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    Call of Duty: Black Ops

    Game » consists of 19 releases. Released Nov 09, 2010

    The seventh installment of the long-running action franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops puts players into the early era of the Cold War (including the Vietnam War) as a member of the United States black operations unit known as the SOG.

    Black Ops free on Steam

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    #1  Edited By beforet

    Call of Duty: Black Ops is going to be free for the weekend on Steam. This is a pleasant surprise. I've never played a CoD game before, so it's nice being able to try out the multiplayer everyone loves so much.

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    #2  Edited By mikemcn

    Its easily the best COD game since 4. (Multiplayer at least.)

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    #3  Edited By Animasta
    @Beforet said:
    Call of Duty: Black Ops is going to be free for the weekend on Steam. This is a pleasant surprise. I've never played a CoD game before, so it's nice being able to try out the multiplayer everyone loves so much.
    they did this at least 3 times for MW2.
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    #4  Edited By beeftothetaco

    BlackOps is overrated as fuck. Pretty much the exact same as MW2. It's cool Steam is doing the free weekend thing though.

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    #5  Edited By ElBarto
    @Mikemcn said:
    Its easily the best COD game since 4. (Multiplayer at least.)
    CoD 4 > MW2 > Black Ops Multiplayer
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    #6  Edited By mikemcn
    @ElBarto
    @Mikemcn said:
    Its easily the best COD game since 4. (Multiplayer at least.)
    CoD 4 > MW2 > Black Ops Multiplayer
    Nonsense
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    #7  Edited By Gav47

    This is cool I guess, just a shame the download has to be 8.4gb.

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    #8  Edited By shua310
    @Gav47: It Really does suck. Still Free is Free
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    #9  Edited By CL60
    @Mikemcn said:
    @ElBarto
    @Mikemcn said:
    Its easily the best COD game since 4. (Multiplayer at least.)
    CoD 4 > MW2 > Black Ops Multiplayer
    Nonsense
    Nonsense indeed, MW2 multiplayer is just a clusterfuck of broken garbage.
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    #10  Edited By RE_Player1
    I'd say Call of Duty 4 is still the best in terms of single player and online. I could still play that game.
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    #11  Edited By DystopiaX

    FUCK I JUST BOUGHT IT FULL PRICE DAMNNNNN

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    #12  Edited By natetodamax
    @CL60 said:
    @Mikemcn said:
    @ElBarto
    @Mikemcn said:
    Its easily the best COD game since 4. (Multiplayer at least.)
    CoD 4 > MW2 > Black Ops Multiplayer
    Nonsense
    Nonsense indeed, MW2 multiplayer is just a clusterfuck of broken garbage.
    This man speaks the truth.
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    #13  Edited By OwnlyUzinWonHan
    @Beforet:  The multiplayer's gonna be free, not sure about single-player or zombies though.
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    @DystopiaX: Accidentally?
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    #15  Edited By DystopiaX
    @xobballox said:
    @DystopiaX: Accidentally?
    No I was really bored and impulse bought it yesterday.
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    #16  Edited By benpicko

    Will the multiplayer still be free to play after the weekend? Or will it stop working?

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    #17  Edited By yukoasho
    @DystopiaX: Well, you'll be able to play it when the weekend's done at least. :)
     
    @ElBarto: You're out of your bloody mind.  Maches would end a minute or two after they started cuz some fucker got the tac nuke and instantly used it.  Black Ops also has a better single player campaign where things are at least somewhat sensible (if hokey) as far as the story goes.
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    #18  Edited By mikemcn
    @natetodamax
    @CL60 said:
    @Mikemcn said:
    @ElBarto
    @Mikemcn said:
    Its easily the best COD game since 4. (Multiplayer at least.)
    CoD 4 > MW2 > Black Ops Multiplayer
    Nonsense
    Nonsense indeed, MW2 multiplayer is just a clusterfuck of broken garbage.
    This man speaks the truth.
    Mw2 had some serious issues. Alot of odd bugs, unbalanced and tiresome gameplay and stupid killstreaks that were too effective.
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    #19  Edited By grilledcheez

    ...still don't want to play it haha

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    #20  Edited By Lobster_Monster

    Free weekend only, just multiplayer:
     
    http://store.steampowered.com/news/5596/?snr=1_4_4__109

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    #21  Edited By Marz

    my computer still has framerate problems with the game.   Very bad port optimization.     Witcher 2 and Crysis 1 & 2 run way better than this game on my Core2Quad 2.4ghz and gtx 480.

