Black Ops 2, for all its wackiness, tells a story that's simply far more interesting and personal than any other Call of Duty game I've played. And I'll take quality over quantity with a game like this which really emphasizes multiplayer over single-player. For one thing, it didn't seem very different than many other Call of Duty campaigns. No, I won't hold the campaign's brevity against it. I finished the game in a day which is something I can't say for many games I play. Perhaps I'm biased as a video game critic-perhaps a short campaign can come as something of a relief from time to time. I'm not sure I agree with this complaint at all. One complaint lodged against Black Ops 2 is the length of its campaign. I only played through the campaign once, so I'm not privy to the alternate endings yet, but my ending was pretty good actually. There are a handful (but only a very small handful) of choices the player can make, and these choices can lead to different outcomes at the end of the game. I'm sure the team over at Treyarch had a minor heart attack when they heard of the CIA Director's affair.īut all told, as far as the stories in Call of Duty games go, this was one of the most interesting I've seen. It's also really, really bad timing of course, with the Petraeus scandal just hitting. It's a good lesson in why fictional games should avoid using real people and pop-culture blurbs as much as possible, especially if they set the game in the future. The unfortunate appearance of David Petraeus as the 2025 Defense Secretary (aboard the USS Barack Obama) gave me a chuckle, and the line "So this is how the 1% live" made me wonder if we'll actually still be using that terminology in 2025, in which case kill me now. Really? Your city is crumbling into ashes all around you, and we're supposed to worry about some diplomats because of the political fallout?
It's not the big action sequences that bugged me most-we expect these-it's other moments.įor instance, when a city is undergoing a major skyscraper-toppling invasion, the primary concern of the military is to protect G20 leaders because the fallout of any of their deaths will be so catastrophic. There are moments when the implausibility gets to be a bit overwhelming. It's a Mission Impossible style action-movie of a game, with a whole suite of implausible plot twists, betrayals, and reasonably good voice-acting and direction. Suffice to say the way both plots weave together makes for a much more interesting Call of Duty game than we've seen in the past. He's obviously a bit off his rocker from the very beginning, but over the course of the game we come to learn that he's not only completely insane, he's also an evil genius and a people person capable of uniting 2 billion of the world's people behind his "Cordis Die" movement while pulling off Joker-style trick moves on the government. Menendez is a narco-terrorist working with all sorts of bad characters and he becomes a CIA target pretty quickly. We first encounter Raul Menendez during a rescue operation in the storyline of the father, Alex Mason.
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