7:11
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Right now there's a giant image of the COD Black Ops poster, the guy sitting with the pistols, on the IMAX screen. HUGE.
7:14
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Back in Black by AC/DC kicks it off when the lights dim
7:14
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Daniel Suarez, Exec Producer of the game for Activision, is going over the ground rules
7:14
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: No questions during the presentation, but they will do Q&A later, he says
7:15
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Media have specific appointments, and they are packed, so everybody will be fine...as long as they go in time!
7:15
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: No embargo in effect! That means I can report everything as it happens
7:15
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: "We want you to see it all."
7:15
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Again a reminder not to video record in this theater, and there WILL BE an official video on callofduty.com in the coming days
7:16
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Mark Lamia, studio head of Treyarch, takes the stage
7:16
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: "What an honor is to have people come from all over the world to be here tonight."
7:17
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: They refocused the entire studio to do this game. "We basically went all in."
7:18
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: "Let's get right down to it. We've never been more fired up than we are this year. This team, since the beginning of development, has poured their heart and souls into making the best damn game we've ever done."
7:19
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: The Black Ops guys “were the best of the best, they had the freedom to choose their weapons and gadgetry that they took on their missions. They could customize their loadouts for each mission, and it couldn’t have been a better fit for what we wanted to do for multiplayer.”
7:19
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: "What you're going to see tonight is entirely new altogether for Call of Duty multiplayer."
7:20
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Vahn: "What the f***'s goin' on! They told me not to say that."
7:20
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Compete, Customize and Create -- the three pillars, says Bunting
7:21
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Starting with Competition -- "it's fierce, it's rugged -- but ultimate very satisfying. And we are bringing tons of new weapons, killstreaks, perks to give them what they need on the battlefield."
7:21
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Dan is playing a live unrehearsed game. "Hopefully I don't suck."
7:21
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Choosing an SMG class
7:21
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords:
Snow level with radar dish -- I believe it's called Summit
7:22
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Dan has not died yet. That's good.
7:22
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Promoted to level 2! LOL
7:22
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Bunting just DOVE THROUGH A WINDOW. Like, I mean, dove.
7:22
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: He's playing a live game in Combat Training, a new mode with bots
7:25
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Combat Training is a new multiplayer mode that lets you play with “practice dummies” – bots. Has its own rank up, can be played co-op with a friend. When you are ready, you can then go online
Combat Training was not planned. They built a practice dummy just to gauge weapon damage etc for testing, but then they realized they wanted “Larry” to behave like a real player. So they made it a feature for Black Ops. “Play multiplayer by yourself or co-op with your friends” says Bunting.
7:25
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: WiFi is flaky
7:26
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Create a Class -- you see your character on this screen because Park 1 has an impact on how your look in the game. If you are Ghost, you wear a ghillie. If you take flak jacket, it's shown and you take less explosive damage.
7:27
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Lethal, Tactical, Equipment -- you choose. All things you throw that are lethal go on right bumper, all things that are tactical go into your left bumper.
7:27
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Equipment: Camera Spike, C4, Tactical Insertion, Motion Sensor, Claymore
7:27
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Killstreaks
7:27
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: "You cannot make a COD game without bringing a bunch of crazy awesome new killstreaks." -Bunting
7:28
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Many of the new Killstreaks have some layer of player interaction -- they wanted them to be more interactive
7:28
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Video of Death Machine and Grim Reaper killstreaks. Death Machine is an epuc gatlight. Grim Reaper is a rocket launcher
7:28
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Napalam Strike and our friend the RC-XD are up now
7:29
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Gunship (daeth from above), Mortar Team, and SAM Turret -- set it up, take out the airborne attacks automatically
7:29
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Vahn: "Somethibng you don't know about me -- I love money. I like to buy what I want when I want."
7:29
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Bunting: "That's bs, you usually gamble your money away in vegas."
7:30
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Vahn: Every time you play, you ear COD Points -- CP. What you used to unlock by level is now purchasable with the in-game currency. Unlock what you want when you want
7:31
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Contracts are time-limited challenges you buy and get more CP if you finish them. "Using any combination of stats, we can make any kind of Contracts we want, and can change them at any time." Mercenary, Operations, and Specialist contracts
7:31
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: "Make the investment in your own play style and then get paid for doing so"
7:31
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Wager Match - a new game type. Put your COD Points against other players and the top three people get paid in the match
7:32
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: 4 FFA game types for Wager
7:32
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Seperate from standard progression
7:32
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Top three are "in the money"
7:32
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: One in the Chamber: everybody has one bullet. If you kill someone, you get their bullet. If you miss, you have to knife them. You have 3 lives
7:32
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Pistols only for that one bullet BTW
7:33
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Sticks and Stones - Crossbow, tomahawk and ballistic knife. If you hit witht he tomahawk, you bankrupt them
7:33
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Gun Game -- straight from the community. Series of progressive weapons. Every kill moves you one in level of weapon -- pistol, two pistols, shotty, etc
7:34
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Sharp Shooter is the 4th type. All players start with the same random weapon, and then the weapons all change at intervals. Everybody is always equal with the weapons
7:34
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Wager Matches “create natural tension…and it’s really fun to take someone’s money.” -Vahn
7:35
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: CUSTOMIZE. Pillar 2. "This is my weapon, this is my gun." You can customize your weapon so it looks the way you want it to look -- new camo patterns, and you place your emblem on it, customize your red dot sight
7:36
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Killcams reflect this so you will know exactly who shot you just by seeing their weapon. Video showing different gun customizations
7:36
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Medley/montage of different levels and different guns
7:36
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Change the color of the reticle -- red dot doesn't have to be red or a dot.
7:37
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Snow levels, jungle levels, urban areas...it is COD after all
7:37
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Guided missile launcher
7:39
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: CREATE, pillar three. The emblem editor and the theater are two large examples
7:39
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Emblem editor – images, layers, and a background. You change the scale, move, color, rotate, all that stuff. Create layers, then purchase the option with COD points to put it on your gun
7:40
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: A funny internal bug -- passing around the funny video -- led to the creation of theater. One engineer said "that's impossible" and they did it anyway -- and that engineer is a huge fan of theater
7:40
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Xbox Live - Inside Xbox will have a video tomorrow that features theater mode. We are seeing the final edited Inside Xbox clip right now
7:40
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: See? Video!
7:41
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: All Live games can be played back, searched, tagged, everything. The footage is yours
7:41
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: "Now it's your turn." I think we are adjourning to play MP
7:42
Dan Amrich/OneOfSwords: Yes, we are, because Vahn just cursed again -- "Let's go play some effing multiplayer!" This place is gonna clear out FAST.