The newest game in the Call of Duty franchise was released on Tuesday. You may have seen commercials for it on TV, especially the one where Kobe Bryant and Jimmy Kimmel are shooting up a storm because apparently there's "a soldier in all of us." I don't know how I'd feel about Kobe being in my Black Ops squad. I picture him hogging all the ammo and taking 5 shots for every target he actually hits.

Here's the commercial for those of you interested: 



Although the CPU version of the game has already had gameplay issues identified, the title has quickly massacred the previous single day sales record by selling 5.6 million copies in 24 hours. This version of the game takes place during the Cold War and features plenty of Russian bad guys, which is a lovely throwback to '80s villainy. Russian enemies are like the hipster enemy of the United States now -- it's like killing bad guys on vinyl (Al Qaeda is soooooo mainstream). 

I tried playing Modern Warfare 2 and got my ass handed to me, so I'd much prefer to play Carl of Duty instead of Black Ops:

Have you bought/do you plan to buy Call of Duty: Black Ops?