Camera Spike

The Camera Spike is an equipment item featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops. It was first seen in the multiplayer teaser trailer.

Overview
The Camera Spike allows the player to see anything in front of it using thermal imaging in a box at the top left corner of the player's HUD, replacing the mini-map. To the contrary of what has been shown in gameplay footage, the mini map is NOT permanently replaced by the camera feed and can be brought up using the up button on the d-pad on consoles. The user must be aligned to face the part of the map that he/she wants to view. It cannot be used in split screen. When the player picks it up, it is assigned to up on the D-pad. The camera spike can also be destroyed by melee or bullets. It seems as though the player can move it, and it appears to be a relatively shorter camera version of the Sentry Gun from Modern Warfare 2.

Trivia

 * To tell if the Camera Spike is a friendly or enemy camera, the player can look at the light on it. A red light means it is an enemy camera, and a green light means it is a friendly camera. The player can also see their team's logo above it if it's friendly.


 * Players using the Ghost Pro perk will be undetected by the Camera Spike.
 * Camera Spike is the first item in all of the Call of Duty Series that replaces the mini-map feed instead of hiding or covering it up.
 * A disadvantage of the Camera Spike will be that you cannot detect where enemies are shooting on your mini-map.
 * Players can hack enemy's Camera Spikes and to use it for themselves through hacking it using the Hacker Pro Perk.
 * In the first reveal trailer the Camera Spike was taller than it currently is, this is most likely to reduce exposure.
 * To position the Camera Spike in a certain Y-axis direction, the player must simply look up or down according to where they want the camera to point.
 * The camera spike is not included in the wii version of Black Ops.
 * On the side of the box near the bottom of the camera, the word 'KampTek' is written.