
In typical Call of Duty fashion, the campaign is told from the perspective of a few different characters. Still, there are some pretty epic set pieces in Black Ops, including one mission where you need to shoot down a space ship before it can launch and leave Earth's atmosphere. Although the setting is new to the Call of Duty franchise, it doesn't really take center stage like the transition from World War II to the modern day did in Call of Duty 4. Over the single-player campaign, you'll visit a myriad of era-appropriate battlefields, including Cuba, Vietnam, and Russia. Still, Black Ops is a great shooter that will satisfy many a gamer, even though it's not much of an improvement over its predecessors.īlack Ops takes place during the 1960s, at the apex of the Cold War. However with the latest entry in the series, Call of Duty: Black Ops, that freshness is somewhat. And even though a new Call of Duty is released every year, the games have been split up between developers Infinity Ward and Treyarch, which has helped keep the series fresh. For years now, they've provided epic, cinematic-driven campaigns, and insanely addictive multiplayer modes.

Call of Duty has quickly become the flagship series for first-person shooters, and for good reason.
