Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 has a tough challenge ahead of it.
The latest entry in the biggest shooter franchise on the planet faces stiff
competition at the end of this year in the form of EA’s Medal Of Honor:
Warfighter.
Not only that, it’s likely the game’s publisher expects it
to improve on the sales of last year’s COD game, which, in spite of the fact it
has sold upwards of 9m units, still hasn’t broken the record for the series of
13.7m units – which is currently held by the first Call Of Duty: Black Ops.
This means that Black Ops’s developer, Treyarch, is no
longer in competition with Infinity Ward, the studio behind the Modern Warfare
games. It’s mainly competing against its own past record. This is a pretty
tall-order, so it’s to the developer’s credit that the first reveal of the game
it’s shown T3, packs a sizable wallop.
Call Of
Duty Black Ops 2: Plot
Unlike its predecessor, which was set during various
intervals during the Cold War, the story in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 takes
place in the not-too-distant future. The game’s weapons are more advanced, the
gadgets are very high-tech, and a lot of the USA’s defence systems have become
automated.
The story kicks off when terrorist group hacks into the
system that controls these robot defences and turns them on their users. Then
all hell breaks loose.
The sequence of events Treyarch reveals to T3 in the
first-look demo is mind-blowing. The COD series has always had a reputation for
mixing authentic shooter action with epic action set-pieces, but even so,
Treyarch have outdone themselves here.
The reveal begins inside a Hummer speeding down the Los
Angeles freeway. The game’s protagonist, Mason, tries to save the life of a
presidential aid choking to death on his own blood. The President Of The United
States is sat beside him, talking to one of Mason’s comrades, Harper, about
getting her to safety.
Overhead, UAV drones are firing missiles into the LA
traffic, and cars are being blown off the road. Suddenly the entire screen
shudders and the POV tips sideways as a missile hits the Hummer.
Call Of
Duty Black Ops 2: Gameplay
Mason scrambles from the wreckage, leaps onto the back of
the car, and takes control of a missile turret. He quickly targets the UAV
drones overhead, as Harper covers the president. After shooting a fair number
of enemies down, he has to abandon the turret, as UAV shoots a hole in the
raised freeway beneath the Hummer, and the vehicle goes tumbling through it.
The action comes thick and furious. We watch, open-mouthed,
as Mason and his troops avoid flying cars, rapel into the streets, commandeer a
car and then hurtle into downtown LA as explosions detonate all around them.
They then have to shoot their way through a shopping mall;
here, the demo showcases some of the hardware players can expect to use, such
as remote drones that strafe enemies, and guns sporting bullets powerful enough
to shoot through a building’s support columns.
The battle spills back out onto the street where T3 watches
as a skyscraper comes crashing down into the middle of the street. After a
brief exchange between Mason and Harper, the former leaps into a jumpjet and
takes to the skies, firing missiles and explosive rounds at the unmanned bombers
attacking the city.
Call Of
Duty Black Ops 2: Verdict
In terms of spectacle, this puts the likes of Michael Bay
and Tony Scott firmly in the shade. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 looks bigger,
badder and better than its predecessor and its wall-to-wall action is
relentless. If the rest of Black Ops 2’s package is as impressive as this,
Treyarch should be onto a winner this November.
- Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 availability: 13 November 2012
- Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 price: TBC
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