Trivia / Call of Duty: Black Ops

• Acting for Two: Gary Oldman not only reprises his role from World at War as Viktor Reznov, he also voices Dr. Daniel Clarke.
• All-Star Cast: Gary Oldman returns from World at War, and is joined by Sam Worthington, Ed Harris, and Ice Cube.
• Defictionalization: A paintball group in Illinois has made an exact replica of Nuketown for tournaments, featuring both houses and all the vehicles between them.
• Fake American: Mason is voiced by Australian Sam Worthington. It's... quite apparent, especially when he's shouting.
  Mason: YEW FOCKIN SONNUVA BAYTCH!
  Mason: Reznov killed him ROIT IN FRONNA ME!
• First Appearance: Of Frank Woods, the Black Ops series equivalent of Captain John Price.
• Font Anachronism: The typeface on the intel collectible does not appear to be written on a typewriter or a basic word processor; the font is much more advanced than its time. This is but one tick mark in a long, long list of glaring anachronisms in the game.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: Available in standard, hardened, and prestige editions. The prestige edition includes a working replica of the RC-XD, which is essentially an RC toy car with the frame removed and explosives added. Presumably the replica doesn't blow up.
• Throw It In!: The "Warlord" perk, which allows the player to use more than one attachment on their gun, got its name simply because the equivalent MW2 perk's name ("Bling") didn't fit with the Cold War setting, and Treyarch couldn't think of anything better to call it than the placeholder name they gave it early on.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Before the game was officially announced, various rumors and blurbs suggested that it would span two decades, from the Vietnam War through to the 1980 Iranian embassy siege. If true, it would explain a large number of the anachronisms present in the story as many props and weapons were likely created with this in mind.
  • Early builds of multiplayer had a special animation play when cancelling Last Stand where the player character would commit suicide with their handgun. This was removed at the demand of Activision over concerns that it would cause a media scandal.
  • Rather humorously, unused code and voice files exist for calling in the MP40 sub-machine gun as a Killstreak. This was likely meant as an in-joke about how much of a Game-Breaker it was in Call of Duty: World at War.

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