Still, it's a solid effort overall whose tone and spirit adequately captures the culture of paranoia that resulted from the tense 60's era cold war between the United States and Russia, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam War. Certain plot points are clumsily handled there are still moments where you have to brute force your way to a checkpoint to trigger the next area and they beat you over the head with the final reveal, as if they didn't trust the average gamer to understand what was going on. The core plot isn't nearly as original or as inventive as it could have been, relying as it does on several well worn twists 'borrowed' from various movies, and it suffers from a few issues. For most gamers, any discussion about Call of Duty starts and ends with multiplayer, but Black Ops features a surprisingly competent single-player campaign that features the most cohesive CoD narrative yet.
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