The latest issue of Nintendo Gamer pretty clearly states that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is coming to the Wii U. There's really nothing wishy-washy about the statement. Seems like too much work to be a fake!
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The latest issue of Nintendo Gamer pretty clearly states that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is coming to the Wii U. There's really nothing wishy-washy about the statement. Seems like too much work to be a fake!
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While I really don't care for CoD, this is great news. ^^
It better be on it's way. This is another announcement that Nintendo should have mentioned during their press conference
Anything that comes from Nintendo Gamer must be taken with a massive grain of salt
Perhaps Nintendo leaving all these little tidbits out is there way of generating hype? LOL. People are still scouring the internets for details. Seems like its working.
As for COD - We need the IP for third parties to be on board. Fantastic news imo
A November release for COD along side the Wii U could get the system in a lot of hands.
Can't say I didn't see this coming.
No reason for the Wii U to miss out on CoD if the Wii got regular releases.
Still good to hear nonetheless.
Probably not gonna get the game since there's already better/exclusive ones coming out, but this will definitely boost some Wii U sales. Not surprising considering Activision went out of their way to develop a Wii version of the last couple of CODs, but this should prove beneficial for the U. Might get it just for the sake of enticing more people to get on board the Wii U experience.
I would've been surprised if it wasn't coming to Wii U.
I don't mind the series, its getting more on rails with each release and its very short but its not a bad game to rent, there are worse games that could be this successful.
However this looks to be a lot better, Treyarch are adding more to the title and they seem keen on the SP & co-op modes more this time around. Might not be the revolution the series needs but at least its a start.
since treyarch made all those efforts over the year, i just assumed that the game would be on wii u . we'll see
In other news the sky is blue.
Though in all seriousness, by how much will the superior Wii U version be stomped on in sales I wonder?
Transcript of the blurry text.
" We've done World War II, the Cold War and the near future, so where next for Call Of Duty, the shooty mega-franchise that's more popular than pictures of kittens? Um, how about slightly further into the future?
2025 to be precise. Although only nine years have passed since the events of Modern Warfare 3, time has not been kind to the US of A. Now Black Ops protagonist Sgt. Frank Woods, now a scrightly(?) 95 years of age to be your guide. "Aside from the fact I'm alive none of this surprises me" he croaks while outside futuristic drones blast seven bells out of his neighborhood. "We built computers, robots, whole unmanned armies. But no one ever asks what happens, when the enemy steals the keys?".
Consider the keys well and truly swiped. On the ground an armour-plated mech is tearing up Wishere(?) Boulevard. In the skies quadcopters buzz with unnerving precision and elegance, their UAV threatening the lives of the very people they were built to protect. Los Angeles - and indeed the entire United States - is besieged by it's own technology.
FUTURE SHOCK
Undesirable at the best of times; utterly calamitous if you happen to be in the middle of a Cold War with China over the distribution of rare earth elements. The culprit is a man named Raul Menendez, a mysterious villain who developers Treyarch rekon is poised to become gaming's next iconic super-villan.
"THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES IS BESIEGED BY ITS OWN TECHNOLOGY"
Well, they would say that, wouldn't they? But they're taking Menendez's character development seriously. So seriously in fact that they're setting one third of the game in the 1980's to flesh out his back-story, it's even been hinted that you'll play as him, but for the most part you'll (be) kicking it as Woods Mason and the rest of the first Black Ops fighters(?).
The idea is that this section will help you grasp Menendez's motives and show you that good and evil aren't binary opposites, but we dunno. He still sounds like kind of a jerk to us.
Back in the future you play as Mason's son David, who is part of an elite team protecting -----(?)(?) the (lady!) president. BLOPS 2 will be the first non-linear Call Of Duty, and we can see this ----(?) firstly with a free range jet piloting session, and secondly with the new-found fragility of plot-critical characters, if you let them die, the story unfolds differently, making this the first COD with branching story-lines and multiple endings. There are even sandbox levels you can fail altogether, but that - and the Wii U functionality - is a story for next issue."
"It better be on it's way. This is another announcement that Nintendo should have mentioned during their press conference"
You'd think that Nintendo would of had COD in their press conference, but then I think back, and it wasn't apart of Sony's show either, other than maybe in a video montage. So my guess would be that Microsoft locked up the exclusive rights, to only show it live demoed at their show. That's the only thing I can think of, because Treyarch love Nintendo, and they heavily hint that the game is probably coming to the Wii U. So why not announce it at E3? Unless they just weren't ready yet, so they're saying it for GamesCom, or Nintendo's own launch info event.
I already paid off my pre-order on the 360 version (though I confess I pre-ordered this early mostly for the goodies GameStop is giving out every two months leading up to the release, but I'm still really looking forward to the game), so if it comes to Wii U I'll just switch which system I get it for. One thing I'd like to see is this: in the Strike Force missions, the GamePad can be on a permanent Overwatch mode for controlling things in an RTS manner, while the TV always has the action displayed in third person from a unit when not in control of one, and you can either spectate the action as you control it from the Pad, or instantly jump into a unit by simply tapping them on the touchscreen.
I'd also like to see optional control schemes for using either the Wiimote+nunchuck, or the touchscreen on the GamePad for aiming just like in the DS games.
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That transcript is basically a transcript of the reveal trailer lines with some narrating from the writter
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I know, it also had at least three typos I spotted. They started a sentence with "But", left out words, and had missing punctuation. Really not good journalism, but the teaser of Wii U specific info for next month is something. :/
Well yeah, they also teased about "exclusive" Assassins Creed 3 info, and I already said it was just the ideas from the developer roundtable compiled into an article
I wonder if the Wiimote/nunchuck can be used instead of dual analog
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