Black is a shooter developed by Criterion Games, released 24 February 2006 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Black is
Black is a shooter game developed by Criterion Games and released in 2006. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on RenderWare.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set amid the conflict-torn regions of Ingushetia and Chechnya, the story is told through a tense interrogation. Sergeant First Class Jack Kellar, an undisciplined member of a CIA black ops unit, is pressed by an unknown interrogator to explain his recent actions against the Seventh Wave, an arms-smuggling terrorist organization blamed for a string of attacks. Kellar is warned that unless he cooperates, he will be disavowed, court-martialed, and imprisoned for life. Reluctantly, he begins to recount the events of the preceding days, in which his unit assaulted Seventh Wave strongholds and he uncovered a chilling truth: the group is led by William Lennox, a former CIA operative long presumed…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Black holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 45% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 111 votes.
What it launched against
Black launched on 24 February 2006, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Black yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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