Official CallOFDuty.com BO2 Viral thread - UPDATE 7

[Kreepaz]

That structure highlighted on his screen is the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, located in Downtown Los Angeles

Westin Bonaventure Hotel

- Mix

also take note that their are red and blue lights flashing possibly s.w.a.t team?

[U.S.S. Deathstalker]

A.Mason's son

If you look at anither picture of him you see a name on his vest. H. Woods I think. Just because he has the same device that says D. Mason doesn't mean it's not a standard issued tech.

[blackfire561]

Guys take a look at this thing called strike force. It will change COD skip to 5:26

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[Kreepaz]

A.Mason's son

If you look at anither picture of him you see a name on his vest. H. Woods I think. Just because he has the same device that says D. Mason doesn't mean it's not a standard issued tech.

good point i think i read somewhere in a caption that it was masons son maybe not on kotaku it says that the player will play as masons son, so if that pic is woods son then could the 2 be freinds like mason and woods in BlackOps1

[Kreepaz]

Guys take a look at this thing called strike force. It will change COD skip to 5:26

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reminds me alot of ghost recon advanced warfighter

[AlphaSnake]

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Try it out, be sure to turn it off when your done.

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Thanks to covert for this.

48 Things That You Should Know About Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Last week, I headed down to visit with Treyarch in Santa Monica to get an extended look at Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Our visit was entirely hands-off, and consisted mostly of a series of in-game demos of missions from the single-player campaign, as well as a new open-ended single-player mode called "Strike Force." The in-game missions were mostly set during a drone attack of Los Angeles, but we caught a few glimpses of other sections, as well.

Rather than write a huge narrative preview, I thought I'd just cut right to the chase and list as many facts about the game as I could.

I almost hit Stephen's standing record of 50, but fell just short. Oh well! There's a reason he's the boss.

From single-player to Strike Force all the way to Multiplayer and Zombies. (Less info on those last two, unfortunately.) Buckle up. Let's start with...

The Story:

The game's story will jump between two timelines, with the primary one set in 2025. "Most" of the game will be set in 2025.

It is a direct sequel to Black Ops.

We will find out definitively what happened at the end of Black Ops—presumably, Mason didn't actually kill JFK, given that he's out in the field in Black Ops II. But who knows?

The second timeline will be set in the late 80's near the end of the Cold War.

The story will be narrated by Black Ops character Frank Woods, now an old man. Apparently he didn't die at the end of Black Ops after all.

In the 80's timeline, players will take on the role of Black Ops protagonist Alex Mason.

In 2025, players will take on the role of David Mason, who is the son of Alex Mason. The father/son relationship will play a part in the story. Hello daddening of video games!

In the game's fiction, there is a second Cold War happening between China and the US due to the scarcity of Rare Earth Elements used to make tech devices and military weapons.

The story is based on a real-world possibility, as China (according to the folks at Treyarch) currently controls 95% of the rare earth elements in the world. Topical!

Many of the real-world hooks are inspired by P.W. Singer's Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century.

A good deal of the 1980's action will take place during proxy wars in Central America. Tropical!

Game Director Dave Anthony hinted that we may find out more about "imaginary" Viktor Reznov. "He was essentially a figment of the player's imagination," Anthony said.

"Or was he?" Studio Director Mark Lamia chimed in, playfully. "Will we find out more about that?" asked Anthony with a smirk.

David Mason (the son)'s callsign is "Section." Which is kind of a cool callsign.

The villain will be a man named Raul Menendez, who in 2025 is pitting the Chinese and US governments against each other by hacking into their drones and other robotic weapons.

The 1980's missions will chronicle what started Menendez on setting his current-day plans in motion.

The story is was written from the ground up by Dark Knight and Batman Begins co-writer David Goyer. Goyer joined the first Black Ops part of the way through. He wanted to "create a memorable villain" with Martinez.

Martinez has hacked into the US's unmanned drones and unleashed an attack on Los Angeles. In the mission we saw, a fleet of drones were destroying buildings in downtown LA.

There will be at least one female character in the game, a pilot named Anderson. She laid quite a bit of waste during the entire LA mission.

The president in 2025 is also a woman, and appeared in the "Attack on LA" mission.

David Mason's sidekick is a soldier named Nelson who appears to be played by Michael Rooker of Mallrats and The Walking Dead fame.

The game will be using full-body performance capture to place its actors in the game; the tech demo I saw demonstrated both male and female actors captured with the sort of clarity we've come to expect from games using full-performance capture. James C. Burns (Happy now? :roll: ) will reprise his role as Frank Woods, of course.

The Gameplay:

From what I saw in several demo sections set in a burning, futuristic LA, drones are controllable in combat and will play a large part in the game. Players have a drone-controller on their wrist in the game, and can use it to assign targets and waypoints.

There will be horses, and horseback-riding, during at least one sequence in the 1980's. They even went so far as to bring a horse into the motion capture studio.

At one point in the demo, the player jumped into a futuristic anti-aircraft gun and shot down enemy drones.

