CALL OF DUTY 7: black ops I

Plot

 

Single-player

 

Characters and setting

Main article: List of Call of Duty characters § Call of Duty: Black Ops

 

From left to right: Mason, Hudson, and McNamara.

 

Call of Duty: Black Ops takes place during the 1960s in the Cold War. It focuses on CIA clandestine black operations carried out behind enemy lines. Missions take place in various locations around the globe such as the Ural Mountains in eastern USSR, Kazakhstan in central USSR, Cuba, Hong Kong, Laos, South Vietnam, and the Arctic circle. The single-player campaign revolves around an experimentalchemical weapon codenamed "Nova-6".

The main protagonist the player controls is SAD/SOG special forces operative Alex Mason, occasionally CIA agent Jason Hudson, and some other characters are playable to progress the story. Alex is often joined by fellow operatives Frank Woods and Joseph Bowman, while Jason teams up with Grigori Weaver, a Russian-born field operative. Viktor Reznov, a key character from the Soviet campaign inWorld at War, returns along with that game's Russian protagonist Dimitri Petrenko also making an appearance. Black Ops also features several historical figures: during the story Mason meets John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara, and Fidel Castro.

Story

On February 25, 1968, SOG operative Alex Mason is strapped to a chair in an interrogation room, bombarded with questions by his unseen captors about the location of anumbers station. Mason then recalls several events, as an attempt to answer their questions.

In 1961, Mason, Woods, and Bowman take part in Operation 40 to assassinate Fidel Castro in Cuba during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Mason apparently succeeds and stays behind to protect the extraction plane from an oncoming blockade, before being captured by the real Castro, having shot a double. Handed over to General Nikita Dragovich to be held captive at Vorkuta Gulag, Mason befriends inmate Viktor Reznov, the former Red Army soldier. Reznov recounts to Mason the identities of his enemies, the same people involved in Mason’s torture: Nikita Dragovich, his right-hand man Lev Kravchenko, and ex-Nazi scientist Friedrich Steiner, who defected to the Soviet Union.

In October 1945, Reznov and Dimitri Petrenko were sent to extract Steiner from a Nazi base in the Arctic. Dragovich later betrayed them by testing Steiner's creation, a nerve agent known as "Nova-6", on Petrenko and other soldiers in a ship. Reznov was spared the same fate when British commandos, also attempting to acquire Nova-6, attacked the Soviets. During the confusion, Reznov destroyed the Nova-6 and escaped. However, the Soviets recreated it using Steiner and a British scientist, Daniel Clarke.

Over a year later, Mason and Reznov spark a prisoner uprising to escape the gulag, but only Mason escapes and Reznov is captured. One month later, President John F. Kennedy meets Mason and authorizes a mission to assassinate Dragovich. Mason briefly envisions aiming his side arm at Kennedy. In November 1963, Mason, Woods, Bowman and Weaver are dispatched to Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakh SSR to disrupt the Soviet space program and eliminate members of "Ascension", a Soviet program giving sanctuary to Nazi scientists in exchange for their knowledge. Weaver is captured and Kravchenko stabs out his left eye. Mason and his team rescue him and destroy the Soyuzspacecraft, while Woods apparently kills Dragovich, though Mason believes him to be alive.

In 1968, the team is sent to Vietnam. After defending Khe Sanh, they recover a dossier on Dragovich from a Russian defector in Hue during the Tet Offensive. Mason finds the defector is none other than Reznov. They then penetrate Laos to recover a Nova-6 shipment from a downed Soviet plane. At the crash site the plane collapses and they are captured by Viet Cong and Spetznaz infiltrators. Bowman is executed, while Woods and Mason hijack an Mi-24 Hind and rescue Reznov at Kravchenko's base before confronting Kravchenko himself. Woods stabs Kravchenko, gaining the upper hand, but Kravchenko pulls the pins off four grenades strapped to his chest; Woods sacrifices himself by pushing Kravchenko and himself out a window. In a huge explosion, Mason presumes the two dead.

Meanwhile, Hudson and Weaver interrogate Clarke in Kowloon Walled City. Clarke reveals the location of a hidden facility in Mount Yamantau before being killed by Dragovich's men. Hudson and Weaver move to destroy the facility and receive a transmission from Steiner requesting to meet at Rebirth Island, as Dragovich has begun killing loose ends. Mason and Reznov head there to assassinate Steiner at the same time, succeeding just as Hudson and Weaver arrive. Mason is adamant that Reznov executed Steiner, but Hudson had witnessed Mason carrying out the act alone.

At this point, Hudson and Weaver are revealed as Mason's interrogators. Dragovich has communist sleeper cells placed all over the United States which, when ordered by the numbers broadcast, will release the Nova-6 gas. As a result, the U.S. is preparing a retaliatory strike on the Soviet Union, which will lead to a full-scale war. Hudson needed Steiner to abort the gas launch, but after his death, only Mason has any knowledge of the numbers station. Hudson reveals that Dragovich brainwashed Mason to understand the numbers broadcasts, effectively making him a Soviet sleeper agent. It is revealed that the real Reznov never escaped, but died during the Vorkuta break out; and that the Soviet defector in Hue was actually killed before Mason reached him. Mason’s visions of Reznov are a result of a dissociative disorder caused by the traumatic brainwashing program. Prior to the Vorkuta breakout, Reznov had secretly met and reprogrammed Mason to assassinate Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner for what they did to him and for killing Petrenko and his comrades, instead of Mason's original aim to kill the U.S. President. Mason finally remembers the location of the station: a Russian cargo ship called Rusalka off the coast of Cuba.

