My LetsPlay/Review of Black Ops.

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vallorn

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So... I caved to pressure and bought Black Ops. I decided to do an experiment with this game in the form of reviewing it as I go along. I will be posting semi regularly, with updates as to what's just happened, "OMG WTF? BOOOM" etc, my sister (Sis: Hi!) is typing/spellchecking as I dicate.

Wuthout further ado.. let's begin!

Okay, so setup seems relatively simple. A little slow to adjust screen width- ooh autosave!

Menu allows for freefrom view- nice- And...
I have red skin and I'm strapped into a chair. I'm attempting to break my cuffs but cannont.
Okay, Campaign start.
So New Game.

I'm gonna play... Regular. Because recruit is for wussies.

(next post soon)
 

vallorn

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this WILL be Spoilerific...
Okay so I?m an average white male with? blood on my shirt. Yay blood!
Ohgod electricity torture Donotwant. My arms are still red!
STOP SHOCKING ME D:
Holy beep Kennedy! Conspiracy! NUUUMMMBBBBERRSSS!!

And so the first level begins (S: I?m confused now.)
Apparently my mission is to kill Castro, (and usher in a new reign of student t-shrits >:D)
So much black ink.
Ho-kay, military in the background are roughing up the locals and? stabbing occurs? and now I have a gun! Yay gun!

And now I have to fight the police or something and ha ha noob-tube away!
Okay, seriously the gameplay so far is fluid, if stunted.
Graphics- first impressions. They feel a little less.. accurate than MW2, but maybe that?s a good thing.
I don?t really want to remember MW2

Oh sweet driving! I get to drive! Again, it?s fluid if stunted. There?s an odd sense of dislocation from my actions, but maybe that?s because I?ve just started.

? And now I?m back in the chair. Great.
More Electroshock!
? I?m on a church.

Awesome music whilst zip wiring!
I like this game.
Ah, the first melee kill of the game. (It?s via strangulation)

Moving up hill? and I got flanked and died.

Try again! And I?m listening to the characters this time ?Go ahead, do not engage!? oh I was supposed to let them go past.
Huh.
Okay, lesson learnt, back to shooting.
Curse you aim assist! It?s actually throwing off my aim, urgh.

Open open open the door! And on the other side? Woohoo! Hello there rocketlauncher.
Oh man, these explosions are causing the building to shake waaaay too much, you can barely see.
Just heard a weird groaning screechy noise and got Halo flashbacks. Ugh.

Open door and?
Slow motion bullet time into Castro?s head!
Yay blood!
And then my partner shoots his girl. And lays a couple rounds into him for overkill.
Yeesh, this guy hates Cubans.

Okay I know I should listen the NPCs but I can barely hear them through the static/gunfire/explosions.
This is worse the MW2 :/

Ooh intel!

(Man the graphics are really pretty!) No the graphics a re BRRROOOWWWN.

Swapped my RPG for an RPK and!
? died behind some sandbags. Yeesh.

They?re telling me I need to blow up something but I don?t know what that something is!
Okay apparently it was a tank. Or something. I think.

Well a tank exploded and I reached a checkpoint.

Rappelling! (Sis:Aw yis, spelled it first tiiime)

Must? Get to da choppa!
It?s so dark I couldn?t see the entrance to the plane. Great. Okay, inside now!
Spraying bullets? truck crashed into plane?. Stop trying to blow me up! I mean, sure I just killed your leader and all but there?s no reason to be rude!
And I get captured and knocked out.

Holy beep it wasn?t Castro I killed it was a double. CONSPIRACY! Or something.
And they?re going to torture me. Man these Cubans/Russians/whatevers are evil!

Level 1 complete! Lots of flashing lights and colours!

Dinner break now.
 

gummydrop

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I can't tell if you're serious or not. This is a pretty dumb idea, not to mention incredibly boring.
 

L3m0n_L1m3

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SPOILERS: You can indeed break those cuffs.

gummydrop said:
I can't tell if you're serious or not. This is a pretty dumb idea, not to mention incredibly boring.
Well that's just plain rude.
 

vallorn

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again...more spoilers.
Apparently this whole thing was just a set-up.
So I was? tortured? More numbers! More flashing lights! More Castro!
Powerplant, with prisoners? USSR? jail, torture images, all in shades of red.

So I?m in a Labour camp in the USSR nd just got punched by a dude who looks like a hobo/.
People being beaten! So I punch the guard. Hobo dude took his keys!
I get a knife yaar, tois stabbing time.

Isn?t it nice of these Russians to talk English with Russian accents?

So chanting, so Russian guys called sergei (Total bear >:D)
This prisoners hate the guards.
Sergei has picked up a massive axe/pick thing. We?re going up and..
Sergai chopped through a guards spine
I got a pistol
Hobo dude is philosophising. I got move down by a machine gun. Okay, this time? or not.

Alright I?m taking this slower. Following hobo dude, hiding behind crates? oh god running out of bullets
Sergai?s here, pushing a minecart! I?m covering his back!
And the prisoners on the other side are also pushing a minecart! Minecarts for all!
It feels a lot less dislocated now? like I am in tune with the game.

