CODBO2 continues the story of the original Black Ops, this time taking us to the future following the rise of Menendez
The story of the game continues the story of Woods and Mason, the protagonists from Black Ops and it jumps into 2 time zones: The Present - Year 2025, Wood is now very old and David Mason (The son of) is questioning him about a threat who goes by the name Raul Menendez. The game also featuring some missions from the past (Mid 80s) that trying to explore the events that had led to the present. The plot is amazing but you better play the first (and amazing) plot of CoDBO to understand more about Wood and Mason since there are many references to some of its events.
The new thing now in the single player, which makes its replay value much bigger, is the 'choices system'. That's right, no more linear single player that plays itself but rather you play the single player. In almost every mission there will be a certain moment in which you can decide what to do and the choice you'll make will affect later on the events of the game. There are 5 different endings to the game (rated by a scale of Best to Worst) and all are results of different combinations of your decisions throughout the game.
If you are not into futuristic stuff i will say that most of the tech and weaponry in the game are either in developement stuff or current weapons of special ops today. It isn't to imaginary as it seen. After all 2025 is not that far away from us. Also the past missions are balancing the experience.
Then again you got the Multiplayer, the thing that we all proud of. It doesn't fall of of course but you may sometime feel that you already got the point. It's the same as the past exactly. The only thing that is different is that you now can customize yourself by up-to-10 bars with each bar is a weaponperkexplosivesight and so, so you need to make your own combination - which in the end is like all the past games. Also you have some cool mods such as "One in the Chamber" (every player get a pistol with one bullet) and "Sticks & Stones" (Player got a bow, axe and a knife) which make some servers to be really fun.
Finally there is the familiar Zombie mod. This time they really took it a step forward and made it more actiony and dynamic hence it lost its magic.
The sound of the game is really great. With great voice acting and great sound effect, CoD have never disapoint us.
The graphic engine is the same engine of MW2, BO and MW3 but this time more improved of course. Being with a pretty much week these days graphic cards may let me see some graphic issues.
At last, Call of Duty Black ops 2 features an amazing experience mostly in its single player campaign. Its Multiplayer featuring more of the same (still very good). It's a must buy for a call of duty fan and a must buy for people who got the first Black Ops.