Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Review

[rmoxon]

^ And the Strike Force Missions get worse after the first. Don't even bother trying to play it as an RTS top down. It just doesn't work. Go to first person at every opportunity.

So should I just stay in first person then and ignore anything resembling tactics? I'm playing on hardend and the friendly A.Is seemed completely useless and they had lost two points before I even knew what was happening.

[Golgo]

Yeah I'd recommend that as pretty much essential. Friendly AI struggles to negotiate doors and stairs (and in any case you can't distinguish/specify different building floors from 'command' view) and it rarely actually fights. Just use top down to send a steady stream in the general direction you need then keep switching to first person. Fortunately enemy AI is just as bad here, so a couple of missions I managed with only a couple of soldiers (that was normal difficulty though). Annoyingly, your performance on these broken sections determines game ending.

[gambit6613]

I have been playing this for over a week now on Wii U. I have not even started the solo mode, just been playing the MP. For the first few days i have been rather enjoying it, but as the week has gone on i have found it just more and more frustrating and really rather boring that i have pretty much now given up.

What really puts me off are people just constantly camping in one spot. Seriously what is the point in just sitting in a window or behind a car and not moving it really pisses me off, even in team DM when i see my own side doing it i just want to shoot them lol, just play ****ing properly.

The other thing that is really crap is the hit detection. I just don't understand when people can hit and kill me with one bullet but most of the time it takes me at least 4-5 bullets to put someone down. I was playing last night on at least three occasions i was one on one with someone, i unloaded 4 bullets, they didn't die but they turned and shot me with one hit? Bloody stupid.

Im now just pretty much playing offline bot mode. I just really wish this mode had the same leveling as online because i find it so much more satisfying and much less frustrating to play but with out any kind of leveling its rather dull after a while. But at least i get to use the killstreaks etc.

[originalbadboy]

I have been playing this for over a week now on Wii U. I have not even started the solo mode, just been playing the MP. For the first few days i have been rather enjoying it, but as the week has gone on i have found it just more and more frustrating and really rather boring that i have pretty much now given up.

What really puts me off are people just constantly camping in one spot. Seriously what is the point in just sitting in a window or behind a car and not moving it really pisses me off, even in team DM when i see my own side doing it i just want to shoot them lol, just play ****ing properly.

The other thing that is really crap is the hit detection. I just don't understand when people can hit and kill me with one bullet but most of the time it takes me at least 4-5 bullets to put someone down. I was playing last night on at least three occasions i was one on one with someone, i unloaded 4 bullets, they didn't die but they turned and shot me with one hit? Bloody stupid.

Im now just pretty much playing offline bot mode. I just really wish this mode had the same leveling as online because i find it so much more satisfying and much less frustrating to play but with out any kind of leveling its rather dull after a while. But at least i get to use the killstreaks etc.

That pretty much sums up why I stopped playing COD a couple of years ago ... I may still get the WiiU version though , so at least there is something else to play if the other games dry up ...

[jim g]

The other thing that is really crap is the hit detection. I just don't understand when people can hit and kill me with one bullet but most of the time it takes me at least 4-5 bullets to put someone down.

So it is the same as the PS3 and 360 then, total crap.

[gambit6613]

So it is the same as the PS3 and 360 then, total crap.

Yep its pretty poor. At first i thought it was just a simple fact that the other person may have just been using a much more powerfull gun than me but when i started watching the Killcam i noticed that just about every time the gun used to kill me with one bullet was exactly the same gun i was using.

[teddymeow]

This is why I don't play MP online. Add bots and play it that way.

[Neon Ignition]

For me its been less laggy than the PS3 version, i've had few issues like connections dropping out but they're nothing unusual for online games. Playing Battlefield 3 recently on PS3 was a damn sight worse, you just don't get kill cam highlighting it.

