No matter what your ending is you can still get the rock band ending at the end. You just have to wait for the end credits to finish., it's an Easter egg I got the same ending as well but unfortunately can't upload the video because a copyright claim is blocking the video for everyone.
@@h3llc4tEvo, that's the canon ending in my opinion. Woods, Mason, and David have a well-deserved reunion, while Menendez wallows in his own failure as Karma mocks him on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Things I learned from Mason's grave 1. He was 56 in Suffer with Me. 2. David is probably in his forties or late 30s 3. If Mason had lived he would be 92 in 2025
I find it funny how as a kid I never picked up on the fact that in the bad ending Menendez got into woods room by wearing a military uniform Meanwhile he was literally the worlds most wanted man and this security guard guarding woods room somehow didn’t recognize him. Wouldn’t his face be easily recognized or maybe his voice ?🤣 24:17
I just finished the game today, Wow! (Bought it about a month back) ... Now I'm kinda glad I let him live. (It was actually cause I knew he wanted martyrdom, so the idea of him losing his mind in ADX Colorado appealed to me. Now I'm glad. I didn't do it just for good taste LOL. Seriously, fantastic role! The way he opens the door in Syria or wherever it was to his army was chilling!!! Vale Kamar!
I honestly hate havin' to kill harper to get the best ending, considering how we have to see how it nearly breaks farid, I feel bad for the guy, seein' the struggle of how he would be trying to hold back tears.
I remember when I was a kid in my original play through Harper lived but got scarred by fire in the boat mission. As Foried I tried to shoot Menendez, Karma died, and I killed Menendez. And Mason died because I knew it was gonna be Mason and I didn’t think there was going to be an option where he lived. I didn’t know that until after I finished the game.
@@Wintercomet100 Someone has pointed out a great strategy, but it's technically a glitch, if you skip the Achilles heel mission, the game assumes you saved Harper, but somehow Farid is still alive, so he protects Karma and Harper lives throuhout the game lmfao
The more I rewatch the cinematic aspect of the game, the more I try to understand why some options in the game lead to the best / good ending and ofc bad/ worst ending. Hated the fact killing Harper led to a better ending. However, I would believe in any soldiers interest or profession ((of course I can be wrong about this)) but they would fight for peace and justice and not just kill anyone because they are being shunned or frowned upon by others because they’re wearing a uniform from a completely different country. But because it’s morally right. And I would believe maybe Harper would’ve died for Faid anyway since it was in his line of duty to shoot or take a life from another civilian… Then again it was pressed against his temple and blew his brains out and gave someone MASSIVE TRAMA, But again as stated, I’m just noticing how much I hated it, but now relishing the fact that it was sadly correct in many aspects.
I still believe WAW will forever hold that title imo. The atmosphere, the mission design, the music, even just the small humanizing story the apply to you’re squad leaders just make it an absolutely perfect war experience.
i remember the day i found out there were alternative endings. i was at recess with my friends i remember i was arguing with 2 of my friends about how the ending was
i remember during the mission to save Karma i had a thermal scope and i thought “hey let me try to break the game and snipe the guy” i got him and it ended the mission
@@actiononlyfilms i actually liked that game. It's shame about the ending. I really can't stand those sort of endings for the protagonist. It's just my preference.
god the scene of where woods is walking up to mason breaks me every time bro I swear 😭, and then the music playing in the background makes it like 10x sadder
@@zaid4031 whatever you make of it, literally. there are a series of choices you make that have a significant affect on the ending and fate for a lot of characters.
Karma, Mason, and Menendez outcomes (in short): 0:00 All three live, plus Woods 11:14 All three died (Player chooses to kill Mennedez. Woods still alive) 19:58 Karma and Menendez live, Mason (and Woods) died 22:22 Mason and Menendez live, Karma (and Woods) died 26:54 Karma and Mason live, only Menendez who died 29:51 Only Karma who lived 32:20 Only Mason who lived 35:17 Everyone died, plus Woods (Menendez is spared. However, he also died by burning himself after looking for his sister's grave)
I thought the BO2 story was terrible. So schizophrenic and all the decisions made no sense at all. Just my view, thought BO1 was way better. It was also schizophrenic but only because Mason was legit crazy!
