Analysis: How BAD Is Call of Duty Black Ops Declassified Really? (Very)

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

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[@dukewild5071]

I wanted to ask this for a while, where does your name come from? And why is it pronounced with a J and not Y like in Polish

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

@@dukewild5071 I'm american, my grandparents moved here from Syria. My parents wanted to give us white sounding names in an attempt to avoid racism, hence the pronunciation. It's irrelevant to Poland.

[@dukewild5071]

@@Jarekthegamingdragon thank you very much for replying! Thats a pretty cool backstory my man. My family came here from Poland and my middle name is Jarek acrually hence my curiosity. Many americans read it with a J the first time so I figured you went with that for the viewers' ease. Anyway, keep up with the cool content!

[@Everik-ct6pg]

Maybe we should re-classify this game, it deserves to be a secret that no one knows about.

[@artyomsaveli9681]

Well I haven't even heard about the game until today, so I think we need to MIB Mind-Wipe this bitch from orbit.

[@cheefqueef6494]

Literal black ops

[@AKSMOKIN]

Agreed

[@cliffbranchh]

😂

[@SprayCanGuy64]

No need. I just found out about it.

[@logger22]

For those confused, the story takes place after BO1 and a prequel to BO2. It doesn't really connect the games directly, but the campaign, if you call it one, is basically like Spec Ops from MW2 and MW3. The story revolves around killing Fredrich Steiner's protegé and Jose Menendez, Raul Menendez's father. Just filler.

[@Priception]

Black Ops Declassified to me is such a depressing game. This game was literally made in 5 months and its actually super impressive how playable the game is. The original plan was for this game to be a downgraded port of black ops 1 with all the modes and includes dlc (like Modern Warfare Reflex on Wii) But because Activision didn't want to give them the time and budget for that so we got this. Which if this game actually was a port of black ops 1 it would of been one of the best PS Vita games and would of made me actually buy a Vita and I would of sunk hundreds of hours into it. But hey with the Steam Deck coming my dream of being able to have a full cod Zombies experience on the go will finally come.

[@paperclip9558]

Its weird and ironic that cod games on ds is so much better than this. Perhaps nspace got less budget but more time developing their ds iteration.

[@austrager7765]

Declassified is just another victim of corporate greed really sad to think of what it could have been

[@mrkicker11181]

I hope someone will make a mod for game to have zombies on vita

[@Priception]

@@mrkicker11181 The amount of work that would take (especially since we don't have the source code or mod tools) would be massive and near impossible to pull off. So it's not gonna happen. Plus it's kinda pointless as if u wanna play Black Ops Zombies on the go... Just buy a Steam Deck. It will also run WAW, Bo2 and Bo3 as well.

[@agent-ox5he]

Ah well, Activision is always proving themselves to be famous for all the wrong things.

[@Praktical_]

Man I remember when this came out. All the kids in my class (including myself) were so jealous of the 2 kids in our class with a VITA, they both got BO declassified when it came out and we would constantly be asking them for turns on the game 😂😂

[@frankxt6334]

I did the platinum trophy for this game, it was one of the worst experiences I have ever put myself through...

[@EdoloChannel]

What are the trophies like?

[@frankxt6334]

@@EdoloChannel Pretty standard except you have to clear everything 3 stars, kill 8 Enemies with 4 bullets in the sniper mission (which is time sensitive and depending on the ai). But the pain comes from ”pure as the driven snow”, where you can’t take ANY damage from enemies or you have to restart the entire mission, and the enemies are basically aimbots so Will always hit you 1 or 2 shots even on the easiest difficulty. There is a guide on psnprofiles I recommend if you want to try it. But I really don’t recommend doing it even if it is pretty rare

[@EdoloChannel]

@@frankxt6334 Is there any MP the trophy list? Also, how *did* you manage to get the snow no damage trophy?

[@frankxt6334]

@@EdoloChannel No MP trophies, just Campaign, Survival and Time Trials. That specific trophy is pure cheese, abuse corners, learn where to put grenades, and even when you kind of know how to do it, it is still very hard. If you decide to go for it, I really wish you good luck, willpower is your biggest friend!

[@ItsRAWyt]

I just got the plat a few days ago, by far the most BS & irritating trophies I've had to complete.

