While nothing is going to rock the foundations of the FPS genre, it is nice to see an established franchise trying to shake things up. With everything from flying squirrel wing suits, jetpacks, guns that can see through walls and all manner of robotic murder assistants, there is a lot of cool stuff to play with. The advanced tech makes for some variety to the usual point-and-shoot gameplay. Boo.īy contrast, the year 2025 missions are much more solid. After about half an hour of killing the same Russian soldiers over and over again I had to restart the level and carefully follow the instructions. See, we’re not killing them, we’re helping them! But I somehow completed an objective before I was supposed to and I got stuck with an objective marker that didn’t do anything. Another mission has you helping Afghanis repel a Soviet invasion. Instead of just falling to the deck, the enemies will fly towards you, like they’ve suddenly lost their mass and the motion of the boat is too much to keep them anchored to the ground. Of course there are dudes on said barge for you to kill, but when you kill them they seem to behave as if you’re cruising up a river on a planet with much different physics than our own. For example, in one of the earlier missions you will be boarding a barge that is rapidly moving up the river. What I mean is the flashback missions don’t seem as “done” as the near-future 2025 missions. In fact, there is a distinct lack of prominent female characters in the game. In fact, some of the flashback missions that take place during the 1980s are a bit glitchy and seem to lack polish. The actual gameplay is relatively standard issue, at least for the flashback missions. Granted, he takes that anger and dials up his revenge well beyond 11, but you can understand his motivations. He’s not just some random guy with a grudge against the world, he’s a guy who has had a lot of shit happen to him and he, perhaps rightfully, blames America for ruining his life. But not because he is demonized and you want nothing more than to transport yourself into the game and murder his face. Secondly, you might actually give a crap about the bad guy. Thank your personal deity and hope we’ve gotten past that in modern military shooters. First off, most of the time you won’t be fighting random generic middle eastern terrorists. Actually, there are a few remarkable things. If you can decipher all of the military speak, follow the jumps between flashback and “current” day (and aren’t distracted by the number of times the Admiral calls people cocksuckers), you will be witness to something truly remarkable in a First Person Shooter-especially a modern day shooter. This is made even worse with all of the jumping back and forth from the ’80s to 2025. This makes it easy to lose the plot, as they say. Also, a lot of plot details are often communicated to you over a remote comm, sometimes when you have other things on your mind like not dying. The story is a little hard to follow at times, especially if you are playing the game in small installments. In 2025 you are tasked with taking out the bad guy Raul Menendez, and in the flashback missions you uncover the back story of what turned Raul Menendez into the bad guy that he is. The story jumps back and forth between 2025 where you will play as Mason’s son David, now a US Navy SEAL, and the late 80s where you play again as Alex Mason. Turns out there is a bad guy they believe Woods has information on. Black Ops 2 opens in the year 2025 with some serious looking guys with guns storming into a secret military facility to find a much older Frank Woods. Mason gets subjected to some messed up brainwashing that leaves him a little worse for the wear. In the first game, we followed the story of Alex Mason, a USMC Captain who gets caught up in the story after being captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba after helping his buddy USMC Sgt. In case you have been in a coma since May and you’ve missed the relentless marketing campaign, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is the followup to 2010’s Call of Duty: Black Ops from Treyarch.
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