@@fullrandom117I've got 4 endings in this game best cod game ever nothing can change my mind about this game multi-player best campaign best zombies good until tranzit ruined it.
The part where you kill Harper was important because the part is that if you kill Harper then Karma lives for being defended by Farid, but if Farid dies then that’s how Menendez kills Woods in the end.
@@h3llc4tEvo, hey, Mason got full-on brainwashed, and he turned out (relatively) fine. The main characters in Black Ops are some of the toughest sons-of-bitches you're likely to encounter.
Why this ending and not the second? If Menendez died and everyone knew about his death, then what's the point of Karma surviving? It looks much better when she is killed by DeFalco and it comes out very shocking. And Harper remains alive
@EldarioS_01 yea I get what you mean, but I mean this is 1990s, around 30 years or so before bo2 so that outcome with the girl would have nothing to do with it. Although it may have something to do that affects bo3 campaign and bo4. Only if bo4 had a campaign that was supposed to be a filler between the events of bo2 and bo3...
@@shad0w_g4ming You didn't understand. What I'm saying is that what's the point in Karma's survival if after Menendez's death this viral video still goes online and Cordis Dee rebels anyway?
I was at the mission Odysseus when i remembered that there were good and bad endings.... sooo i literally rewound the entire story starting from old wounds and doing literally every mission twice LMAO just to get the best ending. It was worth it.
From BO4's perspective, the actual Canonical Order for BO2's Campaign Timeline is Karma Dies, Farid's Sacrifice, Mason and Harper Lives, Kill Menendez (also completing the Strike Force Missions) and "Cordis Die" happens, so this is the Canonical Path that was chosen for BO4 Timeline placement despite that it has no Campaign (and wished it should've never Existed).
18:28 the person in the grave in the top left of the US soldier in Iraq was the same age as me right now when he died. Its a video game but it really does put things into perspective how young soldiers are, and this was real. I never really appeciated that while playing CoD as a kid but now I get it.
I played through this campaign so many fkn times man, just to get each ending and change what decisions I made each time. This is the only campaign (apart from black ops 1) which I wouldn’t think twice about replaying it over and over, this hits right in the nostalgia balls😩🙌🏻
The Mason's Grave cutscene really gives the eerie feelings. Especially in Mason's gravestone, where unlike many of the gravestones have notable millitary services, Mason's grave had none with the most notable one being "Friend" and once the quote of Semper Fidelis. Shows that people like Mason don't go out with a blaze of glory, they just gets a quiet and somber end.
@Roniixx BO3 is litteraly just futuristic but recycles the plot from BO1 entirely, its just the imaginary friend is Taylor instead of Reznov, the digital thingy is the numbers, and the interrogation where you were rememembering everything is instead that whole "your life flashes as you die" cliche, Corvis is probably just a recycling of Kravchenko and Dragovich as instead of putting the numbers in your ming he infects the digital interface thingy, its just the same bullshit from Black Ops 1 but its in the 2060s instead of the 1960s
I just love how in such a hateful voice we here Woods saying Menendez and I also like how he excepts his feet of being a cripple by him grabbing Menendez’s spaz 12 shotgun, and he pulls the barrel to his other knee cap because he knows that he’s going to get crippled so he’s just making it happen faster
Somehow I understand every ending besides the best one. Menendez still wanted revenge after woods lived and took care of David, but the government is holding woods. He choose to grow not only his followers and army but created 2 plans just in case one of them goes the other way. Which explains why he escape prison to go to wood's retirement home and why he created that video for his followers. Menendez did 4D Chess to kill woods but the icing of the cake would be him going to his sister's grave because he would of let his followers go ahead with his other plan once someone found out he burn to death in his sister's grave. The worst ending would of show us of him killing himself and his followers going after the government then just him killing himself.
he was in jail, how the hell would he do anything about it? he couldnt escape and there's no way for him to contact Cordis Die, unless his jailcell just happens to have wifi and a computer
@@h3llc4tEvo I like how you think he need wifi and connection to do his plans when you forget he have an army. One of them can post the video for him when he does and for him escaping was shown many times in the endings besides the best ending. Menendez always finds a way for his plans to work, even though the story of BO2. Having himself capture and put on the Obama ship is a great example of him having his plan work.
