CoD: BO Breaks Entertainment Release Records

People keep buying these games and companies keep getting sales records and you can expect Activision to continue using the same OLD engine and never improving on graphics/game play or ANYTHING really.....why bother.

I torrented the single player... it's horridly pathetic. COD4 was many times better

Well, I say the game is way overpriced fro me, and any other guy looking for a long and solid single player campaign. I bought on steam, so no chance of returning.

BO...Body Odor. LOL

Sorry...couldn't resist.

qft sir.

but let me remind you. activision has a terrible reputation of milking their franchises to death... two prime examples are guitar hero and tony hawk. milked to death. their sales numbers are so low, its hilarious

tony hawk shred sold 3000 in its first week

With that kind of money, they should make amazing games, but nope, black ops still using its dated engine and has a stupid 6 hour campaign. I don't get it. Activision CEO is the dumbest person ever. It's smarter to expend more money on a truly good game that sticks for many years.

It's true the campaign portion of Black Ops wasn't wonderful. Definitely not bad, but not AAA material.

The multiplayer's probably the best of any CoD so far, though. Very well balanced.

another sign why stupidity is on the rise...

Publishers have learn that the stupider the consumer, the greater the margin of profit. Pushing more content through console effectively means promoting simplicity. When simplicity becomes dominant, the complexity and enthusiasm that comes along with the joy of "FIGURING THINGS OUT" vanish all together.

The corporate world is forming stupid population. The population celebrates it by being sheep.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

the game has made improvements in all areas besides engine in my opinion, that is something that I would expect. the game still has a very impressive look to it on consoles, as did MW2. pissing and moaning is irrelevant because the bottom line is if you don't buy this version of a similar game, you're probably not going to play online much with your friends. it's the way it is. why fix what isn't broke...because it's what everyone else is doing...

Are they breaking records on bugs, glitches, bad servers, over priced DLC, short SP mode, rampent immaturity, foul language, and cheating yet?

torrented the game, played 30mins, uninstalled. I want my 30mins back...

There was a time when games were good, because the technology had limits and they had to compensate the gfx with a good story, sound effects, voices which would get the player immersed.

Now everything is dumbed down with maxed out gfx and no story. It seems that the majority of so called "hardcore gamers" like the new trend which can be seen from the millions of copies sold therefore more "games" like this will emerge, because there will always be a market for it.

we should form a PC GAMING LIBERATION FRONT alliance. I am not kidding. PC GAMING ALLIANCE seems to be negligible ...

Yes, yourself included.

In honesty I think what it has all come down to is Team Fortress 2. That game alone probably logs millions of hours per day (Steam game servers hit about 3million peak a week day and more on week ends) and thats for VALVe games only since the otehrs are hosted via other servers.

I myself think that the other companies want something like that or WoW that has so many players so they can create a micro-transaction based system to profit off of.

I remember when CoD was the best WWII FPS ever out. It even made MoH look like, well crap. It had a great story mode that told the story of the war and then a fun multiplayer.

Now they focus way too much on making money. CoD hit in 2003. CoD 2 hit in 2005. 2 years. No CoD 3, only went to consoles. CoD 4 hit in 2007 then we had CoD MW2 in 2008 and CoD WaW as well. Then CoD MW2 in 2009. Now CoD BO in 2010 with CoD MW3 set for 2011.

I notice that as the time between each game went down, they started to become less driven by the fans and more driven by money....

For those who hated this game due to the terrible gamplay performance/graphics, get the new Medal of Honor. It's everything Black Ops should have been. It's an extremely short campaign but it's very entertaining the entire time. After 15 minutes of trying hard not to get a seizure from playing BO I uninstalled and returned my pre-ordered copy.

Non-stop psychopathic violence, no sane person can enjoy such an experience. In my opinion gamers who play stuff like this a lot should join some group therapy.

If you write an f*** word on some forum, the post is delete, but at the same time content like the latest CoD titles is distributed in millions ... I think this is pretty twisted.

Battlefield 3 will destroy it.

best selling games are become more and more like best selling movies: uninspired big budget celebrations of mediocrity, which lack any creative spark whatsoever, but the "unwashed masses" love it.

Ooookaaaayyyy.... did we psycopaths fps gamers satarted any real war so far?

