User blog comment:Damac1214/Black Ops 2 Uprising DLC Trailer Released + Double XP on April 12th to April 15th/@comment-68.51.127.36-20130406155812/@comment-1263839-20130406221821

You change your character like you did in the other modern CoDs (4, WaW, MW2 and MW3), by changing your primary weapon type.

The problem is that is that since MW3 all the characters just look like brown blobs who are identical.