The cat is out of the bag folks, the next Call of Duty has been revealed to be Black Ops 2. The game will take place about 20 years after the original Black Ops, set in a 21st century Cold War setting. As we’ve seen with the recent pictures on the official site, the game will feature futuristic weaponry, a first for the series. More evidence of this can be seen within the first few screenshots that were leaked earlier today (see below). Call of Duty fans, enjoy the trailer below and you can count on us to be focusing heavily on the campaign for Black Ops 2.
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Can you say dated... I know that won't stop COD fans but I'm going to have to pass..
I mean if you still like it, more power to you I'm not going to hate on your game, but wow I have never seen a new game look so old.
That game engine needs an overhaul bad.. What is Activision thinking.
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But I do love the setting.
Future Nazi Zombies yay. Gary Oldman should reprise his role as an AI or someshit.
Tons of games do 60 fps, but Call of Duty is sticking to its dated engine because:
1. It knows it can get money out of people, if the hardcore gamers don't play it, the casuals and kids will.
2. It's an engine that's easy to work with, the Sledgehammer Games president said himself that it's a simpler engine compared to other ones.
3. Why bother? It's been years and it's worked, plus the generation of gaming is too fixed right now to start making a new one, and it would cost them money (barely a dent though) and time.
This engine was great 5 years ago with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, but at the moment it's mediocre at best compared to others out there.
Though it's nothing like it, Wipeout HD
God of War 3. There. Your argument is rendered completely invalid. With the amount of amazing graphics that God of War can produce, along with all the stuff going on, Call of Duty has no excuses.
More games? Rage. Crysis 2.Forza 4. Hell, even Mario Kart 7. Anything else?
Also look at the explosions and effects. Even in a trailer, everything looks sub par.
I can bet you all $50 that the crane model in the trailer was the same one used in basically half the Call of Duty maps,(Hardhat, Highrise, some other one in CoD 4).
Doesn't mean it's a horrible game. But if they refuse to budge from the gamestyle they usually put in, it will most likely be horible.
The worst part is that they try to make it realistic, instead of using another art style.
Enough said.
The game looks amazing. Stop trolling. Not everything is about graphics.
The settings and story of the game alone means there's so much potential for the most impressive multiplayer yet.
To CoD haters, yes the graphics look very dated, but if you really cared about whether or not graphics look dated then you wouldn't have played a console game since 2007.
It's a Treyarch CoD game, Treyarch CoD games play at 'visceral' 60fps, or in layman's terms ~40fps on consoles.
God of War 3 does not run at 60fps - http://www.psxextreme.com/p...
There may be "parts" of the game where it runs at 60fps, but only in the non action, puzzle solving parts, and only some of the time.
RAGE was worked on for freaking ever, in fact I think most of the time they actually spent on that game was making the engine.
Crysis 2 on consoles did NOT have 60fps. http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Forza 4 I can't comment on, I haven't played it, but it's a racing game, racing games tend not to be very resource heavy.
Wipeout HD, read above.
Mario Kart 7 is a cartoony wii game.
Listen, I understand your hatred for Call of Duty, it's 100% deserved, but on some of those you're just outright lying, and on the others, fail to acknowledge the very specific conditions under which a high framerate was possible (racing games not having to handle as much as a multiplayer shooter, WAAYYYYY too much time being spent on an engine).
Now I'm not saying Activision aren't lazy, because they are, and I definitely believe that CoD could look a LITTLE bit better than it does now, but it seems kind of ignorant to assume that it would be easy to make the game look A LOT better, based on other game history (not a lot of 60fps shooters out there that look great).
Mario Kart 7 is a cartoony "3ds" game.
you're high as hell son. Crysis 2 runs at 30fps, sometimes lower, God of War III runs at a solid 30fps. Rage runs at 60fps but imo looks OKAY, nothing great. mind you this is on console, not PC.
the only notible mention in my honest opinion is Wipeout HD/Fury. I couldn't play that Wipeout on PSVITA because I was so used to the fluidity of the 60fps of HD on PS3.
I don't believe you got that many agrees!
It's the hardware stupid, not the engine.
''Black ops 2 is like
killzone 3 + BF3 + MW3 + BLACK OPS
HO MY GOD''
He's gotten 39 ''Thumbs Up'' so far. A lot of people that follow the Call of Duty franchise are just pure idiots.
Edit: I mean, I'm sure the game will be an alright game, but to compare it to Killzone 3 alone is ridiculous, let alone to compare it to Killzone 3 and BATTLEFIELD 3.
