By Sean Smyth
Call Of Duty breaks out of it's tiny repetitive shell.
With hundreds of games on the market, Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, Alan Wake, Battlefield 3, Resident Evil, and so on and so forth, developers are forced to update the way they handle games. With the upcoming slate of titles coming out focusing greatly on story, for a change, (Watchdogs, The Last Of Us) older franchises who have been coasting on the same product hashed out with only slight modifications are strained to do complete overhauls and bring in a tightly knit story to keep their attraction revving on high.
In terms of Black Ops 2, Treyarch (the publisher behind many of the Call of Duties including the highly successful Black Ops) has thought through on how to truly innovate their franchise and make it something new and different than anything we've seen before in terms of linear First Person Shooters.
Treyarch seems to really be more interesting in telling a story that we can get behind and feel for. To have characters we root and care for. Not just throw away characters and story lines like Infinity Ward's version of Call of Duty (Modern Warfare). Black Ops was one step forward having a singular character with a story revolving around him. It was a great game.
In Black Op's 2 they continue with the characters from the first but take it all the way to the year 2025 with new stakes and a highly story driven game that you can change with the choices you make and the battles you win in things they are calling proxy wars allowing for a different game each play through.
And Treyarch has spared no expense hiring a top notch writer, David S. Goyer (one of the writers on the Dark Knight Trilogy and the upcoming Superman Reboot, Man of Steel) and composer Trent Renzor (The Social Network and Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) to really set the mood and give a story worth remember. So lets just hope they manage to take Call of Duty into a new level of gaming.
So what do you think? This game worth the buy? Or is it just going to be the same old same old? Sound off below. Thanks For reading.
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