hello guys. i am reviewing call of duty black
ops for the xbox 360. this game really stunned me, even though i am no real fan
of call of duty. here is my review, and i hope you enjoy it. i used an excerpt
from the call of duty wiki page on black ops for the story, and if that's
considered plagarism, even though it's just part of it and this information is
readily available information. if you consider it plagarism i will take down
the review. i will link to the page i got the excerpt from at the end.

Graphics: 9/10 the graphics on this game aren't bad. the textures are pretty
smooth, the animations are nice and the graphics aren't blocky or primitive.
you would expect as much from an xbox 360 game. but there are graphical
glitches sometimes, which makes it 9/10 instead of 10/10.

Sound: 9/10 the sound in this game is pretty great. the sound is smooth, and
the gunshots, footsteps and voices and general overall sound effects are nice.
but some aren't, which is why i gave this game the rating it got, 9/10. i'm not
hating.

Addictiveness: 8/10 this game is fairly addictive. there is single player,
which isn't very addictive. but there is multiplayer, which has so much stuff
to do! like level up, unlock guns, that kind of stuff. but there is also
zombies, where you run around shooting zombies and buying weapons. so yeah,
this game is pretty addictive.

Story: 10/10 the story is very good. here is an except from the call of duty
wiki, to tell you what i mean.

The game is set in the Cold War era. Much of the Call of Duty: Black Ops
campaign is told through the eyes ofSOG and CIA operative Alex Mason, primarily
through flashbacks. Mason is asked questions by an unknown interrogator about a
numbers broadcast which is being used to contact Soviet sleeper cells in the
United States. These questions set the stage for the campaign missions.

The first mission is a flashback to Mason's participation in the Bay of Pigs
Invasion, a doomed effort to assassinate Fidel Castro. At the end of this
mission, Mason is captured by Castro's soldiers and given to Nikita Dragovich
as a 'gift.' He is held captive at the Vorkuta Gulag, a Russian labor camp, for
two years.

After further interrogation, Mason recounts how, during his imprisonment at
Vorkuta, he befriended Viktor Reznov, a former Red Army soldier and a returning
character from Call of Duty: World at War. Reznov assists Mason in sparking a
prisoner uprising at Vorkuta, which facilitates Mason's escape from the prison.

One month after his escape, Mason is escorted to the Pentagon with his handler,
Jason Hudson, where he receives authorization from President John F. Kennedy to
assassinate Dragovich. He is then dispatched withFrank Woods and Joseph Bowman
to Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR to sabotage the Soviet space program.
The team saves a captured operative and destroy the Soyuz 2 as it is launched.
Dragovich, who is present at the launch, escapes alive, forcing Mason to spend
the next five years searching for him.

By 1968, the SOG, including Mason, is deployed in Vietnam to investigate the
Soviet presence. After Mason helps defend the military camp at Khe Sanh, he is
deployed to Huế during the Tet Offensive to recover a dossier with information
on Dragovich from an unnamed defector. The team recovers the dossier, and Mason
discovers that Reznov is the defector.

After Mason escapes Huế City, the campaign shifts to a mission in Kowloon, Hong
Kong, where Hudson is sent to find and interrogate Dr. Clarke, a scientist
working under Dragovich. The mission goes awry, and Clarke is killed while
Hudson seeks to escape Dragovich's men.

Then, after further interrogation, Mason reveals the story, as told to him by
Reznov, of the history behind Dragovich, his associate, Lev Kravchenko, and
German ally, Dr. Friedrich Steiner. These events take place shortly after World
War II, and are told through the eyes of Viktor Reznov. They detail Dragovich's
discovery of the German chemical weapon, Nova 6, and illustrate his
ruthlessness as he murders his own soldiers to witness the effects of the
weapon, including Reznov's close friend, Dimitri Petrenko. This mission ends
with Reznov asking Mason to promise him that Pentrenko's death will be avenged,
and Dragovich, along with his allies, Kravchenko and Steiner, will be killed.

