The November 9-released video game, “Call of Duty: Black Ops” from Activision, has been on a record-shattering spree – having set new first-day and five-day worldwide video game sales records.

The $60-priced first-person shooting combat game, available for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony’s PlayStation 3, and PCs, raked up a whopping $650 million in first-five day global sales; surpassing the $550 million record that the game’s predecessor – ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ – set in 2009.

Commenting of the initial success of “Black Ops,” Robert Kotick - CEO of “Call of Duty” publisher Activision Blizzard – said: “I don't think we would have ever planned for something to be more successful than that. Can I tell you if we are going to succeed it? All I can tell you right now is that we are tracking really well.”

With new sales records being set by “Black Ops,” there are now expectations galore that the game will do exceptionally well during the holiday season and in 2011.

According to the projections put forth by EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich, the sales of “Black Ops” through the holidays, as well as the next year, could likely beat the total of ‘over 20 million’ copies sold of ‘Modern Warfare 2.’

Divnich is particularly hopeful of the popularity of the game’s multiplayer mode, which allows several gamers to compete with and against each other online, and is “phenomenal and addictive.”