Vehicle segments will be back, including one piloting a futuristic VTOL airship. Part of the VTOL mission was mostly on-rails, but the second part involved free-flying and dogfighting with drones.

The Black Ops II story will be branching—it will feature choices and variable outcomes. Wait, what? Yep.

At one point, players had an option to either grab a sniper rifle and cover their squad, or rappel down to join up with them. Presumably that choice leads to a slightly different gameplay experience—this looks like one of the smaller of the choices offered in the game.

A large part of the branching will be due to Strike Force, which is a brand-new game mode featuring tactical, open-ended gameplay in sandbox-style levels.

The New Game Mode: "Strike Force"

Strike Force missions will be woven into the core single-player campaign, and will present themselves as various black ops missions available around the globe.

Players won't be able to play all of the strike force missions in a single playthrough.

Strike Force is currently only included in the campaign and isn't a separate mode. It won't allow for multiplayer but, at some point down the road, could be fleshed out. "Things like Zombies originally started as unlocks," said an Activision representative after we followed up to make sure. "We're not taking the option off the table."

Depending on the outcome of a given strike force mission, the story will change. "You're going to choose a mission," said Lamia, "and that's a branch for the story. Say there's three missions out there—you're not going to go back and play all of them; the story goes on. If you die on a strike force mission, you die in the story."

Going on that, it would seem that the playable characters don't feature in the Strike Force missions.

Strike Force allows players to control squads of troops, giving follow/hold commands with the shoulder buttons.

Strike Force also allows a zoomed-out command view via an unmanned aerial drone that lets you to set waypoints for your units to achieve shifting goals.

Strike Force will allow you to control (at the very least) armed aerial drones, armed land-drones, and unarmed aerial drones in addition to being able to hop to the viewpoint of any of the soldiers in your squad.

The strike force missions will unfold organically but will be written into the story—in that way, they'll function somewhat like a single-player version of the multiplayer in Mass Effect 3.

I think I heard Keifer Sutherland voicing one of the squad members in Strike Force, but I'm not sure. Consider this a Keifer! Rumor!

Multiplayer:

Multiplayer director David Vonderhaar relayed that the new approach they are taking is "One size does not fit all." That means, he said, that there is no one way to play a Call of Duty game. So, they're pulling back features like create-a-class, killstreaks, and other features and reexamining them, challenging their assumptions of "what cows are sacred."

Multiplayer will take place entirely in the year 2025—there will be no multiplayer missions set in the 80's.

They are taking the E-sports community very seriously. In part, that means that they're focusing on making the game more fun to watch as a spectator. Hopefully that means super cute, colorful uniforms!

Online Director Dan Bunting took us through a tech demo of the upgraded graphics; while lighting upgrades and tech aren't usually the most interesting topics, what they were showing looked great. As they put it, they are aiming for "PC quality graphics running at 60 FPS on a console." The illusion was quite convincing.

We saw two unpopulated multiplayer maps: The first map we saw was a naturalistic map located in a village in Yemen.

The second map was called "Aftermath" and was set in a ruined downtown LA, presumably after the drone-attack that we saw in the demo.

Zombies:

Zombies will definitely be back in Black Ops II, and will feature all new modes that are more fleshed-out than ever.

"There will be more zombies and more modes; just more."

The zombies are "In the multiplayer engine." "If you think about all of the things we can do with our multiplayer engine," Lamia said, "You can start to think about how we might be looking at this." Okay then!

Zombies are the only confirmed co-op aspect of Black Ops II. The campaign and strike-force modes do not appear to feature co-op.

And that's that.

48 facts about Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The final two facts will be made available as DLC.

(Just kidding.)

Watch the First Trailer For Black Ops II Right Now

Here it is, folks—the first trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

As you can see, the game will take place in the future. And in the past! The military has come to rely on a huge force of unarmed drones and tanks, and some nefarious so-and-so has hacked them and turned them against us.

Black Ops regular Frank Woods returns as an old man to tell the story, which begins with Los Angeles under drone attack. Stick around for a whirlwind tour of airplane cockpits, horseback riding, and a sweet Michael Bay glory-shot of a helicopter flipping over some cars on a highway.

This sure does tick all the Call of Duty checkboxes. Check back at midnight tonight, when we'll have a bunch more details about the game.

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Follow the link.

Happy to see Rooker returning to Call of Duty.

Regards Alpha.

[U.S.S. Deathstalker]

Actually seeing as Woods would be estimated to be around 90 (which he looks really good for that age even if he's in a wheel chair) in 2025 this guy looks like he may be late 20s to early 30s so unless he had kids at 60-70 I think this is his grandson.

[Kreepaz]

i hope it dosent get to complicated

[Kreepaz]

and what do you mean check back at midnight for more details? is this the "return for debriefing" thing?

[U.S.S. Deathstalker]

i hope it dosent get to complicated

It's future warfare, I think it has alrady gone past complicated lol

[nebok243]

The game will be using full-body performance capture to place its actors in the game; the tech demo I saw demonstrated both male and female actors captured with the sort of clarity we've come to expect from games using full-performance capture. James Woods will reprise his role as Frank Woods, of course.