Man how many guards are there? Explosive barrels!

Hobo dude kicks open a door! I am beginning to respect his leadership qualities! And beard.

Oh man that mining equipment is ridiculously oversized.
Sweet.
I have a slinghot which fires grenades.
Oh yeah!

They keeping chanting Ooh-Rah!

?Just as planned?

Thank you Prisoner F5026 for opening the door! You will be remembered!
And think thank you for the shotgun Prisoner C1842! Your contribution is invauluable.
Now GTFO.

Whoa, I shot the lock with a pistol and the gate. Bent.
That seems phsycially improbable.

It?s really hard to tell who?s a ;prisoner and who?s a guard! They are all different shades of brown (closer to beige or maybe a dark eggshell. actually, but the point stands.)

I have an AK.
Awesome.

?The chopper is here!?
The edges of my screen are covered in kool-aid! It is getting hard to shoot people in the head! My passion for this game is ebbing! I need grenades!

I have literally no idea who is shooting me and where from.

Oh, it?s a helicopter!

This is not as bad as chopper gunner but still pretty bad. It?s times like this I wish I had explosives.

Ah-ha! Getting to a roof! Getting a harpoon! Shooting it at the chopper!
Moar OohRah! Man these prisoners are excitable.

And the chopper is landed! And by that I mean crashed in an explosion.

(Dark corridors filled with gunfire aren?t very fun to watch- ooh Commies!)

This is my experience of Russia: Fur hats, gunfire, old factories and following Hobo.

Nothing much now. Just a massive shootout in this old factory building.

Oh god SWAT(?) guys rappelling in :C

(S: This factory is actually pretty nice to look at. They put a lot of detail into aging it- nI like the mint gren colour scheme, and the way they used corrugated plastic on the roof- it give the place a muted tone, you can tell how dusty it is and how the sunlight has warped the plastic. The bars/ cage door things everywhere are a little unsettling though.)

Apparently the mini-gun in this is apparently called the @deathmachine@ Feel the PPPOOOOWWWEEERRR of the DEATHMACHINE.
Try saying that out loud.

I have just blown up cars with a minigun in an FPS.
I?m so very happy.

Ah what the hell is that gas or what! A There?s slow motion and everything has gone all misty an now I?ve fallen over and can?t get up. My ears are ringing.

Oh great, I?m back in the chair.
(S: Are we going to spend this entire game sitting in a chair, flash backing. Because that would be a way easy summary :?SO This dude sits in a chair and flashbacks about Communists. And NUMBERS are involved or something. You blow stuff up?)

Oh hobo-guy dragged me into a building and MOTORBIKES
I love this Hobo dude. No Homo.

There is nothing wrong with motorbikes? and shotguns! Oh man the handling is pretty great, better than the car.

Oh god another helicopter is shooting at me. Did I upset the helicopter Queen or something! I don?t know I am not that schooled in etiquette!

Now I?m stealing a truck with what appears to be a 50Cailbre machine gun on it.
Awesome.
The helicopter is destroyed! Yay truck!
And now we?re driving up to a train and- I jumped onto it! HOW? Legs do not work like that!

No! Hobo! He got left behind! (S: But I loved him!)

The CHAIR! Again.
Oh god more conspiracy stuff.
Hobo dude didn?t make it out :?(

Okay more conspiracies? NUMBERS! RED SHADES!

And... End Level 2
 

vallorn

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L3m0n_L1m3 said:
SPOILERS: You can indeed break those cuffs.

gummydrop said:
I can't tell if you're serious or not. This is a pretty dumb idea, not to mention incredibly boring.
Well that's just plain rude.
its criticism... i can take it...

gummydrop said:
I can't tell if you're serious or not. This is a pretty dumb idea, not to mention incredibly boring.
its an experiment. thank you for your input. it would be done in video but i have no capture card so this is the best way i can do it...
 

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The 'hobo dude' is:
Reznov, the balls awesome Russian that you fight beside in CoD:W@W

Edit: Just as heads up, finished the campaign, it was good, not spectacular, but it was good, really mixes it up at times.
 

vallorn

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viper3 said:
The 'hobo dude' is:
Reznov, the balls awesome Russian that you fight beside in CoD:W@W
i never played WaW... :S
Zekksta said:
gummydrop said:
I can't tell if you're serious or not. This is a pretty dumb idea, not to mention incredibly boring.
Nobodies forcing you to read it.

And thank god for that right? oh snap

EDIT: btw this should probably be in the reviews section.
your right. this should be there... cn someone move it?

im taking a short break il update again soonish
 

De-Moti

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Why don't we take this thread...
And put it somewhere else? [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/index/326-User-Reviews]
No need to thank me, it's what I'm here for.
 

Count Igor

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Hell, guys. It's his choice to do this, don't just insult him on everything.
Maybe give an idea on how to change it for the better? Not just "That sucks. Stop it".