Call of Duty: Black Ops II [Standard edition] (Xbox 360)

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Treyarch also confirmed that Zombies would run on the game's multiplayer engine, allowing for a deeper community experience, along with new features. The map "Mob of the Dead" features a new crew of characters: Albert "The Weasel" Arlington ( Joe Pantoliano), Billy Handsome ( Ray Liotta), Michael "Finn" O'Leary ( Michael Madsen), and Salvatore "Sal" DeLuca ( Chazz Palminteri). The four are contacted by both Richtofen and Maxis, who is now a digital artificial intelligence, for aid against the other. The precise consequences of Salazar's betrayal are determined by the preceding fates of Lynch, Farid, and DeFalco.

Black Ops II is also the first game in the series to allow the player to customize their loadout before beginning a mission, creating freedom in choosing how to approach a mission. The art featured on the site matched up perfectly with the supposed retailer leak received by Kotaku.Gallegos praised the game for telling a story was genuinely interesting and creating a villain that he empathised with to the point of questioning his own actions over the course of the story. Regardless, Menendez uses the drones to attack Los Angeles, among other major American and Chinese cities, during a meeting of G20 leaders, hoping to kill them and foment widespread economic and civil chaos; Section escorts the US President to safety.

Stuhlinger is threatened by Richtofen, who knows of his past as a member of The Flesh, which allows only him to hear Richtofen and not the others. The map "Origins" features an alternate version of the original crew: Tank Dempsey ( Steven Blum), Nikolai Belinski (also voiced by Tatasciore), Takeo Masaki ( Tom Kane), and Richtofen ( Nolan North), as well as Maxis' daughter, Samantha ( Julie Nathanson). Mason becomes afflicted by his brainwashing once again, struggling to resist the urge to kill Kravchenko. Several weeks after their ordeal in Afghanistan, Mason, Woods, Hudson, and Panamanian Defense Forces, led by General Manuel Noriega, raid Menendez's compound in Nicaragua.

Not all of them paid off, but knowing that the team was willing to eschew the safe route helped ward off any stagnation that may have begun to creep into the series as of late. The Die Rise map is a larger zombies survival map taking place in two semi-destroyed skyscrapers in Shanghai, where one to four players use elevators to travel between floors. Activision had hinted that the game may eventually become available for Nintendo's own consoles, although had no official announcements for the time being. Another new mode, "Turned", is introduced with several downloadable content maps, in which one player attempts to survive three player-controlled zombies who must turn the other player into a zombie. If Lynch was rescued and Farid is alive, he will die either shielding her from Salazar or killing DeFalco (if the latter is alive); if Farid is dead, Lynch will be killed by Salazar or DeFalco.

It was announced on January 8, 2013, and released for Xbox 360 on January 29 and PC and PS3 on February 28 [56] The pack contained four new multiplayer maps: Downhill, Hydro, Mirage and Grind; and two new Zombies modes: Turned and Die Rise. Gallegos directed criticisms at the artificial intelligence of allies in Strike Force mode and at the ending of the campaign, which he felt was disappointing even though he was aware that the outcome was directly influenced by the choices he made. After maxing out a weapon's level, the player can choose to "prestige" the gun, similar to how they can prestige the player level, and reset their attachment progress. The four learn of The Flesh, a cannibalistic cult that chooses to eat zombie meat, as well as the beginnings of a new airborne pandemic of Element 115. Two possible endings can occur: if Weasel is killed, the cycle repeats once again; if Weasel lives and the other three are killed, the cycle is broken, and he is finally freed of his punishment.

Their shaky relationship is further strained when Jason Hudson approaches Mason for an assignment in Angola—Frank Woods and his team have disappeared while attempting to take out an arms smuggling ring; the CIA has already disavowed their actions, but Hudson hopes to rescue any survivors. The player's progress in the Strike Force missions may go on to change even the plans of the story's antagonist, Raul Menendez.

In this era, wars are defined by robotics, cyberwarfare, unmanned vehicles, and other futuristic technology.Locations featured in the game include Angola, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Cayman Islands, Panama, Yemen, the United States, and Haiti. On December 12, 2012, all Xbox 360 Season Pass holders received access to the Nuketown Zombies map, with PC holders following on January 17, and PlayStation 3 holders on January 19, having been delayed two days due to PSN technical issues. As with the previous installments, each Zombies map contains "Easter eggs" side quests, which is used to progress the story. These allow the player to make small aesthetic changes to the multiplayer functionality of the game, like adding the flag of their country to the kill notification box, adding new weapon skins and allowing the player to use more Create-a-Class slots. The player can customize the slot allocation, to either have more attachments for a gun, or more perks.