Ready to prove you are the absolute best of the best in Call of Duty? Think you’re up to snuff with the big boys? Treyarch wants you to prove you’re more than talk with Call of Duty: Black Ops and it’s new Wager matches. Use the currency you earn in Black Ops and put it on the line against other players aiming to make you broke-think you can handle the pressure?
There are four wager matches to choose from, all Free-For-All of course, and all are really creative and intriguing. One match, called One in the Chamber, has you spawn with a pistol, one bullet, and three lives; if you kill an enemy you can take their bullet, however, if you miss you are then defenseless. There’s also a gametype called Sticks and Stones, where a tomahawk throw to the back will make you instantly bankrupt!
You can check out a video explaining all four gametypes here, and then head down to the comment bunker and tell us what you think of Black Ops‘ multiplayer. Is it shaping up nicely, or is it more of the same?










Not really my cup of tea but it’s nice to see innovation that doesn’t revolve around giving players the tools to exploit the game.
To be honest, I think this looks awesome. I love that they’ve listened to the community and added Gun Game, which was great in CS.
I’m excited for One in the Chamber. Finally there is a game mode you can go play when you get fed up with people using shotguns and gernade launchers.
These modes are freaking amazing! Ive had plenty of knife only fights with friends and the reactions and sounds we make while fighting is classic, one in the chamber sounds like the funnest. But now i can actually get cod points for doing it? pure awesome. Cannot wait for COD: Black Ops. O and in the video there was character customization, BOUT TIME a COD game had it.
The modes seem interesting. Just not my cup or tea.
Great idea! They need a proper “Mike Myers” gametype too, used to love playing that unofficial gametype in R6 on Live.
Ive never bought a call of duty game, only played big red one on ps2, because of the info revealed in last nights presentation, this maybe the first COD i buy. I saw in the gametrailers multiplayer montages that you can even customize your character to look like a hunter lol. Hmm, maybe the community will make a “duck season, rabbit season” mod one day lol
Sounds like a gimmick for an average product to sell more units. I guess it’ll work though, it did for Avatar.. -_-
I wager this game will fail. But those who know me know I fail at gambling =)
My hope is that the hardcore players that rack up the kill streaks in normal games will be busy in wager matches and editing their kills in theater mode, to let average players like me have a good time.
I also hope that you can set up some friendly, low stakes matches with those on your friends list to just experience these game modes.
I love the graphics of this video game.