An assault on the Rusalka begins, with Mason and Hudson infiltrating the underwater submarine and broadcast station protected by the ship, intended to be used for an invasion of the U.S. after the planned Nova-6 attack. Confirming that the Rusalka is the numbers station, Hudson calls in the US Navy to destroy the ship and its underwater base. Mason and Hudson finally confront Dragovich in the lower levels of the facility. Dragovich taunts Mason and hints at his hand in assassinating Kennedy, but Mason drowns him and escapes.

Archive footage of President Kennedy prior to his assassination is shown, revealing Mason in the crowd, implicitly suggesting that Mason may have carried out his initial programming.

Zombies

Characters and settings

The Zombies story takes place over various eras of time, mostly during the final year of World War II, and the 1960s. The story mainly follows four soldiers: Corporal Tank Dempsey (Steven Blum) of the United States Marine Corps, Sergeant Nikolai Belinski (Fred Tatasciore) of the Red Army, Captain 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) and his daughter Samantha. The map "Five" features real-life 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 real-life celebrities: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund, Danny Trejo, Michael Rooker, and Director George A. Romero.

Story

During the years of World War II, a group of scientists, known as Group 935, is formed by Doctor Ludvig Maxis, who intends to improve the human condition using their knowledge. However, they soon turn to creating weapons to aid the Nazis in the war, due to a lack of funding. Their discovery of Element 115 from a meteorite in Japan would eventually lead to the creation of undead zombies. Maxis and his assistant, Dr. Edward Richtofen, also work on other projects, including teleportation devices and super soldier test subjects. Richtofen manages to capture three soldiers: Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, and Takeo Masaki; he begins to conduct his experiments using Element 115, which causes memory loss on all three soldiers.

As World War II reaches its end, and the Third Reich falls, Maxis continues to work on his experiments. He attempts to use his daughter's dog, Fluffy, as a test subject for teleportation. However, the experiment fails, and Fluffy is transformed into an undead hellhound. Richtofen, convinced that Maxis had lost his way, traps him and his daughter Samantha inside the teleporter with Fluffy, believing that they would not survive.

Richtofen escapes with his three test subjects, and begins to form a plan. They arrive at a Group 935 facility in Japan, where Element 115 was first discovered. After gathering a sample of 115 at the site, and recovering a weapon known as the Wunderwaffe DG-2, they find the area infested with zombies, and travel back to the Der Riese factory in Breslau, Germany. In an attempt to escape the zombie horde, the group accidentally overloads the teleporter with the DG-2, sending them forward in time. They arrive at an abandoned Nazi theater at some times in the 1960s, where Richtofen discovers several recordings left behind by Dr. Maxis. Samantha, now having become the controller of the zombies, continue raising the undead in order to hunt down Richtofen and his supporters.

Some times in 1963, the United States government manages to grab hold of several of Group 935's inventions and technology, and keep them hidden in the Pentagon. Eventually, zombies are found within the Pentagon, due to the presence of the undead-raising Element 115. America's leaders, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Robert McNamara, along with Cuba's then-Prime Minister Fidel Castro, are trapped within the Pentagon, and are forced to fight their way out. Meanwhile, Richtofen's crew arrive at a Soviet Cosmodrome site, where Richtofen intends to travel to Group 935's moon base, Griffin Station. The crew is, however, contacted by a Group 935 member, Gersch, who requests their help in freeing him by activating the Casimir Mechanism.

After freeing Gersch, the four of them are teleported further in time, and arrive at a Siberian lighthouse sometime in 2011, where Richtofen once used as a secret Group 935 lab. They are, however, trapped within a locked room, and are forced to rely on four movie actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Danny Trejo, Robert Englund, and Michael Rooker, who are filming a zombie movie on-site. The four celebrities are also forced to fight the zombie hordes unleashed by Samantha, including their director, George A. Romero. Richtofen requests the celebrities to help him find a golden rod, which they succeed in finding. He then fixes the teleporter and transports himself and the other three to a temple known asShangri-La, leaving the celebrities behind to continue fighting the zombies.

At Shangri-La, the group discovers two explorers, Gary and Brock, who are trapped within a time loop while trying to discover the secrets of Agartha. They are then forced to travel back and forth in time, altering the environments of the temple, in order to save the explorers' lives. Eventually, they discover an altar within the temple, with Richtofen's name written on it, as well as a piece of a meteorite containing Element 115. The explorers, however, are sent back to the moment they discover the temple, trapped in a never-ending loop.

With the golden rod and the meteorite piece, Richtofen now believes he can control the zombies. The group then travels to Area 51, and uses a teleporter in the base to travel to Griffin Station. Here, they find a pyramid-shaped machine called the MPD, which they then attempt to activate. The machine opens, revealing Samantha inside, stuck in suspended animation. It is revealed that Samantha and her father were somehow teleported to the moon, instead of dying by Richtofen's trap. Samantha accidentally triggered the MPD and was trapped within the device, while also letting her enter the Aether realm. When her father was murdered in front of her, she assumed control of the zombies and began her quest to slaughter all Group 935 members. Richtofen then proceeds with his plan, by fusing the golden rod and the meteorite piece, and using it to switch souls with Samantha, taking over as the new zombie controller. He succeeds in doing so, but then finds resistance from his former allies, as well as Samantha (who now resides in Richtofen's body), and Dr. Maxis (who is revealed to have become a sentient artificial intelligence living within the systems of Griffin Station). Maxis guides his daughter and the three soldiers to launch three missiles at the Earth, which would sever Richtofen's link with the undead horde on the planet. However, the calculations were made in haste, and the launch results in catastrophic destruction of the Earth.

(From Wikipedia)