BLACK
Black is a first-person shooter for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, developed by Criterion Games (also the developers of the Burnout games) and published by Electronic Arts. The game is notable for its heavily stylized cinema-inspired action.
The game was released on February 24, 2006 in Europe and on February 28, 2006 in the United States. A demo was released January 18, 2006. On February 11, 2008 Black was released for the Xbox 360's Xbox Originals download service.
Criterion Games have recently been recruiting developers to work on their next project titled "Black: Second Mission", which contradicts their statement earlier that there are "no plans" for a sequel.
Black takes place in western Russia, placing the player in the shoes of a "black ops" soldier named Sergeant First Class Jack Kellar. Kellar tells most of the story in first-person at an interrogation four days after the events in the story begin.
Kellar is an inadequately disciplined member of a CIA black ops group and a veteran of several conflicts including Guatemala, Colombia, Iran and Croatia. The unknown interrogator questions Kellar about an arms smuggling and terrorist operation called the Seventh Wave. Seventh Wave have been responsible for a number of terrorist attacks. Kellar is told that, unless he co-operates, he and his actions will be declassified, he will be dishonorably discharged and imprisoned for life. Though initially resistant, Kellar at last agrees to tell his story.
Four days earlier, Kellar and his group were assaulting a Seventh Wave strong-hold in the city of Veblensk. Kellar kills three high-ranking members of the cell but then disobeys orders by rushing inside a terrorist controlled building, where a terrorist ambushes him. However, the man did not kill Kellar, who learns that his captor is an American, a former CIA wetworks operative, William Lennox. After faking his own death in Cairo, Lennox has apparently become the leader of Seventh Wave.
