The biggest and LOUDEST shoot-bangs! - BLACK (Xbox)

[@ViperMach5]

So BLACK's hardest difficulty is BLACK OPS Mode. You need to complete all of the secondary objectives and blow up everything, pretty much forcing you to memorize every pick-up in the game. And no medkits hold onto on your person to heal you with the push of a button. But it is so difficult, that they give you an M16A2 with an underbarrel grenade launcher... and platinum weapons. Which means INFINITE AMMO for all weapons ! They knew it was going to be super difficult, but they still made it fun.

[@ryanpeck3377]

I beat Black Ops mode (ps2 version) It was hard as hell. You really have to memorize the entire game, pick ups and enemy locations are essential to know so you can save all your health for the head to head wave areas. I have more hours on that game than just about any other video game and played through it many many times on all difficulties

[@ludicrousfool7953]

Criterion is still active today; they’re making the next Need for Speed title, which is set to be released in 2021. If anything, it’s the game’s spiritual successor, Bodycount, that’s more fit for a ‘Wha Happen?’ episode. With Raycevick’s video on the game and his covering of its troubled development, there might not be a need for one, but the material for it is there. There’s also a brief mention of the cancelled Black 2 in there. Also, you can skip the cutscenes in Black, but you’ll have to have watched them at least once to do so. The character you play as is Sgt. Jack Kellar, if you were wondering.

[@MarcosLima-td5mg]

I think Matt knows that Criterion is still active, but it's just that Criterion is kind of a shell of what is was on the 6th gen. I Loved burnout 3, loved burnout revenge, liked paradise a lot. But nowadays in my opinion Criterion is only filling the gaps for EA, helping DICE with BF and pooping NFS almost every year.

[@ludicrousfool7953]

onometre There isn’t any, at least not yet.

[@AleK0451]

@@ninochaosdrache3189 i dont think you can expect a proper nfs game any more since black box is gone, burnout clone is about the best nfs can be nowadays

[@kylenguyen7371]

18:05 Matt poked out the window glass by accident; the silencers and muzzles of weapons actually have collision physics with stuff like windows.

[@TheRogueWolf]

Hi, weird gun person checking in: Yes, you can screw a suppressor on like that, but the barrel has to be specially threaded to allow it. I'm more weirded out by the ejection port (where the empty cases come out) being on the left side, but they probably wanted to have the spent brass flying across the screen to "look cool".

[@Shinny1338]

Lmao oh yeah, all these lefty guns

[@NSixtyFour]

Stalker SOC did the same thing

[@DinnerForkTongue]

TV Tropes calls it "right-handed left-handed guns". I call it "the Duke Nukem effect".

[@KrissFliss]

The guns was modeled afther bb guns or something like that, if I don't remember wrong.

[@WoodAndSteel92]

Also if you're not using subsonic ammo, the suppressor won't have a drastic impact on your overall sound output. The average bullet will still be traveling over the speed of sound.

[@IronChitlinSA]

I appreciate that you shine light on the largely forgotten games of the sixth gen. I always felt like that was the best time for traditional publisher made games, before DLC and Live Services, before every game needed to have multiplayer or be some padded out 100 hour experience...I miss video games...

[@FentySeroquel]

I do too, friend.

[@NSixtyFour]

Theres still diamonds in the rough. Just gotta look harder these days

[@theocan]

I still remember playing those first missions over and over again. And it has so many amazing details. If you throw grenades into the top floors of the first few buildings, you can see the smoke and debris blast out the windows of each consecutive floor below as the rooms collapse in on one another, loved the hell out of it. Although tbh, I cannot remember a single thing about those cutscenes.. legitimately didnt know they were even there.

[@sethlangston181]

In other words, the whole story was one giant MacGuffin.

[@papayer]

Holy crap, a CoD-like title that has a shotgun with the range effect of a real shotgun and not a blunderbuss?

[@ethicalcheeze1407]

Call of Duty Ghosts has entered the chat

[@TKsh1]

I like how everything in this game is movie-exagerated yet the shotgun has high, realistic range lol

[@ZayaVII]

Used to play this game a lot as a kid when we lost the Halo 2 disc

[@dontbother4737]

Depending on the AK model whether or not the barrel is threaded yes u can SCREW THAT ON

[@ridhosamudro2199]

@@calska140 yeah that dust cover is something else. It looks like it have a rail mount but the more I look it the more improbable it is.

