An unfortunate waste of a hard-earned $65 on little worth anyone's time. The series has crawled to a repetitious halt.
Black Ops is more like a memory of what Call of Duty used to be.
The memory ricochets in your mind after some fun with zombies and multiplayer (and, if you bought it for the campaign, then that too), but that memory becomes less memorable as you play more, because it's obvious that the series has become so repetitious, it's not even interesting in a small way.
PRESENTATION- Normal CoD fair. Nothing, NOTHING, special.
GRAPHICS- Better than previous entries. Some better gun models, more detailed explosions, and character models have been revamped.
SOUND- The guns sound really, really good. Walking also emits a sound that is, for some reason, particularly satisfying.
GAMEPLAY- This is the problem. The engine, the entire system of playing Call of Duty has become stale at this point. Yes, an hour or two of zombies was pretty fun, but after that, really, if you've played previous entries, you'll see that the game is more like a reskinning of World at War, and an intellectual build-off of ideas already presented in Modern Warfare 2.
The PC version, additionally, is MARRED by sometimes horrendous multiplayer network glitches, seemingly for no reason; maybe because there is no dedicated servers in the multiplayer; it's all player-run servers.
For anyone looking to buy this, at least buy it off Steam, or digitally somehow. A physical copy of the game contains a paltry manual of useless, practically promotional material, and a disc with (get this), only a link to a 6-hour Steam download of the game. That's right; the game isn't even on the disc.
Save your money.