Call of Duty: Black
Ops II is a
2012 first-person shooter video game, developed by Treyarch and published
by Activision (Square Enix for Japan). It was
released on November 13, 2012 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3,
and Xbox 360 and on November 18, 2012 in North America, November 30,
2012 in Europe and Australia for the Wii U.
Gameplay
Multiplayer:
What would Call of
Duty be these days without Online Multiplayer? Online Multiplayer returns with
all your favorite Playlists to play while leveling up through the
55 Ranks and 11 Prestiges. Like the last few iterations, 2-player split-screen is
available for Online Multiplayer, but Free-For-All and Hardcore Free-For-All cannot be played on Split
Screen. Party games are allowed (One in the Chamber, etc) even though they are
free for all type games.
Create A
Class has been overhauled with a new "Pick 10 System" for even
more customization, and a strong eSports presence is being used to share and stream matches to
everyone!
Zombies:
Treyarch has confirmed that the Zombies mode will return
for Black
Ops II with new game
modes. Its predecessors were Call of Duty: World at War and Call
of Duty: Black Ops.
This is the third time for the Zombies mode to appear in a Call
of Duty game, and the
first time to have game modes other than the traditional Survival mode. Treyarch has also confirmed
that Zombies will run on the game's multiplayer engine, allowing for a deeper
community experience, along with new features. A new, 8 player co-op game
called "Grief" is also supported, featuring 2 teams of 4 players
competing to survive, unlike Call of Duty: World at War and Call
of Duty: Black Ops,
which only supported 4 player online co-op. As with the previous game, each map
contains "Easter eggs" side quests, which is used to progress the
story.
Story
:
In Cold War-era Nevada, a team
of CDC operatives investigate a nuclear testing site known as "Nuketown", where they
are attacked by zombies. Dr. Edward Richtofen is heard via a television, carrying out his scheme on
the Moon. Richtofen seizes control of
the zombies by entering the Aether, but Dr. Ludvig Maxis works with his daughter Samantha and Richtofen's former allies, Tank
Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, and Takeo Masaki to
thwart him. To this end, Maxis launches three massive nuclear missiles filled
with Element 115, the element responsible for the reanimation of dead cells, at
the Earth, destroying it. One missile completely destroys Nuketown and all present.
Voices:
- Sam Worthington voiced Alex Mason
- Michael Keaton replaced Ed Harris as
Jason Hudson
- James C. Burns voiced and provided motion capture for
Frank Woods
- Andrew Divoff returned as the voice of Lev Kravchenko
- Rich McDonald voiced and provided motion capture for
David "Section" Mason
- Michael Rooker voiced and provided motion-capture for Section's squadmate, Mike~
- HarperErin Cahill voiced and provided motion capture for Chloe "Karma"
Lynch
- Tony Todd voiced and provided motion-capture for
Admiral Briggs
- Byron Mann voiced Tian Zhao
- Kamar de los Reyes voiced and provided motion capture
for Raul Menendez;
- Robert Picardo, who had previously voiced Secretary Robert
McNamara in Black Ops, voiced Black Ops II 's Erik Breighner.
- Michelle Rodriguez, Clancy
Brown and Brian Bloom as Strike Force Soldiers
- Viktor Reznov, who was voiced by Gary Oldman, from World
at War and Black
Ops appears in a
brief cameo though voice lines were taken from the first game
Sales:
Activision believes Call of Duty: Black Ops II day-one
shipments were the largest for any game ever. "The record number of
pre-orders from last year's Modern Warfare 3 drove the largest day-one
shipments in our history, and in the industry's history," said Activision
Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg during an earnings
call on November 13, 2012. Hirshberg said more than 2.5 million people queued at 16,000
shops at midnight on Monday to buy Black Ops II, "making it the
largest retail release in Activision's history and in the industry's
history".
Black Ops II went on to
gross $1 billion in the first 15 days of availability, beating Modern
Warfare 3's record of the first
16 days.
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