We’ve already seen plenty of footage culled from the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 single player campaign, but now it’s time for the opening act to clear off the stage and make way for the main event — footage of the game’s multiplayer.
I’m wouldn’t call myself a CoD fanatic, so I won’t pretend to understand the significance of everything that’s going on in the Black Ops 2 multiplayer trailer, but there is a part where a guy nails another guy right in the f–king face with a tomahawk. Also, there are knives that shoot electricity. These seem like solid additions to a competitive killing game. Or maybe they’ll make the game horribly unbalanced? Don’t ask me — any FPS I play is automatically horribly unbalanced by my total lack of ability at shooters.
Hit the jump to check out the trailer and decide for yourself…
Black Ops 2′s multiplayer definitely looks a bit better. Seems like they’re trading in that traditional CoD indistinguishable swath of grey look for a little bit more color and variety.
via Kotaku
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I know the resident school yard bully will probably trash-can me for saying this, but am I the only person who couldn’t give a flying crap about Multiplayer on FPS’s anymore?? It was fun during the Halo days, but I don’t know. I just don’t have the time or the energy to spend on avoiding pissed off 12 year old boys who play online every minute of their day and have perfected the art of pulling off a jumping headshot with a sniper rifle shot from the hip, or spawning and then getting my ass fileted open by a camper with a knife.
I just don’t have the time anymore or the energy to care. I played CODMW2 multiplayer, but I just couldn’t keep up anymore, and so I don’t buy these games because there’s almost no story line. I’m not going to pay $60 bucks for 5 hours of gameplay anymore, then sell it back to Gamestop the next week for $17.99 and $5 dollars store credit.
Ugh. I need more Metamucil.
FPS’s are actually the one genre of games that i don’t have a problem with concerning the focus on multiplayer.
RPG’s on the other hand…
i kinda agree with you. too many losers who play way too much. cant keep up with that/ nor do i want too
This is looking like the first COD game I won’t pick up since MW2 (when I got a PS3). I used to get stoned with my roomates in university and play, but that’s kind of the last time I had fun with Call of Duty. Too much of the same.
Me and my girl split screen MW3 on the reg. i personally cant wait till BO2 is dropped…as long as its still split screen on the multi-player. . . if you like FPS these games are great, they have enough of a variety now, compared to the days of just logging in to join w/e and dealing with abusers. The first B.O. was great and i can still go back to it and enjoy the crap out of Nuketown and the stadium
Liking Nuketown pretty much means you’re a bad person. That map is designed for hyperactive 12 year olds who think a game “sucks” unless you’re killing someone every 20 seconds.
hahaha if i wanted a slow dance i would play battlefield
but yes that is exactly how my girl plays hahaha…”venicesmoker” (ps3) Come at me bro haha
is it sad that the game im looking forward to most is that South Park Game? haha that trailer looked badasss
is the game play on that like Final Fantasy…?
I’m knocking stuff over with my nerd boner for that South Park rpg.
I love the multiplayer on Battlefield 3 and think its much deeper gameplay-wise than the COD series but they both have their place as COD has always been an easy, pick-up and play arcade-style shooter and BF3 is just deeper all around but has a much steeper learning curve. I dropped COD with the copy/paste travesty that was MW3.
You crave twitch-kills every 20 seconds? Play the team-deathmatch and squad-deathmatch lists in bf3. You want to do tactical teamwork type stuff or fuck around with vehicles, go play the conquest and rush modes. They got you covered.
I’m honestly deeply appalled at how Activision ripped off Jason West and Vince Zampella and then tried to destroy them professionally. I just dont want to support Activision’s products anymore. Beyond the fact that MW3 was a shitty mess, this IP belongs to those guys.
They made them a billion dollars and created one of the best selling IPs of all time, and the publisher (led by ceo Bobby Kotic) deliberately tried every dirty trick in the book to screw them and their studio out of their rightful profits. Absolutely disgusting behavior on Activision’s part and its tough for me to separate that in my mind when I look at their products on the shelf now. So no thanks.
I know EA isnt that much better in the ethics department and they pretty much ruined my fave studio (Bioware) creatively, but I dont get the same feeling of repulsion when I think about who my hard-earned money is going to. Especially when I see Activision’s gameplan to annualize COD and try and suck as much money as possible out of the gaming community with watered down crap.
Just my opinion.