Call of Duty: Black Ops vs S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

A full spec-by-spec comparison of Call of Duty: Black Ops vs S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat — engine, performance, dimensions, features and price, with the differences highlighted to help you decide.

Specification Call of Duty: Black Ops Square Enix, Activision Blizzard, Activison S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat GSC Game World
Overview
Release Date November 9, 2010 October 2, 2009
Availability Released Released
Age Rating Mature Mature
Developer Raven Software, Treyarch, n-Space GSC Game World
Publisher Square Enix, Activision Blizzard, Activison GSC Game World
Official Site https://www.callofduty.com/blackops http://cop.stalker-game.com/
Gameplay
Genre Action, Shooter Shooter, RPG
Game Modes Single-player, Multiplayer, Co-op, Online Co-op Single-player, Multiplayer
Perspective First-person First-person
Average Playtime 9 hours 3 hours
Platforms & Pricing
Platforms PC, PlayStation, Xbox, iOS, Apple Macintosh, Nintendo PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo
Available On App Store, Xbox Store, Steam, Nintendo eShop, Xbox 360 Store Nintendo eShop, Xbox Store, PlayStation Store, GOG, Steam
PC Requirements
Minimum Requirements OS: Windows® Vista / XP / 7 Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 or better Memory: 2GB Graphics: Shader 3.0 or better 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GT / ATI Radeon® X1950Pro or better DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c Hard Drive: 12GB* Sound: DirectX® 9.0c-compatible *Call of Duty®: Black Ops requires an initial hard drive space of approximately 24GB to download and install the game via digital download (8GB of compressed files, 8GB of decompressed files and 8GB of installed files). Upon installing the game, 16GB (compressed and decompressed files) may be deleted from the hard drive. Please make note of where the compressed and decompressed files are being saved on your hard drive in order to later locate these temporary files for removal. OS: Windows XP, SP2 Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4/ 2.2. GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Memory: 768 MB RAM Graphics: nVidia GeForce 5900 128MB / AMD Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB DirectX®: DirectX 9 compatible Hard Drive: 6 GB of free space Sound: DirectX 9 compatible
Critic & Community Scores
Metacritic 81 / 100 80 / 100
Community Rating 4.1 / 5 (1,873 ratings) 4.3 / 5 (947 ratings)