Destructoid - Call of Duty: Black Ops II broke retail records a mere 24 hours after the public debut of the single-player campaign. An impressive feat, considering that multiplayer, the franchise's bread and butter, wasn't even shown off until just a week ago.
It's a good thing for fans that Treyarch isn't a studio who would just settle for minor refinements, then. They very well could have, but instead, the team has rebuilt the multiplayer system so much that you would be forgiven for thinking they're insane.
The Create-a-Class system as you've known it from past Call of Duty games -- and pretty much all first-person shooters these days -- is dead. Treyarch challenged the assumptions of what multiplayer in an FPS should be and has created something that makes the Call of Duty experience feel fresh again.
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
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Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
sounds interesting
Yeah sure they did smh.
Wait... "reinvents the multiplayer" I've heard that already somewhere. O yeah ! It wwas Nov. 10th 2009 when MW2 came out !
As usual with every and any COD release similar articles are released claiming the next COD is fresh and new. Do i really have to read the article after seeing countless videos and reading up on the game? Ppl so easily forget and are easily deceived but i dont forget. I know what to expect because ive been seeing it since MW2. Black ops if anything was a step back in many regards to me compared to mw2 yet they claimed the same things about black ops.
I know one thing... if at the very least I do decide to give it a try, I will be renting it first and I will wait for a few updates.
Does not matter what changes they make to gameplay, if they can't overhaul the network code and it's got the same S1^T bullet lag that blackops and MW3 have, all those wonderful improvements will mean F!^k all to me.
I do admire them for trying to make gameplay changes, but as said above, they seem to always say this anyway and then when the final game actually comes out... 90% of the "changes" have actually made the game worse.
lets see, but it will be a rental for me first.