearing was held on this issue before the Supreme Court. It is a law in California that will make the sale of such games to minors is punishable. A decision is expected next year.
Activision Hype Machine: midnight sale at the start of “Call of Duty: Black Ops” in the U.S., “Call of Duty: Black Ops” is not the first shooter this year, which is in the public criticism. The war game is Medal of Honor “was banned from U.S. bases such as the player to slip in there, the role of a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan and fight U.S. and NATO troops. Manufacturer Electronic Arts then changed the name of the combatants of “Taliban” in “Opposing Force”.