Spectre (weapon)


 * For the DS level, see Spectre. For the Modern Warfare 2 killstreak, see AC-130

The Spectre is a submachine gun featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops. It features very low recoil and a high rate of fire.

Campaign
The Spectre can be found in one of the weapons caches during Numbers. A picture of the Spectre can also be briefly seen during the opening cutscene, along with a picture of the Kiparis.

Multiplayer
The Spectre's low recoil with the Grip and open sights make it a good SMG for medium or even medium-long range shooting. It is also decently accurate from the hip and has a large magazine with high rate of fire.

The high accuracy the Spectre possesses makes it generally more useful than the other 30-20 damage SMGs, all of which have either smaller magazines or higher recoil. It becomes a very powerful stealth weapon when a silencer is attached.

Because the Spectre has reasonably open and easy-to-use iron sights, a sight is of limited use. One would be much better off with Suppressor, Extended mags or Grip. Extended mags are useful for offsetting the Spectre's high ammo consumption, as well as Scavenger. Sleight of Hand is incredibly useful, as the Spectre's high rate of fire chews through ammo rather quickly, and without extended mags, one will be reloading quite often.

Overall, the Spectre is a highly versatile SMG that possesses capabilities outside of just short range, something most other SMGs do not possess.

Attachments

 * Red Dot Sight
 * Grip
 * Suppressor
 * Reflex Sight
 * Extended Mag
 * ACOG Scope
 * Rapid Fire

Zombies
This weapon is available in Kino der Toten. It isn't one of the best weapons, as it is very weak against zombies. In later rounds, it can take several magazines to kill only a few zombies.

When Pack-A-Punched, this weapon's name changes to the 'Phantom', and features a Reflex Sight. The Spectre is also called the Phantom in the 1997 game, 'GoldenEye 007', which may be a homage as GoldenEye is considered one of the most influential first person shooters of all time. It may also be called such because a newer version of GoldenEye was released on the Wii shortly before the release of Black Ops.

Trivia

 * It's Pack-A-Punched name is a reference to the N64 game Goldeneye, which featured the Spectre but it was called "the phantom" for legal reasons.
 * The Spectre's Grip attachment installs a butt stock on the weapon, as opposed to the standard forearm grip (which is present by default).
 * On Wii you hold the Spectre with one hand due to gun twisting which is not present on the other consoles or pc

Spectre (weapon)