22 November 2010

Call of Duty – Black Ops

Black Ops came out on 9 November 2010 and for the next few weeks a decent evening was measured in killstreaks. The clips below went up on my channel between the 13th of November and the 19th of December, all under the gamertag earlymorning, and two of them still carry a description pointing back at this page — which was, until now, completely empty. So here they are with the commentary they should have had at the time.

They are links, not embeds. Thirteen YouTube players on one archive page is not a page, it is a waiting room.

A narrow courtyard between brick buildings, a burnt-out car in the middle and two tagged players further down the street.

An overhead view of concrete steps and a paved walkway, with bodies at the foot of the stairs.

A jungle path with bamboo fencing and a wooden footbridge, a teammate tagged in green just ahead.

A snowbound street, a body in the foreground and enemies tagged red by the steps at the far end.

A player running through long grass past thatched huts, the killfeed filling the bottom-left corner.

A deserted colonial street of shuttered stone buildings under a grey sky, palms hanging over the wall.

A soldier braced against a corrugated wall inside a warehouse, an enemy nameplate flashing red beside him.

A snowbound rail yard in heavy fog, a numbered truck up the slope and players tagged on both sides of the tracks.

A high view over rocks and sand with three enemy nameplates clustered together in the open.

The two still called “Black Ops Game Clip” are the ones that went up straight out of Theater mode without being renamed — including, going by the frame, one of the better rounds of the month. I no longer have any idea what happens in either, so I have left them unannotated rather than invent a story for them.

There is a separate post for the sentry gun fail, which deserved its own, and the clips carried on into the new year in Black Ops, 2011.

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