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    #22  Edited By subject2change

    Counter-Strike > COD Series

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    #23  Edited By subject2change
    @Marz said:
    my computer still has framerate problems with the game.   Very bad port optimization.     Witcher 2 and Crysis 1 & 2 run way better than this game on my Core2Quad 2.4ghz and gtx 480.
    Sounds like personal issues, my GTX 280 and Q9550 handles it fine (even at stock 2.83)
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    #24  Edited By Kyreo

    Who cares?  I know I sure don't.

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    #25  Edited By DystopiaX
    @YukoAsho said:
    @DystopiaX: Well, you'll be able to play it when the weekend's done at least. :)  @ElBarto: You're out of your bloody mind.  Maches would end a minute or two after they started cuz some fucker got the tac nuke and instantly used it.  Black Ops also has a better single player campaign where things are at least somewhat sensible (if hokey) as far as the story goes.
    I actually just played the BLOPS single player and disliked it, thought MW2 was much better just gameplay wise. Way too much talking and walking slowly from one place to another while characters talk; there literally are whole levels which are just characters talking. Cutscenes are unskippable, which is a bummer since I really don't give a shit about the story. Since I had to sit through it, I do agree it was fine even though I saw the twist coming in like the 5th level. There are actual holes in the gameplay; in one level I could literally see the enemies pop in, and the worst part was they'd only do so after I advanced past a certain point in a corridor and I couldn't shoot them fast enough before dying, I ended up backing up in the corridor and sprinting as soon as I knew I hit the trigger. There's also a couple too many of those slow-mo "the character just died but not really!" moments for my taste which just break up the action too much, I just want to be dropped in the single player, listen to the somewhat stupid but adequate explanation of why I'm shooting dudes, and then let free to advance through the level to shoot dudes and occasionally see ridiculous things happen.
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    #26  Edited By Marz
    @Subject2Change: I don't know, there's plenty of people who had the same problems i did.   I've reinstalled, defragged.  Done ini tweaks.   The game still stutters, drops to the mid 20's in FPS, low gpu usage. The game doesn't look graphically better than World At War and that game runs over 90fps on my computer.  They did some bad optimization and i guess if you got a cpu near 3ghz it can brute force it's way past these problems.  My rig just doesn't handle it well.
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    #27  Edited By iam3green

    well that sounded exciting until i read for the weekend. i'm not going to download it. my internet speed is slow so it will take a day to download it. i already have black ops for ps3. i do know it probably is going to be good on the PC.

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    #28  Edited By Pinworm45
    @Kyreo said:
    Who cares?  I know I sure don't.
    A lot of people, if the amount of people that played the free MW2 multiplayer weekends on steam are any indicator.
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    #29  Edited By xpgamer7

    Always cool when stuff like this happens.

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    #30  Edited By ElBarto

    I can agree that the killstreaks were a little to much in MW2 the majority of the core game was much better.
    Black Ops has terrible hit detection, a clear tier list of guns which wasn't really the case in MW2 where most guns were on par with one another with the exception of a few, the map design is Black Ops is so bad. The spawning system is awful; I can't tell you how many times I had people spawn right behind me. Pistols are almost effectively useless in the game, the poor map design basically makes sniper rifles pointless as you can pretty much still kill people effectively with your rifle from anywhere, and there are hardly any exceptions to this in any map. 

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    #31  Edited By thornie_delete
    @benpicko said:
    Will the multiplayer still be free to play after the weekend? Or will it stop working?
    I also have this question... Downloading now.
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    #32  Edited By ShockD

    I tried it. An OK game. There are a lot of useless stuff and camping, but I still had some fun going kamikaze with a RPG.
     
    It's good for killing time. But if you want fair challenge with competitive gameplay, get Counter-Strike: Source.

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    #33  Edited By scarace360

    Still dont like. People still yelling at me for not going 40 - 1 and they are still shouting things about my mother or sex.

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    #34  Edited By ShockD
    @scarace360 said:

    Still dont like. People still yelling at me for not going 40 - 1 and they are still shouting things about my mother or sex.

    Perhaps they wanted you to go AK-47 Grenadier + RPG-7.
     
    I got banned from a server once for doing that...

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