Call of Duty: Black Ops Diary - Experiencing Emotion in 3D

Call of Duty: Black Ops has just been released for the PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and DS last week by Treyarch and published by Activision.

I've been going through the single-player portion of the game with the help of Nvidia's 3D technology, and I can safely say that it seriously augments the whole experience, especially in its most tense moments.

If you want to avoid spoilers about the single-player mode of Black Ops, avert your eyes, if not, then keep on reading.

Treyarch revealed before the release of Black Ops that the game will be one of the most emotional titles in the Call of Duty franchise, and that players will really connect on an sentimental level with its lead protagonist, Alex Mason.

If you really want to take the whole experience on a more personal level, then I need to recommend playing the game with 3D enabled, as it really makes you feel like you're in the action, as cheesy as that might sound.

While the first few missions are pretty intense, especially the escape from the Soviet gulag, one of my favorites is Payback.

The mission starts with Mason and his squad mates captured by the VietCong and the Soviet Spetsnaz, and forced to play, ironically, Russian Roulette.

Treyarch takes some big risks in order to really highlight the atrocities of the Vietnam war, and seeing one of your colleagues get his head smashed in for not wanting to play the game is a real shock.

You're never taken out of first person view, and the 3D really makes you be afraid of the gun barrel that is pointed towards your head.

Luckily, the odds quickly turn into your favor, but not before a slow motion part where you use a Vietnamese soldier as a human shield, keeping him close and dispatching of his friends.

While this scene is pretty intense when experienced in normal circumstances, the fact that I watched it in 3D made it that much more meaningful, as it highlighted what Mason gone through.