The interrogation moves back to 1968, and Mason describes how he and the rest
of his squad from the SOGfight their way through Viet Cong-controlled territory
in an ultimately futile attempt to chase an elusive Kravchenko, and are later
sent to locate and investigate a downed Soviet plane containing Nova 6. During
this investigation, Mason, Woods, and Bowman are captured by the Viet Cong.

Again, the perspective switches to Agent Hudson, who is sent on a mission to
infiltrate a Soviet base in the Ural Mountains, a suspected development center
of Nova 6. The control room the facility is rigged with explosives in a trap
set by Dragovich, but Hudson's team is contacted remotely by Dr. Steiner, who
gives his location and promises, in exchange for safety from Dragovich's
systematic elimination of "loose ends," information on cracking the
numbers broadcast.

After this mission is completed, Mason describes to his interrogator how Bowman
was killed while imprisoned, and how he and Woods escape from their Viet Cong
captors. Mason fights across a vast swath of Vietnamese land in a stolen Mi-24
Hind to reach Kravchenko's base. At this base, Mason again meets Reznov, who
leads him through the base towards Kravchenko. When Mason reaches Kravchenko,
he commits suicide with his bandolier of grenades, seemingly killing Woods in
the process. Mason and Reznov then recover documents that lead them to Rebirth
Island.

Mason's story converges with Hudson's at Rebirth Island, as both fight their
way through a Soviet Nova 6 research and production facility to reach Dr.
Steiner. Hudson engages in an all-out assault on the facility with light armor
and a squad of CIA operatives, while Mason sneaks into the facility with Reznov.
Mason reaches Steiner only shortly before Hudson, and watches as Reznov murders
Steiner.

However, when the same story is retold through Hudson's eyes, it is revealed
that it was, in fact, Mason alone who shot Steiner, while exclaiming that he
was Reznov and would have revenge. The flashbacks end and the interrogation
continues. Hudson reveals himself to be the interrogator and confronts Mason
face-to-face in a desperate bid to break him free of his brainwashing. In this
mission, it is revealed that, while at Vorkuta, Mason was subjected to severe
mental reconditioning in order to turn him into a sleeper cell who would
perform Soviet missions in America. However, Reznov 'hijacked' this
conditioning and used it to instill in Mason an absolute devotion to complete
Reznov's vow for revenge. Reznov was actually killed in the escape from
Vorkuta, and, therefore, all subsequent appearances of his character are merely
a part of Mason's imagination, brought on by the intense nature of the
brainwashing Mason experienced.

As the reprogramming of Mason's brain is finally broken, Mason recalls the
origin of the numbers broadcast, a ship off the shore of Cuba called the
Rusalka. In a CIA raid on the ship and the underwater broadcast station over
which it is anchored, Mason strangles Dragovich to his death and sinks the
broadcast station, ending the threat that the sleeper agents presented to the
United States.

Depth: 7/10 this game is pretty deep. like i said above, you ccan play
multiplayer, and all that jazz. And you can play zombies, which is also
incredibly deep. It’s an endless gamemode, and you can keep coming back to it,
and it almost never gets boring!

Difficulty: 5/10 this game is not very hard.
You can breeze through it incredibly
fast, in like a day or two. But multiplayer is a different story.
Multiplayer is so hard. They are all so experienced, the players of online
multiplayer. It takes a while to adjust to. But after a while you’ll get the
hang of it, and it won’t be so bad.

Overall: 9/10 this game is incredibly good.
And cheap. You can pick up a used copy for 5-10 dollars at your local game
store. I highly recommend you pick up a copy of this game. You’ll enjoy it.


LINKS:
http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops

Wow, this is a very long and thorough review. You did very well with adding plenty of detail and I think you added a good amount of reasons fopr why you like this game so much. I think you did well here and I'm looking forward to seeing your future reviews.

You did a good review, but I believe you put a *little* too much detail for the story. I was told the same for some of my reviews; try to balance out the sections unless one *really* deserves much more.