New Black Ops II Screens

By Brian P Rubin | 03 May 2012 | 10 Comments

It seems as though in the days since Activision finally unveiled the trailer for the new Call of Duty: Black Ops II, set to be released this fall, video game news has shriveled up like junk in a cold pool. As such, there hasn’t been a ton of exciting stuff going on—

HEY LOOK SOME NEW SCREENSHOTS FROM BLACK OPS II

So here you go. Sorta post-apocalyptical, cool quad-rotor helicopters, but not a horse to be found.

Thoughts?

10 Comments

Posted by Landon Robinson on 03 May 12 at 9:39am

These look very cutscene-ish. Either that, or they’ve actually made some visual upgrades to the engine. Especially that last shot. Hmmmmm…
- Posted by Lawrence Sonntag on 03 May 12 at 9:59am
  
  Maybe the campaign will run at 30fps this time instead of 60? I was thinking the same thing though.
  - Posted by Maximk on 03 May 12 at 10:35am
    
    are you guys really having a conversation on the blog instead of turning around in your office and saying it to each others faces ^^ god, gotta love the internet ;)
    Also, i dunno, the graphics seem improved. It might just be the futuristic art direction though, maybe the engine just looks different if you don’t try to portrait the 80′s
    - Posted by Brian P Rubin on 03 May 12 at 11:16am
      
      Landon’s in North Carolina, Lawrence is in LA, and I’m in Minneapolis. Usually when I turn around to tell them something, it just makes it harder for me to type.
    - Posted by Landon Robinson on 03 May 12 at 11:51am
      
      I’ve been to Minneapolis once but didn’t see Brian, and I go to L.A. once in a while solely to bother Lawrence.
      
      Deep down he wishes we were right there with him…spinning in our chairs and asking him questions all day.
      - Posted by Maximk on 03 May 12 at 6:12pm
        
        Oh my lord. So you all don’t even work sitting next to each other ^^ I totally got the wrong impression ;)
        Well if you ever want a European (British/German Hybrid) writer , feel free to ask me ^^
        But yea, awsome, great to know ;) You should have like a tab called “Writers” where you introduce yourselves quickly, if ya know what I mean.
        I know you already got the /author tab going for an archive of the author, but maybe there should be a box with some personal stuff. ;)
  - Posted by Kenny Ngo on 03 May 12 at 12:23pm
    
    Haha this whole thing is cute, but anyways, they do look nice, but yeah, they probably are cut scenes. That would be awesome if they did make some updates to the engine, but they probably woulda mentioned that in the trailer…
Posted by Sak on 03 May 12 at 12:26pm

XM8 Prototype? I think so.
Posted by NomanCla7ure on 04 May 12 at 3:22am

Ghost Recon anyone?
Posted by Connor on 07 May 12 at 3:52pm

Damn, it’s kind of hard to believe this is still somewhat based off the quake 3 engine.