User blog comment:Dan67/Black ops 2 on a scale of 1-10/@comment-1900101-20121130040743

I would give it a two. Highlighting only the Campaign, as one of the best in any COD from the past, all the other aspects of the game fall exceedingly short of my expectations, which, where honestly pretty low in the first place from the original Black Ops

Campaign - By far, the most notable part of the game. The Create a Class function really lets me choose my own playstyle, the Perks let me have an edge, and cheating and taking super power weapons back in the 1980s is always fun.

The Story elements are also very fun and elusive, the choice making desicions new to COD, and really shine here. The Plot was very well pieced together, but they could've kept the firing sounds for the old weapons, as the new sounds are clunky.

Zombies - My oh my where to begin. Zombies used to be an excellent gamemode, with the great starting maps of the original Black Ops, i hoped that Treyarch wouldnt let me down on my already low expectations, but they did. Having a map with 5 individual locations, cheaply seperating them into 3 playlists, isnt really innovating much. TranZit mode is annoying as hell, playing without a party. Having moronic asswipe team mates that turn off the power while i have 4 perks just for shits and giggles is just astonishing. The little screaming fuckers are always a pain. The Avogadro is actually a neat twist to the game as well.

More problems with Zombies is how much Treyarch was lazy and reused files from the original Black Ops. Keeping old 80's weapons in the game is one thing, but not doing anything to innovate them except for changing the sound to two scraping metal pipes is horrendus. The zombies sound and act the same from Black Ops 1, the Snipers are useless, with the annoying "HHHHHHHHHHHHHGNNNNNNNNNGHHHHHH" sound when you hold your breath is ear piercing, and not worth the 3 seconds of ear rape.

The only notable portion of Zombies is Grief mode, which is incredibly fun, and the only game mode i like to play of Zombies, while the Fridge and Bank Vault are nice features in TranZit.

Multiplayer - The devs of one of the worst CoD MPs IMO returns not as conqurers or redemers, but to fuck up the Call of Duty MP for possibly the last and final straw for my credibilty as Treyarch as a legitimate developer.

Lets start with the Maps, the maps, are just plain fucking awful, save for Turbine. The maps are soley based on close quarters battles, which place into roles of the SMG category. SMGs are the king of this game, Assault Rifles have no place now, LMGs are sparsly used, the Shotguns are good at CQB as well, so they shine, and along with the high power sniper rifles, the maps make me wish Infinity Ward had done some help with Treyarch.

Number two, Scorestreaks, Having incredibly powerful Scorestreaks doesnt help me love the multiplayer any more than having a nail driven up my foot. UAV spam > Hellstorm Missile > Remote control drone, Quadrotor or AGR, (Which the AGR is a little fucking bad ass, taking 4+ SMAW shots, several magazines of M8A1, and still shooting the fuck out of me, earning the player 2 more AGRs), is always a well planed and though out game. I havnt even seen any Scorestreak higher than a Orbital VSAT simply because they arnt needed, the lower ones kill as much as the higher ones, i even got Dogs on nuketown and earned 3 kills.....

And finally, flipping off your community by saying "You're just good with it. Have fun, because the math says that it's not overpowered." Shows the lack of good work ethic in the development. Listening to feedback, and believing math solves everything gets you no where in a development studio. Did they think that the FAMAS was overpowered in the first Black Ops, because there is math behind it? You dont simply disregard what people tell you, thats bad development. You listen, you find the problem, and you fix it to the communitys liking.

Sub Machine Guns......touched in one of the earlier paragraphs, are immensly overpowered. The Sub Machine Guns in this game are incredibly overpowered, outshining the MP7 from MW3, and making them much worse. All of them have extremely little recoil, excellent range, and the unlock pattern to simply fuck up anyones day.

Now the final thing i am going to touch up on is Lag Compensation. What in the fuck is all i have to say. Rewarding people with bad connection and making people that pay for good quality internet speed suffer isnt the right mindset for anyone. When i shoot someone several times centermass, only to be SMG'd and my bullets not show up on the kill cam, is incredibly frustrating. Should i buy a shittier internet connection to play one good multiplayer game? No. Also, playing 3/5ths of the game i join isnt fun Treyarch. You've had 2 more years to fix the horrendus timeout issues that plauged BO1, but havnt done anything short of sitting on your asses.

End of novel.