Did we start any fanatic cult so far?

you´re probably refering (4 example) to people like those 2 sick a-hls of colombine, yep but their still a minority with murderers and psycos

So no we are not psycos, we´re just gamers.

Do you enjoy horror movies, war movies? The people that watch these are they in need of some group therapy?

@godnodog
I'm not saying the whole FPS genre is psychopathic. There are games like HL and many others which contain violence, but don't glorify it in a sense like CoD does. The same goes for war movies, most of them (the good ones) have an anti-war message.

In horror movies you are supposed to be scared and identify with the victims not the killer. A large part of that genre tends to be a bit comic, so you don't take the stuff to seious anyway.

But CoD is not comic and you are not the victim. I think if Goebbels could produce videogames, he would produce CoD, just the flags would be different.

this was one of the worse games I ever played, not worth it even for free!! 2/10,

First commenter is absolutely right. The last 4 CoD titles are pretty much the same thing, except for World at War which is the same thing with different weapons. Game companies don't even need to put the effort to inovate anymore, people will buy any crap they release. This sucks! I want NEW games but with things going this way they're gonna take a long time to come.

i see alot of people praising the game, and alot of people bashing the game, but i see very few people who actually say what they dislike or like about the game. why do you dislike it so? because of a corperate ownership? get over it. everything you have (with a possible very few exceptions) is here thanks to a coorperation. you clothes, your food, your medicine, your electricity, the keyboard you use to spread your hatred of such things. without these coorperations, the modern world would be nothing like it is. deal with it. ever if we dislike something they do or their methods, the end result is something which millions of people use.

as far as the game, im dissapointed with how they changed the ;bling' perk into warlord, and excluded underbarrels. although it does help limit the use of the noobtube, it makes it rather useless imo. AR's are the only weapons worth using, with the range and accuracy to put sniper rifles to shame.

"last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which came out last year"
No shit?

Liked the Black Ops story a lot, but very, very disappointed in the PC performance. Terrible stuttering in single player, and it is a common problem from what I have read. Modern Warfare 1 was noted for relatively good graphics and good performance on even low end systems. What happened????
As for the violence in the game, it is so over the top as to be almost cartoonish. I cant see how this would really drive anybody to be a psychotic killer. Come on, give me a break, it is a game!!!

I havn't bought it, I played it round a friends house and it reminded me so much of a re-skinned MW2 it's almost unbelievable, but maybe a bit more balanced and fewer snipers. Even so, MW2 reminded me of a shiny CoD:MW with easier quick-scoping, so, yeah. Still, I'm glad I've only bought CoD:MW and not the subsequent 3.

I bought the game, and i would say the story wasn't the most thrilling and it was almost predictable, but it does have a twist. I enjoyed MW1-2's story more then this one. Graphically its MW2, though pixels on some levels don't look that great at all *Cough treyarch* They have great experience as a developer and i think there getting better at it and hopefully some day will have a different experience then what "IW" has in there games. I think the reason MW did so well was the story was made up, but thats what made it even more exciting. As long as they keep the story a driven exciting and memorable one it will keep selling like crazy. Multi-player wise i think this one beats MW, they did a lot to fix things and make it better as a whole. Like now u can only have so many aircraft coming in the air space, i think max is like 3, that helps in terms of lag and just over abundance of getting raped on haha. Overall experience the game is worth it in how much content it packs, but the story lacks creativity and some of the missions seem bland and really uninspiring. I think they tried too hard to match "IW's" creativity to be different in there missions, but it just felt dumb to have to press RT to fire up the blackbirds engine. I found that to be a nuisance and annoyed me each time something like that was added, like they couldn't find a more compelling way to have you interact with the game. But it does pack content, i found myself wasting away 2 hours on the arcade zombie mode. And i believe anyone who's driven to to completely complete the game you can pack 30+ hours into this game spread across the story and multi-player which makes ti worth the 65 in my opinion. I can't wait to see what next years COD is going to be, my friend heard a rumor that "IW" will be taking the game to the future with space combat. I really hope they don't, thats what shattered Horizon is for. And with half the team missing at "IW" its hard to tell what the game will look like. Time will tell

yeah i feel the same B- for the single player but multi is another story

WTF !

For PC version full of lagging and shit !!

I had to use skidrow update to be able to play the game !