{"id":98,"date":"2011-04-03T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-04-03T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:56:00","slug":"xbox-game-review-call-of-duty-black-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Game Review: Call of Duty &#8211; Black Ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xm39jXeTNhE\/TZibJpnog4I\/AAAAAAAAA-c\/mifaY6wUYSE\/s1600\/codbo.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 256px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xm39jXeTNhE\/TZibJpnog4I\/AAAAAAAAA-c\/mifaY6wUYSE\/s320\/codbo.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591389527473685378\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>My Rating:  8\/10<\/p>\n<p>I was looking forward to the story-line in this game but ended up hating it.  I switched the game to &#8220;Easy&#8221; mode just so I could get away from the repetitive, screeching, nails-on-the-chalkboard  What do the numbers mean!!!&#8221;   It seems that whenever<a href=\"http:\/\/www.activision.com\/\"> Activision <\/a>gets involved, then the Call Of Duty series goes downhill a ways.<\/p>\n<p>The game-play is good and the the graphics are superb.  Out of the majority of the other games, it should be a top-ranker in my book &#8230; but it is not.  Like I mentioned, the campaign became so annoying that I had to force myself to finish it.   My intentions have been to play it back through to get some achievement points out of it but this has not happened.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, multi-player is excellent.  For those non-competitive types who want to just run around with friends and shoot, &#8220;Combat Training&#8221; mode is excellent as well.   For multi-player alone,  I&#8217;ll hold on to this game for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Rating: 8\/10 I was looking forward to the story-line in this game but ended up hating it. I switched the game to &#8220;Easy&#8221; mode just so I could get away from the repetitive, screeching, nails-on-the-chalkboard What do the numbers mean!!!&#8221; It seems that whenever Activision gets involved, then the Call Of Duty series goes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=98\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Xbox Game Review: Call of Duty &#8211; Black Ops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}