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Call of Duty: Black Ops for Nintendo Wii
Call of Duty: Black Ops for Nintendo Wii is a first-person shooter about covert operations during the Cold War. The story follows Alex Mason as he tries to reconstruct memories of earlier assignments during an interrogation. You therefore travel between different moments and theatres of war while questions about his past keep returning. Fighting in places including Cuba and Vietnam sits alongside escapes, infiltrations and actions using special equipment. The interrogation framing means what you see does not always receive an immediate, clear explanation.
During assignments, you aim down sights, switch weapons and look for safe moments to leave cover and move on. Sometimes you follow a team, sometimes you capture a position or use a vehicle under pressure. The game determines the main campaign's order; you do not build your own open world of freely chosen missions. Variety comes from the terrain, your equipment and the way an operation changes direction. Checkpoints let you tackle a difficult fight again.
On Wii, you can play with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk or use a supported Classic Controller Pro. The campaign is single-player. Alongside that story, Zombies offers a survival battle against waves of attackers, also for one player locally; this Wii version has no split screen. The disc contains one original Zombies map, not later map packs from other systems. The online component is not offered as a functioning feature. You therefore choose between the campaign and separate survival, not a local two-player campaign.
Region and language
Our Nintendo Wii games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Call of Duty: Black Ops for Nintendo Wii includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Call of Duty: Black Ops
Treyarch developed Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Activision released it for Nintendo Wii in 2010. After World at War, the team chose covert military operations during the Cold War. This allowed room for espionage, political tension and a story in which memories are questioned. The interrogation scenes around Alex Mason gave the sequence of missions a recurring framework, allowing a battle to become a clue to what had happened before.
Within Call of Duty, Black Ops built on the established aiming, checkpoints and alternation between quiet preparation and intense action. Treyarch gave that foundation a different atmosphere from the Modern Warfare games of the time. Historical references were mixed with a fictional conspiracy. At the same time, Zombies, which had begun in World at War, became a recognisable part of the package. The story campaign and survival battles each had their own rules, so they did not have to provide an identical experience.
The original release also included competitive components and training options, which played a large role in how the game was used at the time. That history is not a promise about online services today. Black Ops later received several sequels, with Black Ops II extending the timeline and giving players more influence over the campaign's development. This first Wii game keeps Mason's story in a fixed order. It therefore shows how Treyarch moved the series from the Second World War towards an ongoing espionage thriller.
Similar games for Nintendo Wii
World at War and Black Ops both follow different military operations on Wii but place them in different periods. World at War stays in the Second World War; Black Ops uses covert Cold War missions and Alex Mason’s interrogation. Black Ops also has Zombies for one local player. Those survival battles are absent from the Wii release of World at War.
Reflex Edition and Black Ops both use fixed campaign missions with different weapons and scripted events on Wii. Reflex follows a modern conflict and switches between SAS and Marines. Black Ops mainly uses Alex Mason’s memories to tell of covert Cold War operations. Black Ops also adds Zombies, while Reflex offers local assistance through Squadmate instead of that kind of survival option.
Call of Duty 3 and Black Ops both have you complete scripted military missions with computer-controlled allies on Wii. Call of Duty 3 connects four Allied perspectives in France in 1944. Black Ops uses an interrogation and memories to tell a Cold War thriller. Black Ops also has separate Zombies battles, whereas Call of Duty 3 on Wii contains only its war campaign.
GoldenEye 007 also uses modern firefights and espionage as its setting on Wii. Bond can more often adjust his route and quiet approach to the guards. Black Ops follows a more tightly directed series of military operations connected by Alex Mason’s memories. GoldenEye offers local multiplayer matches; Black Ops has no split screen on Wii and keeps its local story and Zombies to one player.
007 Quantum of Solace has you follow one familiar secret agent through missions from two films on Wii. Black Ops instead creates its own conspiracy story about a soldier and his unreliable memories. Both combine aiming with scripted action scenes. Bond has a separate camera behind cover and local split-screen matches; Black Ops stays mostly in first person and adds a separate survival challenge.
