Call of Duty®: Black Ops II

Classic

who wanna run zombies?

Americanada

oldie but a goodie

excellente campagne

Call of Duty: Black Ops II — A Retrospective, Sort Of Fourteen years on, and Black Ops II remains the high-water mark of the entire franchise — a towering monument that every subsequent Call of Duty has been quietly, hopelessly trying to live up to ever since. Treyarch didn't just make a sequel in 2012. They made a piece of art, then had the wisdom to walk away before anyone could ruin it. (They came back later. Some ruining occurred. We don't discuss that era.) The campaign! A branching narrative where YOUR choices shape the outcome — practically unheard of at the time, and honestly still more ambitious than most "choice-driven" games released since. Set in a terrifyingly plausible 2025 of drone swarms, cyberwarfare, and a villain in Raul Menendez who deserves his own wing in the Pantheon of Great Video Game Antagonists. And reader — we have now lived through 2025. I'm just saying. Treyarch knew something. The Strike Force missions were, famously, divisive. I would like to go on record as one of the few people defending them as bold, ahead-of-their-time design. I will not be elaborating further. My position is the position. And then there's Zombies. Tranzit. Die Rise. Mob of the Dead. Buried. And — be still my heart — Origins. Giant steampunk robots, Element 115, the O4 squad fighting literal apocalypse machines in a WWI trench. If you know what it takes to finish that Easter egg, you understand why I get emotional over a video game from 2012. Which brings me to something I never thought I'd say — something I have actively mocked other people for saying. I want a remaster. Me. The guy who thinks remasters are usually soulless cash-ins in nostalgia's clothing. For THIS game? Polish the textures. Re-release the soundtrack. Take my money, Activision. I will defend this purchase with my life. Now, the elephant in the room: the multiplayer in 2026 is, to put it gently, a haunted house. Every lobby is a crime scene. Every match against "xX_Pr3stige_G0d_Xx" ends with me dead before textures finish loading, shot through three walls by what I can only describe as a sniper rifle forged from pure malware. And yet. Even knowing this. Even knowing I will boot up Nuketown 2025 and get aimbotted into next Tuesday — I cannot, in good conscience, give this game anything less than a glowing, unreserved, faintly tearful 10/10. Verdict: Masterpiece. Please remaster it. I'm begging. Would get aimbotted again.

asd

never seen an FPS with the story player choice that Bo2 has pulled off.

loved this game since launch

this game is amazing, but there are some bugs