"After playing the game for over 20 hours last week, we give you the inside scoop on some Black Ops essentials. In a clear homage to retro classic Smash TV, Black Ops features a hidden zombie mode called Dead Ops. It’s a top-down, twin stick shooter like Geometry Wars that sees four players battling the undead across a maze of increasingly brutal rooms, complete with stupidly powerful weapons and power ups. It puts most XBLA games to shame, so kudos to Treyarch for sneaking it in there. How do you access Dead Ops? Well that’d be spoiling the surprise wouldn’t it?"
The video on Black Ops 1 shows some separate rooms, assets, and other features which exist outside of the boundary of the game.
From DownSights: "Black Ops is not Black Ops without Nuketown. Following the tradition of releasing Nuketown for Black Ops games, the new Black Ops Cold War game also offers a revamped Nuketown called Nuketown '84.
Nuketown '84 has the same dimensions and map layout except for the aesthetics. The map's aesthetics have changed to fit the 80s theme, with destroyed buildings and graffiti-filled walls compared to a clean 50s suburban neighborhood seen in Black Ops 1."
Jacob writes: "What do we have with the original Call of Duty: Black Ops? Quite simply, one of the best Call of Duty titles of all time."
now that we have that out of the way, I am so close to buying this game. Do you guys think it's a good entry for someone who's never owned a COD but is (finally) interested in getting one?
It's not so much an homage to smash TV as it is to newer games like Burn Zombie Burn and I maed a game with zombies in it!! that themselves already parodied Smash TV.
None of these are essential or secrets for that matter. Yet another useless article by Now Gamer.