Celebrities Wage War in New Black Ops II Trailer

[Korten12]

Hmmm... 'Back in Black' featured prominently in the soundtrack? Nice to see CoD's ad campaign is as unoriginal as its gameplay.

[flame shield activated]

Considering that the whole Ad campaign has been: "The Future is Black," it makes sense to have Back in Black in the soundtrack, plus hell it's a good song.

You know I am pretty sure: Escapist and Call of Duty Hate are becoming synonymous. :/

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

still leaves my point that they felt the need to showcase all the ways you can not shoot people in the head and still get kills, which is weird in a game that should be about being better at shooting people in the head than the other guy

CoD multiplayer has always been about one thing (mostly): get a higher body count than anyone else. The method itself is irrelevant. You can use a rifle, shotgun, grenade, RPG, predator missile, dogs, whatever. Hell, some of the most insane kills in MW2 were done by guys with only knifes and pistols.

One of the great things about CoD:BO was the wager system, where you would put down monopoly money on daily challenges that often had you change up your routine ("5 headshots with [SMG] in 40 minutes playtime"). Harder/stricter challenges had higher buy-ins and much higher rewards ("earn 3 [9-kill streak reward] within 40 minutes playtime"). It was the one thing that I really felt was missed in the MW3 multiplayer and hope it will be back in BOII.

 

[Kmadden2004]

Hmmm... 'Back in Black' featured prominently in the soundtrack? Nice to see CoD's ad campaign is as unoriginal as its gameplay.

[flame shield activated]

Considering that the whole Ad campaign has been: "The Future is Black," it makes sense to have Back in Black in the soundtrack, plus hell it's a good song.

You know I am pretty sure: Escapist and Call of Duty Hate are becoming synonymous. :/

Not saying it ain't a good song, it's just overused now. It's the immediate go-to song practically every marketing department clutches on to to try and sound awesome and relevant.

It's basically this generation's 'Song 2'.

And I don't hate CoD, I'm just tired of it. I'm tired of the sausage-factory output of games that are happy to coast by with nary a hint of challenge or variety from game-to-game, or even level-to-level.

Which is depressing, because CoD4 (which should have set the tone more than its sequels did) was awesome.

 

[teebeeohh]

still leaves my point that they felt the need to showcase all the ways you can not shoot people in the head and still get kills, which is weird in a game that should be about being better at shooting people in the head than the other guy

CoD multiplayer has always been about one thing (mostly): get a higher body count than anyone else. The method itself is irrelevant. You can use a rifle, shotgun, grenade, RPG, predator missile, dogs, whatever. Hell, some of the most insane kills in MW2 were done by guys with only knifes and pistols.

One of the great things about CoD:BO was the wager system, where you would put down monopoly money on daily challenges that often had you change up your routine ("5 headshots with [SMG] in 40 minutes playtime"). Harder/stricter challenges had higher buy-ins and much higher rewards ("earn 3 [9-kill streak reward] within 40 minutes playtime"). It was the one thing that I really felt was missed in the MW3 multiplayer and hope it will be back in BOII.

the last cod i liked was when it was still about getting headshots with bolt-action-rifles. because when i got killed i knew that i got killed because someone was better than me, either because they were a better shot or because they managed to get the jump on me.
now i don't mind the inclusion of assault rifles as much because it still takes skill to shoot someone with that but when 90% of my death are from some kind of explosive damage or minigun fire from a chopper i don't feel like i was beaten by someone who is better than me. i also don't get any satisfaction out of getting kills with streak rewards or grenades.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

lol. Pretty good.

Robert Downey Jr. pretty much made the whole video, though.

And I have to ask: What does ijustine have to do with COD? FPSRussia I can see, but ijustine?

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

I don't really get into Call of Duty, but I like their marketing. I like the trailer for the first Black Ops a little bit better, though.

Sure, I'm tired of CoD and I don't really like it, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the nifty trailers they put out every year.

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

the last cod i liked was when it was still about getting headshots with bolt-action-rifles. because when i got killed i knew that i got killed because someone was better than me, either because they were a better shot or because they managed to get the jump on me.
now i don't mind the inclusion of assault rifles as much because it still takes skill to shoot someone with that but when 90% of my death are from some kind of explosive damage or minigun fire from a chopper i don't feel like i was beaten by someone who is better than me. i also don't get any satisfaction out of getting kills with streak rewards or grenades.

Just because they didn't use a rifle doesn't mean they don't have skills. That is a serious false premise right there.

Most weapons have a cost/benefit analysis associated with them, and pretty much all of them equal out in the macro sense.

Examples:

An M60 Machine Gun is easily the most powerful MG in both CoD:BO and MW3, but it is really heavy, takes forever to get your eyes down the sights, and has a really slow rate of fire compared to, say, SMGs or even the lighter machine guns.

The most powerful long ranged weapons in MW3 are the bolt action rifles (and are the only ones that can oneshot without a headshot on normal modes), but you loose a huge rate of fire over the semi- and fully-automatic rifles.

The hinge-action shotguns are the most powerful short range weapons, but they're effective range is about 3m and you get two shots before you're murdered while reloading.

