Black Ops 2 To Get Proper Announcement in May?

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Lee Bradley

Here’s a image that points heavily towards the industry’s worst secret. The next Call of Duty game will probably be a direct follow-up to Black Ops and it’s likely to be unveiled on 2nd May.

The image shows the date alongside the tagline “Return for debriefing." Black Ops famously featured a storyline that focused on a debriefing during which the player would flashback to key moments in the story’s overarching conspiracy.

In addition to this, the background image features a man with a gun. Black Ops had a man with a gun.

Acquired by Kotaku, the promo image is from a retail source. It seemingly confirms what we’ve known for some time thanks to a series of leaks and rumours. We’ll know for sure in May.

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  • definitely seems legit. hopefully we got some zombie news with it.
  • No big shock really
  • Black Ops? Black Ops? Nope doesnt ring a bell.
  • New zombies will be sweet!
  • Why does COD have to ruin my birthday by announcing the next crappy game. And i can call it crappy because i have played all the cod games since mw except waw.
  • It would be much fresher if they did this every couple of years not every year, just feels so rushed all the time........
  • Looking forward to zombies, and campaign I suppose, last good CoD multiplayer was World at War in my opinion. It seems that the simplest games are always the best games. But, this is cool.
  • Colour me surprised and add this one to the rumour mill. It's only a rumour, unlikely that they'd release a CoD game this year.
  • New engine? Possible buy. Unfortunately I bought MW3 and Elite and have not touched it since December. That's how you know I'm sick of the shit when I have extra missions/maps/achievements waiting for me and I can't even be bothered to download and play them.
  • Same shit different year
  • And one fat yawn from me and thousands more from others.
  • Seriously, I have no clue why activision acts like we don't know another CoD game is coming out, they should just say "CoD 465:_____, 11/9/12. Buy it." simple as that.
  • make the campaign a little longer... thats all i ask from CoD... everything else is fine
  • Having bought the past 2 years releases (MW3 and BO's) and gotten rid of them a month after their initial release date, this is the year I finally don't bother anymore. Had enough of the constant injection of generic military shooters.
  • "In addition to this, the background image features a man with a gun. Black Ops had a man with a gun." lol
  • DUEL WIELD GALIL'S
  • hmmmm
  • great! crap ops 2...i mean camp ops 2. the first one was so slow and boring can't wait for part two SIKE! zombies saved the first one and i'm pretty sure it will save the second one as well.
  • Noty, no more cods for me. And for all the people actually getting it... Are u 12 years old?!
  • Didn't buy the first Black Ops game, didn't feel like i could complete the game achievement wise. First COD game i haven't bought since COD Big Red One.
  • im kind of neutral on this. i like a blast on a cod game every so often. but i won't be buying it every year.
  • I bet this one will retail for another absurd figure. MW3 was $150 NZD for the bare minimum edition. You know, the one with the 3 page 'booklet'.
  • A leak about the announce of a game that we all pretty much knew was coming... Blops was a good game. I wasn't a fan of the multi tbh, but the SP was one of the better CoD games I've played.
  • i think you will find that date has gone, 5th February 2012 was 2 months ago... oh wait despite this being a uk website, they insist on showing things in crappy american style, its called greenwich meantime for a reason, and one more thing this game will be shit yet another cashcow game from Wacktivision
  • Nooo... I hated zombies dont know why just did
  • @5: You sound like a self-entitled asshole. God forbid something you don't like happens on your birthday. Sorry but the world doesn't stop for you kid. Anyway, kind of looking forward to the announcement but won't be holding any high hopes for anything too amazing either.
  • Yawn...... Halo 4, that is all.....
  • ruined my birthday too(today), why cant someone announce the death of Rihanna, i mean Eternal Darkness 2 ?
  • Honestly, I would buy black ops if it only dedicated the whole game to zombies. I don't want a duplicate of what I've been playing for 3-4 years
  • i agree with majority of the comments. hope for some zombie action as well as a longer campaign
  • @24 They show it "crappy" American because that's how the poster is.
  • I just want zombies & Campaign.
  • @8 are you using sarcasm?
  • I see CoD games like fifa games, it's the same shit every year with a few tweaks, when they got a complete new game engine i'll buy it till the next engine comes out.
  • pass.
  • I have bought and played every COD to date and I am finally saying R.I.P.
  • #5: Your life must be sad if your birthday is ruined by the announcement of a videogame.
  • @5 & @28 Happy birthday!
  • Ill be buying Halo 4... And if GTA drops in November too... Then damn.. Poor Blops 2 won't be getting Any love... Not that it will deserve it with its shitty hit detection and shitty engine from 2007...
  • ''In addition to this, the background image features a man with a gun. Black Ops had a man with a gun'' Well, conclusive proof that the next CoD game will be a follow up to blops. TBH unless it has an entirley new graphics engine i'm not buying, how can you make so many billions of a franchise and not reinvest in it? #27 has got it spot on, this year is all about halo 4.
  • Activision can eat a dick. Or whatever is left of said dick after EA finish chewing on it.
