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Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024

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Mark F

Sloppy execution, run and gun only. Good try but in the end bad implementation.

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2013

I play on a PC, The game has become a total run and gun game, high energy, fast reflexes and no thinking. Tactical is out of the question. I am 52 years old and have played COD since day 1. It is now ruined, I have to run and gun with a submachine gun to even compete,anything else and I might as well not play,just too slow even with perks.I can know someone is coming - sit there aiming and if the opponent has a submachine gun I will die most of the time, I can't even click the mouse fast enough- not possible and I have a very fast gaming rig that I just built recently for this game, very fast hard wired Internet and G90 mouse. Shotguns are useless, snipers don't stand a chance, assault rifles ok but still at a major disadvantage. The lag compensation is unbelievable, I am pretty sure that the better Internet connections are at a disadvantage to the bad ones. Please bring back dedicated servers for your core players. The game is geared for the teenager, Xbox, ps3 one and done crowd. Also the spawns are the worst yet. Try to establish a front for a few seconds and the opposition will suddenly shoot you in the back, spawn right behind you and there is a good chance he is the guy you just killed IN FRONT of you, or spawn right in front of a bullet, grenade or the other team, frustrating. I don't think I will purchase the DLC, probably look for a different game. By the way, I can take a skorpion with a laser site, fmj, and long barrel, use lightweight, dexterity, fast hands and win easily. In the end there are just too many issues and issues that I cannot seem to figure out how to overcome for me to recommend this game.

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Marguerite

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Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024

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911Ambition

Black Ops 2, Multiplayer Review

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2012

Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

You download the code from amazon and the redeem it through steam and proceed to download the game.

I haven't played the single player mode yet, so my review will be based on multiplayer.

As of now, there seems to be no hacker, so far so good.

The graphics seems better than MW3 and I'm getting over 100 fps maxed out setting with a gtx 660ti.

The multiplayer game, i.e. the Team Deathmatch mode, is fast paced, first to 75 points wins, so if you come from BF3 and don't enjoy the fast pace intensity then this is not for you.
Black Ops 2 is, in my opinion a mixture of black ops 1 and MW3, the keybinding is more black ops 1 I think, you have to play around with it to get used to, but overall, after you have
customized your keybindings, it is quite awesome. Also, set your FOV to 80, default is 65, this will allow you to see a broader view of the map.

But for those that are new to this, don't be frustrated too much if your K/D ratio is low, since by now, people have basically memorized the maps and know where you will likely be. Just get familiar with the map and you should be fine.

They have implemented lots of new guns compared to MW3, so that's something to play around with, which is nice. I'll be updating once I get higher up in the game. Right now at lvl 22.

Overall, I think the game will be awesome if hackers are little to nonexistent

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Mark F

Sloppy execution, run and gun only. Good try but in the end bad implementation.

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2013

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Josh Jones

I LOVE THIS FREAKING GAME

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2014

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2 Dvd's, unopened, no defects and the code worked for steam so I can play online. It arrived EXTREMELY FAST, it was at my house the next day, the product itself well I could just not have wished for more especially at the price (this game still goes for 59.99 on steam). Can not go wrong in that aspect what so ever.

As for the GAME, the software/gameplay itself. I LOVE THIS FREAKING GAME! Servers on Steam are still full, in the few days I played it I have yet to run into a hacker and overall its a fast paced game which will get your heart pounding if you do the online play.

Now for the bad part, it is a Call of Duty game.. Which means in about 4 hours you can beat the entire game in normal mode or maybe a little longer in expert mode, if you want to play the game for the story its a good story, but its no game you will play for a month in offline play. Thank god for CoD's epic multiplayer, really makes up for everything else. Also, screw you guys who run around with every possible explosive the game offers, nothing like walking up to a wall and seeing the entire ground around you turn into ash along with everything from your waist down. Sigh, I suck at these games but it's just too addicting not to play.

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Brad

Call of Duty stepping up

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2013

Platform For Display: PCEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

I will try to avoid any biases here, this is just a review of the game in context with other Call of Duty games I have played. I will try to avoid making any statements suggesting other games while writing this, but I may reference them once in a while. Now, where to begin...

Well, I am ecstatic to see Treyarch making some very strong changes to the classic CoD formula. Same famous Call of Duty engine, but with some nice new features.

-I strongly like the custom load out menu before each campaign mission. It allows you to play the level however you want without having to hunt down good guns. I also like the player perks and 3 attachment gun limit. You will have plenty of time to experiment with many different loadout choices.

-Multiplayer is very well polished and also full of new features, like completely original guns and a 10 option loadout cap, helping to ease the burden on new players while keeping the vets on their toes.