[@dontbother4737]

@@calska140 this is true, tho i understand wat the devs where doing visually.. Pfft plus the distance between them T SLOOOOOTS!!

[@luizpaulo45]

i think also, the devs based the guns on airsoft models or something, i don't remember where i heard that though

[@dontbother4737]

@@luizpaulo45 plz ffwd to 1:46 & listen jes a bit

[@Cabamacadaf]

@@calska140 They made it eject on the wrong side on purpose so you could see it better.

[@darianthescorpion1132]

9:49. Why yes, Matt. Yes you can attach a suppressor to an AK47. you just need a muzzle piece that’s compatible for one.

[@flippedoutkyrii]

Perfect example of a game that while it sure as hell doesn't reinvent the genre, it absolutely delivers on the sound, visual and destructive presentation. Even today, those firefights are fucking baller. I can't recall any other game that blows out every window on a building floor when you toss an explosive inside.

[@RDJ134]

This game was way ahead if his time. The tech demo i had behind close doors on EA World in The Netherland even showed more destructable enviorment. Realy enjoyed playing this game back in the day, i still have the Xbox version in my collection.

[@GenerationWest]

I can't wait for the sequel on the Series X "BLACKED".

[@gorthal1141]

My dad missed child support payments to play this game. I see why now.

[@Wium43]

Never could have guessed this was a gaming video without this comment, thank you.

[@gorthal1141]

@@deadsoon909 I feel ya dude, what I said is unfortunately true. Badass game tho.

[@jr5687]

Yo this is the only game my dad used to play too.

[@Garbageman28]

Wtf, did all our dads play this game?

[@robinbinns]

I remember this absolutely blowing my shit off back ye old day.

[@kylenguyen7371]

I loved this stupid, silly game. Everything about the guns outside if names and overall appearance were exaggerated, because the design mentality followed the idea that the guns were the real stars of the game. Fun fact/Trivia: Every gun in the game is, effectively, a left hand variant. They all fling their brass to the left, despite the fact the player character is shooting with the right hand, because it was supposed to look cool and make shooting feel more visceral. In reality, this would be very impractical. Nobody wants brass flying towards their face, especially hot spent brass.

[@kylenguyen7371]

@@calska140 true, but a lefty would still have spent brass flying towards their face when firing. An after-market brass catch can be installed on many weapons that don't allow for a left side ejection port, though, which can alleviate some of the issue.

[@amosrozet9325]

Have you ever tried out URBAN CHAOS: RIOT RESPONSE?

[@IfYouInsist]

Ooooohhhhh you're bringing back memories I forgot, my man. What a deep cut.

[@nosidezero]

My favorite game by Rocksteady

[@flippedoutkyrii]

*JUST LIKE A MAN* *I AM IMMUNE* *TO THE DISEASE*

[@cristianlopez_8486]

Funny enough, I actually knew of Rocksteady through this game first, before they blew up with Batman: Arkham Asylum. I remember playing the demo alot in Hitman Blood Money for the ps2.

[@cristianlopez_8486]

@@flippedoutkyrii "THAT'S INSIDE YOU (that's inside you) I DON'T BELIEVE I CAN BECOME LIKE MY DADDY WAS BY MY MOTHER" not gonna lie, that opening tune was extremely catchy. Felt like the opening to a cop drama.

[@benbreuer4966]

I would love to see Matt go secret hunting in this game and record his reactions to the documents talking about US government war crimes, the Illuminati, and UFOs.

[@rrchicken117]

What? I gotta see this...

[@WheelieRex]

"Weird gun people in the comments, let me know if" is the first half of the most dangerous incantation on KZbin, gotta respect the moxie

[@socksleeve]

He’s gonna have the Forgotten Weapons crowd crawling all around the comment sections

[@efilwv1635]

Black, in my opinion, is one of my favorite PS2 games of all time. Right up there with Psi-Ops and a few 007 games.

