IGN - What if Call of Duty was different?
This appears to be the defining question informing the direction of developer Treyarch’s latest, Call of Duty: Black Ops II. While large portions of the design conform to the tenants established by prior iterations of the franchise, the unparalleled wealth of gameplay options and brilliant twists on the formula have shaped Black Ops II into the most ambitious and exciting Call of Duty ever made. It occasionally feels like the team might have strayed into territory they’re not quite masters of, but significant tweaks to the multiplayer loadout system, as well as the realization of player agency in the campaign, make this far more than “just another Call of Duty.” This is an evolution.
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Anywho, I'm glad BLOPS2 seems to be getting high marks across the board, it's obviously a fun game that the fans enjoy and when it inevitably breaks more sales records it will yet again draw the worlds attention to the medium that we all love which can only be a good thing.
@ papashango
I'm not having a go at you by the way, I gave you an agree, I don't believe sequels should be ripped apart for being similiar to the games that came before them.
Despite the bitter online hate from people who don't play the game, this is the franchise that brings together the hardcore masses in a way no other has in ANY gen.
Treyach has always progressively gotten better with every year they had the keys to the car of this franchise. But, now they may have finally hit on all cylinders.
Either way, can't wait to play Zombies, which has always been my fave part of the Treyarch games and as fun a mode as any that has come in shooters this gen.
Evil
Here's hoping you're okay. (I'm guessing you typed this on a phone).
I think I'm going to wait for more reviews and the verdict of my friends before I take the plunge simply because COD games after MW2 have disappointed me so much even in light of receiving excellent reviews.
Now, with ign saying this is the best cod and shooter in a long time, I am intrigued but I won't bite the bullet just yet. Time will tell. You never know, this could actually be that good?
The gunplay is about the same as other titles, maybe a little better, I've only been playing for a couple of hours, but I haven't noticed any significant lag.
I only have access to the early weapons, so I can't attest to balance yet, but from what I've seen, everything functions as it should, AR's do pretty good at all ranges but will fail against an SMG at close range and a sniper at long. SMG's tear everything apart at short range but are useless outside of mid. The snipers feel excellent, lots of good sightlines to shoot from (unlike Blops and MW3) This also marks one of the only CoD's where I would actually use a shotty, the shotguns feel really powerful up close, but not overwhelmingly so.
The Killstreaks are a bit annoying, it's not as bad as MW2, but it's worse than Blops 1. So far the most common KS is probably the Hunter Killer drone, which is annoying, but also easy to counter with Flak Jacket.
I'd have to give the multiplayer more time before I could deliver a score, but so far, I'd say it's alright, much better than MW3, that's for sure.
* Snipers- the map designs were horrible in Blops and MW3 and never accomodated sniping. IS quick-scoping back in this? Please say no!
* Weapon balance- dual smg's firing at a rate of a million bullets a second and killing across the map is hardly fun. I'm glad they've gone some way in sorting that out.
What are the maps like? The map designs were horrendously unremarkable and poor in Blops and MW3. Are they actually memorable this time round?
You can't instantly pull up the scope halfway and fire and expect it to kill the guy, there's also no quickdraw handle for Snipers so theirs no way to increase ADS Time.
If you can pull up your scope though, you can pull off a snapshot, unlike in Blops 1, where they threw off your aim for a few miliseconds after you scoped in. So quickscoping, No, Snap scoping, yes.
Maps are...ok, this time around. Carrier is a lot of fun and so is Hijack, but the game currently lacks a stand out classic, like CoD4's Crash or MW2's Terminal. Overall though, they're pretty good.
Where are all the haters?
Too busy playing online after picking it up last night I imagine ;)
We all know you'll play it eventually ;D
I hate it but I've never bought it once....so your little theory has been debunked.
Review sites never fail
thing which moves and has one of the best Ai,animations,
graphics and has innovated in someways then it is a fair score and justified otherwise bribery is
not uncommon in a business of billions of dollars.
So in other words the SP is short. I'm shocked.
I think i'll give it a miss. After all Far Cry 3 is a few weeks away. Bring on Novemver 29!!!
I love how the review starts with "THIS IS NOT THE SHOOTER YOU EXPECTED." which is hilarious seeing as it's exactly the shooter what EVERYONE was expecting. Not going to hate on it but bleeding heck, that's a serious PR statement right there for a series everyone knows what to expect.
Haven't played the game yet so will reserve judgement but like the Halo review, this seems extremely lacking in reviewing the MP proportion which I think is wrong. Als
Really? Because it looked like a quite a few people were ranting on about how they were paid off. Remeber how Uncharted 3 got a perfect score? All of a sudden IGN became the most credible site on N4G.
Now look at the sentiments of people on here regarding Uncharted 3.
Either way, I agree that MP portions of both games were scarcely reviewed. As it turns out, having played Halo 4 comprehensively- it MP turned out to be absolutely brilliant. If COD BO 2's turns out to be that then, I'll be buying it for sure. However, I'll reserve judgement like you.