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Platform PS Vita Publisher Activision Developer nStigate Games Release Date 11/13/2012

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified review: dishonorable discharge

By Russ Frushtick on Jan 09, 2013 01.09.13

The single-player missions fail on multiple fronts. Enemy A.I. is not bad so much as it is absent. Upon walking into a room, guards march to their designated spots while firing mindlessly in your direction. They won't take cover. They won't try to flank you. They will stand there, firing away, waiting to die. Missions in Declassified feel more like shooting tin cans than trying to outwit an enemy force. If there is a challenge to be found, it's that there are no checkpoints Map design matches the lows hit by the A.I. Most of the maps are composed of ugly square rooms or environments. The dynamic mission design of most Call of Duty games, which sees players commanding air strikes or piloting helicopters, is replaced by an hour-long room-to-room turkey hunt. If there is...

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Treyarch prepares for influx of 'Christmas Noobs' in Black Ops 2

By Dave Tach on Dec 18, 2012 12.18.12

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 developer Treyarch's in-game message of the day asks experienced players to take it easy on newcomers who'll be joining the fight when they get the game this Christmas. "Let's talk Christmas Noobs," the message from Team Treyarch reads. "It's that time of the year again where thousands of new players join the online ranks for the first time. We'd ask you to go easy on the Christmas Noobs, but we know you won't." The message also suggests that "Christmas Noobs" join the Boot Camp playlist, which "is the best place for a new player" to learn the game by playing "AI-controlled opponents." Since its release last month, Treyarch has taken steps to balance the multiplayer aspect of Black Ops 2, though appealing directly to players is a new approach. A patch...

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PlayStation VP of marketing says Sony focusing on PlayStation Plus and PS3, Vita content

By Samit Sarkar on Oct 29, 2012 10.29.12

Sony plans to focus on PlayStation Plus as well as the PlayStation 3's and PlayStation Vita's content libraries in holiday-season marketing, said John Koller, the company's vice president of marketing for consoles and handhelds, in an interview with GamesIndustry International. The PlayStation 3 may lack heavy-hitting exclusives on the level of Halo 4 this year. But Koller touted the big picture, focusing on the console's existing library of top-tier games and the ones due out in 2013. "You're buying into a system that has not only a great holiday ahead of it," he said, "but also a great future ahead of it over the next few years" — a future including games such as Naughty Dog's The Last of Us and Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls. "This isn't going to be a system that people come...

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified developer Nihilistic reorganizing to focus on online and mobile games

By Tracey Lien on Oct 17, 2012 10.17.12

Nihilistic Software, the studio behind Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified, Resistance: Burning Skies, and PlayStation Move Heroes is re-organizing itself to focus on downloadable, online, and mobile games. As part of the reorganization the studio is undergoing a name change and will now be known as nStigate. It will be abandoning retail boxed game development in favor of digital downloads. The studio wrote in an update on its website that it is undergoing this transition without any planned layoffs and without leaving behind any debts, but it also said that over the next few months the studio will "get leaner as some of our talent finds new homes, and emerge as a smaller and more focused company." Another studio that traditionally made games for PlayStation devices, LightBox, also...

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified is tailor-made for the Vita, says Nihilistic

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Oct 14, 2012 10.14.12

Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified is not meant to act as a port of previous Call of Duty games, but is an experience specifically targeted for the PlayStation Vita, Nihilistic Software CEO Robert Huebner told One of Swords. According to Huebner, Declassified isn't trying to center on a big campaign storyline or major cinematics. "It's more focused on the multiplayer essence of Call of Duty and bringing that to a portable device as completely as possible," Huebner said, "and in bringing short, objective-based missions and score-driven gameplay with lighter story elements to create what we call the Operations missions." "The goal was not to make a product that is a port of any past or present Call of Duty game, but to make a tailored experience for the Vita that adds new content and...

Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified Releases
North America
  • PlayStation Vita
    • Released 11/13/2012
    • Publisher Activision
    • Developer nStigate Games
    • Score 2.0
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