[@Garbageman28]

From Russia with Love babbbbyyy

[@efilwv1635]

Billy Degge haven’t played that one, but I loved Nightfire and Agent Under Fire. For the N64, I liked The World Is Not Enough even better than Goldenye (both great games).

[@breakatmo]

It definitely doesn't predate grenade cooking - the original Killzone had that, complete with little diegetic lights on the grenades for the countdown.

[@AlphaBushido]

This game is one of my favorites. I'd love an HD remaster on PC.

[@EightOneFive]

"weird gun people in the comments" Found the Canadian

[@nottrash9034]

iron sights were a thing by the time Black came out, but it was still quite new. I believe the first time I used iron sights in a console FPS was Perfect Dark Zero on the 360. I skipped Black because my OG Xbox was starting to act up by the time I got a 360 and kinda turned my dumb teenage nose up to "last gen" stuff.

[@gamecubekid]

Cold Winter on the PS2, some sick headshots for the time

[@dogvoter6473]

I remember they said the guns are supposed to be the star of this game. In the background of the main menu we have a left-handed ak-like thing being fired right handed. The bolt holds open on an empty mag, remains open as the empty mag is removed, and goes forward automatically when a loaded mag is inserted. The user then manually racks the bolt to reveal that a round was not chambered when the bolt dropped. That is the weirdest ak derivative I have ever seen. Does the fact that the developers were uksian partly explain this?

[@dogvoter6473]

To answer your question about silencing an ak at 9:55, there's no reason you couldn't make an ak with a threaded barrel and put a silencer on it.

[@theLV2]

One of my favorite games of all time. Me and my dad would crank up the speakers on the old CRT TV to the max so the entire living room sounded like a warzone.

[@fearthepointman3134]

I wouldn't change ANYTHING in black, loved it the way it was.

[@Artang89]

Battlefield: Bad Company would be a good follow up

[@fulgenzio89]

One of the games that as a child I always saw on the shelves of shops, but never played

[@chaffXgrenade]

first FPS I ever played 😊

[@Yesc3]

The suppressor (silencer) question you can just screw it on any gun with a threaded barrel but the complete silence of it is not a thing for most guns the main reason being that if the ammo you are using is not subsonic and as a result weaker since it's traveling slower its still gonna be loud regardless just less loud than it would normally be. The most quite result you can achieve would be a subsonic .22 and even then it's noticeable in close quarters.

[@33Dannyb]

I loved this game. Played it on the PS2.

[@SuperSilvi1990]

HOLY SHIT MAN. This was my favorite fps game for a long time. Mainly because of the sounds of the guns and the bullet holes. PS I still have my OG Xbox with the weapon of mass destruction controller.

[@cgoodwin256]

This was by far my favorite game for the Xbox. It was ahead of its time. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@TheLucky989]

Give Bodycount a try. It's a spiritual successor to Black with a nice tumultuous wha happened style development.

[@Scootagoose]

I'd be hyped to see how well (most likely badly) "urban chaos riot response" aged

[@glitchunicorn]

You are so right. It was soooooo over hyped before it came out and then the reviews were just ok.

[@maxcombo3448]

A cool part of this game is you unlock the sliver weapons and get unlimited ammo

[@FalafelTheBurner]

"I think this game pre-dates iron sights?" Medal of Honor would like to have a word with you.

[@antongrahn1499]

Oddly enough, the thing that always stuck out with this game, for me, was there is no jump button. The world was filled with knee-high obstacles too.

[@ApickleWithAm4]

Camp Xray is code for Guantanamo

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

Well I guess he isn't wrong about bones being broken there probably......

[@Neo.Jordon]

This game looks so good back in the day, one of the first shooters with this level of in game destruction.

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

Honestly even by today's standards it feels like one of the last. Only games I can think of that either top or match this are battlefield, siege, and red faction.

[@tootiredforthis1]

11:35 ive always thought that george takai bit was just from DBZA. my whole life is different now.

[@theallix]

Game has the Counterstrike issue where the charging handles of the guns are on the wrong side

[@Gorbz]

I had honestly forgotten that this game exists, and that we had a copy

[@basedhalcyon]

I remember this game. Played the PS2 version, thought it was very cool.

[@FrostyFin]

I love how Matt just safely walks through the graveyard and babbles on while the lady in the comms is like "OMG TAKE COVER THERES A SNIPER".

