Kobe, Jimmy Kimmel Do Shooter-Game Spot

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Aw, this Call of Duty: Black Ops ad is trying to suggest that celebrities and people with social skills enjoy the multiplayer option. Isn't that cute? (And has there been a weirder celebrity pairing in an ad than Kobe Bryant and Jimmy Kimmel?) Good song choice, though, since "Gimme Shelter" has a war-movie connection. I'm almost—wait, is that children who are storming that bombed-out building? Shotgun-wielding children? That might invite the wrong kind of controversy, especially for a game that those kids look too young to play.

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