-The ability to actually change the outcome of the campaign is also a cool little feature. This game has far greater replay ability than the previous versions, however because you are forced to re-wind your story to experience the alternate endings, it does lead to some annoyances having to pretty much start from scratch (You lose all your campaign loadout unlocks back to the level you choose to replay the campaign from).

-Strike Force bonus missions. Feels like Rainbow Six on steroids, and a lot of fun to beat. Strike Force missions are sub objectives you can complete while playing the campaign to help you recover from bad choices in levels or aid you in future levels. In Strike Force, you command multiple units of troops, weapons, and drones to complete objectives like escorting convoys, disabling enemy commanders, and more.

-Zombies mode is huge, with Tranzit being very entertaining while playing with friends. There are plenty of cool little secrets in the new Zombies mode. It is truly a great standalone zombie game.

Anyone who is familiar with previous call of duty games may have a little struggle getting used to actually having to think about consequences in the story, I think you'll find the choice making options a welcome addition

Now, time for my not-so-hot points

-Quirks. This game has A LOT of them. It feels like 2 years wasn't enough time for treyarch to fine tune the game after adding all the features to campaign mode, and there are some interesting side effects. For example, after hitting enter on the campaign loadout screen, that is your loadout for the level. You either beat it with that loadout or rewind your story to the level prior and play through that. No way to restart the level with a new loadout. Another big issue I have with this current version is the console mechanic roll overs, such as turret control or driving vehicles. Quite a few of the controls absolutely suck with a keyboard and mouse, I found myself plugging in my controller multiple times out of frustration because of it.

-Multiplayer: Although well polished and with new guns/gamemodes, it feels like more of the same. They actually took away a lot of hardcore gamemodes, and there seems to be a DLC upgrade for everything. I already paid $50 for the game, why do I need to buy extra loadout slots, or special player cards? There are already plenty of complaints about small party sizes and unfair weapon power, so I'll leave that be

-Same engine: There is very little groundbreaking about gameplay mechanics and graphics since the last call of duty games. There really isn't much of a change here at all that I can see.

Overall, this is Call of Duty, just bigger and better (mostly). Multiplayer is the pretty much the same as it's been since MW2, with some cool new features and better polishing. Campaign's new features far outway it's slight quirks, and zombies more than makes up for everything else that may be wrong with the game. I would recommend this for any Call of Duty fan or a gamer looking for something to kill a few hours with (although I would wait for a price drop). Thanks for reading, hope this has helped.

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Madinventor

Fun Game

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2013

Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

Interesting new title in the COD franchise. I purchased this primarily for the multiplayer. So far the multiplayer has be excellent with a great new variety in weapons, perks, build design (completely different in some respects), game types, and level design. The ability to sneak was nerfed hard by dissecting key skills into about 5-6 different perks and giving access to those perks near prestige levels. So much of the game has been reduced to run'n'gun and spray'n'pray. Sniping is not really viable in any sense because levels lack large stretches of open ground to sit on overwatch. There will always be 3-5 UAVs at any time (not worth shooting down). For anything other than Hardcore, learn to live with being a dot on the map. I find most of the Sub-machine guns to be heavily over-powered in the weapons dynamic(pick one up to stop dying, earn the FAL or another single fire assault rifle, or enjoy shotgun mayhem). Customize your classes to the max. Perks and builds allow for 5-6 perk classes, 3 weapon attachments on your primary, standard overkill with attachments, and a great many more possibilities. Basically, the only limit is that you have 10 slots to customize a class with and a slot is filled by assigning weapons, attachments, perks, equipment, and wildcards(builds).
-Haven't seen many hackers personally, game chat reveals some cheaters (or whiners) and seemingly order is kept.
-Don't expect a BO1 server experience, but these are dedicated and monitored (even when ranked)(much better than MW3)

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Faren Kaito

The Full Package

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2013

Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

Despite being a big fan of Call of Duty back when the series began, I've turned my nose up at the more recent offerings. BLOPS 2's near-future setting finally made me break down and try again, and boy am I glad I did. This game is a fantastic package. Simply put, the amount of content you get for your money is outstanding. The multiplayer is extremely robust, with lots of different game modes to try, and even without the dlc there are plenty of varied locations to fight over. The variety in weapons and updgrades means that even though the learning curve is high, it's easy to find a niche which best suits your skills.

Beyond the excellent multiplayer portion, there's also zombies, which is quite fun, despite being frustrating to play with people who aren't your friends, and also single-player. I'm not a huge fan of single-player, though it is mildly diverting, because it's very much an on-rails experience. The one exception are the new special ops missions, which are more freeform and very tense, but you can only play them in the course of the campaign rather than on their own, which seems like a missed opportunity.

One more thing: this game is extremely well optimized, and will look amazing even on a somewhat dated laptop like mine.

