Well, they didn't even confirm dedis. The way they put it made it sounds like there would be, but it's just marketing talk. Sigh.
I've had WAY too many bad experiences with player hosted servers to buy another game without dedicated.
The engine is the same as the last three. :/ Graphics are about the same too. It's been over 2 years since mw1, you'd think they'd have made a bit more of an improvement since then.
My hopes for Black ops aren't too high. Treyarch has been look upon as the underdog between the two studios so maybe they'd try harder than IW. But in the end, it's "just another COD game"
Reminds me of Guitar hero, a new game every year with new content, but same old mechanics, same old formulaic game.
At least they don't need to do so much to be an improvement over MW2. Just add dedis, modability, better anticheat system, and I might consider it.