Does multiple endings mean THE end?

[bbobs2]

I've just been reading the recent Playstation Magazine and seen that Black Ops 2 will be having multiple ending. Does this mean that Black Ops 2 will end the Black Ops story...

Treyarch can't begin a game with different beginnings based on what you did in BO 2... Could they?

So do you think that Black Ops 2 will be the end & that we will get all the answers or do you think that Treyarch has something up their sleeves?

[ZombieNationZ]

They usually go after the good ending

[MyLittleHellhound]

Well if endings don't end in you dying, then they start you from there.

Or all bad and good endings lead to the same thing, just differently.

[Kill_All_Monkeys]

I'm guessing it will have a cannon ending, then alternate endings based on decisions made within the game. Most likely, every ending will result with this Menendez guy dying, and the alternate endings could be the various possible outcomes of the second Cold War.

[LiamFTWinter]

They could easily make something a long the lines of the mass effect system, in which the ending you receive in Black Ops II could alter the campaign of the next Treyarch game.

[SaLaD_FiNgErS_HD]

They could easily make something a long the lines of the mass effect system, in which the ending you receive in Black Ops II could alter the campaign of the next Treyarch game.

That would be freaking sweet

[MyLittleHellhound]

So if they did different endings at the end of this one...

what if they did....DIFFERENT BEGINNINGS for the next?

It could work haha, like it saves which ending you did and then when B03 (assuming there is one at the moment) comes out, it takes that file and starts a game in B03 based on that ending..... :o

[heillingalj]

This would be pretty darn cool. I'm not sure how many different endings there will be in BO 2 though - it could just be two or three endings that have the same sort of result (villain dies etc) but just happens in a different way. Still, looking forward to seeing how Treyarch handle the campaign!

[Arussianmonkey]

This concept reminds me of the game "Shadow the Hedgehog" that I played on the nintendo gamecube when I was a pipsqueak. The game has 24 levels in all, but only 6 missions in the campagin. There is a grid of missions on the main selection screen that you can do that looks like this:

[brains] = mission

[brains] [brains] [brains] [brains]

[brains] [brains] [brains] [brains] [brains]

[brains] [brains] [brains] [brains] [brains] [brains] Starts campagin here.

[brains] [brains] [brains] [brains] [brains]

[brains] [brains] [brains] [brains]

Each mission has a good, evil, and neautral objective. The neautral mission elevates you straight to the left mission, while the good or evil will elevate you to the upper or lower left. At the end of each campagin, the main character is usually kneeling over a main character, be it good or evil. He describes what he has learned about himself based on the players decisions, and then says "THIS IS WHO I AM!!" and kills the other character. there are 24 missions but hundreads of outcomes. They all end differently. Really after you are like an uber player (got perfect on every singal mission) all the outcomes result in the same epical ending mission number 25. The point is you can be either really good or really evil and have extreamly different endings, and it's enjoyable to do it all over again differently.

So the blops2 choices could be a little like that, all leading to the same ending under extreamly different circumstances. Your character could either stay with his team or go rouge or something. The premise of "Shadow the hedgehog" was very good in terms of open-endedness and playability, so the blops 2 system may be similar.

[MyLittleHellhound]

^

That seems like something they could do without messing everything up :)

[The Burned Man]

Or they can do what Bethesda did with Daggerfall and combine all of the endings into one. If 3arc plans to make another Black Ops then I guess they'd do this or what others have said, pick the good or best ending.