![]() There’s also a small collection of time-trial missions that, at under a minute, end almost as quickly as they begin.įor fans of shooters looking to get in a couple of quick frags between bus or train stops, Black Ops: Declassified’s rapid fire gameplay that skips on the story and jumps right into the action seems like a good fit. While not as interesting as the incredibly popular Zombies mode in the original Black Ops and in Black Ops II, it’s an enjoyable time-waster but one that eventually grows repetitive and dull due to the lack of variety in enemies. ![]() To extend the solo experience a bit, Nihilistic included a Hostiles survival mode, similar to the one found in Modern Warfare 3, where you face off against waves and waves of soldiers in an effort to achieve the best score possible. Playing it on the medium difficulty may require double or triple that, and the hardest difficulty will probably require many, many more replays to complete since the levels feature no check points, instead restarting you from the beginning of the mission should you meet your untimely demise. With all things being equal, this is at its core a one hour affair on the easiest difficulty. In fact, the missions included are meant to be played in short bursts and last an average of five minutes: the caveat being that there but ten of them. But depending on how much time you have while playing the game on the go, the minimal plot and dialogue may not necessarily be a bad thing. The Call of Duty franchise has never been one for having subtlety in its characters or any gripping psychological drama in its plots, but Black Ops Declassified somehow manages to one up its bigger-and-betters at having a heavy handed and, frankly, dim-witted approach to story-telling. Much like Stalone’s Rambo, these guys don’t need back up from rookie soldiers, instead running and gunning down Vietcong and Spetsnaz solo while detonating plastic explosives and dropping f-bombs at each opportunity. I say loose, of course, because there isn’t a campaign with a traditional plot and cut scenes but rather short operations missions, explained by short vignettes providing some background, where the player receives a few objectives over the radio and then proceeds to engage ‘all the usual suspects’ in the way as quickly as possible while moving through a small level. ![]() The plot, in a very loose sense of the word, follows Black Ops soldiers Frank Woods and Alex Mason. There isn’t any of the futuristic weaponry or motifs here the classified operations missions span several years from 1075 to 1981 and feature classic weapons and enemies. The story in Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified takes place somewhere between of the first Black Ops and Black Ops II on consoles. For a portable shooter, the controls are good –excellent even - and the online multiplayer is very much in the spirit of Call of Duty on home consoles the problem is that everything else has been scaled back and it becomes difficult to appreciate the good when considering the ludicrous $50 price tag. The state of portable shooters has thus far been a despairing story of going one step forward and then two steps back.Ĭall of Duty: Black Ops Declassified for the Playstation Vita almost breaks that tradition but falls short of its pedigree, though not in the way you would expect. Mobile smart phones streamline the touch screen controls but completely leave out any physical buttons, rendering shooters even less appealing to gamers looking for a first person shooter on the go with the same sort of gameplay they’re used to at home. The Nintendo DS and the 3DS fare somewhat better with its basic implementation of touch controls with a stylus, that while precise enough, requires some serious feats of dexterity and hand contortion to avoid developing carpel tunnel syndrome after a few play sessions. There have been a few attempts on Sony’s PSP but, unless you were a southpaw, controlling the camera with the face buttons was simply too imprecise and clunky to be considered fun. For years, the first person shooter genre has been a sort of elusive and exotic beast in the metaphorical jungle of handheld gaming.
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