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Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty Website Begins To Reveal Its Secrets
Written Tuesday, April 24, 2012 By Lee Bradley
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The countdown to the next Call of Duty reveal may still be underway, but the official website has already started to reveal its secrets.

One of the many tabs on the site has unlocked, revealing a video featuring something called a ‘quadrotor,’ an RC attack drone. Could this be one the game’s multiplayer killstreak rewards? It looks likely.

The video, hosted by popular YouTube channel FPS Russia, doesn’t show the game in action, but instead shows “footage” of the quadrotor doing its thing.

"Looks like the future's going to be fun,” says the presenter of the video. “But if you can't wait another 15 years my friends are telling me that this baby might just be in the next Call of Duty game, which would be the shit."

The futuristic tech of the quadrotor has led many to speculate that the next Call of Duty game will be set in 2027, fifteen years from now. Others, meanwhile, have analysed the video to come up with other clues. The host’s shirt has “Tacitus” written across the front, for a start. Tacitus was a Roman senator and historian who wrote about many things, including an eclipse.

Why is this relevant? Well, the word “eclipse” has been used both internally and in marketing materials for the game. And we’re due an eclipse, a real one, on Nov 13th this year. Some believe that this could be the game’s release date.

The truth is, however, that we just don’t know anything. But expect plenty more of these kind of teasers leading up to the game’s May 1st reveal.




 
 

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Comment #1 by killzone232
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 10:49:26 AM
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FPS RUSSIA FTW!!!

 
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Comment #2 by ParoXysm
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 10:56:18 AM
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That's scary!

 
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Comment #3 by nintendo64X
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 10:58:34 AM
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The video it's self is sponsored by call of duty, thus I think the device he's using shall be called the "Tacitus".

Is the one in the vid real-even he didn't answer that despite the fights going on in the comments.

If cod goes futuristic...I might need to give it a look...

 
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Comment #4 by Draco416
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 10:59:27 AM
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FPSRussia FTW, more ripped stuff in COD FTL.

 
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Comment #5 by pkrockin86
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 11:05:26 AM
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Call of Duty: Future Warfare. I'm been saying this for a while, but that is the only way to revitalize this series.

 
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Comment #6 by wiLLYb0ifR3Sh
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 11:08:28 AM
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Well.. If this is where they're going with it.. they'd better have some futuristic zombies too!

 
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Comment #7 by ryanofx92
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 11:16:09 AM
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Going futuristic could work so well. I just hope they've realised that and gone for it because it would change the series up big time, which it really badly needs. I have my doubts though.

 
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Comment #8 by AndyBeans
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 11:19:13 AM
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Of course it isn't real, it's a Parrot AR drone (you can buy them for a couple of hundred squid off the high street) with a toy gun. His controller is an iPad. The whole drone weighs a few hundred grams, if it had a real gun attached it'd a) Not take off and b) End up in the next field when it fired.

I liked FPSRussia because he fired real guns and didn't get all macho about it. Yeah he may be pretending to be Russian but if he's going to pretend to fire pretend guns just because Acti are tickling his balls I think it's about time I amended my Youtube subscription.

 
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Comment #9 by YurtleTehTurtle
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 11:26:15 AM
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I honestly just expected a plain and simple Black Ops 2 this year with a major (next gen?) shakeup due for 2013, next week's announcement just got a little more interesting.


 
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Comment #10 by TheEndofWhyOU
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 11:40:06 AM
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Watch November 13 be the day the world ends... ;)

 
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Comment #11 by WINAS3
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 12:53:27 PM
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Nice video, I need to get me one of those :)

 
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Comment #12 by killsey
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 01:28:45 PM
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Funny how people stop complaining about COD when they're doing something new. Maybe a new engine would make this a winner?

 
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Comment #13 by HARRIS 94
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 01:37:09 PM
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Haha I subscribe to this guy on YouTube and I watched this only last night:)

 
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Comment #14 by Napoleon1814
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 03:16:48 PM
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@1 You mean FPS KYLE FTW

 
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Comment #15 by abel1389
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 03:19:02 PM
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that thing reminds me of the Aerostats from Terminator. pretty awesome.

 
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Comment #16 by Blessorship
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 04:45:30 PM
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Even though his little flying dingobat is a toy, rest assured the some of the more well funded miltaries already have real working weapons such as this. They would have to come up with a lot more to make it futuristic.

 
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Comment #17 by Chrissycooza1
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 05:59:52 PM
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@8 to be honest Im sitting on the fence with whether its fake or not considering now a days the military can use drones with cameras (Sikorsky Cyphers) you would imagine that the next step would be some genious shouting lets put a gun on one, the camera cypher only uses a couple blades so I would imagine that four rotors would keep that stable when it fires a gun

@12 I fail to see how you can call this something new on COD considering its just another copy and paste job of the Recon Drone from MW3 only they attached a gun on it, big woop.

 
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Comment #18 by newgroundsguru
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 06:11:03 PM
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MGS rip off, again... the XM25? bet you have never seen this before! oh wait i have, mgs4.. and now this? is a cypher and those were in MGS1 for 1998.. way to be original cod...

 
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Comment #19 by Cornagandarub
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 06:30:52 PM
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@18 Yeah, MGS4 was certainly the first game with the XM25 and the only game allowed to use it. Anyone else is just ripping it off right, after all Kojima clearly invented the gun.

 
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Comment #20 by gaviota1195
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 08:47:08 PM
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Holy Fuck...every soldier is going to have something worse than mortars to fear when that gets approved.

 
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Comment #21 by MTURNER1985
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 09:36:00 PM
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@20 mortars are a thing of the past buddy, dont see them to much if at all in modern day warfare!

Thats one kwl russian dude!!

I was hoping for a black ops follow up but if this is a not too distant future warfare then its got me even more excited! Cannae freakin wait to May 1st now! Damn if thats the case were gonna have Olympic sprinting zombies heading our way! hehe

Been waiting such a long time for a future warfare game and was depending on the release of Ghost Recon for that however if this is the case then i think i may save my pennies an wait for for this!


 
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Comment #22 by clone150
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 10:22:02 PM
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@10 No no no, if your going to make a joke about the end of the world, at least make it somewhat accurate (I said somewhat not 100%)

 
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Comment #23 by sanchezz4387
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 @ 02:40:45 AM
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A full Vietnam campaign would suffice for me

 
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Comment #24 by Midgetguy
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 @ 02:32:25 PM
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This is futuristic?

I have several friends who could make this in their basement in a week...

Hmm...

 
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Comment #25 by The_Dark Knight
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 @ 07:34:58 PM
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Friggin quadrotor was cgi in this.

 
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Comment #26 by KingMomo
Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 06:12:59 PM
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@23 Same here. Maybe not an entire Vietnam campaign but more Cold War era events.


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