Everything new is impressive, variety of modes to look for, broken graphics and sound effects. I'd get it on PC only.

User Rating: 7 | Call of Duty: Black Ops PC
By RadioactiveMah | Review Date:
I have to say, that the graphics are just bad, it is not acceptable for a game of this budget and production to have such graphics in these times. example: looking at dead corpses in the ground it's very pixely and the textures look so bad and outdated, the explosion of grenade launchers are just a blast of black smoke and doesn't resemble an explosion, even some of the big explosion in the game are just huge in size but have no quality, one thing u can really notice, is the texture rendering speed among other things, like if you switch from your rifle to your gun there is about a 1.something sec delay before the textures on the gun appear.

Sound effects, the same issue, it is very disappointing to play a game with a lower quality sound effects months after having enjoyed it in BFBC2 and MOH, even MW2 wasn't bad. example, the sound of firing the pistol sounds reminds me of counter-strike.
Those 2 aside, everything from story, theme, game play, twists, new game modes...etc...is every nice and maybe more than just nice, they are something to look for.

back to baddies, online, continuous disconnections, invites not working, HOPEFULLY, that is something that might be fixed. At many times i wasn't lagging at all, which is good, but still it disconnects or joining groups and lobbies doesn't work...

keep in mind, that I am only refering to the console version, i even had ps3 and xbox both connected to the same screen and kept comparing them, the xbox360 version does look better but not to an acceptable level. I even tried playing in 3d on both ps3 and xbox, and they both look good in 3d, and to be honest i preferred playing in 3d not for the fun of 3d, but because it somehow hid some of the graphical mistakes in the game.

I have one more thing to say, iam looking forward for the pc version, i know the pc version would save face in the graphics department some how, but i don't think it'll fix the sound.

conclusion, i'll be playing it of course on pc, cause it can still be a very fun game, i even might have loved it more than mw2, i know that i gave it a 7, but that's just me, but any review that gives it more than 8.0 is pure hypocrisy, cause it really doesn't deserve more.

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