Call of Duty: Black Ops - Declassified

by Activision

• UPC: 047875843899
• Weight: 0.100 lbs

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002I0H09Y
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 13, 2012
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (113 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #847 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #12 in Video Games > PlayStation Vita > Games > Action
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Before the future could be won, history had to be written. Exposing that story exclusively on PlayStation® Vita, Call of Duty®: Black Ops Declassified explores original fiction in the Call of Duty® Black Ops universe with an all-new campaign of Special Ops missions.  Optimized for gamers on-the-go, Call of Duty® Black Ops: Declassified delivers the most intense handheld Call of Duty® experience to date, including both Special Ops Story mode and Multiplayer combat tailored for the PS Vita.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

78 of 102 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars A shameless half baked cash in by Activision... November 16, 2012

By raul mendoza bojorquez

Fun: 2.0 out of 5 stars   

First of all, I always respect other peoples point of view when it comes to taste, that said... I really, really don't understand why people are 4-5 staring what is a total embarrassment of a "call of duty" game..

PROS: It gets the job done when it comes to graphics and controls, there's some fun to be had with multiplayer when you can actually play a game.

CONS: Everything Else, from the laughable "single player campaign" the hugely broken multiplayer experience (even after the huge 300+ mb patch)the non existent AI and glitchy sound (wear headphones and you'll hear the cracks and pops) the LONG load times on multiplayer...you get the picture.

After playing this game for a few days I am hugely disappointed and I feel suckered in to spending 50 dollars on a product that is half baked and extremely rushed to the market to capitalize on the hype behind Black Ops II that ended up being an insult of a game to us call of duty fans.

Activision promised us a single player campaign that would bridge what happened between black ops to black ops II, what did we get? a poor man's unit 13, with 10 missions, yes 10 missions!! that take between 2-10 minutes to finish, what did activision do as an excuse to extend the life of the "campaign"? well they upped the difficulty level on the hard setting to a ridiculous cheap degree and didn't add checkpoints between missions so you would have to start over from the beginning of the mission and thus taking more time to finish the game with all the missions 3 starred, but play it on the easy level (one star) and you can finish this under an hour, oh and leveling up on single player is also pointless because you can't transfer it to multiplayer (wtf?).

What about multiplayer? well..... if you manage to get connected and play a game, it's not as bad as the single player, but you only get a handfull of maps (Six) and they are quite small, I ended up spawning right in front of the enemy every now and then which resulted in an instant kill as you can imagine that it is very annoying when that happens.

Like I said, I don't understand why people are raving about a half baked, unfinished product that sells for full retail and to add insult to injury activision even charges a 10 dollar premium over the standard 39.99 price for a Vita game because it carries the call of duty name because they know this horrible game will sell.

Sony was counting on Assassin's Creed Liberation and this game to do what Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 did for the 3DS last year, Assassin's Creed wasn't an amazing game, but it was above average, you can tell the developer put it's heart into it.... but declassified ? this game is just trash. I hope Killzone, (which is actually being developed by Guerrilla, the actual developer/creator of the franchise, declassified was developed by Nihilistic a company known for producing below average games, why activision choose them to develop a game for one of the biggest franchises in the history of gaming is beyond me) shows us how its done. Read more ›

19 of 25 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars waste of money December 13, 2012

By Greengrower

Fun: 1.0 out of 5 stars   

This game is a complete waste of money i am so dissapointed google the reviews of this game they all suck.The campaign was the worst its only 45 minutes long.I suggest you save your money and get uncharted. The multiplayer in this game sucks do not buy this game.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Meh. Pretty bad. January 7, 2013

By spork

Fun: 2.0 out of 5 stars   

EDIT: Having played it more extensively, I can honestly say it's a pretty bad game. I've updated my review (though it's mostly additions to the old review).

Full disclosure: I got the Call of Duty set as a gift. I would never buy this game normally unless it was absurdly cheap, and by that I mean like $5. I'm not that into FPSes and if I am my preference runs Playing on PC >>>> Playing on Console > Playing on handheld. Having played it more thoroughly now, let me tell you: don't buy it unless it's like $5. $10 if you're a CoD fan. And if you need to save money, don't buy this at all.

Graphics: Fairly nice for a handheld.

Sound: No complaints.

Load times: Not great, but really not too bad though.

Game engine: Frustrating. It's probably just me, but things don't act consistently for me. Sometimes it'll "auto aim", sometimes it won't. (I never had this problem with the console versions of CoD). Sometimes I'll get stuck on the edge of a box and "run" but not get anywhere. Wide open area, just my hip was caught on the box and I was running in place. I don't remember having that problem in the past... 5+ years. The AI is also bizarrely stupid. It'll shoot at you non stop even if they can't see you or can't get to you. By that I mean they'll hide behind something and shoot at the thing they're hiding behind non stop sometimes. Or sometimes they'll run in front of you and stand there staring at you for a few seconds before starting to shoot. Also it's pretty obvious the game "cheats" by spawning guys at certain events. By that I mean you can clear out a room and then once you cross a certain area, the door you came from closes by itself and suddenly 6+ guys stand up from behind various boxes (that were obviously not there earlier).... Also some things are really awkward. The touchscreen grenade and knife feel really awkward for me to use so I usually never use them. And there's one part where I'm fighting enemies and there's one enemy left upstairs. I went upstairs to kill the enemy and you know what happened? The game said "turn back to continue mission" and I kept on going since the bad guy was just around the corner and... "Mission Failed". Stupid.

