Black Ops MP Trailer: 8 Secrets You Missed

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Clan Name Weapon Decals

 

01:01

Now this is exciting. Some of you may have spotted the smiley-faced red dot sight. Some may have even seen the potentially custom smiley decal on the side of the gun at 00:11. But how many of you spotted the clan name on the gun itself? It’s so in your face, we almost missed it. Check at around 1:01; on the horizontal stock widget on top of the barrel, you’ll see the letters TMKS scratched into the gun, just below your team-mate (MatTKS) running ahead of you. How awesome is that?

 

</p>It’s amazing what you see when you keep ‘em peeled.

 

 

 

Callsigns Have No Titles

 

00:10

Although they might by the time the game comes out. The Callsigns’ total lack of title may mean something else – which incidentally, sits quite nicely with Treyarch’s user-generated content credos – that the titles may be able to be written by the users themselves? So long as it has the world’s most expensive, meta-complex swear-filter, this could be brilliant.

 

“did Kojima have a hand here? It’s all gone a bit Metal Gear.”

 

 

 

BGM-71 TOW Fly By Wire Missile

 

01:09

The fly-by-wire missile seen in the trailer – which is launched down a corridor, smashes through some plate glass, then annihilates a sniper – is none other than the catchily named BGM-71 TOW. Not at all a mouthful during fitful comms chatter; “Look out, there’s a BGM-7 … oh, you died …” Most likely to be dubbed the TOW (Toe) by players then, its name stands for Tube-launched Optically-tracked, Wire data link guided missile.

 

AH-1 Cobra Gunship

 

 

00:51

The narrow profile of the mini-map attack helicopter and its setting in 1968, means only one possible candidate. Bell Helicopter’s slimmer members of the Bell Huey family – sometimes referred to simply as ‘Snake’ (as in ‘Snake… Snaaaaaaaaaake!’) – were brought into service during Vietnam in response to the effectiveness of Vi

 

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