Would you like more content with your game, sir?
Hopefully you can pick up the sarcasm in that rhetorical question, because as far as products go, you don't get too many as jam-packed with gameplay and features as you do Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Say what you will about the world's most popular modern gaming franchise, but I can tell you there is almost something for everyone in Black Ops 2, and if you were thinking this is just going to be more of the same, you're somewhat mistaken, because Treyarch has changed things up in ways that I hope will redirect the development of Call of Duty forever.
Whether it's the tightly balanced level-design in multiplayer or its game-changing new customisation angle in the Pick 10 Create-A-Class system or the expanded and more visceral than ever Zombies mode, Black Ops 2 will deliver. And if you're a story person, well, they've really changed that one up too with bigger, more expanded levels, a deeper and lightly dynamic story with multiple endings and arcs and an antagonist you're going to love to hate.
Click here for our in-depth review.
Posted 06:06pm 13/11/12
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It definitely changes a lot of what you think you know about CoD.
Posted 06:39pm 13/11/12
cant believe people actually buy and adore this game like there was no fps until cod came along
Posted 07:00pm 13/11/12
Nice review though Steve, explains why exactly you've enjoyed this title and certainly shows that it is at least offering something new.
Posted 07:07pm 13/11/12
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Posted 07:34pm 13/11/12
And yes I've played it, but no way payed for it.
Posted 07:35pm 13/11/12
Posted 07:37pm 13/11/12
Can't wait to play the campaign and month of the MP.
Posted 07:41pm 13/11/12
Posted 07:52pm 13/11/12
its the same rehashed s*** over and over again....
you guys destroy other games for this but praise cod....
Posted 07:53pm 13/11/12
I'm done with the call of duty line.
Posted 08:44pm 13/11/12
Posted 09:23pm 13/11/12
I want it just for something to do, mindless shooting and camping.
Posted 09:31pm 13/11/12
I had a go before, pretty basic old CoD for the most part, just with all game modes etc from previous ones chucked together really. Is fun though, much better than mw3 or blops imo.
Posted 09:47pm 13/11/12
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Posted 10:46pm 13/11/12
Compares prices from various sites. Looks like $55 is cheapest. Pretty pricey for the MP which is pretty much what i would buy it for, especially considering it will be only a matter of time til rip-off DLC is released and splits gamers (as already mentioned).
Need to check out some gameplay vids and try planetside beta before im gunna commit to this one.
Posted 11:00pm 13/11/12
Posted 12:00am 14/11/12
Posted 12:23am 14/11/12
The graphics are COD but they are the best of any COD so far. So far I am not finding them distractedly bad like I did in MW3. I think the better animation and lighting makes a difference.
MP has been a lag fest all day. Stuttery and slow for everyone. Some matches are better than others. Many have been unplayable. Even the best matches I got tonight were still laggy, but running smooth.
Also what happened to dedicated servers on PC? I can't find the option. I definitely read them say this would have a server browser.
There also are already hackers. No joke. Saw a guy literally running around head shotting with a sniper rifle. Running through nuke town getting about 6 head shots in the few seconds of replay of my death. Also saw a few suss ones. Sniped through objects where on kill cam I wasn't visible. People running around corners pre firing. When you could seat the start of the replay they were no where they could have seen you go there.
Can't really judge MP until it's running smoothly. However I still enjoy this laggy version better than MW3 MP. Which I couldn't stand.
So far if they get their act together and get it running smooth. It should be the good COD distraction from BF3 that I want for the time being.
Posted 12:48am 14/11/12
On the one hand I'd imagine it'd be more gumby than playing on PC, but then on the other hand I figure everyone else would be more gumby too, so maybe it just evens out.
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Posted 02:32am 14/11/12
I dont see why you would throw away PC experience for console gameplay just to avoid cheating which im not convinced is actually a problem for PC gamers. You could always get that xim3 thing then dominate the console kiddies, that would be lols.
Posted 09:17am 14/11/12
PLUS the shotguns are friggen awesome
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Posted 09:46am 14/11/12
Same production plant probably prints both games so someone there royally screwed the pooch.
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Posted 12:21pm 14/11/12
It's not acceptable. I can't seem to find any official response to it. The game is unplayable.
Posted 12:34pm 14/11/12
Posted 12:36pm 14/11/12
and it looks EXACTLY the f***** same as the previous games
Posted 12:41pm 14/11/12
You can always play bots or play through the SP before jumping into MP to get familiar with the sticks.
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Posted 02:10pm 14/11/12
It can't be over rated if it breaks more sales records bro... Over rated would be all this media attention and then it flops in sales.
MW3 made more money in a week than Avatar the movie did, cant remember the exact figures but it was in the billions and BLOPS2 is supposed to surpass that.
