Call Of Duty BlackOps Walkthrough No Commentary
Black Ops's single-player campaign takes place between 1961 and 1968 during both the Cold War and the Vietnam War, 16 years to 23 years after the events of World at War. It portrays a secret history of black operations carried out behind enemy lines by the CIA. Missions take place in various countries around the globe, including Cuba, the Soviet Union, the United States, South Vietnam, China, Canada, and Laos. The single-player campaign revolves around the CIA's attempts to stop Soviet sleeper agents embedded in the US, to be activated via broadcasts from a numbers station, from deploying an experimental nerve agent and chemical weapon known as "Nova 6".
The player controls the protagonist, CIA SAD/SOG operative and former Marine Force Recon Captain Alex Mason (Sam Worthington). Other characters are occasionally playable, such as CIA paramilitary operations officer Jason Hudson (Ed Harris). Mason is often joined by fellow operatives Force Recon Master Sergeant Frank Woods (James C. Burns) and Navy UDT Chief Joseph Bowman (Ice Cube), while Hudson works with Grigori Weaver (Gene Farber), a Russian-American field operative. Viktor Reznov (Gary Oldman), a character of the Soviet campaign in World at War, returns along with protagonist Dimitri Petrenko (Boris Kievsky). Oldman also voices Daniel Clarke, an English scientist assisting in the development of Project Nova. Opposing the CIA are the leaders of Project Nova: Soviet Army Major General Nikita Dragovich (Eamon Hunt), Colonel Lev Kravchenko (Andrew Divoff), and ex-Nazi scientist Friedrich Steiner (Mark Bramhall). Black Ops also features the appearance of several historical figures; Fidel Castro (Gustavo Rex), Robert McNamara (Robert Picardo), and John F. Kennedy (Chriss Anglin).
The Zombies mode takes place over various eras of time, mostly during the final year of World War II and the 1960s. The story mainly follows a crew of four soldiers: "Tank" Dempsey (Steve Blum) of the United States Marine Corps, Nikolai Belinski (Fred Tatasciore) of the Red Army, Takeo Masaki (Tom Kane) of the Imperial Japanese Army, and Doctor Edward Richtofen (Nolan North) of the Wehrmacht. Other characters include Doctor Ludvig Maxis (Fred Tatasciore), the leader of the research group known as Group 935, and his daughter Samantha (Julie Nathanson). The map "Five" features a second crew comprising historical figures: John F. Kennedy (Jim Meskimen), Robert McNamara (Robert Picardo), Richard Nixon (Dave Mallow), and Fidel Castro (Marlon Correa). "Call of the Dead" features the appearance of celebrities: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund, Danny Trejo, Michael Rooker, and George A. Romero, portraying fictional versions of themselves, with the former four acting as playable characters.