A few more details on Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops popped up today, answering a few of the more pointed questions arising from the game's debut trailer.
Intrigued by the presence of an SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft in the clip? According to this report (though be warned, the wording is vague), you're flying it. Wondering about the kind of guns that will be in the game? There aren't just guns, there are also crossbows. And yes, all that snow you can see means that you won't just be fighting in the jungles of Cuba and Vietnam; you'll also be blowing stuff up in Mother Russia as well.
The game will also feature 2-4 player co-op, with the game's main story focusing on two characters over "multiple covert international conflicts"
That's about all that can be gleaned from a depressingly brief "preview" over on USA Today, but the flying stuff will be interesting, since previous games have only let you roll a camera around, not the plane itself.
UPDATE - USA Today has three different previews up, two of which say you pilot the SR-71, but the third clarifies by saying that you only control the camera and give orders to ground troops, not the plane itself.
The two other posts had said "Players spy on suspicious activity while piloting a Lockheed SR-71 recon aircraft over the Ural Mountains" and "From the initial piloting of a reconnaissance aircraft to on the ground combat in the Soviet Union". Sorry to get your hopes up.
The level called Black Cats in WaW is some of the memorable moments (include the music), so I am looking forward how they do with the SR-71 aka Black Bird.
2-4 players co-op The level called Black Cats in WaW is some of the memorable moments (include the music), so I am looking forward how they do with the SR-71 aka Black Bird.
Added on May 14, 2010, 11:47 pmCall of Duty: Black Ops PC Gets Dedicated Servers
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Though Infinity Ward did away with dedicated server support in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PC, the feature will return in Call of Duty: Black Ops PC this fall.
"Dedicated servers are excellent," Mark Lamia, head of Activision-owned Black Ops developer Treyarch, told magazine PC Zone as relayed by CVG. "I don't see any reason not to see them unless... well, I just don't see any reason not to."
Infinity Ward had previously explained that Modern Warfare 2 PC did not support dedicated servers as to make multiplayer more accessible, complete with a matchmaking feature "just like you have on the console" care of its IW Net backend.
However, Lamia notes that "We do work very hard to reconcile the desire to manipulate and modify those dedicated servers with offering them the persistent experience and benefits that the console system provides... We're working very hard to marry those two things, so people can run dedicated servers and also participate in the communal experience the console players get to have, given they're all on first-party servers."
Coming to PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii in addition to PC, Black Ops is due November 9.
"We do work very hard to reconcile the desire to manipulate and modify those dedicated servers with offering them the persistent experience and benefits that the console system provides
Dedicated servers! Just when I thought the CoD series is permanently boned. Anyway, it's a good first step by Treyarch.
Added on May 15, 2010, 4:48 pm
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"We do work very hard to reconcile the desire to manipulate and modify those dedicated servers with offering them the persistent experience and benefits that the console system provides
^ I wonder what that means
I'm guessing a dedicated server + matchmaking hybrid system, as in L4D2. From my experience it doesn't work very well (it never finds a good dedicated server and reverts to peer-to-peer connections) without some console tweaking.
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