User blog comment:Callofduty4/Black Ops II will be Non-Linear and a Sandbox game/@comment-99.138.92.222-20120502182645

These features, althought definitely not innovative to the shooter genre in general, certainly seem to revive the little hope left in most of us that COD could be much more than a copy-and-paste game.

Is this worth a preorder? As of right now, I personally doubt it.