Game summary:
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is a first-person shooter video game, developed by treyarch and published by Activision. It was released on November 13, 2012 for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Black Ops II is the first game in the Call of Duty franchise to feature future warfare technology and the first to present branching storylines driven by player choice as well as selecting weapons before staring story mode missions.
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Gameplay:
Campaign-
As said in the summary Black Ops II is the fist Call of Duty video game to feature branching storylines, in which player's choice affects both the current mission and in turn, the overall course of the story. Which these branching storylines are called "Strike Force Missions".
Multiplayer-
- One of the biggest changes added to multiplayer is the introduction of Pick 10, which is a new system within the Create-a-Class menu. This gives the player a total of 10 allocation slots in a class, which are used for guns, perks, grenades, etc...
- Kill-streaks from previous Call of Duty games are renamed as Score-streaks, which are now earned by gaining points, rather than kills.
- Unlike past games, weapons in BO2 have a progression system, which is used to unlock weapon attachments. When the gun is maximum level the player can choose to prestige the gun, like they prestige the player. In exchange the player can customize their weapons with custom clan tags and emblems.
- Also BO2 was the first to include a competitive game mode. Known as League Play, the mode allows players of similar skill to be matched together.
Zombies-
Treyarch confirmed that zombies would return for Black Ops II with new game modes. They have also confirmed that zombies would run on the games multiplayer engine. A new game mode called "Grief" was added, which is an 8 player co-op, with two teams of four competing to survive. Another form of zombies is "Tranzit" where up to four players go around different maps collecting information of what lies ahead of what they are wiling to discover.
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Reverse Compatibility/ My Opinion:
For several months Black Ops 2 was assumed to be coming to Xbox one's Reverse compatible service. Backwards compatibility means that games from the older console, Xbox 360, can be played on the newer consoles, Xbox one/one s, and can be played with people from the older consoles as well. Many people have been waiting for this since the remastered edition of Modern Warfare 2 came out, and some have been wanting it from before that. I personally could not wait until this game was reverse compatible, along with basically all of my friends I play with. When it finally came out we played for hours upon hours. We couldn't get enough of it! All in all this is one of my favorite games to play. There is only that off occasion that hackers ruin the game for me when they are invisible or can't die or something. Other that that I give this game a 10/10.
Video Gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mnDV07-oKQ
