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Extended Call of Duty: Black Ops Single-Player Footage Premiering Tonight on ESPN

Other than jokingly referring to it as "Cod Blops" internally (now shortened to "Blops"), the Shacknews staff doesn't really talk about Call of Duty: Black Ops. We're

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Other than jokingly referring to it as "Cod Blops" internally (now shortened to "Blops"), the Shacknews staff doesn't really talk about Call of Duty: Black Ops. We're hopeful that Treyarch can pull the title together to achieve the same quality captured by Infinity Ward in the original Modern Warfare, but we have some reservations.

Earlier today, the subject of Blops--or Call of Duty: Black Ops--did come up as Activision released a 10-second teaser trailer to an extended trailer set to premiere during the Minnesota vs. New York game tonight on ESPN.

Based on our scientific popularity metric (Read: It's a dartboard), "Blops" is one of our community's most anticipated games of the year. If you're a diehard sports fan that also enjoys shooting virtual fools in the face, then the pairing of ESPN and Treyarch's latest is wonderful news.

If your reaction to the above teaser was, "Why are two states are going to battle each other on a sports channel?" then you may want to wait until the full trailer is available on Shacknews sometime tomorrow. In the meantime, make sure to read all our recent 3D-based coverage of Black Ops and Wikipedia the phrase "American Football."

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • vHazardous legacy 10 years
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    October 11, 2010 7:31 AM

    Here's to hoping that 'Blops' doesn't end up with a severe case of the 'Flops'.

    Mind you, it's pretty hard to shit the bed equally as bad, or worse than Modern Warfizzled 2.

    Disclaimer : This comment solely based on the PC angle.

    • wytefang legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 11, 2010 5:28 PM

      I suspect you may have played a different Modern Warfare 2 - as the one I played on PC was shockingly fun. After 250+ games, I've only had the game drop out about 10 times (at best) for Lag or something. The P2P solution worked amazingly well. At our little home-brewed LAN party here (of about 10 people or so), we had Internet and Private Matches were also surprisingly smooth and lag-free.

      And this is coming from someone who very publicly ripped them here at Shack before launch for all the non-PC specific things they were doing with MW2. Take it with a grain of salt, of course, as it's just one PC gamer in the crowd's opinion but figured I should share that.

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