Black

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Complete in box: the disc, the manual and the original case, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact item. Discs are professionally resurfaced when they need it and tested before listing. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

Criterion Games made its name smashing cars to pieces in Burnout, and with Black it set out to do the same thing to the first-person shooter. The goal was simple and gloriously loud: make every gunfight feel like the climax of an action movie. Concrete chips and crumbles under fire, cover gets shredded away, windows burst and whole sections of the environment collapse when the explosives start flying.

The sound is the star. Criterion pulled inspiration from films like Die Hard, True Lies and 24 and built what it called a "choir of guns", giving each enemy weapon its own voice so that a firefight blends into a ferocious, roaring mix instead of a wall of noise. Reloads blur the world around your weapon, and when your health drops low the screen drains to black and white, the action slows and the controller pulses with your heartbeat. You carry two weapons at a time and can throw grenades without switching, which keeps the pace relentless.

The story is told through live-action interrogation scenes. Sergeant First Class Jack Kellar, a black-ops soldier facing a ruined career and life in prison, recounts the operation against the terrorist network known as the Seventh Wave, and each mission is a flashback to his war across towns, an asylum and a gulag in the Russian borderlands. Chris Tilton's orchestral score, built around a theme co-written with Michael Giacchino, adds big-screen grandeur, and the game's audio earned a BAFTA nomination.

Black is short and has no multiplayer, but it was never about longevity. Higher difficulty settings add extra objectives such as collecting intelligence documents, and clearing them unlocks rewards like infinite-ammo Silver Weapons, giving the campaign real replay value. Arriving late in the PS2's life, it looked and sounded like few other games on the console, a planned sequel never happened, and some of the same team later channeled the idea into Bodycount at Codemasters. It is a cult favorite worth experiencing on the hardware it was built to push.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2006
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Developer
Criterion Games
Genre
Shooter
Players
Single player
About the game

Black takes place in Chechnya (Southern Russia). The protagonist is a black ops soldier named Sergeant First Class Jack Kellar (portrayed by Marty Papazian). Kellar tells most of the story in first-person at an interrogation four days after the events in the story begin. Kellar is an inadequately disciplined member of a CIA black ops group and a veteran of several conflicts including Guatemala, Colombia, Iran and Croatia. The unknown interrogator (portrayed by Paul Pape) questions Kellar about an arms smuggling and terrorist operation called the Seventh Wave. Seventh Wave have been responsible for a number of terrorist attacks. Kellar is told that, unless he co-operates, he and his actions will be declassified, he will be dishonorably discharged and imprisoned for life. Though initially resistant, Kellar at last agrees to tell his story.

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