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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 violence being toned down

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    #1  Edited By overbyte

    Just read an article in CVG that Treyarch was toning down the violence because the neck-twisting was too realistic.:
     http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=271261     
     
    Wow, whatever happened to the "Violence on/off" setting? I thought the game's rated M already? I've played through MoH, WaW, and Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway and I swear I saw limbs flying off and people getting blasted to chunks. There's also a scene in MW2 where Soap chokes a guy to death. Aren't those worse than neck-twisting?
     
    Then again, I guess they may not want to be "featured" on Faux News.

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    Wow.

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    #3  Edited By RsistncE

    Meh, the presence of, or lack thereof, neck snapping probably isn't going to make up break the gam.... 
     
    WAIT WHO AM I KIDDING. WHERES MY MOTHERFUCKING NECK SNAPPING.

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    #4  Edited By ch13696

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    I see nothing wrong with neck breaking violence. Especially if it's already rated M.
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    #5  Edited By keyhunter

    I hope they make the neck snapping like MGS.
     
    "Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh *SNAP*"

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    #6  Edited By joeybagad0nutz

    BOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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    #7  Edited By ajamafalous

    I have no interest in this game, but that's pretty dumb.

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    Man all these shooters now a days are fucking lame, I wanna see guts and blood and brains and bowels.
     
    There being pussies and trying to attract as much of the younger population as they can as the parents will pick it up if they know it's not to bad.

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    #9  Edited By overbyte

    They need to make up for this by giving us a mode where you get rushed by dogs and you only score points by snapping their necks.  
    Bonus points for zombies and zombie dogs.

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    #10  Edited By lead_farmer

    So they decided not to go with a "do you want to skip this?" option when you start the campaign?  Oh well.  Seems kinda crazy since you are already cutting people and shooting them, but guess they don't want some media backlash or something

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    #11  Edited By Mmmslash
    @Bucketdeth said:
    " Man all these shooters now a days are fucking lame, I wanna see guts and blood and brains and bowels.  There being pussies and trying to attract as much of the younger population as they can as the parents will pick it up if they know it's not to bad. "
    Do you REALLY want to see bowels?
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    #12  Edited By jkz

    OH MY GOD I WON'T BE ABLE TO TWIST A GUY'S NECK AND WATCH HIM STRUGGLE FUTILY TO ESCAPE MY MURDEROUS GRASP. GAME RUINED!!! 
     
    Seriously, who the fuck cares? I just hope they do a good job balancing the only competitive MP, give us a compelling, coherent story, and make the game fun to play.

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    @Mmmslash said:
    " @Bucketdeth said:
    " Man all these shooters now a days are fucking lame, I wanna see guts and blood and brains and bowels.  There being pussies and trying to attract as much of the younger population as they can as the parents will pick it up if they know it's not to bad. "
    Do you REALLY want to see bowels? "
    It's just how I roll.
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    #14  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    An interesting decision since the game is guaranteed a Mature rating in the US as it is. Perhaps they're hoping for a 16+ in other territories or are just trying to play it safe after the whole Modern Warfare 2 controversy.

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    #15  Edited By Jaunty

    The leaked mp videos seem to show that there's no more blood in the game, either.

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    Fucking lame!  I was just playing Spec Ops on MW2 today and was thinking "You know what this needs?  More violence/blood".  I was hoping for WaW levels of gore, but less cartoony, and a nice red mist when you shoot dudes anywhere.  They could have just cut that script out through a warning thing at the beginning of the game like MW2 did.  Oh well, still very much looking forward to this.

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    #17  Edited By overbyte
    @Jaunty said:
    " The leaked mp videos seem to show that there's no more blood in the game, either. "
    Maybe it's just in the vids, war shooters without blood feels "off" to me as it feels like shooting dolls. I guess Treyarch just wants to keep things sensible instead of reaching for that "authentic" neck-snapping before the Daily Mail gets bored and writes up another article about them. 
     
    Still, hoping that MP isn't as busted as MW2. I can only replay the SP for so many times.
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    #18  Edited By TheGreatGuero

    Could Activision be following in the pathetic footsteps of EA?

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    #20  Edited By BeachThunder

    I think they should just make everything in the game out of yarn :3

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    #22  Edited By SBYM

    As long as I can still shoot dudes with bullets I don't give a good God damn about necks, that is of course unless it's bullets traveling through said neck.

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    #23  Edited By BRNK

    The irony is that by removing blood and gore, they are glorifying violence and war even more. When a game is gore you have to think -even if  just for a split second- "Huh, there are repercussions to my violent actions." If a game is goreless, it reinforces the idea that violence is fun and without consequence. 
     
    ...but really, who give a shit if you can't snap necks?

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    #24  Edited By Detrian

    Who cares? If you so desperately need to watch that just go to one of the dozen rotten.com style websites.

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    #25  Edited By Callumrides

    this is a shame as in the uk the waw was rated a 15 and was full of gore which i loved (sorry if that make me sound werid) when black ops seem to be going the 18 route by bbfc. so all i can take from this is two senarios 1)being that the violence is waw style but only in the sp or 2) the games got a controversial moment like "no russian" in mw2. thoughts?

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    #26  Edited By Lemoncookie01

    Can I still shank dudes in the face?

