Activision's Next Call of Duty is Definitely Black Ops II, In Case You Were Still Wondering

I hope they try and remove the word "Respawn" from the multiplayer

Knew exactly who was writing this article from the headline.

Well, I'm going to be that one person.

Super stoked for this, i loved Black Ops and I've really not enjoyed the last two Infinity Ward games, so I'm more than ready for some more Call of Duty, honestly really looking forward to getting back into the online first person shooting, since both Battlefield and MW3, as I mentioned before, completely underwhelmed and bored me more than they should've. Black Ops 2 hypetrain, get on!

so its basically Call of Duty: 20 seconds into the future warfare. meh.

21st Century? I'm uninterested already.

Colored me uninterested. The whole franchise is generally uninteresting to me but I liked the whole historic like feel of Black Ops. Not really all that interested in modern military though. This will be a pass for me.

So it's basically modern warfare GRAW?

Knew exactly who was writing this article from the headline.

I found it strange when a friend said "Tomorrow they announce Black ops 2." Not much of an announcement if people already knew. And the joys of now people going "Black ops is better than MW3! well Black ops 2 is better than MW3, nah Black ops it better than all!" so fun times.

Here we go again.

EDIT: Actually, this thing turned out pretty swell!

As perhaps was expected, we now definitively know what the next Call of Duty game is, many hours before its scheduled reveal. If you thought this year was going to be different, that the NBA Playoffs would be just that much sweeter thanks to the exclusive, all-encompassing reveal planned for tonight's game on TNT, sadly, once again you are disappointed. More likely, however, you don't care at all, and just want to know about the frigging game. Understandable.

Well, thanks to Activision accidentally putting up the game's UK promotional site a smidge early, we now know this year's Call of Duty is, as expected, the sequel to the mega-successful Treyarch-developed Black Ops. Black Ops II is coming to all the expected platforms, and it's doing so on November 13.

But wait! There's more! In addition, we now know a few basic details thanks to some plot and screenshot leaks. Here's the premise of the game, according to the website:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, where technology and weapons have converged to create a new generation of warfare.

So, basically, hey, remember how the Cold War setting of Black Ops was kind of neat and slightly different from all of the other modern shooters out there right now? Yeah, well, screw that. They're doing their own future guns and modern-ish imaginary conflicts, just like all the other games with future guns and modern-ish imaginary conflicts. Oh, and drones. There are a lot of drones, if these screenshots are to be believed. So that's something, I suppose.

We won't be seeing any video until tonight's TV reveal, unless of course someone decides to leak that too. We'll keep an eye out for that.