Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 06:25 BST
New Black Ops story trailer refuses to hand you a medal of honor

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: you drag yourself out of bed each day, work yourself to the bone at the office from dusk ’til dawn, and what do you have to show for it? Not a single soul recognizes that whatever stupid, probably pointless thing you do is a needed service!
As evidenced by a brand new story trailer, Call of Duty: Black Ops is kind of like that. Only, you know, with a couple more explosions, we guess. Catch it after the break, courtesy of GameTrailers.


31 comments
#1
koopa
12/10/10, 6:41 am
I’m buying 3 copy’s.
#2
Patrick Garratt
12/10/10, 6:45 am
Between this and Medal of Honor, I reckon I’m going to have a pretty sweet Christmas. Shooting hundreds of people, goodwill to all men and all that.
#3
Xuchilbara
12/10/10, 6:52 am
I will be picking up MoH in 1 hour!!!! Black Ops can suck my wang!
#4
Patrick Garratt
12/10/10, 6:55 am
I’m praying my copy turns up in the post today.
#5
Gekidami
12/10/10, 7:18 am
The Deer Hunter called, it wants its Russian roulette scene back.
#6
Patrick Garratt
12/10/10, 7:21 am
MAO.
#7
CptKurk
12/10/10, 7:33 am
Will they know it’s Christmas time in Afghanistan?
#8
Johnny Cullen
12/10/10, 7:38 am
That was a bit shorter then I thought it would be.
#9
Kuwabara
12/10/10, 7:56 am
fucking shooters. these games are killing the game industry , while more creative games are being over shadowed and dying cause of poor sales.
#10
Erthazus
12/10/10, 9:22 am
Russian roulette?
Russian special purpose regiments? LMAO and someone kills them behind?
Nukes?
I will give it a chance, but damn, i mean really you don’t need to be blind to see how bad engine is for the current gen consoles for shooters. 2D Explosions EVERYWHERE. Textures and grass are from the PS2 era. Ridiculous… This is just so fucking ugly… blah…
#11
EscoBlades
12/10/10, 10:19 am
FAIL!
#12
DSB
12/10/10, 11:02 am
Was that Robert McNamara at the Pentagon? They actually put Robert McNamara in a Call of Duty game? Holy crap.
Nice looking trailer though, not that it blows the game wide open or anything.
@2 Hear hear!
#13
CptKurk
12/10/10, 11:08 am
@10 Maybe you can play it with a paper bag over your head.
#14
DSB
12/10/10, 11:23 am
Oh shit, I just watched it again. It has a guy stomping you on the ground in the first person.
I swear… I get executed ONE – MORE – TIME in a CoD game, in the first person… And there will be hell to pay. I will go to their fucking house, and do strange things to their pets.
The first time it was like “Holy crap! I’ve been shot!”, the second time it was like “I’ve been here before, haven’t I?” and the third time it was like “THREE FUCKING TIMES, REALLY CALL OF DUTY? REALLY?”
@13 Nah, he doesn’t like to play games, he likes to watch them. That’s a hardcore gamer right there.
PS. Pat Gar – Do you know about this?
http://www.gbgamer.net/2010/10/12/new-black-ops-story-trailer-refuses-to-hand-you-a-medal-of-honor/
There’s siphoning afoot.
#15
Erthazus
12/10/10, 11:32 am
@14 Call of Duty and Activision fanboy trolling the entire MOH and COD threads
hillarious.
Nothing special at the trailer and fratboy is already jerking off
“Nah, he doesn’t like to play games, he likes to watch them. That’s a hardcore gamer right there.”
So you are playing with trailers right? So much fanboyism over crappy video.
@13 No thanks, you can play with that method as much as you want.
#16
DSB
12/10/10, 11:33 am
@15 Actually I’m only really impressed by the fact that they apparently rendered Robert McNamara, and fairly incited by the first person stomping.
I think you need to get your caretaker to help read these things for you.
#17
Massiveslag
12/10/10, 11:34 am
@13 With any luck it’ll be a plastic bag.
#18
Erthazus
12/10/10, 11:39 am
@DSB, “Oh shit, just watched it again. It has a guy stomping you on the ground in the first person.
I swear… I get executed ONE – MORE – TIME in a CoD game, in the first person… And there will be hell to pay. I will go to their fucking house, and do strange things to their pets.
”
#19
DSB
12/10/10, 11:41 am
@18 Uuuuuh…. I’m actually complaining about the fact that they’ve re-used the same cheap plot ploy three times in two games?