Difficulty: Having to start the mission all over when you mess up is really annoying. Parts of the game gets hard enough (even on the easier mode) that it pretty much requires you to know where guys spawn because there's a ridiculous amount of enemies at times. This is a problem because it makes the game way too hard or way too easy. There's parts where I get utterly dominated since so many guys pop up but after a few play throughs you know where the guys are and it becomes super easy. Nihlistic decided the way to make the game difficult was to spawn millions of guys instead of actually have smart AI. The star system is kind of annoying too since it assumes everyone is a top notch Call of Duty player. The first time you play a mission, no matter how good you are you'll get the worst rating just purely because to get the best 2 ratings you have to rush through the entire map. You'll have to know exactly where to go and where most of the enemies spawn. As someone who's used to exploring and being careful, having it tell me I did a one star job gets annoying.

Story: Yawn. I'm not too far into it though, maybe it gets better. And now that I've played much more of the game... it doesn't. The story doesn't matter at all. Basically just "kill everything and follow the game prompts". There is no story really.

Game length: There's only 10 campaign missions, all of which last about 5-10 minutes max. There's like 4-5 timed missions which last about 2 minutes each max. I don't play it multiplayer so I can't tell you anything about that.

Conclusion: It's a pretty terrible game. I can see people who love CoD enjoying the game a little bit but even big CoD fans will find this game underwhelming. Maybe the multiplayer is a lot of fun though. I don't know. I just know the single player game is terrible. Read more ›

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Please don't buy this game. March 14, 2013

By Jamie Almonte

I should have listened to the reviews. I thought to myself eh, how bad can it be. It's a call of duty game so it shouldn't be that bad. Boy was I wrong. It's so uncomfortable to play using the vita for starters and the game itself is just plain horrible. Believe me it's just plain horrible. I thought it would be ok and I dismissed the bad reviews and I regret it so much. Thank goodness I didn't pay full price for it but it still hurts that I paid any amount of money for this garbage. What on earth happened? I'm not going to go into details. Just believe me this is the worst cod game ever made. Even the original cod is better than this. If you can get this game for 5 dollars including shipping then by all means give it a shot. I mean for 5 bucks might as well but anything more would be a huge mistake. Not even for $5.01. Horrible horrible game. I'm just shocked the franchise would make such a terrible game.

UPDATE AS OF 6/6/13....

I finally got rid of this game. I couldnt take it anymore. This is the worst call of duty game ever made and I'm really positive it will be the worse of all time and there could NEVER be a worst version. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

PS. SAVE YOUR 5 BUCKS.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars The definition of disappointment March 24, 2013

By Josh Maiyer

Fun: 1.0 out of 5 stars   

This game is an embarrassment when it works at all, which is not that often.

I bought it at a used game store for about a quarter of the MSRP on Sony's network, and I still feel that I overpaid. Long loading times, exceptionally poor online coding, a campaign that's shorter than some prime time TV shows....the list goes on and on. Normally the "Call of Duty" name holds a lot of sway, but this iteration - produced by Nihilistic, rather than series mainstays Treyarch and Infinity Ward - is awful in just about every way. Expect to wait up to twenty minutes to actually play online, as the game will repeatedly spend three to four minutes loading a level only to unceremoniously dump you back to the title screen.

The levels are atrocious too, so cramped and small that there's very little strategy involved. Fans of the Call of Duty: Black Ops franchise will be familiar with the popular level Nuketown, a small arena composed of two suburban houses and their backyards. Nuketown is well-known as a small, frantic map, but the maps in Declassified make it look enormous. In fact, there's a version of Nuketown in Declassified that's called "Nukehouse", because - you guessed it - it only includes one of the houses, effectively cutting an already-small level in half. Declassified attempts to keep things under control in these small levels by limiting games to 8 players at a time, but don't worry - you'll never find enough players online at one time to get into a full match anyways.

I hope I've made my point by now but for those of you still on the fence about this game, let me leave you with this thought: Black Ops Declassified is such a bad game that Nihilistic Software changed their name and moved away from retail game development altogether after its release.... After playing this game for a while, it's pretty easy to see why.

In short: don't buy this game. Really. The PS Vita is an amazing system and seems like it has a lot of potential for a fantastic first-person-shooter game. Black Ops: Declassified just isn't it. Read more ›