Ready your index finger, because you're about to click the play/pause button a bunch of times.
As promised, GameTrailers released the debut teaser trailer for the Treyarch-developed Call of Duty: Black Ops. The key word here is "teaser," folks -- the gameplay is A) shown in ridiculously short snippets and B) hard to make out. Like I said, be ready to press that handy pause button.
We were told Black Ops will take us to such locations as the Arctic, Cuba, and Vietnam. Based on what's shown here, that's definitely looking accurate. I'll be interested to hear if the flashbacks are as integral to the game as this video would have us believe.
On that note, anything that reminds me of Jacob's Ladder is a good thing.
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1:20 AM on 05.01.2010 | 
Even with the whole Activision thing going on, after seeing the trailer, I don't want to write this off just yet.
Anyways, yeah, I'm kind of excited for this.
Boycott.
(PS - That's the sound of me thinking.)
There could be something totally CRAZY and UNEXPECTED like Nazi Zomb....oh, wait.
- improved engine
- dedicated servers
- no mmo style subs
If its got the above they have got my cash.
No definitely not, but Activision are going to beat that dead horse anyway..
IMHO.
Also it looks like more of the same to me, in fact they used the EXACT same flash back sequences as MW2 which is probably what they had in mind, to make it look like it was from the same group.
I think they are showing you special 'forces missions' at diffrent times across a couple of decades including the 70's if the Cobra helicopter and M4 are significant.
They have some kind of interrogation scene that might link it all together somehow to provide a narrative framework.
They have a guy in an SR-71 pilot pressure suit on what looks like a carrier deck. So maybe someone ditches an SR-71 and has to be recovered at sea?
They have what looks like a cruise missle launch.
They have a helicopter crash being seen from underwater.
They have a Fidel Castro looking guy looking at flames in the distance.(Maybe Bay of pigs?)
Check out the 1up video where they slow things down and show you stuff and comment on it.
Die by the Sword (1998)
Die by the Sword: Limb from Limb (1998) (Expansion Pack)
Triple Play 2000 (1999)
Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm (2000)
Max Steel: Covert Missions (2000)
NHL 2K2 (2001)
Triple Play Baseball (2001)
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (2002)
Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder 2 (Canceled)
Minority Report: Everybody Runs (2002)
Spider-Man (2002)
NHL 2K3 (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005)
Ultimate Spider-Man (2005)
Call of Duty 3 (2006)
Spider-Man 3 (2007) (Only developed the Xbox 360, PS3 & PC version of the game)
Quantum of Solace (2008) (Only developed the PS3 and Xbox 360 version of the game)
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (2008) (with Shaba Games)
Call of Duty: World at War (2008) PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC
Yep, I'll pass.
For shame.
(Because I suck at them)
Not sure why setting part of the game in Vietnam necessitates justifying the entire war. A lot (arguably most) of fiction involving Vietnam doesn't seek to justify, validate, or defend the war. If Call of Duty can't put you in the shoes of a Vietnam soldier without saying "don't worry, the whole war was okay," then how do you explain the hundreds of pieces of fiction (literature and film, specifically) that have already done that?
Besides, it's not like GTA makes any attempt to justify crime. Glorify, maybe. Justify, not really.
Unless you're just taking this opportunity to say American involvement in Vietnam was a bad idea. In which case, thanks for stopping by, and good luck in the 1980s. Anything you'd like to say about Manifest Destiny or slavery?
On your example of GTA, it's interesting. Take San Andreas, CJ goes on about his dead mother and basically seems to be against all that killing and then by mission 8 you're blasting people away for weapons, respect, money etc... so it's almost like they attempted to incorporate some kind of social commentary but it does sit comfortably with the rest of the game. I doubt they'll try that with COD 'too many different thoughts just confuse the player, best to keep it simple' they'll probably think.