[Supergoal]

Ugh this game sucks balls badly.
Bought and and already gathering dust. It's honestly not worth the time when other amazing games are out there like far cry 3. Shocking.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Well i'm trading this pile of gash in asap. I have no urge to want to play it anymore. Online i play for 2 games, die a lot due to lag/poor maps/****ty scorestreak system, then rather than get angry i just get bored of the whole scenario & switch off. Most of the maps are yet again tiny, & most have the same layout i.e. 1 large lane running thru the centre of the map & a narrower lane either side of it, which was apparent in a lot of mw3 maps. This is lazy map making with no creativity good into them, & totally kills the idea of the scorestreaks system as u constantly get capped unless u camp. I loved treys previous killstreak idea of only getting your killstreak reward thru weapon, knife or grenade, but now u can use your airstrike kills to gain your next streak, so we've kinda gone backwards. Sp is ok. Nice idea to bring past & present blk ops missions into it, but the strategic side missions were a big pile of ****e imo. I hate strategy based war games. They bore me, & thats why i play games like COD instead so i don't wanna see stuff like that in a COD game. Maybe they're testing the water with those missions cos they're thinking of pumping out a new franchise like Halo Wars. Maybe? - Probably! It is Activision afterall

[Uli]

i really don't get why people still keep complaining about the MP in Black Ops. Because there's simply no need to play against human campers, sniper cheaters or full time professional CoD players. just get up a custom game with up to 9 bots, chose your favourite map, game mode and load-out (every weapon and accessory is unlocked!) and have fun fun fun without any frustration.

[Neon Ignition]

I've switched back to the PS3 version on the basis that the WiiUs 700 or so players could prove too divisive when DLC hits so I've been seeing how it is now that the latest patch removed the PS3's excessive blurring. The result isn't that bad, it's not a huge change but brings it more in line with the other versiins so distant targets are easier to spot. I'm having much less instances of lag, usually any confusion from killcams seems to be from how slow the hit marker is to fade though sometimes getting killed on corners shows it a bit. Getting more used to the sniper rifle now for some maps too and the bouncing betty has come in useful. Camping in this is useless which I love and the scorestreak system has been rebalanced slightly so you need higher poibts tk get to stuff. Depending on further amends and the DLC maps this could eventually top it as the best COD mp for me.

[PaTaito]

i really don't get why people still keep complaining about the MP in Black Ops. Because there's simply no need to play against human campers, sniper cheaters or full time professional CoD players. just get up a custom game with up to 9 bots, chose your favourite map, game mode and load-out (every weapon and accessory is unlocked!) and have fun fun fun without any frustration.

Are you serious?

[nakamura]

Are you serious?

Why not? When you go into a random game, who are you playing against?

I don't get why people never seem to play against mates.

[Tobal]

I've gone back to playing last weekend during the double exp stuff, got to 55 for ghost.. and thank god, i can find myself some breathing room as there is nothing worse than having a ceiling above you or you can't see the UVA when killstreaks spams of UVA, UVA, UVA go off.

As far as pick 10's go, ghost on everything, i always rock a stock option on assaults and LMG's otherwise am a sitting duck for mid/close range SMG spam.

what are you guys packing atm on pick10's

1~ 1st assault rilfe+3rd mod, stock,silencer,large mag; ghost,cold blood, 2nd perk+scavenger, engineer
2~ last shotgun, barrall,laser sight; ghost,light,2nd perk+cold,run, 2x concus grens
3~ last LMG+3rd mod FMJ, vari zoom, stock; 2nd stinger missile; ghost,cold,engineer, 1x stock stick
4~ FAL assault rilfe(2nd single fire AR)+3rd mod, stock, silencer, full auto; ghost, cold, 2nd perk+scavenger, engineer
5~ FAL assault rilfe(2nd single fire AR)+3rd mod, stock, grip, full auto; 2nd stinger missile, ghost, cold, engineer, 1x stock stick
6~ no set in stone yet, usually put in shield