Forum:Black Ops II Speculations

So we know that Black Ops II will be coming this year in November. Whether it will truly be called Black Ops II isn't known, but what we know is that it will be the sequel to Black Ops. It being a sequel leaves a lot of people wondering what the game will be about plot wise, and after viewing information from previous titles, there's a lot of possibilities pertaining to what they could ultimately do. I've reviewed current evidence which gives conclusions as to what they could do and where the series itself is headed.

1) The Cold War is not over. Moscow is disintegrating and the Soviet influence is overpowering. Moscow went dark during the fiasco with Dragovich, showing that he was not a lone agent, and that his own quest for power masked Russia’s own motives. They were prepared and willing to have the United States attacked and invaded, and would have made their own move to conquer it had the plan succeeded. As it stands, there is no concrete evidence to publically prove that Moscow planned or at least partially knew of this attack. It was a Black Operation.

In the same way that the nuclear missiles in Modern Warfare were publically treated as tests, this attack can be covered up in a similar manner. it is also a precursor for the invasion of America, and thus the Third World War.

2) Mason, Hudson and Weaver are due to be killed. It would be difficult for them not to acknowledge this, seeing as these characters are pivotal to the Cold War, which is still ongoing. Therefore it could be concluded that all of these characters will make appearances in some form or another during the plot.

3) John Price of the SAS is alluded to in the final intel document of Black Ops. There is a strong possibility that Price will not appear in any future-set games again, due to the Modern Warfare series seemingly ending. Therefore, being an already referenced and long-lived character who already likely has a background just after the Black Ops timescale seeing as Modern Warfare references issues in Beirut (of which there was extended conflict from 1975 to 1990), as well as the fact he is heavily referenced as being the character who will be spearheading the assassination of Mason and his colleagues, it can be assumed he will make an appearance within the storyline, giving the character some extra screen time on top of his Modern Warfare ending.

4) Resnov is alive . He is referenced to be the database user Trent, and secret codes within Black Ops also reveal that he's likely alive, with no body being found. Having Resnov alive and well makes sense, seeing as he's also the Treyarch equivalent of the Cpt Price character. Resnov has a score to settle with his own government, who is becoming corrupt beyond question and causing suffering to its own people. Is he a known agent of the US government? Did he know Mason would enact revenge in the way he did and as such feigned death to ensure this? What are his motives? Can he really be trusted?

He has already bestowed some truths to Mason which seem to be becoming very real: "The flag may be different but the methods are the same. They will use you, as they used me." Mason is due to be killed by actions of his own side, despite his loyalty.

Cpt Price, a possible character for Black Ops II, also has his own relevant view concerning the methodology of the governments, and also the Black Ops obscured from public view; "History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars". If Price kills Mason, the governments lie will become the truth. This would be ironic, that the man to save future history, Price, would also be writing it before our very eyes.

I actually believe this game is going to be very critical of government methodology throughout history. In all of the previous Call of Duty's, you've been a soldier of a nation, a government. When this government kills its own people, what does that make you? What has that made the player through all these games? A pawn?

5) The game must follow the general course of history. The Cold War ended- will it end with this game? If so, where next for Call of Duty? The next period after this is Modern Warfare, with little goings on in the early 90's, so unless they decide to expand upon previous or smaller wars, there's little left to do without going way back to WWI or in to the future, which I believe to be a bad choice.

What do you guys make of this? Obviously this is purely speculation, but I would be very surprised if a lot of this does not become real. or isn't similar in plot points. There's been a pattern to these games and Activison’s own internal workings- the firing of major Infinity Ward staff, the merging of teams to create Modern Warfare- seem to hint at the series amalgamating in to one continuous flow.

Previously I could not have imagined an Infinity Ward character crossing over in to a Treyarch game, but seeing as that already happened in Call of Duty 3 with Major Ingram and James Doyle, it's not really much of a stretch.

Thoughts?

SpeedStarTMQ 22:54, April 8, 2012 (UTC)