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Call of Duty Black Ops 2 becomes Amazon’s most pre-ordered game, ever

The upcoming FPS ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 2′ is sure to beat a lot of sales records this year. One claim that the highly anticipated sequel can already boast about is the ‘Most Pre-ordered’ title in Amazon’s history.

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StanLee4182d ago (Edited 4182d ago )

Shocking! #sarcasm

Thefreeman0124182d ago

Whyyyyyy do people still buy this game? It's the same damn game each year...

GraveLord4182d ago

No, it's not. HUGE difference from MW3 to Black Ops 2 and from Black OPs 1 to Black Ops 2. If you can't see that, you're blind. It's not just cosmetic changes. I would list all the changes here, but you are just a troll and probably just ignore it.

OT: Most pre-ordered game in history at both Amazon and Gamestop! This is shocking to some analysts who keep saying "Call of Duty peaked last year" and get proved wrong time after time.

Thefreeman0124181d ago

you cant tell me its not the on rails shooter with linear and sometimes boring gameplay. All im saying is cod needs to push their boundaries more than adding new perks, new weapons and new story. yea sure multiplayer can be fun.. untill it becomes redundant and repetitive. at some point down the line.. maybe CODMWBLOP 18 people will grow tired of this game

digger184182d ago (Edited 4182d ago )

And this is the same damn comment every year...boring.

People love these games, so just get over it.

AfricanGamer9ja4182d ago (Edited 4182d ago )

Why do people keep complaing about people who buy COD? Is the same damn comments every year.

BuLLDoG9094182d ago

your no better, complaining about the people complaining, and now you got me complaining to you ffs, your a proper trouble maker so you are

MrAnderson4182d ago (Edited 4182d ago )

If you don't like COD, don't play it, but let the people that do, do what they want, oh, and this is coming from someone who HATED Modern Warfare 3 (didn't buy it, played for about 5 hours at a friends, and hate everything about it)

but I loved cod 4/black ops, mw2 would have been decent if it had any semblance of balance, and have already bought black ops 2 on steam because I appreciate that 3arc actually put some work into this title, unlike activision that are copy pasting the same crap year after year.

in short, shut up and let people play/like what they want, you don't like COD? then don't play it or read about it.

Lazyeye794182d ago

I only buy these games for the split screen so I can play them with my brothers.

FamilyGuy4182d ago

Not THIS year. If you had played even two of the previous ones and then read about everything that's included in this one the differences would be obvious.

BUT. before this game I would have agreed with you, I skipped MW3 for that reason. Buying a COD every OTHER year just makes more sense (for people actually interested in the games).

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Thatguy-3104182d ago

Not surprise if it outsells the last COD game. Let's see if GTA V can break it's records.

WildStyles4182d ago

Not surprising in the least.

Dovahkiin4182d ago

Looks to be the best call of duty for a while, it will be better then MW3 for sure.

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These Call of Duty games are officially dead as servers go offline

Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.

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Call of Duty players are playing this game for the last time before it's taken offline

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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Xbox backwards compatibility sends old Call of Duty games back into the Top Five | UK Monthly Charts

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales

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shadowT255d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty255d ago

Guess that's what happens when there's no good new games to play...

4Sh0w255d ago (Edited 255d ago )

Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.

wiz7191255d ago

@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol

mkis007255d ago

It's going to take 10 years for xbox to generate that much profit...

Rhythmattic254d ago

Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.

EasilyTheBest254d ago

If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.

Rhythmattic252d ago

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

jznrpg255d ago

Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.

shinoff2183255d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai255d ago

Mostly because the new CoD games are garbage. The old games were much better.

Rutaprkl254d ago

Agree 100%. Cod 4, WaW, Black ops 1 & 2, those were the days.

Rhythmattic254d ago

For MP, Unreal tournament , QIII Arena (loved the UT mod) FTW!

RaidenBlack254d ago

Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite

Rhythmattic254d ago (Edited 254d ago )

I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.

thesoftware730255d ago

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.

CrimsonWing69255d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor254d ago

@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts

CrimsonWing69254d ago

I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.

Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.

We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.

I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.

I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.

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