Yeah, that’s certainly frenzied fanboy support right there.
Is your caretaker around? Can we talk to him?
I’m impressed by anyone who fully renders a historical figure of that magnitude in a commercial videogame. You can’t exactly go around putting anyone you like in your game, you actually need Mc’s permission.
I guess it’s his shot at not looking like a clueless wimp for once.
#20
spiderLAW
12/10/10, 12:46 pm
I like the 1887 Shotty Terminator reference in there.
#21
Michael O’Connor
12/10/10, 1:31 pm
*yawn*
#22
ThePlatypus
12/10/10, 6:52 pm
@19 3 deaths in the last 2 CoD games, when was that I’m only aware of Roach’s death. SHIT! SPOILER ALERT!!!!
#23
spiderLAW
12/10/10, 6:56 pm
@22 Ghost and the guy from MW1 ummmm……forgot his name, Price’s wing man ummmm
#24
ThePlatypus
12/10/10, 7:10 pm
@23 aaahh yes cause Gaz dies and Jackson dies
#25
DSB
12/10/10, 7:32 pm
I’m honestly not really into the whole Modern Warfare mythos, so I don’t know all the names, but the first execution I count is the opening of the original game, the car scene. That had me going “Wow! I’ve never seen that in a game before”.
The second execution is the airport in the second game, that had me going “Oh, that again” and the third execution is the endgame at the villa, at which point I was like “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!”
Then you have the several other first person woundings. The final of the first game and the final of the second game. They pretty much had the exact same endings, the only difference was the weapons and vehicles used.
Pretty ridiculous. I was very disappointed until I started playing the multiplayer. I would’ve rated it a 7 before that point.
#26
manamana
12/10/10, 7:44 pm
Its got a Kowloon level! That will be awesome. Cant wait to rent that demonicsuburbanbeastofstinkingdarkarchitecture …
#27
spiderLAW
12/10/10, 7:45 pm
@25 You would have rated it a 5 if you had played your first matches of multiplayer against me muahahaha you wouldnt have been able to do anything MUAHAHAHA!!!
#28
DSB
12/10/10, 7:58 pm
@27 Lul!
OH! You wanna go that way? We’ll go that way! IT-IS-ON bitch!
Considering how badly I got slaughtered for first two-three weeks, I’d say you couldn’t have done a lot to hurt my stats though.
It was very much a “What the fuck just happened?!” kind of experience
*EDIT*
Highest killstreak – 33
Kill/Death Ratio – +1.4
Headshot Percentage – 8.64%
I have no idea if that’s good or not. I just decided to check it out.
#29
spiderLAW
12/10/10, 9:54 pm
@28
Thats almost exactly my same stats actually. My stats would be better if i didnt spend most of my time in Domination fooling around with all the 12yr old whiners hahaha “Stop it, you are making me lose you fucking fucker!! Quit it you asswhipe! *Waaaaaaaaa* This is not funny!!!* Get outa here you are ruining my killstreak”
Awww yes, those were the days lol.
My highest kill streak was 64 but it didnt register because it kicked me out 30 seconds before the round was over….i was so pissed. Thats the day i stopped playing becuase it happened to me way too often. I even called out a nuke once and right before the timer for the nuke went off BAM!, connection to server failed or some shit like that….fuck that makes me mad thinking about it.
I might fool around less in Black Ops…at first anyways to see where i get. I know i whoop the pants off my budy who lives and breathes call of duty and has a 1.94 k/d ratio in MW2 with a 48 kill streak.
#30
DSB
12/10/10, 10:08 pm
@29 Yeah, I’m pretty sure my actual KD ratio is at least 2 as well. I have the disadvantage of being very impulsive, so I just can’t stand to sit around and babysit chokepoints.
That kind of behaviour will easily turn a 15-5 into a 17-10.
I’ve heard a lot of people have trouble with the matchmaker, but it really hasn’t been that bad for me. I’m running 10 megabit down/2 up.
I’ve lost a few AC-130 achievements on account of my computer crashing, but that’s just faulty equipment.
64 is ridiculous
I think my highest score is something like 43-5 or there abouts, I don’t remember completely. I was laughing my ass off though.
#31
spiderLAW
12/10/10, 10:15 pm
Yeah. I think thats the best part about killstreaks is not the fact that you can gloat about it ( i dont care bout shit like that) but rather that its funny as hell. Makes you think “Who the hell is playing on the other side? A group of chimpanzees that are undergoing scientific observations?” I just sit there and giggle lol.