[@bobbywrtm]

While "Black" is dead, now we have "Blacked" which is much better

[@ShaunTheCHB]

One of the loudest games I ever played. Bang! Kaboom! :)

[@KazBlack44]

Duuuuuude, this game's childhood. I find it still holds up, and I really wish they would bring it back. Its so good

[@Kyun_dere]

i remember playing and loving this game so much on the ps2! been thinking about it again recently and it's funny to see you doing a video on it conveniently

[@raptorshotgun4107]

-Can we call you Uncle Blackie? -No.

[@GamingMyWholeLife]

I never played this game. That's why Channels like this are awesome - let's discover a new game in 2020 that came out during the Xbox, PS2 & GameCube era :D

[@LurkTheDarK]

hello, weird gun person here, yeah aks get threaded barrels, so you could screw a suppressor on. Kinda pointless due to supersonic crack noise from the ammo, and no you're not gonna take a pistol suppressor over to an ak. Even if you had subsonic ammo for your ak, the supressor would wear out and stop working after like one reload

[@clintmcbride7830]

This game was a blast to play through back in the day. The videogame equivalent to a cheesy 80s action movie where there is no story, just ridiculous over-the-top action

[@arty9825]

Been waiting for this one. Thanks Matt

[@polloduh]

Loved this game. Had my tv hooked up to my stereo. Gun shots sounded amazing

[@MrZmax95]

This game is very underrated and only to think that this game came out in 2006, a year before the Infinity ward and treyarch madness.

[@buddhull]

“And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds of what was everything. Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything.” - Edward Vedder, on the game Black

[@LordQuadros]

I hear Naszran Town is the kind of place that makes a bum feel like a king, and makes a king feel like some nutty, cuckoo, super king.

[@Goomyx1492]

This game was way ahead of its time back in the day. I played so many hours of it, and it was sad because no one else I knew had played it or even heard of it.

[@LoadedL]

"I don't mind that explosions go off for no reason, but I need a reason why." ---Whaaat?!

[@drahunter213]

The bullets and gun sounds made me replay this game so many times lol great game

[@TheKrazymofo5150]

You can throw the grenade a lil bit farther. You just have to look up and throw it.

[@drewmincks2137]

I have really fond memories of black! I remember it was like that last xbox exclusive before the 360 and ps3 and wii. I love the level that was covered in landmines! You could make a huge chain reaction of explosions and that was always a highlight for me.

[@ApenBaard]

it was also on ps2 though ;P nothing exclusive about it

[@drewmincks2137]

Aww I forgot it went too ps2 my bad.

[@danyelperao]

This has some roguelike elements... the fear of repeat the levels from the beginning and rewatch those movies...

[@sn-x-wt]

Ghosts 'n Goblins: get the knife BLACK: find the shotgun also BLACK: we need a LOUDENER on SPAS-12

[@lexnoil]

Me and my friend love playing Black on the OG XBOX, and we always play Wolfmother songs, since it let us play our personal songs on it. Plus I I have both the XBOX and PS2 versions.

[@TaiWoodz]

Bodycount was the spiritual sequel to Black.

[@coffeeNiK]

God. I loved this game. Back in the day the destruction feels that happened during the missions were so so satisfying.

[@dantesalter1984]

did u know black does kinda have a sequel it's called bodycount. it's a spiritual successor to black. it's on 360 and ps3 it's ok but I like black better

[@ViktorResnov115]

Hey Matt, weirdo gunman here to answer your question about slapping silencers on guns, if it'd just work? Short answer: Not really. You just kinda ruined a perfectly good suppressor. Long answer: If it were to work, that means you came into the mission, with an AK-47, with subsonic ammo, and no suppressor. To make sure you do not damage the silencer and quiet the gun down properly, you need subsonic ammunition. Subsonic ammo is not as loud, nor is it as fast, so less damage, but from a rifle and at those ranges, it doesn't matter to an unarmored unaware target.

[@brandonjancko2595]

Matt you should play "Urban Chaos: Riot Response" So much fun..

[@cristianlopez_8486]

My first Rocksteady game before they became famous for the Arkham series. Definitely a blast to play (especially with the infinite grenade launcher and mini gun cheats).