[@shotgun_daddy-1089]

I had so many memories playing this game, me and my friends would go into private match and just play for hours, I feel like when u would private match the connection would be a lot better. And I feel like if your not in a party with all your friends in a private match your not getting the full experience of this game. Also there was this knife glitch that makes u move extremely fast it was so fun, all my friends would use this and it would always make me laugh at how ridiculous it was. We would do out of the map glitches, I remember u could get out of the map on nuke house and u could explore all the houses it was so cool.

[@huper3030]

the jump+knife glitch?

[@Thouxanbanquincy]

The glitchs were the best part of the game

[@allopic3764]

I love the fact that you included that duty calls clip lol

[@ChaseMC215]

At least that game is self aware.

[@DozyDev]

I have so many memories on this game, for me this cod will always have a special place in my heart. I remember so many glitches on multiplayer that made you invincible/ made you unlock all attachments / and invisible, had so much fun doing those glitches that never got patched.

[@oo0024]

Stabbing people while invisible was classic 🤭 and speed glitches around Corners with the ballistic knife never got boring 😂

[@DCGMatthew1]

It's kinda sad when the CoD DS games are better than the PS Vita game. I used to play the World at War and Black Ops DS games all the time, especially World at War.

[@funnfungusie9622]

Has someone who played modern warfare and black ops on ds, and declassified. The Ds game's controls just sucked too hard for me. Twin stick just feels 100 times better then the ds controls.

[@winlover37]

I wish we got the level of effort from the DS games but with the Vita's graphics. Man that would be awesome.

[@DCGMatthew1]

@@funnfungusie9622 If I remember correctly you could change the controls so you can use the arrows to walk and the face buttons to turn around, etc.

[@funnfungusie9622]

@@DCGMatthew1 You do remember correctly. They still weren't great with those controls for me. I'm not sure modern warfare had those but black ops on ds definitely did.

[@SarxzcraftRblx1493]

Black Ops in DS was awesome.

[@ko55579]

This is such a weird COD game. It's like a MW mixed with lil bit of BO3. I can't be the only that this feels more like a MW game watching this.

[@Gameprojordan]

Yeah the opening scene on this vid with the player c4ing the door then entering and blasting everyone with a pp90m1 made me forget this was a blops vid and thought it was mw2 for a split second lol

[@viktorjonsson26]

@@Gameprojordan pp90m1 didn't exist in mw2💀

[@Gameprojordan]

@@viktorjonsson26 oh maybe I got mixed up with mw3

[@viktorjonsson26]

@@Gameprojordan yeah bro

[@CosmicKangaroo]

Its ironic how the PSP and PS Vita which were some of the most powerful handhelds of the time got some of the worst Call of Duty games. Meanwhile the DS, a much less capable handheld got 5, which while limited were genuinely a blast for me to play through.

[@DelGTAGrndrs]

True

[@beefjerky007]

The multiplayer is the only competent part of this entire package, and that’s just because it’s essentially BO1 multiplayer copy and pasted, then downscaled. Still, it’s not bad. The campaign though… holy shit it’s BAD

[@jetgames2282]

It's 2024 and I'm still able to find a match here or there

[@gibusgaming5866]

This was my first ever COD game, I honestly found it a bit frustrating because I never managed to beat the second level. But I find it pretty nostalgic and interesting to see someone else has played it.

[@morsecode980]

As for my personal views, the game’s multiplayer is enjoyable but that’s really it. Campaign is forgettable like you said, I prefer survival in co-op with friends or random’s. But the multiplayer does a decent job of porting the classic CoD multiplayer experience to handhelds.

[@sponcthespork9352]

Fun fact, this game was made with the resistance burning skies engine, not whatever engine they use for cod games.

[@BlampedBenz]

Still surprised there was a whole prestige system in the multiplayer

[@ninjawokashing_3438]

I remember glitching out of the map with a speed glitch. One time with the speed glitch in shipment and got more then 99 kills, but the scoreboard said i had 99 kills instead of 100

[@Warumfragstdu]

Thanks for this video man. All those years I searched for a proper review of this

[@jollama]

Campaign missions have no checkpoints… that’s all you need to know

[@celebalert5616]

I thought this wax the greatest game of all time once ... maybe I'm crazy and I haven't played it for years ... but deep down part of me still does. Nothing else hits the quite the same.