Frank Woods was voiced by James C. Burns, not James Woods.

[Daveyjone]

I only have 3 things to say upon watching it.

1. I'm sad that they turned Woods into a Reznov figure as they did to Victor in Bo, as I was hoping to see Price fight Mason and Hudson return But as the flashbacks in Bo were used I still hope...

2. Love the music [brains] classic sci-fi, Hitchikers-Guide-To-The-Galaxy synth, perfect for a neo cold war setting.

3. HORSES. You ride horses! :3

[dissectional75]

Registered just to post this.

Did anyone else see the pre-order bonus from Gamestop? You get a 2 sided poster. Big deal, I know. However, on the 2nd side set against an orangish background (similar to when you select Zombies mode in BO) is a female holding a severed zombie head. Pretty badass, if you ask me. Maybe a new playable character?

[Daveyjone]

A.Mason's son

More like Wood's son, more similar face... unless you have proof its Mason I've just woken, I know nothing of the reveal bar the trailer!

[domba]

Go to 1:18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... tedlWs1XY#!

Mystery Box :D

[Daveyjone]

Sorry for double post, but after readinb Kokatu (thanks for link Snake) I see I was right about yhe use of chronology to reveal charbodys, so that strikes my 1st point

The one I like is the alternate plot system, Alpha, I'm busy today, care to find some scoop on whether this will be changes leading to different endings a la House of the Dead or they change but all end the same way i.e. ME3.

Jusr whoever searches remember: NO LEAKS.:3

[Kreepaz]

Registered just to post this.

Did anyone else see the pre-order bonus from Gamestop? You get a 2 sided poster. Big deal, I know. However, on the 2nd side set against an orangish background (similar to when you select Zombies mode in BO) is a female holding a severed zombie head. Pretty badass, if you ask me. Maybe a new playable character?

i believe you just found our first look at zombies :)

[Kreepaz]

Go to 1:18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... tedlWs1XY#!

Mystery Box

sorry but thats just a glare from the sun done in after effects

[Dandaman955]

Actually seeing as Woods would be estimated to be around 90 (which he looks really good for that age even if he's in a wheel chair) in 2025 this guy looks like he may be late 20s to early 30s so unless he had kids at 60-70 I think this is his grandson.

Woods would be 95 years old, as his birth date is 1930.

[SCARr]

Actually seeing as Woods would be estimated to be around 90 (which he looks really good for that age even if he's in a wheel chair) in 2025 this guy looks like he may be late 20s to early 30s so unless he had kids at 60-70 I think this is his grandson.

Woods would be 95 years old, as his birth date is 1930.

With technalogical advances that we have seen; medical care and technology would have imporved significantly as well, which could explain his appearance

[Lenne]

Registered just to post this.

Did anyone else see the pre-order bonus from Gamestop? You get a 2 sided poster. Big deal, I know. However, on the 2nd side set against an orangish background (similar to when you select Zombies mode in BO) is a female holding a severed zombie head. Pretty badass, if you ask me. Maybe a new playable character?

i believe you just found our first look at zombies

Maybe it is Samantha and she grew older?

Takeo did that aswell,right?

[FatedTitan]

Why grow old when you can time travel? :D

[speedmetal890]

Some info on the zombie 'modes'

And a photo that sort of resembles a re touched Der riese

http://m.computerandvideogames.com/3459 ... ant-mechs/

[Lenne]

Why grow old when you can time travel?

Yea,I know.

But Takeo grew older from Der Riese to Kino der Toten aswell.

"In Black Ops, Takeo's appearance has become noticeably different. He grew a mustache, his face looks older and he sounds older. He might have aged while teleporting 15 years into the future, which would explain his changed appearance although this is not likely as the others don't look or sound any older."

Maybe that happened with Sam aswell.

Just a guess. :roll:

[bbobs2]

Registered just to post this.

Did anyone else see the pre-order bonus from Gamestop? You get a 2 sided poster. Big deal, I know. However, on the 2nd side set against an orangish background (similar to when you select Zombies mode in BO) is a female holding a severed zombie head. Pretty badass, if you ask me. Maybe a new playable character?

i believe you just found our first look at zombies

Maybe it is Samantha and she grew older?

Takeo did that aswell,right?

If this was Samantha wouldn't this be Richtofen and Richtofen being Samantha?

Anyway the trailer looks amazing!!!!!!! I love the thought of treyarch doing a game set in the near future (2025) and also going back to 80s with Mason. With the game set in 2025 it means that Treyarch have the scope to do something new, maybe with new weapons. Also with a "One size doesn't fit all" idea it should make for an amazing COD game. MW3 crushed my hopes for another good COD game, I though MW3 wasn't great, aslong as this plays good then I'll be one happy customer, probably going to get the expensive pre-order, this has pumped me up so much.

Just wondering on the reveal trailer at the beginning it says "THE VAULT" where would this be and does it mean anything?