
Even if it’s a first-person shooter, particular levels feature sequences wherein player pilots Hind helicopter and offers guidance to the friendly troops. Players are accompanied by friendly troops. Every mission features several objectives, which are displayed on heads-up display that marks the distance and direction towards and from those objectives like in previous versions. The characters that are playable in Call of Duty Black OPS are the special forces operatives who are conducting black operations. During single player campaign, the players assume the role of different characters, which changes perspectives in the entire game. Some of the new weapons in full version of Call of Duty Black OPS are crossbows, ballistic knives, and Dragon’s Breath rounds. Once the character is within the live grenade’s blast radius, there’s an on-screen marker that shows where it’s in relation to the player, which helps the player to throw it back or move away. The screen will glow red color to show damage to the health of the player, which can regenerate over time. The player can also drop prone stance from standing stance while running and may sprint momentarily before stopping. Each of these affects the rate of movement, stealth, and accuracy.

The game’s character may take 3 stances, which include prone, crouching or standing.