@@h3llc4tEvo, I mean, in the bad endings, Menendez escapes to kill Woods, so clearly he can do that. Although, you could make the case that the Celerium virus helped in that.
1st time I've ended the game, I didn't let Woods interrogate Kravchenko, on purpose. After what he did, even after Dragovich's death ... I couldn't let that one slip and let it shoot. As one said : "Dragovich, Kravchenko, Steiner, they all must die ...". When I shot Mason 3 times in the head, I've regretted everything ... Karma died, but I've killed Menendez as well. Again without hesitation, because of what he made me do. Kill the character that introduced me to my first FPS, my first Call of Duty.
I think this is what sets BO2 apart from WaW and BO1. You're not made to feel like a cog in a machine. Instead the entire plot is driven by a small set of main characters, one of which is you, and is defined by themes of grief, loss and vengeance on a very personal level
He tortured and executed Woods’ team for weeks making him watch, and purposely left ONLY him alive to have the slowest and grossest death possible. The dude was an inexcusable psycho before losing his sister
@@brandyDC That is the reason I like MW3 more than Bo2. I HATE that to stop this POS once and for all I have to let him live. I wanted to do to him what I did to makarov in that game.
Menendez decides to blame everyone but himself. I mean, he tortured Frank's men right in front of him, damn near killed him, and Menendez doesn't expect retaliation? How the hell was Woods supposed to know Raul's sister was in that room, and caught up in the blast!
Well…Let's see who is REALLY to blame for everything, it is Menendez's father, first the guy was a drug dealer, precisely in what was a civil war (and believe me the Sandinistas were not very different from the Contras) and it sounds kind of counterproductive. What can I say, but the CIA had little or no control over the issue, of couser the CIA send weapons and some founding, but unlike Afghanistan at that time, the Contras were not trustworthy at all, and to make it more complicated, the guy had accumulated power too quickly which brought too much attention to the point of seeing him as a threat by everyone, if he did not swear allegiance to the Sandinistas they would kill him, if he messed with the Sandinistas the Contras or the CIA he killed him and if he turned out to be too dangerous for all of them, they would come and kill him.
The real irony is that if he never got into the cartel business, his sister would still be alive and well. Poverty is no excuse for immorality and crime.
The first ending is one of the greatest endings to a game. That and the emotional impact and epic fucking music as you see david realize his dads alive
You know I always wondering in “Suffer With Me” when Menedez shoots Woods, while Woods is on the ground incapacitated he grabs the shotgun and places it on his 2nd knee on purpose.
"Ah, you're a couple of f*cking broads, work this sh*t out on your own. Need some smokes... Nurse Batsh*t, where's my smokes?!" Woods is one of the best characters in Call of Duty history. Change my mind.
Man, while Cold War was definitely alright and a small step up from the installments that surrounded it, I couldn't help but be reminded the entire time I played it of how much better Black Ops II was. The original handled everything, from the story, to the gunplay, to the gore, to the tone, to the story choices, to the voice acting, to the writing, to the weapon variety, to the handling of the Black Ops characters, to the twists, to the freaking MUSIC way better back in the day. It was so freaking good
@@adriandude85 GTA V confirmed only about Derrick. And even in GTA 4 itself it was already confirmed, when Niko and Kate talked on the way to Roman's wedding. And about Roman and LifeWilder many still doubt
man. that moment where the character just fall down a burning place and hang on a metal beam is like call of duty ghosts's (my favourite) hunted mission on low budget
I love this game so much I used to play this a lot years ago. This is one of the best memorable games I've ever played. When I watch these cutscenes again, the nostalgia kicks in.
basically every end cutscene's trigger: Mason dies: grave visit Mason lives: talk Menendez dies: protest Menendez lives and Karma lives: Menendez bash his head in jail Menendez lives and Karma dies: Menendez escapes and kills Woods Karma lives: she solves a virus and stops Menendez's escape (if he lives) Karma dies: CIA nerd struggles with a virus and Menendez escapes to kill Woods (if he lives)
you can also unlock the worst ending if karma and mason both live, and you spare menendez but you don’t complete the strike force missions. it's the ending i got :(
I got the ending where chloe Mason and woods die but Menendez lived. I was like 8 and to this day that one short clip of Menendez's sister still scares tf out of me lmao
One thing I really like about this campaign is that it inspired Black Ops 3's campaign when it came to player loadouts. Not many other Cods since have let your prep before missions in the same way those two did.
