Jetpacks with rigid wings. Gloves that can stick to any surface and the weight of the body. Ads that offer face when you walk by. Campaign Call of Duty: Black Ops II has some interesting ideas for the future of technology, but what about the future of this very popular series of shots? On the one hand, Black Ops II introduces new types of mission points and decisions that promote the campaign and a choice of spectacular championship game that represents a fundamental change in the multiplayer sacred duty. In addition, the campaign is running satisfactory pace capture the same frantic multiplayer zombie cooperative mode provides the same intensity and action of the undead slaughter rancid. Caught between the struggle for the future and remain stuck in the past, Black Ops II is solid, providing another roller coaster ride of great Call of Duty.
Fortunately, the country has an interesting history and to their heart. It introduces the main characters of Call of Duty: Black Ops, and referring to past events, clear narrative line is that it is easy to follow. He jumps between two periods of time: this is 2025, and the last, which extends over a decade during the Cold War. Reflections wood narratives elderly Frank (Star Black Ops) weave whichever way, but the character that drives the story is really bad, Raul Menendez. During the missions of the Cold War, which follows the original story Menendez and rise. In 2025, missions, desperately trying to avoid catastrophic plan. Character development is managed skillfully infusion alongside their missions with undercurrents of curiosity and urgency.
Things get even more intense when he is asked to make a decision. Press any key to kill a target, and the other to let him live. The terms of each option varies and there are only a few of them, but even when replying to a message, you can make a decision at a dramatic moment that will have consequences later. The culmination of the campaign is kept constant, but these decisions have no impact on the fate of the main characters. Some of these moments are sure to give you a break, adding a welcome bit of weight to the proceedings. Once we have seen throughout history, there is a feature that allows you to rewind useful to play previous levels, to see how different ways to play. There are also specific challenges of the mission that provide complementary objectives to complete in so doing, further increasing the incentive to play.
Course, familiar as it may be, that the pace is still great. Campaign highs and lows as they move through a variety of different environments and detailed with an arsenal of powerful weapons to send your enemies, sometimes jump on a plane or on a horse for a short stay or to conduct a missile turret to tame a hostile swarm of drones. A neat gadget and surprising moments of the game to satisfy the novelty quotient, but it always gives the feeling that you have done before. Attack missions, making new points spectacular and memorable villain helps to keep out of this concern, however, and fiesty, fun romp is more interesting to play again call the recent campaigns.
Black Ops competitive multiplayer II has also undergone some changes, especially in the way they are mounted before going into battle. The points system has COD Black Ops abandoned in favor of a new symbolic system that gives some control to unlock new weapons and equipment. The most interesting change is the new charging system, which gives ten points to play and awards a point for each item in your loadout (weapons, accessories, and death benefits and tactical elements). There is some flexibility if, for example, do not use a weapon a lot, but really need an asset or replacement authorization of new little "creativity limited. Put one in the loadout, and you can go and fight with two main weapons, or you can load a maximum benefits and bring a knife and your mind.
These are two extreme examples, but change their loadouts with the team you have chosen to unlock it also gives a feeling of more powerful and better equipped for combat. These are the battlefields fast and deadly that have attracted millions of players for years. Positioning and reflexes are the king, the shots are over in the blink of an eye, and success is rewarded with a satisfactory profit and equipment mortal experience. New team, new weapons and new rewards scoring streak are distributed throughout the world, offering new martial arts skills and strategic wrinkles. Traditional game modes and bending the rules all games offer the family cry, but a new game mode has the potential to really make a difference.
League play is also a significant change in the competitive game, because everything is unlocked from the start. This kind of freedom has been relegated to small ponds custom games, but now there is an ocean of players who choose one of the options themselves, when they enter a game. These levels of equal opportunities and allows you to harness the power of the arsenal Black Ops II from the beginning, which is great news for players tired of seeing their choices limited. However, this also means that they gain experience in how they can be used for the XP you get from the league is a nominal fee at the end of a match. Without the ever-present possibility of completing challenges, unlock new equipment and level, the League feels called divided Duty Modern tradition. It is a strange feeling, but it feels liberating, allowing you to focus on the action at hand, without the temptation to play a certain way to address some prizes. Championship game has the potential to change the way you play the game that I have loved for years, and is an exciting prospect.
Another new feature, called "codcasting", it is proposed to introduce a new type of player to the call of Duty scene. When the tail of a movie to play and select this function, you can watch the game with a set of tools that allow you to highlight the action. You can follow the actors, see some areas with a camera freedom, and also a way to use the image in the image to see the scale and the other side of action. While this has the potential to allow players to create dynamic and entertaining game-by-game, its current manifestation is very limited. Only films can codcast rescues you played, and if you can provide a custom solution for streaming, the only potential audience are the five players who can invite your lobby. Future updates of this feature can make it more useful, but for now it just feels like a shell of what it could be.
Black Ops II also announces the return as a zombie. Now in its third incarnation, this cooperative survival mode is fast, exciting and features some unusual mood. However, although some of the new missions to play with the formula with the addition of a bus or take a team competition to reflect the underlying grew stale. Pull the sponge ball zombie has no immediate satisfaction Call of Duty food and treat fragile mind becomes dull, even if the attacks are becoming faster and more numerous. The new cards are veins of fire explode when crossed and obscure his vision, adding more visual mud and dark environments. Maybe the fire is conceived as a sort of challenge platforms - often skips seems that the best way to avoid - but jumping does not make it less unpleasant environments where all the enemies are less annoying.
Although the zombie mode is in neutral, the rest of the Black Ops II is alive, and it's nice to see a change in the family structure. Dexterity developer Treyarch is back to tell stories after a campaign appealing, exciting, and adding sand league online multiplayer is an interesting change that could revitalize the formula that has lasted so long. Forward, while remaining rooted in the things he does so well, Black Ops II offers an experience of great shooter.
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHz or AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHz
Memory: 2GB for 32-bit OS or 4GB for 64-bit OS
Hardisk Space: 20GB
Video: Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 3870 512 MB Or Better
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Direct X: 9.0c
