Like snow or Christmas decorations, Call of Duty shows itself by the end of the year. Like every year since Modern Warfare. This time, it's the turn of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, developed by Treyarch. Unlike its predecessor, the story sets in two distinct eras, the 80's and the year 2025. Two viewpoints which allow the game to offer many side roads in the story, and 8 different endings. This is a first for such a mainstream series. Of course the game's core remains the same on the basics: cinematic action, epic scenes and a percussive score. Even if Black Ops 2 reuses old recipes, it does it really well and remains a great experience. I recommend you guys to buy this Game !

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The Grief mode is aptly named: It’s a four-versus-four squadmatch with zombies attacking everyone at the same time. Sure, that sounds like a cool idea, but getting into a match was nearly impossible since no one seemed to be playing it the first week the game was out. And of course, no zombie game would be complete without a “survival” mode, which has you and your squad fighting waves of zombies. This mode is simply cheap thrills, but thrills nonetheless.

The graphics look great and the game ran extremely well totally maxed out on our overclocked Core i7 Sandy Bridge system with a GeForce GTX 780 Ti at 1080p. Everything from the characters to the gun models to the explosions just looked badass. Adding to the eye candy is a whirlwind of exotic locations, including jungles in South America, deserts in the Middle East, and even the gritty streets of downtown Los Angeles.

In the end, we liked CoDBlops2 more than we thought we would. The singleplayer campaign is fun and the replay value is increased by the inclusion of multiple endings. And the overhauled multiplayer is surprisingly good.

If you’ve gotten tired of the Call of Duty games, we know the feeling. That’s exactly why developer Treyarch tweaked the formula so much this time around, and the results are largely successful. Though it’s not a perfect game, it’s one that FPS fans certainly won’t want to miss.