Deconstructing Computer games

By Matthew Farnsworth

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2

Visual style

The Game Is set in 2025 in different locations all round the world from the USA to Singapore.The game is all about modern warfare as u can see by the guns and equipment you use in the game.The story is set in two periods of time. First set from 1986 to 1989 during the final years of the first Cold War, and the other set in 2025 during a second Cold War.Each level you play threw has that different feeling about which adapts to the period of time. Starting with some levels been flooded threw the streets to going threw locked down buildings with soldiers.

CharactersJoint Special Operations Command David "Section" Mason · Mike Harper · Tommy Briggs · Farid · Javier Salazar · Crosby ·King

U.S. Air Force Anderson

CIA Alex Mason · Frank Woods · Jason Hudson · Mark McKnight · Farid · CIA Nerd

United States Secret Service Jones · Samuels · Smith

U.S. Government Bosworth · David Petraeus · Johnson · Oliver L. North · Kurtz · FBI Director · Secretary

Cordis Die/Menendez Cartel/Mercs Raul Menendez · DeFalco · Jose Luiz Menendez · Javier Salazar · Farid

People's Republic of China/SDC Tian Zhao

Panamanian Defense Forces Manuel Noriega · PDF Officer

Mujahideen Mullah Rahman

Tacitus Corporation Chloe "Karma" Lynch · Erik Breighner

ISI ISI Leader

UNITA Jonas Savimbi

Soviet Armed Forces Lev Kravchenko · Viktor Reznov

Civilians Josefina Menendez · Andrea Robbins · Jimmy Kimmel

Chinese Government Chen

USMC Oliver L. North

Non Canon Synyster Gates · M. Shadows · Johnny Christ · Zacky Vengeance

ZombiesAbigail "Misty" Briarton · Marlton Johnson · Samuel J. Stuhlinger · Russman · Edward Richtofen · Ludvig Maxis · Bus Driver · Samantha Maxis · George Barkley · Demonic Announcer · Michael "Finn" O'Leary · Albert "Weasel" Arlington · Salvatore DeLuca · Billy Handsome · Stanley Ferguson · Brutus · The Giant · Tank Dempsey · Nikolai Belinski ·Takeo Masaki · Eddie · Fluffy

InterfaceThe game is a first person shooter with a 3D perspective

GameplayBlack Ops II is the first Call of Duty video game to feature branching storylines, in which the player's choice affects both the current mission and in turn, the overall course of the story. Known as "Strike Force missions", these branching storylines appear during the 2025 storyline and feature permanent death. The success or failure of these missions can have ramifications for the wider campaign storyline. Choosing one of the missions locks out the others unless the player begins a fresh campaign.[

Strike Force missions allow the player to control a number of different war assets, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, jet fighters and robots. If the player dies in a Strike Force mission, the campaign continues recording that loss, as opposed to letting the player load a previously saved checkpoint. The player's progress in the Strike Force missions may go on to change even the plans of the story's antagonist, Raul Menendez. By the end of the game, the player may have changed the results of the new Cold War, and the player is shown what could have gone differently.

Zombies• The first map featured in the game, "Green Run", introduces four new characters:

Samuel Stuhlinger (voiced by David Boat), Marlton Johnson (voiced by Scott Menville), Abigail "Misty" Briarton (voiced by Stephanie Lemelin) and Russman (voiced by Keith Szarabajka).

• The map is set in an abandoned town in Washington, USA. Dr. Edward Richtofen (voiced by Nolan North), the antagonist of Zombies and one of the previous playable characters from the previous game, returns as the announcer.

• Another returning character is Dr. Ludvig Maxis (voiced by Fred Tatasciore), who instructs the new group to help him defeat Richtofen. Stuhlinger, meanwhile, is the only one who can hear Richtofen, and therefore is ordered to help him instead of helping Maxis. Players can choose whether to help Maxis or Richtofen, which will have different results once the story ends.

• There are 4 sections to play on "Green Run": Bus Depot, Town, and Farm. Diner is also available as part of the Revolution DLC pack. Each section has a different mode.

• The Bus Depot features a Survival mode and TranZit, which acts as a story mode that plays throughout the entire map. Town and Farm both have Survival and Grief modes.

Story• The single-player campaign features two connected storylines, with the

first set from 1986 to 1989 during the final years of the first Cold War, and the other set in 2025 during a second Cold War. The protagonist of Black Ops, Alex Mason returns as the protagonist in the first Cold War section, and chronicles the rise to infamy of the game's primary antagonist, Raul Menendez, a Nicaraguannarco-terrorist and the leader of "Cordis Die", a populist movement celebrated as the champion of victims of economic inequality.

• The 2025 section of the game features Alex Mason's son David as the protagonist, in which Menendez is plotting against the United States and China with one of his ultimate goals being to see the United States locked in a new Cold War with China, in revenge for many of his misfortunes. In this era, wars are defined by robotics, cyber warfare, unmanned vehicles, and other futuristic technology.

Plot

• In the year 2025, US Special Forces operatives led by David Mason and his partner, Harper, arrive at "the Vault", a top-security location home to an elderly Frank Woods, whom they suspect possess vital information on the whereabouts of Raul Menendez. Woods concedes that Menendez has recently visited him, and shows them a locket that the latter had left behind. Frank then narrates several covert missions undertaken during his military career which span their previous encounters.

Audience

• The Target Audience is teenagers from the ages of 16-24 and maybe a bit older

Genre

• Action and adventure • First Person Shooter