All You Need to Know About Black Ops II

[M920CAIN]

I'm not impressed. When the game becomes an Action/RPG with a story longer than 5 hours, that's when I'll be amazed.

 

[Druyn]

Color me impressed. Not at the game yet, I'm still trying to figure out how much of it is lies, but at the fact that they made me somewhat curious about a COD game. Open world missions? Slight mission variations? RTS elements? I don't think they'll be done well, but they're making changes, and that's always a good start.

 

[Furioso]

It has zombies, I am sold, seriously, the amount of fun me and my friends have with the other Treyarch CoDs zombie mode is insane. I'm sure we could fill a book with the stories we have.

 

[Gentleman Adventurer]

Horses? In a game about futuristic warfare? lolwhut?

Not as unrealistic as one might think. Read the book "Horse Soldiers" by Doug Stanton. Horses still have their place.

This is the first think that gets me even thinking about a CoD game scene MW 2, so lets set my status as "Interested but not on board yet."

 

[Vankraken]

Its just more shinny tin foil to attract the magpies. Its still going to be a linear set piece shooter with the same shallow game mechanics, shitty maps, power fantasy rewarding kill streaks, unlock treadmill, and horrible FoV that makes you feel like you have blinders on.

Its like witnessing a kid going up to a pot of spaghetti cooking on the stove, he puts his hand in it and gets burn. "AHHHH IT HURTS!" You know its a hard lesson for the kid to learn but he now knows better than to put his hand into boiling water.

Next day he sees a pot of macaroni cooking on the stove. You tell them "If you touch that it will burn you" but the kid replies "Well this isn't the same as the spaghetti, this time it will be a lot better" so he puts his hand in the water and gets burned. "AHHHHH IT BURNS!!!! I'm done with this, Never Again!".

Next day he sees a pot of fettuccine cooking on the stove...... (hint he gets burned again).

Edit: To continue the analogy if im going to pay 60 dollars for a dinner I want a good quality steak that is meaty with not too much fat. I do not want pasta, it may fill you up but is hardly satisfying and too shallow a food to be worth 60 dollars. Also if people keep buying the pasta then people are going to stop selling steaks and just make more pasta or make hamburgers because the bar is being set low and people are paying 60 dollars for it. Stop gaming obesity, eat a better quality game. (its too much fun to do this)

 

[WaReloaded]

After reading this and seeing that they're actually using the large budget to do something good I'm eager to see what the outcome of this will be. Here's to hoping.

 

[Amnestic]

Don't you mean "Call of Duty 9: Blacks Ops 2"?

Not really interested. I've become increasingly sick with the 'on the rails' linear MMSs. Good luck to them if they can tell an interesting story, but I'm oozing skepticism at this point.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

"All you need to know about Black Ops II" is

It's another Black Ops game. It's a branched variant of the recent CoD games, set in a parallel future-present where shit is going down. It's going to be more popular than religion, it's going to be ridiculous to the point of wearing a lamp shade on it's head, and it's going to involve the teabagging of faces over the swears of children thinking that swearing makes people take them seriously. It'll be about 7 hours long, if that, at it's comfortable pace. Oh, and Gav might write another line in a song about how they still haven't gotten rid of Second Chance.

I'm so excited.

 

[wyrmslayer1991]

Holy crap. I never would have thought that treyarch would be the ones paying attention.

 

[Blobpie]

It's looking promising, very promising.

 

[Saulkar]

If you can actually use any of the drones besides the quad rotor drone such as the quad walker and the jets then count me interested otherwise this will not be the second COD I ever played.

 

[ChupathingyX]

I'm mostly curious if Kevin Sherwood and Elena Siegman will be returning to do the songs for zombies to be honest.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Well, at least the "Modern Warfare 2.5 hurr hurr" people will be shut up by this news.

I'm not to sure. As much as I enjoy Treyarch being decent at giving the series a tune up, I'm still a little cautious when it comes to Singleplayer. One of the flaws of Black Ops was that it was really easy to see how hard they were trying and failing, and it became sort of distracting.

But hell, they brought the Dark Knight guy along. If it fails, it'll fail in style.

 

[NLS]

The whole branching thing and "a loss is not necessarily game over" isn't entirely new though. Previous Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games allowed you to continue the campaign even if you lost a few men here and there, that did however mean you had less (wo)men to chose from as you progressed. Desperados also let you lose characters, but that made it a lot harder. Freespace 1 and 2 also had a lot of missions where if you failed, you could continue on, but your next mission would as a result be harder because that enemy ship you just let through the warp gate would add another enemy to the next battle. In addition your commanding officer would yell you out and give you no stars. Sometimes you wouldn't be able to complete all assignments, and you would have to make a decision on whether or not to take down that big ship or just get the hell out of there and at least survive.

But yes, Black Ops 2 will of course be revolutionizing the genre again...

 

[Mozza444]

If the multiplayer is anything like Black Ops i'm sold anyway.
And just NO to destructible environment.. it just won't work in a COD game, maps are too small and certain areas need to be guarded by terrain to complete objectives.
The only thing i have a problem with is future warfare...
I just wish i got into COD before MW2.. sounds like W@W would have been the perfect game for me.

 

[katsumoto03]

The last time they mixed up the setting was when they made MW:1, which just so happens to be one of my favourite FPSs of all time. I know it's a different studio, but fingers crossed.

Plus, it looks and sounds fucking dope.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

The whole divergent story business sounds promising. However, it has to be done correctly otherwise it would seem like a non-standard game over so you have to go back and "do it right".

 

[DeMorquist]

Looks cool

No longer shooting people of "terrorist" origin or Ruskies in the face...

Also appears we are moving towards the future too

Now...if it will have the multiplayer bots like BlOps did...Im getting my $60 ready

If not...Ill wait til youre a bargain bin game! (>$30)

Also...just saying...You want DLC....Riders of the Future....horseback only maps

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Treyarch intends for the Black Ops II campaign to branch and diverge depending on player actions. This could be something minor that changes a section of gameplay

Run down open street, you get shot by a sniper and die, turn to page 48 to respawn.

You enter the building, turn to page 32, you are ambushed by a small group, you are dead, turn to page 24 to respawn.

You run down the stairs, turn to page 57, as you pass under the bridge you are attacked by a raving hobo, he knocks you in the water and you drown, turn to page 84 to respawn.

You carefully make your way down the linear street, turn to page 90, you see a small patrol of generic terrorists up ahead, turn to page 96, you gun the terrorists down and proceed forward, turn to page 100, you have completed the mission.

 

[ZehMadScientist]

Yoor actions can alter the outcome of the story? Your actions actually MEAN anything?

...this is CoD we are talking about right? Damn it! And I thought MW3 was the last CoD game I'd buy. I'm going to keep up with the news for this one.