[@cosmic_skin]

For whatever reason, I actually played this game's multiplayer a lot. I got pretty good at it.

[@shotgun_daddy-1089]

Same I would private match with all my friends it was so fun, do u remember the speed glitch with the knife

[@kris-ii7yr]

@@shotgun_daddy-1089one on the nuketown backyard?

[@shotgun_daddy-1089]

@@kris-ii7yr yeah but u could do the knife glitch speed glitch on every map

[@conorrigoli7578]

I remember reading this in a gameinformer magazine and their final verdict was: "Do not play this game" 😂

[@zoinksxscooby]

As I was watching I wonder if the stupid AI is down to them forgetting to program a backup situation that the AI can choose from. For instance, the AI walked past you to melee. It seems like the AI acts on 1 thing at a time so it went to the initial point of contact, ie when it saw your character. It completely bypassed you because maybe they didn't program it to scan its surroundings again until the initial action is done? I'm no programmer I'm also really stoned right now but that's the only thing that I can think of as to why it's so bad. Think of it as a one-track mind if you will.

[@zoinksxscooby]

Please someone explain this situation if you are a programmer. I'll come back to this comment in about a month or so in hopes someone in the biz can shed some light because again I'm only spit balling here.

[@chinossynthesizer705]

@@zoinksxscooby kinda reminds me of world at war zombies if you noclip the ai of the zombies will go to the last location you noclipped they even fly too lol

[@H8RSAPPRECIATE]

The game was rushed and made in 6 months

[@jakedizzle]

I used to own CoD on the DS. When I got a Vita I thought how cool it would be when CoD came out for it. Sucks Sony didn’t give Activision a monetary incentive to make a good product for the system. Especially since Sony says it’s a system seller and cares so much about Microsoft owning it. They would’ve sold way more Vitas if CoD4 was ported.

[@furchad3574]

While the controls are jank as hell, I honestly love how the grenades actually get tossed in the direction your finger is instead of it just being a screen tap to throw.

[@foxyccc1316]

I actually love declassified and have hundreds of hours in it but I don't really play it anymore but it was so much fun.

[@G3TChannelTV]

The clan battle and glitching culture around this games prime was enjoyable enough for me to ignore most of the massive issues

[@JedAnimationStudios]

Great vid. I never liked this game when I got the vita, I only bought it in the house of getting an unlock code for COD: Roads to Victory but sadly it turned out the game was only limited to North America 🙄 It is what it is. Also I just realised ur the guy who did airsoft weapons reviews. I love ur stuff dude 😁

[@jayywalkerr7693]

NO WAY. I was just thinking back to the airsoft reviews way beck when! It’s insane to see where you’ve come from and where your at. Jarekthegamingdragon on killing floor. Insane days!!! Almost 10 years ago I bought the 10-22 from the guy who bought it from you!

[@Teddingtin]

I weirdly remember this game fondly, it definitely sucked compared to the console games but for what it was I enjoyed it.

[@kentarocodm3501]

I remember camping at the spawn area on survival mode and I was genuinely having fun alot I mean just casually camping with a revolver and stacking the enemies at one spot maybe because I was scared to get out of there lol

[@maier]

"[...] they half-assed a new Call of Duty Game." Yeah wouldn't happen nowadays :^)

[@cmano48]

Bro I stumbled into this channel out of nowhere used to watch you for airsoft stuff good to see you still doing good

[@KyrFr34k7]

Late to the video but love the fact you used the Time splitters: Future perfect theme song

[@Pudding175]

As a fellow Oregonian, I simply must ring the bell and set it to all. Thank you for all the content brother. 🙏

[@Pokanika]

I remember getting the special Vita version that came along with this game. I played like one or two missions and never touched the game again.

[@Shooter_D6]

I’ve never seen into the am sponsor a creator! I love them!!

[@smuleforsyth]

I got this game when it came out and loved it. I never had a full call of duty before it so maybe that's why but I loved the spec ops and multiplayer. I would grind for three stars 😂

[@WhereisYunoGasai]

I used to see this all the time growing up and was so confused in what it was

[@RemainEvil]

Damn bro I completely forgot about declassified. I use to play it when I was a kid and it was a pain in the ass to play.

