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What Black Ops 2 Needs To Succeed

Black Ops 2 has been all but confirmed via multiple sources. Yes, we will shockingly be getting a new Call Of Duty game this year. Despite a questionable name (Black Ops itself was a sequel to World At War), assuming Treyarch's developing, it should be interesting seeing how it plays out. Black Ops explored a time period not many games had before, switched up the style of the campaign, and expanded on the successful zombie mode. So what does Black Ops 2 need to succeed?

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decrypt5143d ago (Edited 5143d ago )

Console gamers just love this franchise and since Activision has been so good to them, it only makes sense to support the franchise. i mean Cod really is the only first person shooter on console that runs at 60 Fps abd sports 9 vs 9 combat.

Its no wonder console gamers looking for a 60 fps experience dont have another choice. Since they dont have another choice they support the franchise so much.

I would suggest other devs dumb the quality of their graphics down on console so their games may run at 60fps. i am sure console gamers will appreciate the added choice of playable games.

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Roper3165143d ago

sad thing is the game will succeed weather it deserves to or not just based on the fact that COD is in the title.

but I will say I liked B.O's better than the MW COD games.

WeskerChildReborned5143d ago

The game will still succeed in sales. I just hope this time it become's more innovative at least and not just a copy of the last Black Ops like how IW just copied MW2.

Kos-Mos5143d ago

People with teen mentality?

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These Call of Duty games are officially dead as servers go offline

Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.

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Call of Duty players are playing this game for the last time before it's taken offline

Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.

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Xbox backwards compatibility sends old Call of Duty games back into the Top Five | UK Monthly Charts

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales

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shadowT1020d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty1019d ago

Guess that's what happens when there's no good new games to play...

4Sh0w1019d ago (Edited 1019d ago )

Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.

wiz71911019d ago

@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol

mkis0071019d ago

It's going to take 10 years for xbox to generate that much profit...

Rhythmattic1019d ago

Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.

EasilyTheBest1019d ago

If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.

Rhythmattic1017d ago

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

jznrpg1019d ago

Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.

shinoff21831020d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai1020d ago

Mostly because the new CoD games are garbage. The old games were much better.

Rutaprkl1019d ago

Agree 100%. Cod 4, WaW, Black ops 1 & 2, those were the days.

Rhythmattic1019d ago

For MP, Unreal tournament , QIII Arena (loved the UT mod) FTW!

RaidenBlack1019d ago

Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite

Rhythmattic1018d ago (Edited 1018d ago )

I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.

thesoftware7301019d ago

Wow, good games never get old I guess.

CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.

CrimsonWing691019d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor1019d ago

@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts

CrimsonWing691018d ago

I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.

Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.

We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.

I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.

I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.

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