It gets the 'hype' because never in our history has so many people spent so much money on a game. Hype would be all this media attention and no one lining up at the media launches.
Love it or Hate it mate but as Farrelley so eloquently put it "the world's most popular modern gaming franchise"
Majority Rules bruv its societies rule not mine so dont hate me for stating the obvious ;)
I dont mind a bash at the analogue sticks every now and then and afetr a few games last night thought it was ok
But lets get one thing straight.... COD aint got s*** on BF3 and BF3 could be considered an old game now.... So disappointed in MOH Warfighter... how could they luanch such a s*** game after BF3??? its just astounding!
Posted 02:40pm 14/11/12
Posted 03:05pm 14/11/12
Does BLOPS 2 (PC) run on PB? if so you may need to reinstall it - just guessing
Is it only happening with MP or campaign as well?
Posted 03:13pm 14/11/12
Posted 03:24pm 14/11/12
Hey bro apparently tons of people world wide experiencing the same issue.
Here is a link to a few possible fixes.... looks like a steam issue?
http://steamcommunity.com/app/202990/discussions/0/864951475476432014/
Posted 03:24pm 14/11/12
Posted 03:51pm 14/11/12
Yeah just posted a possible fix above...
Posted 04:51pm 14/11/12
That fix doesn't work sadly, that's just a troubleshoot in case people skipped the install process :(
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Posted 06:27pm 14/11/12
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/iinet-to-host-australias-only-black-ops-ii-pc-servers/
Posted 06:37pm 14/11/12
Posted 10:25pm 14/11/12
Also wtf is up with aiming? I think it's lag compensation. It's terrible you aim right at people and miss. I'm excellent at FPS like BF3 with aim. In this I aim and completely miss. Players still sometimes skip around the screen making it impossible.
Posted 12:30am 15/11/12
But over the last 2 or 3 years I have seen quite a few of these high 9s for games that definitely, in my opinion, did not deserve this kind of high score; not technically, not SP gameplay wise, not for AI and not for MP.
MW3 was such a game. 9.6.
BF3 Armored Kill 9.0.
FIFA13 9.0.
This brings into doubt the usefulness of Ausgamers reviewers' current scoring methods. Are the scores arbitrary? Is it a gut feel of the game? Or is it a technical- and evidence-backed score that takes into account the efforts of other contemporary games?
If MW3, BF3AK and FIFA13 score 9+s, does a 9.4 for BLOPS2 really mean 9.4?
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Posted 06:40am 15/11/12
Although its a relatively blocky game compared to other modern engines, it runs at a high framerate and no other shooter in recent memory (especially BF3 and its children) has nearly as tight controls. The iceskating, rock sticking and floatyness of all the frostbite engined games is as bad as their sound engine is good.
Posted 10:02am 15/11/12
I also had a frustrating crash during SP. Nothing makes you more annoyed at scripted moments and scenes when you have to replay them a couple times in a row because the game is crashing.
I ended up getting to right before it crashed. Quit so it'd remember checkpoints. Went in lowered settings. Got past it, then put them up again and it was fine.
Posted 10:27am 15/11/12
I have to say it for me to play a solid 2+ hours after midnight means it was pretty dam good.
Having said that it might just be the novelty and no doubt will probably find myself migrating back to the PC and BF3.
Xbox has been gathering a lot of dust since the PC upgrade and BF3...
Juries still out on this one for me...
Posted 05:07pm 15/11/12
Firstly what is with the aim, you can be dead on someone and missing. Aiming like I do in every other FPS including the SP of BO2. Yet in MP i'm forever missing. God help it if they are moving at any speed. I jumped into Blops 1 and I was dead on accurate. BO2 I see someone I aim I fire like in every other FPS and miss. When they're moving this is impossible. I guess I have to learn to always aim at where I think someone is about to be. Not actually at them.
This mechanic is terrible. I though BF3's netcode was terrible. This is just insane.
Often you're firing straight at someone. Yet on the kill cam of them shooting you, you're firing about 45 degrees away from them.
What you see on the kill cam is rarely how it appeared on your end. You see someone pop around a corner shooting instantly. Yet on their screen they walk around, you're visible for a while then they shoot.
Enemies are seemingly right next to you and you can't see them. Even sometimes apparently in front of you and you don't see them. You just die.
When someone opens fire on you, you're basically screwed and rarely can run away, jump to cover.
Also on Kill cam's, it seems everyone is dead on with their aim. I guess this is just an artifact of lag compensation? Which isn't there in the replay. I am also constantly being killed by people who know where I am before I am visible. This is to a ridiculous level as well.
I must say, I actually preferred the MP when it was laggy. Now that it's not, it's a total WTF is this. How can anyone play a FPS like this. It's just bizaar. You're so disconnected from the action and the game.
Posted 10:35am 16/11/12