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Amazon Customer

HAD A BIG MEAL BUT DON'T FEEL FULL

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2012

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Single Player: Rating ***

PROS: Black Ops 2 once again does a great job at creating a cinematic experience that mixes real world characters with fictional creations. In sense it almost has a harry turtledove taste to it. The engaging story line and ability to determine what happens in the game through your actions is a plus and gives it good replay value in addition to the challenges and intel you can collect. I also love the addition of feasible futuristic equipment and weapons.

It allows you to compare scores with your friends so you can get bragging rights in an additional category of the game.

CONS: Its glitchy. I had to restart the "Time and Fate" mission because the characters wouldn't advance after I took everyone out from the bell tower. Other times you have to trigger the AI to proceed to the next point because it seems like its waiting for something to happen.

The AI is also mediocre at best. I played this game on Veteran and it was highly disappointing to see that I could pretty much Rambo my way through sections of many maps. Also enemies appear behind you out of thin air after you have cleared some areas ; they don't even come out of a door or run they just appear.

The strike force missions were very promising at first but they are pretty easy to beat and leave a lot to be desired. The idea is very nice, in essence the game mixes World in Conflict or Starcraft strategic military thinking with the ability to play first person as any of the squads you control and switch between them during the course of the fight. I was able to direct all personnel to the Objective point and then I played as a soldier and shot my way through everyone.

MULTIPLAYER: **

PROS: The ability to select up to 10 options for your class is a welcome enhancement. The maps are very fun to play and there is something for everyone. Killstreak rewards are exciting and continue the spirit of awesomeness as the first black ops.

CONS: NO DEDICATED SERVERS! This is IWNET 2.0. Just let the server pick random people and smush them together. Its hard for me to get a great ping. Why is it so hard to give PC players a dedicated server? Don't have to reinvent the wheel. If its not broke don't fix it. Now just to make it clear I knew that the game didn't have Dedicated Servers before preordering but I was also aware that their system for multiplayer would be an improvement over IWNET. When your environment gets chosen for you it really destroys the experience of all the extra things you can do with this release of Black ops.

Nuketown 2025 is NOT a permanent map. I was tricked into believing that the map was included when you preordered the copy. Nuketown 2025 was fun and available to play but only during the 1st week of release. If Treyarch had made it clear that this was the case I would not have had a need to peorder this game. I think its pretty deceitful to the pull the map out of the blue.

ZOMBIES: ****

PROS: TRANZIT!!! Its a HUGE map that has a player explore 5 bus stops. The new elements in this iteration of zombies is that you have BUS as a transportation and you have the ability to play in 5 different environments. Also there is an abudance of buildable weapons and easter eggs that intertwine and require that players explore every inch of the world for you to have maximum survivability.

Another thing that I like is that ability to migrate hosts when you have a crybaby player who rage quits in a middle of a match because he/she is to wussy to play zombies and keeps on dying.

The leader boards are also a welcomed addition. Now one has the ability to see just where you rank with other people across the world. It includes much more categories apart from kills and highest level. It gives you the career total for Kills, Revives, downs, perks, door opened, etc. and it includes a ranking system so that when you in a lobby you can instantly know if you are playing with noobs or pros.

CONS: The graphics in zombies are blocky at times specially in when you are looking at the lights from the bus. Grief mode is only available within the confinement of a single town. I think it would be much more exciting to have 4 v 4 in TRANZIT.

Its been a week since the release of Black Ops 2 and I feel full but not totally satisfied. It has nice entertainment value on zombies alone and I recommend you wait to get this game when it goes down in price in the future. Move on to other exciting video games that have been released this fall unless you are in withdrawals and can't fathom not being able to play.

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R. Rogers

I want my COD: Black Ops II!

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2012

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As a dedicated player of COD: Black Ops, I have been anticipating the release of BO2. After all the disappointments I have been forced to endure by pre-ordering other games, such as Battlefield III, MW3, etc. I was somewhat hesitant to pre-order this game and considered just waiting for the reviews to see what everyone else thinks of the game before dropping another $60.00 on a loser - as MOH: Warfighter turned out to be.

I love COD: Black Ops. It is, by far, the superior game in the series. MW2 is also a great game, but MW3 was a step back. I am hoping that BO2 does not take the same step back, with cheesy/small maps and mobility issues.

[Edit - removed rant about Amazon's shipping practices, added actual game review]

I received the game on Friday, kudos to Amazon and USPS!

Anyway, on to the game review....

It took about 45 minutes to an hour to completely install the game - including Steam's updates. It was painless, as my Steam account is always up to date.

I started off by playing the Campaign - the first 4 levels, before jumping into Multiplayer. I haven't tried Zombies yet.

