Granted, some of the sequences didn’t work as well as they should have. I could really go on and on but regardless I was impressed with the variety. You will be doing such things as firing a RPG on horseback, driving a military truck like a maniac in downtown LA, flying a fighter jet in the skies above downtown LA, skydiving at mach speeds, using your futuristic nano gloves to scale mountain sides, controlling ‘Ziggy’ a slick little spider shaped robotic spy gadget, and you also control land and air drones. This being said, the campaign does manage to spice things up a bit with some varied gameplay. The single player experience will have you spending the bulk of your time shooting down enemies as you run from cover to cover pushing forward. This is indeed a little on the short side, and the same as past CoD games, but when you take into account the replay value of the campaign experience featuring the various different endings, Black Ops 2 single player experience is likely something you will come back to on more than one occasion. The single player experience will take anywhere from 6 to 8 hours to complete depending on your skill level and your difficulty setting. So this is indeed a first for the franchise and something that will inevitably give you plenty of reason to revisit the campaign after you have completed it. I managed to witness two distinctly different endings but the team at Treyarch tells us there are six different endings available. At about the halfway to three-quarter mark you will be faced with some difficult decisions, and as the game wraps up you will be faced with even more difficult choices. You will find that the choices you make along the way impact the outcome of the game. It is not just the story that makes the single player experience so good. Granted, there is so much more to this story than that and I recognize I am not touching on big chunks of the plotline however, if I tell you more I would be giving too much away. Menendez is a ruthless leader and due to some tragic events he experienced over his life he stops at nothing to seek revenge and have others experience the pain he faced. The game then switches gears and fast-forwards to 2025 where Mason’s son (now an adult) leads an elite counter force in the hunt and aged Menendez. After rescuing him from a shipping container barely alive, Woods and Mason embark on a journey to round up Menendez who was responsible for Woods kidnapping. The game starts out when Mason comes out of retirement in the 1980’s in order to recue his old friend Sgt. Alex Mason from the first Black Ops game returns as the main protagonist. One part of the campaign is set in the 1980’s while the other is set in 2025 featuring futuristic warfare technology. In terms of the single player campaign, the story features two storylines that intertwine with one another. After playing through the entire single player campaign two times and after many hours spent playing the multiplayer portion of the game, one thing is for certain, the core COD gameplay, for the most part, remains firmly in place in Black Ops 2.
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