“But the piece de resistance is the unlikely cast of playable characters: you’re not fighting as anonymous soldiers, you’re controlling ex-presidents and politicos like John F Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Fidel Castro, all of whom spout familiar sound bites as they hack down staggering Nazi aggressors. It’s a neat, knowing inversion of the campaign’s serious Cold War setting, and it nicely recalls Patrick Swayze’s bank robbing gang in Point Break with their over-sized president masks. There’s also an extra mode named Dead Ops, a dual-stick top-down shooter in the style of Robotron: 2084 or Smash TV in which you fight through a series of single-screen locations, competing for cool power-ups like flame-throwers and rocket launchers. Awesome fun.”

Call Of Duty: Black Ops, Review By Keith Stuart (Guardian)

Midnight Queues For Call Of Duty (BBC)

And he doesn’t look like he really gives a damn. Watch here.

Meanwhile, following Morgan Kelly’s ‘Eiregeddon’ article in the Irish Times yesterday, The Wall Street Journal today warns: Here come the Irish mortgages:

“But problems in the residential-mortgage arena are starting to crop up, fueling fears that a second wave of losses could hit even Ireland’s healthiest banks. Those fears are one reason why jittery investors punished shares of Irish banks. An index of Irish financial stocks fell 5.3%, and shares in Bank of Ireland, one of the country’s biggest mortgage lenders, tumbled 5.6% in Dublin.”

Here Come The Mortgages (Wall Street Journal)

Ireland’s Next Blow: Mortgages (Wall Street Journal)