Call of Duty: Black Ops II presents some interesting theories regarding future technology. This massively huge and popular shooter series has broken more technological barriers than Chuck Yeager in the Bell X1. But what does the future hold for this game and its devoted followers, and how does it stay in touch with its hallowed past?
In this latest offering, Black Ops II campaigns hit those familiar and satisfying high notes, multi player mode delivers the same brutal and frenetic energy, and zombie mode coughs up more fleshy undead massacres.
Caught between reaching for the future yet remaining true to its roots,
Black ops II happily lands on solid ground, delivering yet another exciting ride on the famed Black Ops roller coaster.
The ride begins rough and graphic, depicting the kind of gory violent scenes that you become accustomed to seeing throughout the course of the game. Some contribute to character development, others are just gratuitously violent.
Fortunately Black Ops II offers an engaging story and great dollops of entertaining action – the hallmark of this series. Lead characters are reprised from the original Black Ops and in this version you jump back and forth between several time frames: the year 2025, the present, and the past, which goes all the way back to the Cold War. Missions are infused with undercurrents of urgency and curiosity, seen through the eyes of an elderly Frank Woods from the first Black Ops. Raul Menendez is the protagonist in the Cold War missions, and is the real villain of the story. The parallel characters are well developed and deftly handled, infusing missions with tense undercurrents and urgency.
Strike missions have been added as a new campaign level. These missions place you in squads of drones and soldiers, and you can choose what assets to control. Defending installations against attack, escorting convoys, rescuing hostages – these are some of the missions you will undertake. Even though you have your own squad under your command, the strike missions are very much about you personally gunning down the enemy. AI allies only hinder enemies slightly so you have to do all the real nitty-gritty yourself, often as you track events unfolding on multiple fronts and having to keep a cool head while dealing with advancing enemies. In Ops II you get to look at the bigger picture as opposed to just shooting everything in sight, and that’s a welcome and refreshing shot in the arm.
Black Ops II is certainly lively, and the story-telling prowess of the developers has produced yet another exciting, powerful and engaging campaign. Call of Duty: Black Ops II reaches into the future yet remains solidly true to the roots that made it so successful, and in the process offers a powerful and memorable shooter experience well deserving of the accolades.
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