[@XyTeRx]

God I loved that game. It was really fun. Never got passed the wharf level though.

[@sargefan19]

For the suppressor if the threads match you can screw them on but generally you have suppressors built around the rounds for the best result. I am pretty sure a suppressor for a pistol would not work well on an ak. Also why the hell is the ak ejecting to the left? That is what i have more questions about because I am pretty sure there has never been an ak that ejects cases to the left

[@thisithis]

Black was one of the last games coming out for PS2 and Original Xbox before PS3 and XB360 came out.

[@CappuccinoSquid]

Wish they'd port this to steam/make it M+KB compatible. Fun lil' nugget of a game, flaws and all.

[@sethlangston181]

Even though we never got a sequel to BLACK, I feel as though Crysis was a spiritual successor to the game (even though Crysis itself is a spiritual successor to Far Cry), with a lot of the same strengths of BLACK while also outdoing several of the areas where BLACK fell short. While I still really enjoyed BLACK, I feel that Crysis had better stealth mechanics, better AI, better story, more gun customization, more mobility, more open levels that allowed for more styles of game play, more destructive environments, etc.

[@ChrisLP25]

Battlefield, maybe the 4th, is the next Black to me.

[@peachflavored]

One of the games I usually play once per year on PS2. I just enjoy playing this particular one over and over again for absolute no reason. 🤣

[@DinnerForkTongue]

I seem to be one of VERY few that liked the story.

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

I thought it at least was interesting for what it was, and at least it didn't constantly butt its head in to interfere with the gameplay.

[@ethicalcheeze1407]

I liked it too

[@dudester6442004]

predates iron sights!? WHAT!? there were games like 10 years before this one w iron sites

[@MattMcMuscles]

Before they got super popular with CoD, obviously.

[@dudester6442004]

@@MattMcMuscles oh okay makes more sense

[@SolidMGSnake]

8:23 *Hears "got 1/3 black males" in the background ಠ~ಠ looks at video. OH okay!*

[@effrumtheretardo]

Good opportunity for another George Takei "OH MY" clip

[@ApenBaard]

This game just looks incredible for its time!

[@donwax3061]

This needs a reboot remastered version or something. Play through this one too many times

[@Olliegatr]

I remember seeing this game and SOCOM (don’t remember which one) at Walmart all the time and I’m not surprised that it’s this kind of game

[@erickchiama9528]

the magnum was a beast in this game

[@kennyb7601]

Hey Matt, try playing Quake 4 on the 360. It’s an underrated launch title.

[@Some_Cat_]

Aaaahhhh yes. The Xbox one. I remember those...

[@6thsavage]

"Biggest and Loudest" eh? Clearly, you haven't seen me in Valentines Day action with my dakikamura gf.

[@immortalweapon]

I had a demo disk with this on it. I played the hell out of that.

[@theGreenGoblin]

So there was this normal KZbinr, right? And then *BAM, BLACK!!!!* *BLACK IS HAPPENING!!!*

[@yehonathan]

I miss this game so much

[@boondockjoker]

What about the third person shootbang - Kill Switch!

[@klauschigurh3377]

Camp X ray was a prison camp in Guantanamo bay used to house domestic terrorists and war criminals when the war on terror began in 02 it was closed down and we now used camp delta

[@yahyamusseb]

Ak family wasn't silencer compatible, but later series like AN 94 are compatible

[@antipothis]

I'm pretty sure camp x-ray was the predecessor to quantanamo bay facilitiy

[@dontbother4737]

1st gun pr0n game, so hype

[@bigburt04]

Is this the most owned Xbox backwards compatible game for 360 owners? This was pushed so hard and one the first backwards compatible games I can remember

[@theknifeman7097]

Loved this game

[@clockhanded]

Watching the first few minutes of gameplay - I dunno maybe I should play this. After the RPG explosion at 7:25 - Oh yeah, I'm def gonna play this After finding out you can't cook grenades at 7:54 - Nevermind. I'll watch a playthrough and maybe pick up a later sequel

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

In this you don't really need to cook the grenades, they are kind of like Halo where the grenades blow up after they bounce for a second. Also they can be thrown further by aiming higher.