COD - Black OPS II

Just had the chance to finish Black OPS II Single Player Campaign, and must say, was seriously underwhelmed by it! Maybe it's because of the futuristic setting, maybe it's because they keep jumping back and forth between different eras. I think the story is pretty weak; there is a struggle to keep a certain coherency between all the missions, doesn't help that the speeches are over the top, and a certain Admiral likes to keep say "C**Ksuckers!" with an emphasis on "C**K"... i wonder what the script reading was like haha.

 

Because of the different eras the missions take place in, you don't have a good "feel" of the weapon before a next mission rolls about, plus the weapons feel pretty generic (with the exception of the modern era weapons having advanced targeting features with the scope up, heck, there's even a 'wallhack' sniper rifle!)

 

Some missions require you to sneak past the enemies at certain points, and it's kinda dumb when there's only one way to do it; it's trial and error many times over until you figure out the path the developers like... lazy programming and bad storytelling. There are a bunch of strikeforce missions which are thankfully optional, as the gameplay is closer to a real-time strategy type of game where you control a group of soldiers/drones to complete certain objectives.... there's a Keppel Harbor mission which gave me a few chuckles, cos 1) we're apparently all commies 2) we speak real terrible mandarin.

 

Characters in the game are pretty flat too; didn't really care much about the main character, and the main protagonist of the game pretty much got on my nerves by the end of the game; really, wtf is up with the cells they try to hold the bugger in?

 

The scene after the end credits kinda cements the whole fact that they were never were serious about the whole thing, and were probably getting it out just for the sake of it.

Overall, a mildly entertaining FPS... 6/10 from me!