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Call of Duty: Black Ops Reveal Trailer

Here's your first look at the new Call of Duty coming this year from Treyarch. Commence speculating... now.

May. 1 2010

Posted by: Brad

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Call of Duty: Black Ops

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Edited By DukeT

That trailer didn't really show much. I saw some Vietnam, some Cold War, and apparently something in the future. A supersoldier who has been fighting for the past 40 years? I always knew Bruce Willis wasn't just an actor...

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Edited By crusader8463

Looks like another generic shooter.

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Edited By pwnasaurus

damnit i wanted vietnam!
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Edited By MAN_FLANNEL

If they bring in vehicles that work well, count me in. 

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Edited By Southgrove

Aww, and I was looking forward to another WW2 game... ;)

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Edited By CL60

It's hilarious how everybody shits all over Treyarch, when the fact still remains that World at War is a better made game then MW2.
 
Plus people saying..This looks like a generic shooter!
 
Yup..this game we have seen no gameplay of looks like a generic shooter. Amazing guys....

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Edited By Illmatic

From CoD: 3 to World at War there has been a notable rise in the quality of Treyarch's work. Here's hoping this game turns out to be good.

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Edited By Winternet

Call of Duty in the Animus. I'm calling it.

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Edited By toowalrus

I watched the trailer, and I've got no idea what the game is about. I wish they had released a few sentences along with the trailer telling us when the game takes place and what it's about.

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@Winternet: 
 
I agree, this totally seems like that's where it's going
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Edited By fox01313

Gameplay will be solid but not sure about the setting. Half expected while they were reminding the person what happened for the game to go back to an earlier time like with Assassins Creed2.

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Edited By Volkodlak

So, yeah... definitely picking up a sci-fi memory Animus type deal with those lab sections; I could get behind that, otherwise I'm not really too interested in more CoD. 

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Edited By Deano405

MW2 is pretty unbalanced but World at War was borderline broken; try going up against a machine gun with a bolt-action rifle that doesn't kill in one hit

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What a pile of shit.

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Edited By ISmoochyI

Is it just me or did it look like it's prob ganna be taking place in Vietnam?

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If it has some huge cinematic action pieces and cool gameplay I'll probably get it.

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Edited By ArchV1le

Looks fine to me, still don't understand all the haters

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Edited By MeatSim

 Vietnam? I would take that over WW2.

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Edited By Brendan

Wait, are people buying this?  I thought you all decided you weren't supporting Activision or whatever?  I must have missed something.
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Edited By eric_buck

Call of Duty 3 was terrible. Call of Duty 5 was better, but still not great. Hopefully Treyarch can make this a good game, although I'm doubtful.

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Edited By Death_Unicorn

IS IT THE ANIMUS?

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Edited By Distrato

I'm thinking it follows multiple wars since its called Black OPs. It would be kind of neat if the beginning of the game your character is a young soldier in the Cold War then at the end your playing as him when he's an old grizzled vet in Vietnam.

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Aw.. it's not the Battlefield 3 trailer. 
 
/disappointed 

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I need to see more of the gameplay to make a decision

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Edited By NTM

That's the Halo 3: ODST in Call of Duty.
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Edited By brazzle

So....Commander Shepard is being revived once more to fight on in the Call of Duty universe?
 
...I could get behind that...

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As IW slowly got worse, Treyarch has progressively gotten better.  
 
I'm interested to see how this goes.
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Edited By DASH

Why did that trailer have to be so teaser-y.  It was one thing when IW did this same trailer for MW2, but if Treyarch is going to win anyone over, they should have come out swinging.  Other than Vietnam, I don't get what is going to make this game any kind of special.
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Edited By Turambar
@Distrato:  Vietnam is part of the Cold War.  Just sayin.
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Edited By captain_clayman
@Atlantus_Air said:
" The narrator (or whatever you want to call him) sounds like Dr. Breen. "
more like g man
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Edited By pachowski

cool trailer, maybe.....

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Edited By Relys

So it's assassins creed in first person?

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Edited By Shiftshaper

Looks like they're stepping up the narrative, which is what those WW2 games always lacked. If they control the bombastic crazyness factor this could be better then MW2
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Edited By rjpelonia

I'll pass.

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Edited By TheKidNixon

For those who are getting an Assassin's Creed vibe: I'm pretty sure that the whole scene is more electro-torture than anything. The "help you remember" stuff I think is sarcasm, as in "Oh you don't want to tell us? Well maybe THIS will help!"

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Edited By Bollard

Oh yeah, the Cold War, the one without any fighting in it. 
 
By the looks of the thumbnail for the video the core concept of the game is punching yourself in the face. 
 
Otherwise I'd speculate 90% of the game is walking around the White House until Gorbachev gives you a call and says "Actually, I don't feel like doing this Cold War thing anymore."

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Hopefully it's the mind of Demo Dick that you're trekking through in this game.

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Edited By turboman

Call of Duty only works in the hands of Infinity Ward. Those guys are gone, so all we will get now is World at War quality.

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That trailer was a boat of fail.

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Grr. Why do I seem mildly impressed?

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Edited By CountDog

I think it will be interesting, can't wait to get my hands on the single player.

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Edited By handlas

trailer didn't do much for me.  Get it's a teaser but meh I hate quick cuts to exploding things and you can't tell what is happening!
 
I hope they take a step back from the Modern Warfare series of bigger/more is better!  All the crap in MP with missiles falling from the sky, helicopters, heartbeat sensors, etc. ruin it for me.  CoD2 still the best.  Hopefully Treyarch doesn't disappoint and steps up with a bit of originality with Infinity Ward guys going away.  I guess Zombie mode was original for the CoD series...

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it looks like we are in vietnam, in the future... what?

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Edited By buwchbach

This all looks a bit bland, I dont think Call of Duty does it for me any more.

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Edited By tomance

It showed enough to make it seem pretty cool.  WaW wasn't too bad, it's just IW knows how to do multiplayer really well.  

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Edited By RTSlord

the trailer looks like it has a ton of action and should be pretty sweet, although we'll see how this game turns out
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Edited By Bobdaman18

I don't know whats up with all the hate, treyarch cod games are always decent games, i'm interested and will prob buy it at some point.
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Edited By jakob187

So there's an Animus that they are going to be using in order to go through our memories of past lives and ancestors in order to understand why war exists? 
 
Because that's what I took from it. 
 
I'm interested, and I like Treyarch's new logo.  It's slick and snazzy.

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Edited By citizenkane

Nice trailer.  Has me interested to hear more at E3.

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Edited By Zeninnnnnnnn

So tired of call of duty. MW1 was incredible, MW2 was garbage.