It is definitely a fast paced game, and often times confusing because the game rushes you into performing tasks. It also requires the use of keys that I am not normally used to using and don't have bound to my Logitech G13 Keypad. So I ended up using my keyboard to play the Campaign. Setting up my G13 for use in multiplayer was simple enough, although I kept having to resort to my keyboard's number keys to use killstreaks - which was annoying. Now I will have to change my key bindings to accommodate those numbered keys - if I have room to add them.

The Multiplayer in Black Ops II is similar to Black Ops I. As everyone is aware, they revamped the way you unlock options and perks and it gives you the ability to choose your own customized load-outs. I also like the way that Black Ops II Multiplayer gives you the choice of which killstreak to use when you want to - instead of defaulting to the last killstreak earned. There are also numerous additional killstreak options available.

The only complaints that I have, is that when I was using a LMG - shooting someone with a high caliber weapon, they are able to walk through my fire with a knife or SMG and kill me, even though I am supposedly pumping them full of FMJ rounds.

Another irritating thing that is left over from Black Ops I, are the tags in CTF that say "Defend" and "Grab", they are solid in Black Ops II and block your view. At least in Black Ops I they turned transparent and disappeared when you were targeting through them.

Also, in CTF, the flag runner is constantly tracked with a "Kill" tag over his head. In Black Ops I, to know the flag runners position, you had to have a UAV or Blackbird in the air and track them down on your map. It's easy to spot the flag runner, he is the guy with the flag in his hands you idiot developers.

I have heard some reviewers make false claims that there is no "Hardcore" mode, which is absolutely false. Although it does suck that Nuketown is a Softcore map.

I have also heard some reviewers claim that the Graphics were sub-par, which is also absolutely false. The graphics are great (ASUS GTX480). Even my wife came into the room and commented on how great the graphics were.

I have also heard some reviewers claim that the Sound is sub-par, which is also a ludicrous claim. The sound is great - depending on your hardware and if you have it set-up in the game correctly.

Overall I give this game a 4 star rating, based on the issues I mentioned with the game play.

Game Play - 8 Stars
Maps - 10 Stars
Graphics - 10 Stars
Sound - 10 Stars
Story Line? - Who cares, it's Black Ops II!

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M. Wells

Good Game

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2012

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There are three parts to this game. The Campaign, Zombies (co-op), and Multiplayer (pvp).

The campaign was terrible at first, about half way through it gets much better. The first half there is a lot of on the fly and really confusing commands flashed on the screen. It was tedious and really frustrating. The story in the first half is so dull and the missions were just annoying. I actually quit playing it for a few days because it was just that bad.

The second half of the campaign is so much better. You get to see amazing graphics and the story and game-play become more friendly and easier to follow. I really started getting into the story and was on the edge of my seat to see what was going to happen next. I'm glad I returned to finish the campaign it was very satisfying.

Zombies is really difficult and frustrating at first. Once you figure out what it is you're supposed to be doing and play a few hundred times, you'll figure out how to stay alive more than a few rounds. It's best to go watch some Youtube videos on it before even wasting your time trying to figure it out from scratch.

However I have to say I'm disappointed in how little they provided in story and objectives. There is so much more they could have done with zombies, it's just a let down in my eyes.

Multiplayer is also a bit tricky at first but like with zombies, you gotta struggle through the learning process. Once you level to 55 you will have learned what you need to know and will have unlocked most weapons.

I didn't care for it at first but I forced myself to play and glad I did because now that I've learned the maps, weapons, and playing style, it's a lot of fun and I can't seem to stop playing it.

The best thing about multiplayer is how well put together and beautiful it all is. The music/sounds, scenery, and game-play all work so smoothly and perfect.

The worst thing about multiplayer is the "random" spawns after people die. 9 times out of 10 when you die, it's from being shot in the back. From what I can gather this happens because the maps are too small. As your team pushes through the map starting from one side and moving toward the enemy on the opposite side. As the enemy dies and your team advances further and further.. the enemy runs out of safe spawn areas and would basically be pinned down. So, the game spawns them on the opposite side of the map where it's safe "behind you". So as you're finishing killing off a few enemies a large wave of enemies comes running up behind you and shoots most your team dead thus repeating the spawn wave. Yes, very frustrating but that's how it is.

Overall it's a beautiful and fun game if you have the patience and determination to struggle through the learning processes and super annoying frustrations of the spawns in multiplayer.

A lot of people like comparing COD's to MOH's, imo they are completely different games. I loved BF3 however, the main reason I even bought BO2 was because BF3 has so many issues, bad updates, crashes, conflicts, memory leaks, and no real support to speak of. It's such a relief to be able to play a solid perfectly working beautiful fun game like BO2. I wish BO2 had the large maps, vehicles, and huge 64 man battles like BF3; unfortunately we may have to wait a few more years to see that in COD's.

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