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Today is zero day for Call of Duty: Black Ops. The seventh title in Activision's immensly popular first-person shooter war franchise, Black Ops is the first in the series to be set during the Cold War. All indications are that this Call of Duty will sell millions of copies, just like its predecessors, and become one of the year's biggest titles.

The game's storyline is spread across the 1960s and follows the covert missions that American operative Alex Mason undertakes for his government. Mason (voiced by Avatar star Sam Worthington) is sent throughout the globe on wetwork and intelligence operations, cumulating in a final mission in which it's heavily implied that the actions Mason undertook influenced the way the history of the world played out.

New weapons being introduced in Black Ops include a throwing knife, a crossbow, Dragon's Breath rounds and the use of a RC toy car which is laden with plastic explosives, allowing you to take out your enemy from a safe distance. The game's storyline was written by David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight, the Blade trilogy) and other members in the voice cast include Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Ice Cube, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Topher Grace and Eddie Cahill.

As this Call of Duty was developed by Treyarch, the same game developers that made Call of Duty: World at War, there's new bonus levels featuring rampaging Nazi zombies. After successfully completing the storyline missions gamers unlock the ability to play a zombie level set at the Pentagon in the early 1960s. There, inside a deep war room, gamers can play as President Kennedy, Secretary of Defence William McNamara, Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and future President Richard M. Nixon and blast away at the attacking undead in two-player co-op or four player online mode.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is available for all major gaming consoles and carries a suggested retail price of $59.99.