[@shortsotera4933]

So this is what happened to Woods after throwing off Kravchenko from the window in mission Payback

[@MrRobeStern64]

I gave up after the second level and traded it in

[@InsaneAkaYaboi]

This game was lit asf I learned how to quickscope and stayed up until 3am playing this non stop

[@discount724]

Nah man I played this as kid and couldn't get past the 3rd level

[@lemone12]

I can't stop seeing the word "annoying" in the title or the thumbnail even though there is none what is happening

[@iMThatOnlyBeast13]

OMG you played Ironsight? I’ve been playing it a lot over the last two years and even made videos on it! Amazing surprise!

[@Wafelkowiec]

Hey, Jarek a question: What do you think about the Boomer-shooter renaissance? Dusk, Ion Fury, Dread Templar, Wrath: AoR. From your choice of shooters you seem to focus more on later games then those they are trying to replicate, but I'm still curious.

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

Boomer shooters can be quite good. I tend to prefer the ones that replicate Doom more than any thing else. That said, I'm more indifferent. I like games from around the Half-Life era quite a bit more.

[@edibritschgi3500]

It would have been a bit more fun to play, if it was an extended version of "duty calls" with all the humor, that will keep you entertained. Btw. Are you also gonna make a review about the upcomming game "scorn"? It's rather a slow paced game, but like you mentioned in previous vids: "when it's done right" it can be amusing as well.

[@Hamzei]

In my opinion this was CoD Mobile before CoD Mobile. I had a lot of fun on this when I was younger. I played through the Black Ops 3 days and I found myself playing this instead of BO3. No point in actually playing it now when there’s mobile and how old it is tho

[@CrashTise]

I played this before Black Ops 1 so it's pretty weird for me recognising a lot of stuff in Black Ops 1 that I seen in declassified.

[@TurboGamer981]

I remember I got this game with my ps Vita in 2013 for Christmas, the only reason I wanted the thing was for Persona 4 Golden. I played this game only once and never touched it again

[@raymondyee2008]

Damn how could we not know of this game?

[@GymLeaderEd]

Lol I found this video while looking for fps vita games, thanks bro

[@WarisarcyGameClips]

That non empty reload on empty guns annoyed the hell out of me playing it.

[@do_yohomework]

7:05 when the AI is smarter then the devs

[@FourDozenEggs]

It's kinda looking back on the old era of handhelds now that we have things like the Steam Deck that just run normal games.

[@CruSquad_Archives]

You know when a CoD game is bad when the pistols/smgs is ejecting a rifle casing.

[@Greaseworld]

This is a good video on the game! It’s crazy how they still have online multiplayer

[@Trevor6714]

I feel like the most disappointing thing is that it looks and feels like a black ops title, just painfully executed

[@undeadryder7969]

But cod mobile doesn't even have a campaign. Checkmate Jarek

[@zoinksxscooby]

Hey I dig the new intro, looking good.

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

Hmm? The PSX boot up intro? I've had that for a few years.

[@reda29100]

3:40 I was actually joking about the (here's a mission. Kill the bad guys. I even said "most importantly, win!" In reference to this very game and action games cliches)!

[@SonicH-jw5mi]

There was one mission I could not beat and no matter how hard I try I can’t do it. It’s the one where you start off in the safe house with all the guns and during the last part you get the deployable turrent

[@KryptidShadow]

The game was pretty bad, but that doesn't mean it wasn't fun. A ton of fun glitches preferably the snake one for nuketown 🐍 bouncing betty's, the rpgs and the China lake ran the MP. Killzone Mercenary was my overall favorite though. Wayy more polished

[@sentenza5766]

Time splitter music in the background, Nice.

[@1Slo5ooh]

8:25 ah man memories time splitters future perfect..underrated game of all time.

[@KillerSmile559]

Every time I pop this game in for some multiplayer, I have a blast. I only play it for a few rounds before I say, "that was fun," and move on to Killzone or just bootup my PC.

