![]() ![]() ![]() This has worked out well for Activision in the past, and I see no reason why they should change that formula. It's still a silly story, and I found myself confused from time to time because certain events take place so quickly that I can't help but wonder if they're paving over plot-holes by rushing us along and coating over everything with military jargon.īut honestly, I found the actual length of the game to be just about right, and certainly on par with previous games in the franchise. Black Ops 2, for all its wackiness, tells a story that's simply far more interesting and personal than any other Call of Duty game I've played. And I'll take quality over quantity with a game like this which really emphasizes multiplayer over single-player. For one thing, it didn't seem very different than many other Call of Duty campaigns. No, I won't hold the campaign's brevity against it. I finished the game in a day which is something I can't say for many games I play. Perhaps I'm biased as a video game critic-perhaps a short campaign can come as something of a relief from time to time. I'm not sure I agree with this complaint at all. One complaint lodged against Black Ops 2 is the length of its campaign. I only played through the campaign once, so I'm not privy to the alternate endings yet, but my ending was pretty good actually. There are a handful (but only a very small handful) of choices the player can make, and these choices can lead to different outcomes at the end of the game. I'm sure the team over at Treyarch had a minor heart attack when they heard of the CIA Director's affair.īut all told, as far as the stories in Call of Duty games go, this was one of the most interesting I've seen. It's also really, really bad timing of course, with the Petraeus scandal just hitting. It's a good lesson in why fictional games should avoid using real people and pop-culture blurbs as much as possible, especially if they set the game in the future. The unfortunate appearance of David Petraeus as the 2025 Defense Secretary (aboard the USS Barack Obama) gave me a chuckle, and the line "So this is how the 1% live" made me wonder if we'll actually still be using that terminology in 2025, in which case kill me now. Really? Your city is crumbling into ashes all around you, and we're supposed to worry about some diplomats because of the political fallout? It's not the big action sequences that bugged me most-we expect these-it's other moments.įor instance, when a city is undergoing a major skyscraper-toppling invasion, the primary concern of the military is to protect G20 leaders because the fallout of any of their deaths will be so catastrophic. There are moments when the implausibility gets to be a bit overwhelming. It's a Mission Impossible style action-movie of a game, with a whole suite of implausible plot twists, betrayals, and reasonably good voice-acting and direction. Suffice to say the way both plots weave together makes for a much more interesting Call of Duty game than we've seen in the past. He's obviously a bit off his rocker from the very beginning, but over the course of the game we come to learn that he's not only completely insane, he's also an evil genius and a people person capable of uniting 2 billion of the world's people behind his "Cordis Die" movement while pulling off Joker-style trick moves on the government. Menendez is a narco-terrorist working with all sorts of bad characters and he becomes a CIA target pretty quickly. "Theme From Call Of Duty Black Ops II" has never been played live.We first encounter Raul Menendez during a rescue operation in the storyline of the father, Alex Mason. This is a mix of the song using live orchestra elements. Theme From Call Of Duty Black Ops II (Orchestral Mix) The beginning piano melody enters, and fades out. It repeats, and dies down leaving a few measures of low sound effects and bass. The climactic Black Ops II motif enters as in the beginning. Drones and noise fade in underneath, until all layers cut abruptly in the middle of a measure, leaving a quiet piano and bass drones, with scream-like sounds in the background. After seven measures, layers of howling organ-like sounds play, followed by an ascending distorted electric guitar riff. Loud and controlled drums enter with an electric bass line. The Black Ops II motif is played on a quieter instrument. Pulsing bass kicks - reminiscent of a heartbeat - join, and quiet breaths are audible throughout this section. A quiet vibraphone line continues playing. ![]() The Black Ops II motif enters suddenly, played on piano with noisy orchestral elements and heavy drums, which then crescendos and cuts off suddenly. The track starts off with a drone accompanied by a haunting piano melody, with a pulsing base synth and quiet swell guitars underneath. ![]()
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