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Call of Duty: Black Ops II is an upcoming

first-person shooter video game, developed

by Treyarch and published by Activision

(Square Enix for Japan), to be released on

November 13, 2012 for Wii U, PlayStation

3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.

Black Ops II is the ninth game in the Call of

Duty franchise of video games and a

sequel to the 2010 game Call of Duty:

Black Ops.

Black Ops II is the first game in the Call of

Duty franchise to have a futuristic setting

and feature future warfare technology. It

also presents branching storylines driven

by player choice for the first time in the

franchise's history. A corresponding game,

Call of Duty: Black Ops – Declassified, will

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be released simultaneously on the

PlayStation Vita.

The Black Ops II engine builds upon the

Black Ops engine with a number of

improvements including performance

optimizations, enhanced graphics, and

proprietary anti-cheat technology.

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The single-player campaign will feature two

connected storylines, one set in the 1970s

through 1980s and the other in 2025. The

protagonist of Black Ops, Alex Mason

returns as the protagonist in the Cold War

section, where he will be fighting in proxy

wars for the United States in the Cold War.

Known locations for this section of the

game include multiple sites in Central

America, Afghanistan during the Soviet

invasion and Angola. This section of the

game will also see the rise to infamy of the

game's primary antagonist, Raul

Menendez, a Nicaraguan narco-terrorist

and the leader of "Cordis Die", a populist

movement celebrated as the champions of

victims of economic inequality. Mason's

friend and colleague Frank Woods will also

return, and narrate the story into the 2025

section of the game.

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The 2025 section of the game features

Alex Mason's son David as a protagonist.[8]

When a cyberattack cripples the Chinese

Stock Exchange, China bans the export of

rare earth elements, which in turn leads to

a new Cold War between China and the

United States. In this era, war is defined by

robotics, cyberwarfare, unmanned vehicles

and other futuristic technology. Taking

advantage of this stand-off, Menendez

attempts to bring the two powers to a full-

blown war by inciting conflicts between the

two. Known locations for this section of the

game include Los Angeles, Singapore and

Socotra, Yemen. It has been hinted at that

the side-plot of Viktor Reznov and his

relationship with Alex Mason, which began

in Black Ops, will be continued in Black

Ops

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Black Ops II will be the first Call of Duty

video game to feature branching storylines,

in which the player's choice affects both the

current mission and in turn, the overall

course of the story. Known as "Strike Force

missions", these branching storylines will

appear during the 2025 storyline and will

feature permanent death. The success or

failure of these missions can have

ramifications for the wider campaign

storyline. Choosing one of the missions

locks out the others unless the player

begins a fresh campaign.

Strike Force missions allow the player to

control a number of different war assets,

such as unmanned aerial vehicles, jet

fighters and robots. If the player dies in a

Strike Force mission, the campaign

continues recording that loss, as opposed

to letting the player load a previously saved

checkpoint. The player's progress in the

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Strike Force missions may go on to change

even the plans of the story's antagonist,

Raul Menendez. By the end of the game,

the player may have changed the results of

the new Cold War, and the player will be

shown what could have gone differently.

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Treyarch has confirmed that the Zombies

mode will return for Black Ops II with its own

campaign. Its predecessors were Call of

Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black

Ops. This is the third time for the Zombies

mode to appear in a Call of Duty game, and

the first time to have its own campaign along

with the main story. Treyarch has also

confirmed that Zombies will implement the

multiplayer engine, allowing for a deeper

community experience along with new game

modes. It has also been confirmed that the

Zombies mode will support 8 player co-op,

unlike Call of Duty: World at War and Call of

Duty: Black Ops, which only support 4 player

co-op.

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