Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PS3)

Often times you cannot pinpoint the moment where something begins to change or evolve in the video game industry. It's only after it has definitely changed that you can look back and see it. Treyarch's Black Ops II is this moment. I'm not sure yet if...

One thing rings true through each moment spent with Call of Duty Black Ops 2: this is now an institution. It seems obvious, of course, but like

When you think about the Call of Duty franchise, you think about the explosion-filled campaigns, the intense firefights and the increasingly popular competitive multiplayer. You may also think it's a franchise that is beginning to show its age and is...

A sinister villain, some tough choices, and a new kind of multiplayer arena invigorate the reliably intense action in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

The new Call of Duty is here. Without much fanfare, little in the way of promotion, and a bare minimum of general hype, Black Ops II snuck onto the scene…wait. That doesn't sound right. Ah, I wrote the opposite, the antithesis of the true phenomenon...

A wise emphasis on decision making helps ward off annualized stagnation.

Here it is, the game you’ve all been pining after/patiently awaiting/inherently ignoring is finally here, and doesn’t it all look so very exciting/samey/vomit-inducing? Set once more against the backdrop of the cold war, COD9:BO2 takes the FPS to...

Treyarch delivers once again with their follow-up to Black Ops. Read our full review here.

This is the ultimate package for the Call of Duty fan (no pun intended). The care package is an

Black Ops 2 is a solid shooter which takes the Black Ops gameplay and CoD gameplay in general to interesting new directions, both in single and multiplayer.