Call of Duty: Black Ops Set to Become Best Selling Game of All Time
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Call of Duty: Black Ops is set to be the video game event of 2010!
Activision has officially launched Call of Duty: Black Ops for all three major consoles, the PC, and the Nintendo DS.
The game is the seventh installment in the hugely popular, and some say addicting, first-person shooter Call Of Duty series.
"GameStop is tracking to all-time, record reservations on Call of Duty: Black Ops," GameStop senior vice president of merchandising, Bob McKenzie said in a statement. "We are ahead of where we were with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last year, which previously set the industry standard."
Advance interest in the game has been so intense that it could well triumph the achievements of Modern Warfare 2 last year. Earlier this year, Guinness World Records announced that Modern Warfare 2 generated $401.6 million in its first day of availability, making it the biggest launch in the history of the gaming business. It supplanted Grand Theft Auto IV, which generated $310 million on its launch day.
Set during the Cold War, Black Ops features missions to Vietnam and Cuba as well as reenactments of real-life missions such as the 1980 SAS storming of the Iranian Embassy in London.
However, not all of the advance interest has been positive. At a Baltimore GameStop, thieves stole more than 100 copies of the game along with the store's cash. Two customers were also held at gunpoint by the two armed men as they stole four cases of the video game before its launch.
Call of Duty: Black Ops comes in three versions. The standard edition comes only with the game and sells for $60 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions.
The Hardened Edition comes with a Black Ops medal, an Avatar outfit, and four zombie co-op maps. It retails for $80.
The Prestige Edition's main attraction is an RC-XD Surveillance Vehicle, which transmits video and audio back to the user up to 200 feet away. It sells for $150.
