CoD: Black Ops trailer blows the motherfucking house down

Sadly, you just know they’ve probably tried those things for hunting…

@49 It’s cyanide-tipped arrows such as suppressed handguns.

Look at the trailer how that shit explodes and not only that, it uses time. Like a cheap blockbuster movie. 5 with guns versus 1 with crossbow with ultra bomb on the arrow.

and it’s a Vietnam era. Sounds very believable, even if it is a 1973 year or during the final years of “Vietnamization”.

@Erthazus

It quite clearly states that the crossbow is also used for emergency mineclearing. That involves tying an explosive chord to the end of the bolt, firing it across an open area, and detonating it remotely to clear a path.

I know for a fact that US forces have also used those exact chords in an offensive capacity, although I’m not sure how they delivered it.

You might think that making a delayed charge on a crossbow is a stupid thing to do, but the military doesn’t.

All in all I think you’re missing the point though. If Treyarch think that a crossbow works for the game they have in mind, they should most certainly add that.

If we go back to your darling BC2, you have a tracer gun and a Tommy gun, neither of which belong in a modern, realistic shooter.

@53 Tommy gun? O_o Lets not go to the MW2, because half of guns are not from the modern era at all.

Prooflinks then?

I know what is crossbow. No one NEVER used this for killing people with explosives. It’s stupid and never was and especially in Vietnam, even in the years of Vietnamization.
Here it is even worse: 5 vs 1 in the trailer (!)

Don’t try to explain me until i will see prooflinks. No one use it and thats a fact from prooflinks. I have the entire encyclopedia for military weapons.
Cianide is the only option for explosives ONLY. Thats it. You can use it like a distraction or FEAR and movies in holywood like to use crossbows with the mini atom bomb.

Looks awesome imo. Hope the games whole OST is like the music in this trailer, it really sucked in MW2.

Don’t come running to me, complaining about the bad textures, while I’m playing Reach.
On the other Hand, it seems like it’s the first decent Treyarch-Production …

I love the video, it’s up my ally

@1

Explosions aren’t 2D. Unless you were talking about the napalm, in which case even the real thing looks kind of 2D when you watch old war footage of it. It really looks like sheets of fire falling onto the ground.

@54 Actually MW2 features more modern weapons than BC2, so I fail to see what you’re saying. Not that it even matters, since most respected militaries prefer to rely on tried and true weapons systems, even more so in the special forces. Spetsnaz were still using 1950′s assault rifles in 1990.

I have no way of knowing if anyone ever fired det chord at an enemy in Vietnam using a crossbow, but categorically denying it like you do is pretty stupid, since no one tracks every engagement in a war. Either way, it doesn’t matter. All games are subject to artistic enterpretation. Just as DICE stick a Tommygun (Thompson .45 submachinegun) and a tracer pistol into their games, Treyarch can stick whatever they want in their game. It’s a question of what works or doesn’t work.

It’s not a question of realism, there are no realistic wargames, and there would be no point in making one. Real war isn’t very entertaining. It’s all about making it fun.