Black Ops II Trailer Shows Off the Future of Weaponry

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Oh come on, have some imagination. FUTURE WEAPONS... including revolvers throwing knives, c4 charges with more buttons on it, grenades with blue particle effects instead of dust ones and redesigns of existing game robots. If you're going to have a future set shooter at least come up with some interesting sci-fi or at least new looking design ideas. The only thing that jumped out at me was them making the flash grenade into a deployable stereo system.

And what would you suggest? Lasers and Plasma? Those are just as unimaginative.

It would at least /imply/ future. Obviously it's supposed to be near future so we can't expect Mass Effect, but it hardly looks futuristic at all, the only thing there that wasn't really in MW, was the Microwave thing. Which we already have, so it's hardly futuristic. It looks almost exactly the same as MW except for some "futuristic" scopes, which are again, just reskinned red dot sights.

Remember, that's just 12 years ahead, not 120. We won't have lazerguns until then, we still use ballistic weapons. Ballistic weapons in development RIGHT NOW.
But yeah, people only see future as "Halo" and then want lazerrifles - even if that time-period simply can't have it.

I think that expecting some interesting futuristic tech that is beyond slight variations of modern weapons isn't asking for too much when we have articles like these popping up all the time:

http://www.gizmag.com/medusa-microwave-crowd-control-raygun/9605/
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2009/05/29/judge-dredd-weapon-is-armys-newest-device/

Not only that, but scientists are working on super suits at this very moment!

OT: Meh is the word for this. Looks like the same old brown cover based shooter that CoD games usually are.

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

I will buy this because Trent Reznor has created the soundtrack.

 

[elvor0]

Oh come on, have some imagination. FUTURE WEAPONS... including revolvers throwing knives, c4 charges with more buttons on it, grenades with blue particle effects instead of dust ones and redesigns of existing game robots. If you're going to have a future set shooter at least come up with some interesting sci-fi or at least new looking design ideas. The only thing that jumped out at me was them making the flash grenade into a deployable stereo system.

And what would you suggest? Lasers and Plasma? Those are just as unimaginative.

It would at least /imply/ future. Obviously it's supposed to be near future so we can't expect Mass Effect, but it hardly looks futuristic at all, the only thing there that wasn't really in MW, was the Microwave thing. Which we already have, so it's hardly futuristic. It looks almost exactly the same as MW except for some "futuristic" scopes, which are again, just reskinned red dot sights.

Remember, that's just 12 years ahead, not 120. We won't have lazerguns until then, we still use ballistic weapons. Ballistic weapons in development RIGHT NOW.
But yeah, people only see future as "Halo" and then want lazerrifles - even if that time-period simply can't have it.

Oh come on, have some imagination. FUTURE WEAPONS... including revolvers throwing knives, c4 charges with more buttons on it, grenades with blue particle effects instead of dust ones and redesigns of existing game robots. If you're going to have a future set shooter at least come up with some interesting sci-fi or at least new looking design ideas. The only thing that jumped out at me was them making the flash grenade into a deployable stereo system.

And what would you suggest? Lasers and Plasma? Those are just as unimaginative.

It would at least /imply/ future. Obviously it's supposed to be near future so we can't expect Mass Effect, but it hardly looks futuristic at all, the only thing there that wasn't really in MW, was the Microwave thing. Which we already have, so it's hardly futuristic. It looks almost exactly the same as MW except for some "futuristic" scopes, which are again, just reskinned red dot sights.

Yes, laser and such would imply future. -snip

Oh I wasn't actually saying it should /have/ lasers, I was just thinking out loud more than anything, saying that while lasers and stuff are just as stale, it does imply future. BO2 is just so devoid of anything futuristic it doesn't really feel or look any different than MW3.

I just think they could've jumped to maybe 2070 or something, so it's not Halo, but its far enough ahead that the developers could've justified being a bit more free with what they could come up with. Before now I didn't realise it was set so close. So I was expecting something in between present tech and Battlefield 2142 tech.

I was all excited for something a bit like BF 2142, but everything that's in that trailer we currently /have/. Granted the Microwave thing isn't deployable in real life, but it seems like they've limited themselves too much in regards to how close the time frame is.

 

[WanderingFool]

Black Ops. Cold War. China. Modern/Near future setting.

Is it actually hard to come up with new ideas? Let me try!

Spies discover the U.S. has been covertly attempting to influence Canadian policy, in the hopes of one day culturally annexing the nation. Canada has plans to release this information to the world. American special forces team is sent in to kill the politicians in the know and to set up Canadian Prime Minster. World thinks Canada instigates a war with the U.S. Fighting ensues on the border.

Pick your country and play out the campaign.

DONE.

THat's actually a really good idea. Especially if the single player campaign forced you to play as the US side first and played it out as a standard "Lone team of elite soldiers take down entire platoons while ignoring everything in the Geneva convention and yet not getting punished for it" scthick that has become a staple of all these brown military shooters lately, only to find out at the end that UH OH! This time, YOU WERE THE BAD GUY. Well, the badDER guys, on account of that whole Geneva convention thing.

So...a less interesting version of Spec Ops: The Line?

You know what, you have a point. Such a story has already been done with Spec Ops: The Line. This sounds like a horrible knockoff...

 

[keideki]

To be honest this really spiked my interest. I have half heartedly played the last few CoD games (either bought on sale or received as gifts) and they all tend to sort of run together. This one seems like it is making an attempt to stand out from the rest of the pack. If they really do change things up enough I might just buy the game at launch instead of waiting for a sale or buying used.

Although, after reviewing the trailer again I do think they could have gone a little more different with the guns. They all seem to just be future-ish looking, but they more or less act like regular guns. Where are the laser and railguns and other cool sci-fi stuff?