The most powerful rifles are single and burst shot, but heaven help you if you don't have the speed/latency to line up the sights on a guy before he moves.

And SMGs are a build-a-gun workshop of rate-of-fire, bullet damage, stability, kick, magazine size, and accuracy.

There is only one type of game in CoD where luck can trump skill (and, even then, skill and map knowledge can mitigate that factor significantly) and that is the Hardcore mode, where 1 shot, 1 kill applies to everything except SMGs (they get 3 shots) and intel streaks (such as UAVs) and bulletproof vests can turn a game.

Yes, some kid can still kill you on sheer luck, but when the game plays out, the better players still rise to the top and the rest learn to adapt.

 

[Dangit2019]

Really? iJustine? I can't believe she's pretending she's any good at games.


Well, at least RDJ and FPS Russia are there. So that's good.

 

[knight4light]

They should have had Totalbuiscuit in the trailer. whenever i see him play a fps he always dominates. But hey thats just me. What i wouldnt mind knowing is

WHO ,BESIDES RDJ, IJUSTINE, AND FPSRUSSIA, ARE THOSE PEOPLE IN THE TRAILER i gots to know!

i would preorder but i'm short on money D:

 

[Sniper Team 4]

That was hilarious. I was a little miffed that the picture the Escapist has next to the article header is that of a zombie. I thought we got a new zombie trailer. LIES I say! However, this was still amazing.
And we have zombies at the end. So we're good. Smiles everyone.

 

[RavenTail]

I must be so completely out of the loop cause I recognized maybe 2 of those celebrities.

 

[Arizona Kyle]

wow, this trailer shows perfectly what is wrong with cod, was ANYONE killed by getting shot in this trailer? maybe i missed something but everyone got killed by some gimmicky streak-reward-thing

uhhhh...... i think the girl on the horse got those two guys with a sticky and the guy in the jet got taken down by a missile but i think that MIGHT be a kill reward thing but it could be one of the secondary's

I think the girl with the tomahawks would be killed by the sniper she was trying to kill or the guy who shot the tomahawk out of her hand

but i think that is it

 

[Savryc]

My enjoyment of this game will be made all the more sweeter by the bitching hordes telling me it's killing the industry and all their other go to cliches.

Now gtfo of my tower, your boots are scuffing the ivory.

 

[eternal-chaplain]

You know. I may actually be impressed if the online maps are actually that large. We all know they won't be, considering the Hardened addition came packaged with two different versions of fucking Nuketown (any right-minded persons new vision of Hell at this point). To that end, I don't even know what they were going for. Probably marketing to the new generation of primordial-slime tools who think 'youtuber' is a noun.

For the longest time I was happy with Black Ops II because it actually looked so bad, not even the current iteration of CoD fans would buy it. Now, it's gotten to the point where its existence gives me dysentery.

I was done at right about the point some kid said 'Horse Lady.'

 

[MikeWehner]

Now that I think about it, I guess this was to counter measure Oliver North...

 

[Reaper195]

While this one is pretty cool, I prefer the trailer for Black Ops 1. All the people were just ordinary people not looking like soldiers one simple bit....and it had Rolling Stones.

 

[Blazing Steel]

so out of nine weapons shown in action two are actual guns (and i don't care if throwing axes take the slot of a gun, they are not guns) and only one gets fired and that is to shoot a fucking axe. still leaves my point that they felt the need to showcase all the ways you can not shoot people in the head and still get kills, which is weird in a game that should be about being better at shooting people in the head than the other guy

Well what are they supposed to show to differentiate the military FPS? One major thing CoD does over others is their killstreak system, thus it should be heavily featured in trailer. Anyway we all know the game features shooting with guns, I want to know about the other things in the game.

I'm tired of the sausage-factory output of games that are happy to coast by with nary a hint of challenge or variety from game-to-game, or even level-to-level.

I always though 'challenge' and 'veritety' were something each person had to determin for themselfs whether there is enough to warrent the purchase. The minor tweeks and changes are what makes the game for the fans. (See ecapist podcast on it). I personally don't see the difference in Mario games that means people need to buy each new game, but I trust that the little things are what the buyers look out for. There really isn't any difference in this this between CoD, Battlefield, Mario, Fifa and Assassin Creed.

Here's my question: will it make any significant changes from the previous title, and if not, how do you rationalize the price tag if it ends up being essentially Black Ops 1's multiplayer rehashed with a few new weapons and stages? Yeah, 'swhat I thought. Better be some darn good maps and weapons, not to mention a darn good reason they couldn't just DLC it onto the original Black Ops. A good reason, mind, not "because we like money a lot".)

Again how is this any different from other games? (e.g. Assassins Creed, 2 - Brotherhood).

What I can't understand from people is why they don't respect other people's reasons for buying games. I don't have a clue why people buy each Madden year to year, but I respect that they see something I don't as that is a game series they've chosen to study, If they can justify paying for the enjoyment they'd recieve, then by all means go do it. There's no need for me or anyone else to berate them for something that's completely opinionative.

 

[crazyrabbits]

They actually put FPSRussia in there? Huh.

Yeah. He did a stealth promo for the game a few months back. The item he's operating is comprised of CGI and camera tricks.