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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”.

Xbox 360 Console

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Xbox 360 4GB S Console

Xbox 360 Black Wireless Controller
Xbox 360 Composite A/V cable (standard definition)
One Month Xbox LIVE Gold Membership
1 year limited warranty on console

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Feature guide to everything new Xbox 360 and

On Monday, Microsoft unveiled the new design of the Xbox 360. The console will be in Austria from 16 July, the old model and replaced by 249 € are available. Simultaneously, the camera control was presented Kinect, from the November, will be. A price was not disclosed. All features at a glance:

Small, light

The new Xbox 360 is only 15 percent smaller than its predecessor. However, it is much quieter. The noise was the shrinkage of the processors and more efficient cooling system reduced to the extent that it is barely noticeable in the acoustic mode. Also, the drive makes no noise, to prevent more. Design

The case of the new Xbox 360 is composed of glossy plastic and is accented by chrome trim and a crease front and back.

Side to see clearly is a large air inlet.

The keys to start the console and to open the DVD drive are like the old PS3 now touch sensitive. The Xbox 360 controller will in future be delivered entirely in black with a shiny underside. Connections and WiFi

The console has a total of 5 USB ports – three of them on the back. On the video and audio interfaces, including HDMI, nothing has changed. On the back it has a special connection for Kinect, which supplies the camera with power. With the old Xbox 360 models will Kinect connected via USB and requires an external power supply. For the first time in the history of the Xbox 360 the new model integrates a WiFi connection (b / g / n). This can connect to the console like the Wii and PS3 from house with the wireless LAN. So far had a WiFi Stick purchased separately. The console comes with the HD cable. There are no more slots for memory units. New hard disk

The new Xbox 360 hard drive holds 250 GB of storage. Microsoft has been using a new, once proprietary disk format.

This allows hard drives of the older Xbox 360 models are not simply taken over. The data must be transferred via USB or data transfer cable.

Your Kinect

The name is derived from Kinect the terms “connect” and “kinetic” from. Kinect integrated into its housing, two infrared sensors, an RGB camera and a microphone. The infrared sensors can be the shape of the player and record the distance to the camera.

The camera shoots with 640 x 480 pixels and charged with 30 frames per second. The microphone detects the direction that is spoken out of and is used to input voice commands. The new Xbox 360 Kinect is a special connector supplies power directly from the console with power. With the old Xbox 360 models will Kinect connected via USB and requires an external power supply. Functioning

The infrared sensors can be the shape of the player and record the distance to the camera. Small details like individual fingers are not recognized, the detection is accurate enough to register all the gestures and movements such as waving, jumping and dancing. Kinect remembers a short scanning process and the shape of the player. Thus it does not mind if other players are running through the picture or object between the player and camera are provided. Kinect can record up to two players simultaneously. The VGA camera is used for both face recognition and the recording of videos and photos. With Kinect, Microsoft has a new software for video chats introduced called “Kinect Video.

The microphone can be game menus and media applications of the Xbox 360 control via simple voice commands. So you can continue on about “Stop Xbox” a film. Technical Details

For the calculation of player movement needed Kinect about 15 percent of the processing power of the Xbox 360 The latency, ie the delay time between detection of the movement and implementation of motion analysis in the game would be after 150-250 milliseconds. Whether this delay is particularly noticeable negative impact on the games remains to be seen.

Games and applications

Microsoft has announced the launch a total of 15 games for Kinect. Kinect All games are shipped in re-designed DVD cases. The content of the initial portfolio is limited to the issues of “fitness”, “Sport / Party” and “dancing”. Thus provide a lot of Microsoft and third party food for the target group of casual gamers.

In addition to games is Kinect also operate the multimedia functions of the Xbox 360 About a particular menu (Kinect stroke), a wealth of all applications are used with gestures and voice commands. This includes the video service “Zune,” the Facebook application program or chat program.

Price inquiry

How much will cost Kinect, Microsoft wanted not been betrayed. According to reports, the unit will be cost around 150 U.S. dollars and bundled with the new Xbox 360 for $ 400 to have. The group after that it was from these data, however, merely speculation.

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