Black Ops II: it looks surprisingly good

[Cannibal Johnson]

Jesus H. Bannana-Shit Dipping Christ! Am I the only who liked Black Ops around here? Compared to the story of most of the CoD games. I'd say it was pretty good. I never had any trouble following the narrative and it kept me playing because I wanted to see what would happen next. As for BL2, I'll pick it up. The setting and story have gotten me interested.

 

[IamGamer41]

Your forgetting that a majority do not play CoD for the single player.

 

[kortin]

After Black Ops and MW3, my expectations are so low that I highly doubt I could ever even look at it without laughing hysterically.

Seriously, the only good thing about Black Ops was the custom avatar-thing (AJ's cutie mark/Team Dai-Gurren's symbol ftw). The campaign was so ridiculously bad that I didn't even consider trying the expert run for achievements. And no, the zombie mode didn't even partially redeem it. It was KINDA fun in WaW, but they just were beating it with a dead horse in Black Ops.

MW3 on the other hand, I really couldn't play it for long. I played it long enough to finally finish the story (because yeah, it's kind of interesting to me. I like to finish the stories I start) and dip into the multiplayer. Infinity Ward really disappointed me with this one.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Yeah it does look good but after the last few games I'm not going to hold my breath that it will turn out as good as it looks.

 

[TheKaduflyerSystem]

I thought that Black Ops was the 2nd best in the series, MW was good, the sequels are the worst kind of copy pasted crap, Black Ops seemed a little... fresh, not as good as CoD 1, but it seemed better, I'm NOT buy BO2 on release, I might rent, I might cadge it off of one of my friends for a day or two.

 

[octafish]

It reminds me of BF2142, but not all that favorably, I guess BF2142 didn't have a single player campaign but that was a point in its favour. It makes me sad that DICE and EA announced a Battlefield 4 beta and not Battlefield 2143.

 

[Cabisco]

While I won't buy it I do appreciate they are trying to do something different with this game and I hope it leads to more changes to the series, but personally for me I'm done with the COD Franchise.

Saying all this, I can't help thinking it's all reminding me of another game but I can't for the life of me remember what.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I'm not gonna judge the game until I see the Zombies trailer or some gameplay. I want to see how it's actually changed. Honestly, I'm not even gonna play the campaign, I'm going straight to zombies...good thing I'm not paying full price!

 

[sextus the crazy]

Jesus H. Bannana-Shit Dipping Christ! Am I the only who liked Black Ops around here? Compared to the story of most of the CoD games. I'd say it was pretty good.

I liked its story, if only for Gary Oldman. MP was shit though.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Now I look at the new Black Ops gameplay, and I see things have changed: first, it takes place in the future, with futuristic guns that don't actually exist, save a few prototypes we have now.

Wow, a game set in the future, no ones ever done that before. /sarcasm

I don't see the whole appeal behind the "oh, wow this game is set in the future and it's browner and has more bullets coming out of guns than ever before" attitude.

The setpieces are actually really great this time around

Set pieces should be used rarely and be used to invoke an emotional response other than "Oh, a building just collapsed, and now I have a massive boner" at least for me anyway.

the addition of choice in what route you take through the levels is something COD has never done before.

"What will you do? Will you jump down to the floor or snipe them?". Yeah, great amount of choices. Games made ten years ago already did this. In fact, COD 4 even did this..... a little.

Overall, it looked less like generic COD and a little more like Killzone.

Is that supposed to be a point in its favour? Don't get me wrong, I like Killzone but it's just not as enthralling as other games I play.

PS: Black Ops 2 still looks generic, at least in my opinion.

Also, the new HUD looks cool.

The HUD looks cool, that's a great improvement.

They're expanding Zombies too.

Okay, I do like zombies and it is the only reason why I'm renting it. They should just get rid of all the other features and just concentrate on the zombie mode. No sarcasm this time.

Overall, the game, at least for me, looks just like all the other COD games.

 

[Alternative]

Im going to reserve my judgement untill i have seen more of it.
But so far it looks like its going to try going in a different direction from the rest of the COD series by focusing on its single player.

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[ToastiestZombie]

COD games always do.

Me? I probably won't be buying it. Why? Because they didn't put me in charge of multiplayer design, and I'm starting to think I'm the only ************ capable of making it not terrible.

Maybe if they ditch the support package, go back to the old map design and quit this proficiencies nonsense I'll get it. Maybe.

I think they might be changing it back to the black ops system, whilst keeping the stuff from MW3 like being able to use your 3 killstreaks when you want and being able to see how far you've got to go till your next one, which are improvements instead of the shit that was the killstreak system of MW3. Looks like they may be making the right choice when it comes to killstreaks this time. And the ten point system for create a class is very different and new for the multiplayer of a military shooter. Doesn't mean it'll be any different.

No, it's not new or different. You still make your class out of a selection of perks, weapons and attachments. You just select them in a way that allows for slightly more experimentation. It's not innovative or different at all.

It is different, there's no denying it. No other shooter's multiplayer let's you use only a secondary, or have no perks, and many other combinations. If you can name one other shooter that doesn't restrict the player to the one primary, one secondary and so on then you'll be right.

 

[Captain Pirate]

Not gonna lie, the trailers definitely look interesting.
As new and amazing as it looks, I still have the feeling it'll play identically to the others, and, even with all the new stuff (including the new 10-slot class system which looks incredible) I imagine it'll end up just feeling like the last 4 games.
Still, I'm keeping hopeful.
If the customization is back en masse I'll definitely consider it.

 

[Patrick Buck]

They could have litrally just taken a picture of a turd, for the trailer, and I would buy it.

I'm playing zombies DAMNIT. I WILL PLAY ZOMBIEs.

 

[Tropicaz]

I enjoyed BlOps. Tbh, i enjoyed mw2 aswell, hopping in a ground war with 7 or 8 mates or playing team tac as a group of 4 is always great fun. Running as a full team, you pretty much always win, aswell.
BlOps 2 looks like i might give it a shot for one main reason - the trailer had a guy with a knife equipped. If they've removed panic knifing, my biggest gripe with cod, i'll probably love it. Though with the new counter strike on the horizon i might just be playing that.