Call of Duty: Black Ops

COD Points and emblem editors pushed shooter multiplayer toward cosmetic self-expression.

Released 2010 Developer Treyarch Publisher Activision Platform Xbox 360 Genre First-person shooter Era Digital storefronts & indie Website callofduty.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Call of Duty: Black Ops inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Drop-In Co-op Campaign ~~2001~~Persistent Multiplayer Progression ~~2007~~Perk-Based Loadout Customization ~~2007~~Prestige Reset-for-Status ~~2007~~Cosmetic-Only Monetization ~~2009~~

The Call of Duty series in this dataset

2003

Call of Duty ~~2003~~

2007

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ~~2007~~

2008

Call of Duty: World at War ~~2008~~

2009

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ~~2009~~

2010

Call of Duty: Black Ops ~~this page~~

2020

Call of Duty: Warzone ~~2020~~

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