  • Better not get Sam Worthington back,fucking worst voice actor ever.
  • They should stop trying to build suspense it dont work we already know another call of duty is on the way activision do we look stupid or something
  • Black Ops 2 ready your flame jacket, we've got incoming. Black Ops Campaign was probally the best we've seen in the franchise. Looking forward to see what they do with it in Blops 2.
  • #5 You are not a cod expert if you haven't played the first, second, third and World at war. So you've only played half of the CoD games.
  • It would be awesome if we got a Carnival or a Zoo for a zombie map.. Zombie clowns and Zombie Animals in a zoo.. That would be awesome!! :) that's the only reason I liked Black Ops next to the story.. Didn't care for multiplayer maps much..
  • I didnt buy MW3 and surprisingly haven't missed it, I've noticed a quicker drop off rate in people on my friends list playing it than any other COD
  • Most of the comments are people either saying it's a bad game or saying they won't buy this one. Yet they'll end up breaking the sale's record again...that's something else that seems to happen every year.
  • Well, I guess they beat the WW2 horse to death... The zombie part... Next up the cold war. I still might get it for the single player part of it. I say the single part since I suck at multiplayer.
  • @5 who gives a crap about your birthday cod is a lot better than a 50 year old turning 51
  • @29 so you're saying that zombies isn't a duplicate of what you've played in Black Ops and WAW? Granted it doesn't come out every year (thankfully) but don't try to say it isn't a duplicate either. It's argueable that every FPS MP mode is a duplicate as well, some tweaks here and there but otherwise the premise is the same, run around and get cheap kills with different weapons. Sorry, your opinion is flawed.
  • " Black Ops had a man with a gun." http://alltheragefaces.com/img/faces/large/misc-you-dont-say-l.png Found that part of the article hysterical haha. Thanks for the update. Can't wait for more zombie action. Bops brought back all the maps from waw which I had purchased but you needed to buy them again...maybe theyll be a little nicer this time around...yeah, I know. Not happening.
  • guys i believe i have a leaked picture shown to me by my friend is there a way to email it to the site's directors?
  • If it is Black Ops 2, I hope the missions are more stable and not so random with the guy just reliving the missions, the story was good, but sadly it was only a few missions in that I figured the guy was crazy, but still cool, I honestly dont care what Tryarch does as long as the finally leave WWII alone, that war has been used way too much in video games IMO.
  • come on guys don't be harsh well I never complain about any game as long as there is new achievements to unlock plus some fun with friends I am looking forward this game since I enjoyed the first 1
  • I've been playin CoD since the first one and they were good games back then. CoD 4 was in my opinion the best multi player out of all of them, since then there has always been some issues, whether it be quick scoping or the lack of map variation. WaW was quite a good multi but all the guns were very similar, MW2 introduced Quick Scoping which is the biggest farce ever and MW3 has carried that on then eliminated the big map with sniper points to actually use the guns has they are meant to be used. Black Ops Mp was for me the most fun since CoD 4, apart from Zombies. They should release Zombies seperately so I don't have a whole load of Gamerscore I'll never unlock because I hate the mode and I'm paying for map packs which includes content I'll never use.
  • @24- Cry me a river, pussy. "Wah!! The date is American." Grow up. OT: I enjoy Treyarch releases. If this is anything like MW3 it will be my last CoD.
  • Who the FUCK cares? Enough with COD already. No need to report on shit that's bound to happen every year.
  • Black Ops was easily my favorite Call of Duty game. It expanded upon the Zombies mode while keeping the gameplay new, exciting, and different from that of the Modern Warfare franchise. Treyarch had a rocky start with developing CoD titles, but at this point they've surpassed Infinity Ward. I'll definitely be buying BO2 on day one. I just hope it bears way more similarity to BO1 than it does to MW3.
  • everyones problem with cod is if they do it every couple of years it'll be fine. MAY I REMIND YOU IW released mw2 2 years previous to mw3 and treyarch will of done the mp to black ops 2 years prior when black ops 2 comes out
  • @58 You came, you posted = apparently you care enough. I will personally buy halo 4 but might pick this up later. Depends if halo 4 mp is better then reach
  • Bet 9 out of 10 ppl who say they aint gonna buy actually will. Not too bothered about this one myself but hey, ive bought and played all the others so why not this one?
  • Well we know two things. One, it's going to be better than Black Ops. Two, it's going to have more features than MW3. Only time will tell if it's the best CoD since CoD4/WaW, since none have raised the bar back to this level.
  • people that call cod rushed...you are aware it's a 2year cycle..with 2 developers right? lol hating on cod makes no sense to me..especially one from treyarch...mw3 was a bad game..but black ops was amazing! and black ops 2!! even better! can't wait :)
  • I like Black Ops a lot more than MW3 so this is welcome news to me. Hoping that Treyarch gives us tons more content than Infinity Ward this time with Elite. I want three maps per month or a map editor or something. That would change up CoD quite a bit.
  • I certainly won't be coming back for debriefing lol
