Call of Duty: Black Ops II
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| Developer(s) | Treyarch |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Director(s) | Dave Anthony and Timothy Tomaszewski |
| Artist(s) | Colin Whitney |
| Writer(s) | Craig Houston David S. Goyer Dave Anthony Micah Wright |
| Composer(s) | Jack Wall |
| Series | Call of Duty |
| Engine | Black Ops II engine |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Wii U |
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Windows
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Original Soundtrack) | |
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| Soundtrack album by Jack Wall | |
| Released | November 13, 2012 |
| Genre | Video game soundtrack |
| Length | 2:28:49 |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (WIIU) 86.07% (X360) 85.53% (PS3) 82.57% (PC) 79.17% |
| Metacritic | (X360) 83/100 (PS3) 83/100 (WIIU) 81/100 (PC) 74/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| G4 | 4.5/5 |
| Game Informer | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpot | 8.0/10 |
| GameTrailers | 9.4/10 |
| IGN | 9.3/10 |
| OPM (UK) | 8/10 |
| OXM (US) | 8.5/10 |
| OXM (UK) | 8/10 |
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It was released on November 13, 2012 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 and on November 18, 2012 in North America, November 30, 2012 in Europe and Australia for the Wii U.Black Ops II is the ninth game in the Call of Duty franchise of video games, a sequel to the 2010 game Call of Duty: Black Ops and the first Call of Duty game for the Wii U. The game was launched at 16,000 stores worldwide at midnight on November 13, 2012.
Black Ops II is the first game in the Call of Duty franchise to feature future warfare technology and the first to present branching storylines driven by player choice as well as selecting weapons before starting story mode missions. It also offers a 3D display option. A corresponding game, Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified, was released simultaneously on the PlayStation Vita. Within 24 hours of going on sale, the game grossed over $500 million. It had remained the largest entertainment launch of all time until September 2013, when Take-Two announced that Grand Theft Auto V had grossed $800 million in its first day of release. It went on to sell 7.5 million copies in the U.S. in November 2012, making it the highest grossing game of the month.
The game is the first in the series to feature significant elements of nonlinear gameplay, most notably multiple endings. A sequel, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, was released in 2015.
The single-player campaign features two connected storylines, with the first set from 1986 to 1989 during the final years of the First Cold War, and the other set in 2025 during a Second Cold War. The protagonist of Black Ops, Alex Mason returns as the protagonist in the first Cold War section, and chronicles the rise to infamy of the game's primary antagonist, Raul Menendez.
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