Black Ops scored 85 metacritic points.

professional reviewers are paid to give good scores

Well, I haven't tried the games, as I haven't played any CoD since Call of Duty 2 so it can actually be good. But most of the professional reviewers, magazines, websites and so on get paid, in one way or another by the companies to inflate games' marks...

look at the user score... yeah

Metacritic is a lie .

I don't want to live on this planet anymore, amirite? I hate COD lolololol
for the ones who didn't get it, sarcasm

It's probably cookie-cut, what's not to like? Hahaha, haha, ha... yeah. Bothers me that games that are consistent sure, but otherwise unimaginative would continue to get good scores over games that try to do a different take, with good execution. Oh well, Last I played was MW2 so I'm really in no position to comment, but then MW2 didn't give me the desire to go play BlOps or MW3 either.

4.0 user score lmao (PC version even 2.9)
Maybe they should start caring about user opinions rather than about corrupt reviewers......

Wait what did i just say... i'm so silly!

Average quality mass market crap?

Pretty much the rating one would expect.

You know, if people would actually start to ignore it rather than hate it soundly and call it shit, even though they haven't played it, well maybe then it would finally decrease in popularity, which is its much deserved and non-existent fate.

Well, Dragon Age 2 scored 82 so metacritic is not that reliable.

I don't hate CoD as an individual game, just the way that Activision churns out another one each year, with very little change except story and in the case of MW1, BO1 and BO2 a variation in times.

BO is a good enough game, just I personally think there is better out there. (I don't think it really helps with all the underage-age-restriction children playing using mics to whine. I reckon if you were to play it on private servers with only people who are above the age restriction (both physically and mentally) it would be quite good really)

I also think that there should be some law against selling games to people who are clearly buying for someone underage, same as for buying alcohol or cigarettes.

Nobody really cares that much about the game or what people think of it. If you're that type of gamer, you'll get it anyway because you also get every iteration of Madden, and if not, you can just stick to your anime tits and spell leveling.

Review scores are a joke nowadays, professional websites are either paid off or "influenced", something which I previously refuted until an editor for one of them drunkenly spilled the beans on Twitter and the cat was let out the bag. User scores are no better - everything's either a 0 or a 10. Thankfully the argument for abandoning review scores completely is gradually gathering pace.

While I'm ranting, two more pet hates are the "This game is not a 8.4! It's an 8.2 at most!" and the "Reviews should be objective!" crowds. I'll stop here before I sound any more mad.

Which mean that I was right all along. Metacritic score doesn't mean shit about the actual game.

I played the pirate version of black ops 1 and i must say its better that modern warfare series. the story is cool, zombies are so fun to play about the multiplayer not sure but most peoples say its very balanced. i wanna this game from a long time but the price is the same. wtf the game is two years and the price dont drop :/

i guess the user score will change soon to under 4 points xD

Call of Duty 4 is what really boosted the CoD series up, and IMO the best CoD. 5 wasn't far off, felt like a reskin of COD 4. But man did they really go downhill from that. Adding all sorts of crap, making the game a fest of all random stuff happening all the time. PREDATOR MISSILE INBOUND. AC-130 ROCKET HUNTER DRONE, BE ADVISED! I don't know, obviously people like that, the monster energy drink drunk kids. For what i know the series had a different community during cod 1/2/4/5, on the pc at least, and now there are people who just get disappointed every year cause it hasn't changed and people who just buy and think it is the best thing ever. The community shifted to a larger one which will give game dev's more money

Overrated crap, as always... Yeah, "proffesional" reviewers are paid to give high scores, or they're fanboys too. Wake up fanboys....

metascore says nothing about games (diablo3 has 88^^).

user score is what counts

i dont trust metacritic anymore, i mean, check out the score of some bad games, diablo 3 : 88, mass effect 3 : 89 (not really bad,but the ending was really dissapointing for a company like bioware), dragon age 2 : 82, and cod games from modern warfare 2 to bo2 havent go under 85-80. but sure, sometimes there is honest reviews (keyword being "sometimes")

I never trust any kind of reviews. I mean, you may hate the game but why would that automatically mean I'd hate it? It's about opinions for god's sake. There has been moments when all reviews I read said a game was crap, I loved it. Thus I never care for reviews..

Its more like 75 - but all the reviewers are payed by Activion or brainwashed ...or just stupid fanboy-kiddies.

The only way I find I can get "accurate" (appropriate for me) reviews of games is to watch through a youtube reviewer's channel and take note of their opinion on games I've already played. That normally gives me a good indication as to whether their opinion of a game gels with my own and whether I should trust their reviews of games I haven't played in the same genre/similar genres. E.g. I don't put as much faith in TotalBiscuit's reviews of puzzle games as I do his reviews of FPS games (because he sucks at puzzle games ;).

MW3 had even higher ratings. Enough said. Everyone knows that the Modern Warfare games had publishers pushing free crap into the hands of the reviewers. Hard to look bad at a game when you're sitting on $200 worth of free swag.