[@benjaminprince6424]

Wow never even knew this existed, legitimately surprised

[@SlickSalamander1]

I didnt even know that game excisted

[@itsjusttheletterj4512]

Am I the only one that never had any idea this game existed? 😂

[@clydemarshall8095]

When I was a kid I thought the Vita and shooters on it were the coolest thing ever but had no way of affording any of it. I’m now very glad I had no way of buying into all that then. I later got a Vita, but I’ve used it almost exclusively for Persona 4 Golden

[@Ozzianman]

With the PC port, the PS Vita ain't a P4G machine anymore. Still decent for homebrew and portable emulation.

[@clydemarshall8095]

@@Ozzianman I got it before P4G on PC was a thing.

[@damisigns]

i didnt even know this existed until right now

[@ath2nd300]

I think the campaign of Declassified would have served a for a fun Spec Ops mode for Black Ops with more work and balance

[@Algeanie3]

so my first console was a PSVita and this was one of the games, however I could never beat the campaign, not because it was hard, because I would always shoot every hostage.

[@fauxhound5061]

Killzone mercenary is the best game on the vita, so much details and work was put into it, it's unbelievable!

[@MultiLegocrazy]

More TimeSplitters soundtracks I see

[@SpokeInNoise]

5:37 you're supposed to throw a flashbang around the corner

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

No, you aren't. That kills the hostages.

[@iceybundles]

That “legendary” music in the beginning nice

[@Yo-ic2go]

Your intro made me sub 😍🥰

[@kabob0077]

9:56 Survival really should return one of these days...

[@DM-nx7tu]

Crazy how this video is my first introduction to this game , NEVER heard of it at all and was fortunate enough to have black ops pre order edition (given to my dad then to me cause his friend at the time alr had one and wanted to give it to someone who'd use it , also he worked at gamestop which at the time was actually a legit game store but oh whale) and loved it ever since. Crazy to think this game is a copy black ops to port thing and it's bad. Like why do you get the MW exp when black ops never had that at all and when it did i think it was white lettering 😂🤦🏽‍♂️ nonetheless thanks for even showing me this game Jarek! I love seeing games I've never seen or weren't fortunate enough to play and hear honest reviews that are very much similar to my own so thank you for being the aweosme content creater you are ! Much love

[@highonheroin5352]

BO1 was yellow lettering still.

[@papa6614]

Trying to platinum this game was a nightmare

[@sunnybird4161]

I played this while taking a plane slowly merking at this

[@abyssalspecter93]

Great review as always! What's the background music track you use on this towards the beginning of the video? Very catchy.

[@Liquidmetal6661]

You didn't need to use Timesplitters Future Perfect menu music but rest assured, it's appreciated!

[@Matt-md5yt]

I played it before and I thought it was an meh game but it did help the story out with the first game and second game of that series

[@rudeboyjemo]

Bro I remember having friends who had hacks *sigh* good times

[@4002-n5c]

6:23 since the game is an asset flip, isn't that Khaled Al Asad from COD4 minus the beret?

[@Nativityin6lack]

this game almost seems to feel like a goldeneye n64 updated graphics mod

[@Jxylenn]

shit i remember when this drop! me and all da boys had to much fun on this broken game its all down to personal opinion frfr.

[@socialistcatdad]

Yoooo ironsight is badass. I'd play it more if I didn't get random lag spikes that cause crashes for some reason

[@jerrysmith8814]

Got it with my Vita in 2012. On one hand, I was pretty impressed (come on, an actual fps on a handheld with two sticks? For the time it was pretty awesome), but on another it was so underwhelming and irritating that I rushed to the local video game store and bought LittleBigPlanet Vita. To this day I've never played Black Ops Declassified ever again

[@mplays2001]

This was beer entertaining good video 👌🏻

[@revolveswayyy]

Before i actually had a PS4 i had a PSVita and i got Black ops declassified and Killzone mercenary and many other games, i really enjoyed COD BOD.

[@MystLs]

Our boy Shipment even made an appearance on this game. Literally the most recycled map in cod history.

[@SavorySoySauce]

The gun firing sounds like placing blocks in Minecraft

[@Bugati01]

The fact that there were no checkpoints for any of the missions on the PS Vita version is actually awful

[@rollerclub98]

i still remember the glitch when u would be invisible