  • Lol, this line just made me giggle: 'In addition to this, the background image features a man with a gun. Black Ops had a man with a gun.' Hehe, so simple ^_^ On topic, still disappointed in the developers, or who ever it was who took away site privilages because an image was posted there, as well as 100's of other sites, that was rather pathetic. I expect nothing from this game, though treyarch did try to make their games more inovative then IF did, I still don't plan on getting this, just like i didn't buy the last 2, or the one before that when it was new, unless they finaly alter the engine... don't see that happening. Can't wait for people to start getting taste again soon, everything just goes from explosive thing to explosive thing, be it popular game or movies, its rather sad tbh, so much of a cash-in just for explosions and repetition. At least Halo 4 comes out this year, see if 343 will do a good job or not, oly time will tell :3
  • Do Activision really need to announce a CoD game at this point? Just shove it onto the shelves at the beginning of November, no one will be surprised or particularly excited to see it there and it would still sell millions of copies simply because it has the words 'Call of Duty' on the cover.
  • And all the 12 year olds have just jizzed themselves. Yawn, move along, i'm done with CoD from now on until some vast improvements are done.
  • "In addition to this, the background image features a man with a gun. Black Ops had a man with a gun." Logic win.
  • I do find it funny how they delay any revelations. We all know cod is coming November this year and we also know the next one after that will be November 2013 and so on until the next generation of consoles. I also see this game like FIFA, a pointless add on that's released yearly with minor tweaks. FIFA 10 was amazing with 360 dribbling an 12 was good for defending and impact engine. The rest have hardly anything noteworthy added that got close to warranting a full RRP CoD 4 was a groundbreaking game moving away from ww2 and bringing war to the present, online made it one of te greatest games ever created, MW2 built on that success albeit with a fairly unbalanced multiplayer. The rest is history, sheep followed and te games got worse
  • already they release these things to fast.
  • Its A Bday Game
  • my last game was MW2 and I have rented the other games just to find out that they are the same, so I'll pass... the only activision game I'll buy this year is the amazing spider-man
  • Still play Blops more than MW3, but not that often, cod is simply just boring, which they would stop for a couple years, even though they always make a killing
  • No cares about it they should cancel it and never release it.
  • No one cares about it they should cancel it and never release it.
  • Well it appears that black ops has a new expansion pack coming out being priced for 60 as all the call of duty's have done. The only cod games that will ever be good are world at war and call of duty 4. That's it...
  • I have always liked the Treyarch CoD's. WAW was the shit (#1 CoD IMO) and I really liked BLOPS
  • They should just start calling it COD 2k13
  • Hope they put more time into the bots multiplayer mode than zombies. I actually thought their bots mode was 100x better than Infinity Ward's Survival mode. Was awesome getting pretty much all the features from multiplayer offline, whereas Survival just had airdrops and weapon resets every round. Got to be very boring.
  • @24 you bloody wanker asshat douchebag pillow biter!
  • @24 It's MAY not February dipshit. This game will suck balls cause it's the SAME SHIT every fucking year but yet a million retards will buy it and 1/4 will bitch about how it's the same shit again. I'm glad I haven't played anything since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
  • Boringgg. Seriously getting fed up with pretty much the same game being thrown at us every year. Didnt buy MW3 wont buy Black ops 2 and i definatly will never pay an extra 40 quid a year for "Elite" This cash cow has been milked enough!
  • To all you idiots slagging off COD, why are you here? If you don't like the game then why are you on a forum about it
  • Everyone! Boycot this shit. Show that we are fed up with the same multiplayer and progressivly shorter campaigns. (Unless of course black ops 2 changes this)
  • Well, I might get this simply because the Treyarch COD games have had campaigns that were significantly more difficult than IW's. Other than that, Zombies was fun. I spent a whole lot of time on completing all the achievements and had a blast helping people. I really do hope they fix the derpy hit detection though, I'd get killed after going behind a wall, but the killcam showed me die before I even got behind it too many times. The game felt a little slower paced and I hope they get rid of ghost or add stopping power. If they had those two perks in the same tier like Cold Blooded and SP were in MW2, there would be less camping for sure because SP would actually give some guns a chance in a fight versus a top tier weapon. I hope thy keep their grenades as powerful as the first BO, the fact that you can dance on grenades and not die in MW3 just kills me inside lol.
  • watch this they pull what they did with WAW and make u pay money for BLOPS zombie packs instead of just giving them to you and have a new map in that pack like the reserection map pack which sucks cuz i bought all the map packs with WAW for zombies i will probably not purchase this game till a way later date cuz they are over doing it
  • It's confirmed for a May 1st announcement. Visit callofduty.com and see the pic. It says: "World Reveal Tune in May 1st Basketball Playoffs on TNT"
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