I prefered COD4, real outdoors firefights. Loved the story, loved the online, loved the maps.
All the other CODs have stuck to city based maps and story surrounding these big city's. Which in all honesty, makes it kind of dull.
Imagine if Black Ops 2 was set in maps kind of like the ones in COD4? Then I might consider the game.
Are they depicting this:
Modern Warfare 3 - World war 3??
Black Ops 2 - World war 4??
Did catch my attention but this whole WW story has to come out the building. Something new needs to step in. Unfortunately even BF3's story followed this route, however Multiplayer did make up for the shit Campaign.
you guys are so easy to impress its just silly
i mean you cant even get a kid hyped this much for such unimpressive thing like that.
The only way il buy another Cod is if they put it on a new, better looking engine.
Activision knows they can sell you CODroneys anything.
E3 will really decide whether this is a good idea for me. I cant believe people are trolling, they ask for a different game so COD goes to the future. Cant please some people...
Seriously, what's with the gold colors? Looks like Treyarch has been playing a bit too much Deus Ex.
Although I'm glad they finally tried something new. Hopefully they reinvent the multiplayer formula that COD has been stuck on since 2007.
I'm curious where this leaves Infinity Ward's next game. I figured the next logical step was Future Warfare, so I'm surprised Treyarch was allowed to make the jump first.
I'm not worried about the graphics, and I'm not sure why anyone else would be. We all know the series will get a massive upgrade for next-gen consoles. I'd rather see their tech guys working on delivering something really spectacular in fall 2013 with a launch title Call of Duty than see them waste their time trying to squeeze a little more out of six or seven year old hardware.
This game screams inconstant. First off how does this game take place 20 years after Black Ops? Black ops went all the way up to the 50's - 70's. This game takes place in 2025. How is that 20 years?
Second those graphics are just ugh. My classmates and I (4 programmers) can do better and they cant even do art that well.
The concept seems all over the place (We go from mechs to horses? Who thought that was fun?).
If you thought this looked good than more power to you but I recommend playing other shooters before you consider this anywhere near good.
Now with that said, if they can address all of the above then it could be a decent game.
That is also how you jump from the 60s to 2025.
This just seems to completely unravel anything I liked. Normally, I was rating the more modern era of the games like this:
1. CoD4
2. MW2 (Multi) / BO (Single)
3. WaW
4. MW3
I thought even though the story in BO wasn't original, it was pretty well executed and the historical fiction aspect was great.
But, now they've taken a turn off a cliff into weird land and appear to have completely lost sight of what the series is/was.
http://youtu.be/Pozlp_wnkRk
Edit:I'm still not buying.
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CVG has a massive feature on the game detailing all the modes. It sounds like Treyarch are actually implementing quite a few changes. Zombies will have 8 players and objectives in a full mode.
At least it doesn't look exactly like CoD4, mw2 and mw3.
Killsteak - Support Horses?
Well, you can tell the engine is indeed in need of a change. Does, kinda, look interesting though.
to clarify, I'm not touching the Multiplayer in this game. I'm sure that'll suck, but the SP looks interesting at least
Also, I hope DICE makes a BF2143 game. Hell BF2142 had better graphics than this
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
But i do want a 2143. Best battlefield in the series was 2142 IMO.
we don't get wise comments like yours on N4G very often.
This is obviously console footage and I think it looks 5x better than the original Black Ops, which used a modified World At War Engine. I remember thinking that MW2 looked better than BO and it was a year older.
It looks like they are using a modified Modern Warfare Engine for Black Ops 2. Treyarch seems to be really inventive lately, they took us through the cold war in the last game and now we get a completely different setting that looks really slick.
People will hate, but I'm seeing a ton of positive reaction from even the biggest haters. I think this might be a pretty good entry. I think Treyarch has finally surpassed IW when it comes to quality.
Color me impressed, and I wasn't the biggest COD fan, and I don't buy every single one, but this one has my interest.
This is an example of why creativity is almost dead, shitty yearly game now ripping off good games while not upgrading or getting a new engine...*sigh* oh activision how you will never learn
EDIT: also, i don't think this site is correct. If it was set 20 years after black ops wouldnt it be the 1980's or 90's?
Here we go...it's going to get perfect scores again and then 4-5 months after release
"Ahhh....it's wasn't that good"
Sorry but if a game hardly changes then it should be marked down, tiny differences don't make a difference. I hope Halo 4 wipes the floor with this.
...that hype people so much. Then it hits retail, people initially love it, then after a month, hate on it. It's a cycle.
. . . no really it was a good comment :3