Buy retail also, the installer forces you to download.

That's what happened to me. Bought the original DVD, then the bugger forced me to spend the next 20+ hours downloading dunno what garbage at 40kbps before I could play.

I installed from DVD at noon Friday. No matter what solution I used and no matter how many times I tried, Black Ops insisted on downloading something from Steam. Slept at the computer all Fri nite. Woke up the next morning, then only can play!

How's that for a bullsh*t experience? Damn angry.

Then, I went on Combat Training... celaka sial... even that must be online to play, even though only against bots! When Streamyx is down, habis... koyak... taking up several gigs of SSD space for nothing.