I'm holding off on getting it until I hear from you guinea pigs. So how is it?

Ok in my opinion its too early to say if its really good or not because i have only played a few games. Also i haven't unlocked Hardcore Mode yet so i really don't like Core games and if i were to judge the game right now i would say im frustrated because of how many bullets it takes to kill someone in Core games..lol

just a couple quick things.

1. Wager matches in my opinion is the best addition to the game. Its 1 shot 1 kill type games.Free for All with twists. Just FUN.
A much needed new game mode to play. When we as a clan like to get together and just polay againsy each other this will be what we are going to do. Trust me when i say this It will be Pure Fun with laughing all around.

2. I think they made it a point to keep tubing less attractive. For the first 45 minutes i played i never got tubed or even saw one.
But once i started playing HQ i got killed a few times from them. But nowhere near as many times as MW2.
But im sure that can all change once people figure out glitches to make tubing better.

3. The lower killstreaks don't really do much killing in my opinion.
In MW2 if u were able to 4 kills u could easily get to a chopper gunner quickly without having to do any killing of your own. A simple Predator missile could get you an easy 2 or 3 kills each time then the harrier another 5 or 6 and then the dreaded Chopper Gunner.
In Black Ops not only do the killstreaks not count towards your next one...the lower killstreaks arent really that good. Unlike the Predator missile you dont control the lower killstreaks and they are ground based killed streaks so its not as efficient.
But once you get a chopper Gunner its the same BS as in MW2.

4. BO has a practice mode where you play the online maps with any mode against a computer AI so you can practice any game mode. This should be good for us as a clan to practice strategy.

5. The theatre mode is pretty cool. But i doubt ill be using it much.
The one cool thing is i was able to go (if i wanted to) and watch EVERY game i played.

I had a hard time connecting to Luis last night and not sure why. He had similiar problems like this before with the release of other COD games. I couldn't connect to tripl_b playing World at War. However we did get a couple of games in before I switched to single player. Multiplayer seemed fine except for the fact that I got killed so many times in the back playing TDM. I didn't play any other game modes.

The single player starts off, I felt, a little slow but it is definately building up to something. The missions get better, the people you meet are insanely cool and the graphics are off the chart. Treyarch definately knows how to do background graphics. I'm looking forward to my daughter napping so I can get a couple minutes in until my son wakes up. But that's not going to happen. Hope to play more of the single player tonight if I come home early from work.

Further reports to follow.

Yeah i did forget to mention that the spawning in the game is horrible.
Ive had this happen to me a lot of times..where i kill someone and one of their teammates spawns right behind me.

Picking up right now. There are about 20 people in here right now. At 10:07 cst

Just picked my copy up about 15 mins ago and there was no one inside my Gamestop. Sooooooooo nice...also picked up a brand spankin' new controller and I'm ready to go.

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I have to wait because I'm working and dont get off until 5pm. So I'll let you know in a few hours.

I feel your pain Don. My copy is sitting here on my desk as well. This work thing is for the birds.

I'm disappointed!!! I just don't get the same rush as with the other games. Lag is terrible and I always get killed before I see anyone. Just doesn't click with me. I will still try to keep pressing to see if I can learn to like it but I truly don't think I will be playing this much.

I picked up my copy about an hour ago. I'll be online later tonight.

well, it looks like treyarch was trying to do something better than waw, and it is. but its not better than mw2. the guns are new guns but they shoot and sound like the ww2 guns. the maps are big and have waaaay too many paths on it. you constantly get shot in the back because its almost impossible to keep someone from flanking you do to the high number of routes to take across the map. also it looks like they made the spawns waaaay more random in order to cut down on the camping, but it ends up making you spawn right in front of people and them right behind you. the sounds arent good, every explosion sounds the same, a dull crack that is irritating. claymores give you no warnign when you trip them so you are dead if you dont have the perk to reveal them. they need to move the rc cars to a 5 kill streak cause they can become nonstop if someone gets on a roll. its different from what weve been playing which makes it appealing. but i dont think well be rallying around this one. its ok, but thats all it is. that said, ill be playing it cause i have nothing else other than cod4. it is fun to have a whole squad though.

I like the single player but I knew that I would I'm playing it on Veteran and so far so good.

As far as online, I've only played two multiplayer games so far...1) TDM and 2) Domination.
It's to early to give a honest opinion but so far I like it......but obviously its too soon to tell

To be continued...........

I heard from 2 friends that there are already a few glitches on Black Ops..including a care package glitch.

Anyone see this yet??????

I'm only on level 14 and haven't made it to Hard Core yet, but I like this game a lot more than MW2. I agree that the RC cars are annoying and they should be a higher count killstreak, but otherwise I don't really have many bad things to say about it.

Another thing, anyone else think that Nuketown is the new Shipment? It feels like I spawn on top of the enemy on that map.

Well I wanted to hold off until I got into the game some before posting this. Campaign is definitely worth playing. Combat Training may be my favorite part of the game right now, all the same things as multi-player without the BS. For the record, this will probably be what I play the most as the mp has some definite issues, along with the usual crap that goes on in the between game lobbies. I haven't tried zombies yet but it's definitely on my list since Treyach seems to be able to get that right. And if you want a little quick fun, try some Dead Ops.