User blog comment:KATANAGOD/Black Ops II's open gameplay explained/@comment-108.38.107.162-20120525012204

I love the Call of Duty Series, but an open gameplay thing in Call of Duty is going to be way too much like Star Fox: Command/Force Unleashed 1&2/Star Wars: Battlefront 1&2, or even Axis and Allies, the computer game variant.

Why it's going to be too much like SFC and all the other games:

1. Multiple endings, SFC has 9, and so far, fans don't know which one is the real one, there is one that Falco goes off and starts Star Falco, another Slippy getting married, a third one Fox getting his heart broken, another Fox marrying Krystal and having Marcus, it raises the question of:

"Where is the real ending, Mason?!"

2. If it has a bad guy getting killed and the good guy becoming the bad guy I.E. Harper/D. Mason being in control of the droid army after killing Mendenez, things just get out of hand, it's like the endings of Force Unleashed and Force Unleashed 2. In both cases, picking the dark side ending starts off with the bad guy killing you or you become the bad guy.

3. This is Black Ops, 40 years later, What about Operation Chara-whatever? Is that going to explain the fate of Mason, Hudson and Weaver, and Woods got older, very much older, and Weaver didn't get mentioned when they said who'd come back. SFC is like that, it's nine years later, the team broke up, old Peppy got older, Pepper retired due to illness (Corneria: War Comes Home in Star Fox: Assault)

4. This "Johnathan" Guy who got mentioned in Black Ops, is he Price? Captain Price is old, and so far, they've managed to tie in the events of the World War 2 games with Black Ops and Vietnam, but MW? All we know is what happens there doesn't currently tie in with BO/WAW/BO2. So Captain Price being old might mean he's the same Johnathan mentioned in Black Ops, considering his name is Johnathan.

5. Lack of the MP40 will be a big mistake. Or the WunderWaffe DG-2 as a mainline weapon. Power ups with the DG-2 are nice, but I loved it when I could use the DG-2 as a PAPable weapon, in conjunction with my MP40.

6. What is Kravchenko doing in MW3? I know it doesn't have anything to do, but why is he there, considering he probably doesn't have anything to do with MW3? Is this like some (ill) attempted way to tie BO with the MW series?

7. What effect does killing Steiner, Dragovich and Kravchenko have on BO2? Is Mendenez some Makarov-like-guy who's a brash dude like him with Dragovich being the Zakhaev guy?

8. Will Alex Mason be the main character for the storyline, or is he now in a Peppy like role, being and old, retired guy who just sits back and gives advice for you? If he says to David/Harper "Do a barrel Roll!" I'll laugh.

9. What characters will they kill off in various endings? David? Harper? Hudson *NO PLEASE SPARE HUDSON!! PLEASE!!* Woods? And if they do kill off any of them, do they really die in the actual story?

10. Which ending is the true, this really happened ending?

Just some questions about the open gameplay thing.