Another French Retailer Outs Black Ops 2

[Andy Chalk]

Another French Retailer Outs Black Ops 2

Another French retailer has dropped the dime on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Activision reportedly got its panties in a pretty good twist a couple of weeks ago when the French version of Amazon let slip that the Call of Duty iteration for 2012 would be Black Ops 2. The product page was taken down quickly but not before it was seen and reported on by Gameblog, which quickly led to claims and denials [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115902-UPDATE-Activision-Allegedly-Livid-About-Black-Ops-2-Reveal] that Activision had blacklisted the site for refusing to pull the story.

Now comes a report of yet another French retailer, Fnac, and yet another advertisement for Black Ops 2, this time with the added bonus of a release date: November 12, to be precise. That ad vanished shortly after it went online as well, but once again it was captured for posterity by a quick-acting website, in this case Gamepur [http://www.gamepur.com/news/7228-new-black-ops-2-listing-unveils-release-date.html].

Activision hasn't yet commented on the situation and, given the stink that followed the Gameblog situation, will probably either just ignore it this time around or take the standard "no comment on rumor and speculation" route. And really, what's the big deal? A Black Ops sequel is as inevitable as the sunrise and even if November 12 is a straight-up guess, it's hardly a great act of Kreskination: Every Call of Duty game since the dawn of time [or at least since 2006] has come out in the first half of November.

via: MCV [http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/call-of-duty-black-ops-2-release-date-leaked/092052]


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[Gabanuka]

ALL OF MY WHY!

Dont make a freaking sequel to a game that's only a year old!

 

[gigastar]

I dont even get why Activision denies it in the first place. Anyone with even a slight bit of foresighting ability could see that CoD would get yet another sequel.

ALL OF MY WHY!

Dont make a freaking sequel to a game that's only a year old!

If thats a gripe with you you should be shouting at EA for far more than just Call of Duty can ever ammount to.

 

[Frostbite3789]

I'm getting more and more on board with whoever said they should name them after the year they're released, Call of Duty 2012 etc.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Another French retailer has dropped the dime on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Are we sure it's a French retailer? The language in that ad...isn't French.

 

[WonderWillard]

I'm getting more and more on board with whoever said they should name them after the year they're released, Call of Duty 2012 etc.

That's brilliant. I will start refereeing to them like that now.

 

[OniaPL]

Another French retailer has dropped the dime on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Are we sure it's a French retailer? The language in that ad...isn't French.

Yeah.. Not French. Maybe Italian?

 

[DigitalSushi]

Hold on my French colleagues I got this for you!

Bobby Kotick: "Hello Bobby speaking"
Sush: "Bobby K, its me Sush, we need to talk about all these French sites leaking the latest CoD game"
Bobby Kotick: "Yeah that's awful, can't those Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys just stop leaking this information before the right time?"
Sush: "Its because France is ahead of US timezones by 6 to 9 hours, they are effectively reporting this information from the future, during the time when press gagging orders are over"
Bobby Kotick: "Oh yeah I forgot about that!"
Sush: "so how's the kids?"

and the day was saved.

Another French retailer has dropped the dime on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Are we sure it's a French retailer? The language in that ad...isn't French.

http://www.fnac.com/
FNAC is French, did you think of the Gamepur link which is in English?

 

[Andy Chalk]

Are we sure it's a French retailer? The language in that ad...isn't French.

FNAC is definitely French, but it has outlets in other countries as well. That ad is from its Spanish subsidiary.

 

[Andy Chalk]

And apparently I attached the wrong image to the post, so thanks for the indirect heads-up on that as well.

 

[Corporal Yakob]

Didn't Black Ops finish with a pretty self-contained story? You stopped the Soviet Nazi gas but killed the President (maybe)-end of?

Could we be the Soviets this time? Or just not the WASP faction?

 

[DigitalSushi]

Another French retailer has dropped the dime on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Are we sure it's a French retailer? The language in that ad...isn't French.

Yeah.. Not French. Maybe Italian?

I'm pretty sure that's Spanish what with the "el" and me checking Google translate

Oops, sorry guys I speak Spanish and since I'm a Frenchman I really couldn't notice it myself, my brain just processed it in the same way cos I'm used to it.

I was really confused when a couple of users where saying it wasn't French, I was like, "of course its French" but I got it wrong!. Those Latin based Languages are so alike.

I still stand by my thinking that the TF2 Spy is French and not Italian like a few Escapist users think, he speaks French at the end of his Meet The video.

Anyway, OT, The French get another scoop and annoy Activision, rock on le chaps!

 

[Korten12]

Didn't Black Ops finish with a pretty self-contained story? You stopped the Soviet Nazi gas but killed the President (maybe)-end of?

Could we be the Soviets this time? Or just not the WASP faction?

No it ended in sort of a cliff hanger. If you read the intel it says that Woods maybe still alive and captured and apparently the CIA has Operation Charybdis.

Spoiler

According to the unlocked Intel, Mason never fully recovered from the brainwashing, making the CIA suspicious of his future actions. Weaver and Hudson became targets of suspicion as well for their association with Mason and their supposed complicity in gathering top secret information for Mason. Sometime in 1978, Mason's decision to chase an as of yet unknown lead led the CIA to deem him "burnt" and a threat to national security, along with Hudson and Weaver who had escaped to South Africa with him. As of October 28, 1978, the CIA was making plans to form a joint task force with MI-6 in order to find and eliminate Mason, Hudson, and Weaver in what they dubbed as Operation Charybdis.

From the wiki.

 

[teqrevisited]

Nothing more than what I've come to expect from Activision. The least possible work put in to another rushed sequel, indiscernible from the rest of the series.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Are we sure it's a French retailer? The language in that ad...isn't French.

FNAC is definitely French, but it has outlets in other countries as well. That ad is from its Spanish subsidiary.

I felt like a dumbass not too long after posting that, but it was too late.

I attribute it to living in the US, where I'm not used to seeing stuff like that.

 

[Wil213]

Oh viral advertising, could you be any more blatent. Any year without a COD game to rag on intently or treat as a religion/job [depending on what you think of it] just isn't complete.

I'm getting more and more on board with whoever said they should name them after the year they're released, Call of Duty 2012 etc.

Very much agreed. COD is stating to have more in common with 'Madden', 'Pro EVO', 'FIFA' etc, with the amout of games they release.

Nothing more than what I've come to expect from Activision. The least possible work put in to another rushed sequel, indiscernible from the rest of the series.

After seeing 'Tony Hawk's' go through the ringer last gen', its pretty much expected.

 

[Wolfram23]

Oh, look, Black Ops 2 just in time for Christmas shopping!

Pre order now and get Black Ops Elite for only $40 extra! Comes with 1 free map and 2 gun textures, plus SUPER HARDCORE BADASS AWESOME LEET STATUS!!!!!111eleven