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    #27  Edited By AnotherDuder

    Woo?

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    #28  Edited By emkeighcameron
    @Godlyawesomeguy said:
    " @BeachThunder said:
    " I think they should just make everything in the game out of yarn :3 "
    oh my god........     YES. "
    Call of Crochet: Scarf Ops
     
    To be followed up by Call of Needlepoint: Candy Apple Baby Blanket
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    #29  Edited By me3639

    Do not worry it is not toned down.

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    #30  Edited By ViciousReiven

    The days of good 'ol gore needs to come back, remember when you could  shoot a guys arm off and have him run of screaming until he bleeds out? Hellz yeah...

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    #31  Edited By HaltIamReptar
    @overbyte said:
    Then again, I guess they may not want to be "featured" on Faux News. "
    Faux is pronounced foh.  Not fox.
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    #32  Edited By ShockD

    Oh, after Call of Duty World at War they dare to tone down my gore? Traitors! Seems like I won't dismember and shatter any time soon... I hope that they have at least kept the corpse shooting.

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    #33  Edited By Potter9156

    Gary Oldman's character gets his neck snapped. COMFIRMED.

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    #34  Edited By MaddProdigy
    @jukezypoo:  No one was saying that man. Is treyarch scared of the media? What power does the media and it's constant pushing of games as violent, childhood destroying weapons have over the development of games, and what kind of games would we be playing if every bleeding heart activist with no life didn't hop off the couch screaming about "the children" every time someone got their neck snapped? Interesting discussion to have, and you sir, are angry over nothing, calm down.
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    #35  Edited By DystopiaX
    @overbyte said:
    " Just read an article in CVG that Treyarch was toning down the violence because the neck-twisting was too realistic.:
     http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=271261      Wow, whatever happened to the "Violence on/off" setting? I thought the game's rated M already? I've played through MoH, WaW, and Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway and I swear I saw limbs flying off and people getting blasted to chunks. There's also a scene in MW2 where Soap chokes a guy to death. Aren't those worse than neck-twisting? Then again, I guess they may not want to be "featured" on Faux News. "
    Saw leaked footage, there are limbs flying off in this game. At least scripted ones.
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    #36  Edited By Diamond

    Obviously a New World Order censorship mandate, because of past US war crimes.

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    #37  Edited By anterline
    We are shooting guys in the face with crossbows and knifes. How can they tone that down, by censoring it? and who the fuck are they trying to appeal to by doing this anyway? 
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    #38  Edited By withateethuh
    @Potter9156: dude, spoiler, flagged.
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    #39  Edited By Potter9156
    @withateethuh said:
    " @Potter9156: dude, spoiler, flagged. "
    Calm down. It was just a joke; I don't even know which character Gary Oldman voices. Read the article.
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    #40  Edited By meteora

    Doesn't really make much sense. 
     
    I don't recall anyone complaining about the player neck snapping attack dogs in COD4. Knowing humans, we would be more pissed off if the player could snap the neck of a dog than people.

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    #41  Edited By valrog

    That's a shame. Especially considering the argument provided in the OP.

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    #42  Edited By Donos

    This doesn't bother me and, depending how violent the game originally was, I appreciate it. I'm going to play Black Ops because I want to play a damn game. Blood and gore are a distraction from the game and I don't derive any pleasure from seeing them.

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    #43  Edited By Jimbo
    @Donos said:
    " This doesn't bother me and, depending how violent the game originally was, I appreciate it. I'm going to play Black Ops because I want to play a damn game. Blood and gore are a distraction from the game and I don't derive any pleasure from seeing them. "
    Have you considered playing something which doesn'trevolve around dudes massacring each other?
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    #44  Edited By withateethuh
    @Potter9156 said:
    " @withateethuh said:
    " @Potter9156: dude, spoiler, flagged. "
    Calm down. It was just a joke; I don't even know which character Gary Oldman voices. Read the article. "
    I apologize. I got freaked out because Gary Oldman voices Reznov and knowing this would have made me very upset.
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    #45  Edited By Potter9156
    @withateethuh:  
     
     
    No problem. I'd murder a bitch if someone spoiled BO for me.
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    #46  Edited By Computerplayer1

    I'm a firm believer that the death animation for everything should be a broken neck. 
     
    Shoot a dude in the face 45 times? Broken neck.

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    #47  Edited By natetodamax

    Developers need to stop being pussies. I fail to see how neck snapping can be considered too violent for a war game, one in which you can murder hundreds of people online using a variety of weapons.

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    #48  Edited By CptChiken

    Seriously, if im playing a war game that has GUNS and EXPLOSIONS and DEATH then i expect there to be some pretty grafic shit. I mean its the least they can do is to portait that war is a fucking brutal and messy thing. Not having the gore just seems to glamorise it some how, which really seems dumb.

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    #49  Edited By MisterChief

    I've finished the game twice now. Once on veteran and once on normal and even if the violence has been toned down it is still the most violent call of duty game.

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    #50  Edited By WalkerTR77

    I don't see the problem with this, it's war, why should it be violent?
     
    Ok so this is actually a fucking disgrace. Making a game about war, a game in which you kill people and not actually portraying the violence as it would be is far more disturbing than portraying violence realistically.

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