Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Fair · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $5.63/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 82% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader 3.0 or better 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT / ATI Radeon X1950Pro or better, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
The biggest first-person action series of all time and the follow-up to critically acclaimed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 2 returns with Call of Duty®: Black Ops.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $19.59, set in June 2015. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 91 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 35 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty: World at War ($19.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Black Ops ($39.99, scores 50).
81 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 82 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 30 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 96 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 1,907 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.1 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
16 years after release it still had 527 people in it at once.
The drop-off
66% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
527 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
my favorite call of duty of all time, i highly recommend to play for everyone, just remember to use plutonium.
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This is my favorite call of duty please DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME at very least until activision sees fit to patch the ongoing RCE exploits plaguing every call of duty title released before infinite warfare.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/42700/call-of-duty-black-opsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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