The screen glows red to indicate damage to a player's health, which regenerates over time. When the character is within 🏵 the blast radius of a live grenade, an on-screen marker indicates where it is in relation to the player, helping 🏵 the player to move away or to throw it back. Among the weapons new to the series in Black Ops 🏵 are crossbows with bolts and explosive ammunition, Dragon's Breath rounds and ballistic knives.

Story [ edit ]

In October 1963, Mason and 🏵 Reznov spark an uprising to flee the prison; Reznov stays behind to facilitate Mason's escape. Upon his return to the 🏵 US, President John F. Kennedy authorizes a mission to assassinate Dragovich; Mason is plagued by anxiety and murderous visions during 🏵 his meeting with the President. Mason, Woods, Bowman, and Weaver are dispatched to the Baikonur Cosmodrome to disrupt the Soviet 🏵 space program and eliminate members of "Ascension", a Soviet program giving sanctuary to Nazi scientists. The team destroys the Soyuz 🏵 spacecraft, while Dragovich is seemingly killed in a car explosion.

With the Vril generator and the meteorite piece, Richtofen believes he 🏵 can control the zombies and returns to Griffin Station. Here, they attempt to activate the MPD, a machine that controls 🏵 the Aether energy, which opens to reveal Samantha inside; instead of dying by Richtofen's trap, Samantha is teleported to the 🏵 moon while Maxis is sent somewhere else. Samantha accidentally triggered the MPD and was trapped within the device, but this 🏵 also allowed her to enter the Aether realm. Maxis, who was retrieved by Group 935 scientists, apologized to his daughter 🏵 and committed suicide in front of her, prompting her to assume control of the zombies and seek vengeance on Richtofen. 🏵 Richtofen fuses the golden rod and the meteorite piece and, using it to switch souls with Samantha, takes over as 🏵 the new zombie controller. This causes his former allies to feel betrayed, and they ally themselves with Samantha (who now 🏵 resides in Richtofen's body). Maxis is revealed to have become a sentient artificial intelligence living within the systems of Griffin 🏵 Station, and he guides his daughter and the three soldiers to launch three missiles at the Earth. This severs Richtofen's 🏵 link with the Aether, but the launch results in the catastrophic destruction of the Earth while still leaving Richtofen in 🏵 control of the undead.