User blog comment:Damac1214/Some Zombie Polls/@comment-4122733-20130424130406/@comment-1900101-20130425004710

I love IGN's review about the new characters compared to the old ones, simply because it is so god damn correct! The characters in BO2 zombies are so terrible. The reason the W@W characters were so good were because they pertained to the story. BO2 characters are just brand new, no possible motive, no reason, no backstory, no nothing, just madness.

"Quick, name the characters in Black Ops zombies! If you answered Dempsey, Nikolai, Richtofen and Takeo you are correct! Now quick, name the characters from Black Ops 2 zombies! If you answered Gary Oldman, some Hobo, a nerdy guy and the one with the boobs you may as well be right, because they're all stereotypes and their names are almost never mentioned! (They're names are Misty, Samuel, Marlton and Russman if you're wondering, I had to look them up) Now I'm not saying that Black Ops 1's characters aren't stereotypes, because they are, but at least beneath that there were traces of actual characterization. If you listen to what they say when playing you can find out about what they're really like beneath the stereotype. With the new characters, I have no idea as to their personalities, their motivations, hell, even their last names! They're less like characters and more like talking puppets for the player to control without caring about them"