We pretty much have the technology from Black Ops 2 already, the missions in BO2 have happened based on real life events and the US has a female leader though Kamala Harris is pretty bit cringe.
@@occam7382If you know you know my friend. Let’s just say you can take bo2’s campaign as predictive programming. You know there’s many talks of a a “cyber pandemic” in which all major systems collapse. Sounds a lot like the celerium worm doesn’t it? And ofc Cordis die, just the US (and world) devolving into anarchy. All so conveniently fitting into our timeline. It’s already 2024, and it would seem we’re syncing up pretty well to the game.
I really love how in the old games villains were successful in their plans. Like Menendez avenging his sister, Imran nuking the 30k marines, Makarov with his no russian. It's impossible to see this now, like in reboots all of villians plans were failing and even in CW Perseus can succeed only once, and that is only if you pick USSR ending.
37:25 Damn, what a badass. Even after the decades of trauma that woods experienced, and in spite of realizing he is about to die by the same man's hands who tortured him so, he still has the balls to tell him to basically fuck himself.
the story of bo2 is so good, i remember when playing it i had a huge grudge over menendez that i didnt want to just kill him cuz killing him would be mercy
Weird. I thought for the longest time that Menendez yelled “JOSEFINA!” before lighting himself on fire. I swear he did when I saw this at a younger age. Must be a personal Mandela Effect. He *does* yell it many times in this game.
@@occam7382 because a master sergeant would most likely hold a company sergeant major appointment, so the proper form of address would be Sergeant Major
what i love about BO2 is that there aren’t any direct sequels to it, meaning that you can truly get whatever ending you want and no one can tell you it isn’t canon.
Poor Harper, he's not even mentioned as living or dead in the endings even though he is a part of the choice. It's just Karma that is mentioned as living or dead. I know it leads to one or the other living or dying, but still. Bro got the secondary citizen treatment.
@@Stygian_Hunter BO2 has many endings for a reason, its so you can simply do whatever you want in the story instead of having to follow a specific path like mw or bo1
@@h3llc4tEvo, to be fair, Modern Warfare 1 (the OG) and Black Ops 1 have absolutely dope stories. But Black Ops 2 just goes the extra mile by letting you choose how the story goes.
I kind of wish there was a sequel to this game that was JUST the aftermath of Menendez triggering Cordis Die afternhis death, all the riots and stuff. I know we already have a COD that had the White House in ruins, but the idea is just so chilling and badass that I would like to see it again
I got the ending where everyone became friends, formed a band, and had a rock concert where they all had a good time.
No matter what your ending is you can still get the rock band ending at the end. You just have to wait for the end credits to finish., it's an Easter egg I got the same ending as well but unfortunately can't upload the video because a copyright claim is blocking the video for everyone.
@@moongladegaming2390 yeah I know lol its the true best ending
Yoooo A7x? I got concert tickets! I’m hyped! Really good band. I recommend them since not only are they featured in zombies but in other games
@@snmrikki9026 that ending made me laugh
I think that’s the best one
secret ending
youtube demonetizes Cordis Die, and Menendez does a youtuber apology, the Seals forgive him and he starts a drone unboxing channel
"They demonetize Cordis Die's RUclips. Two days later - the CEO of RUclips, *burned, alive."*
😂😂😂😂
@@1SilverDollarthe good ending
😂🎉😂🎉😂
Thats's exactly a. Party ending
@@1SilverDollar😂😂😂
11:22 worst possible ending for menendez.. locked up in a cell, forced to watch jimmy kimmel live
😂
and how Karma absolutely bashes him
@@h3llc4tEvo, motherf*cker deserves it.
@@occam7382 totally lol, never expected one of the Black Ops 2 endings to be this incredibly funny lmao
@@h3llc4tEvo, that's the canon ending in my opinion. Woods, Mason, and David have a well-deserved reunion, while Menendez wallows in his own failure as Karma mocks him on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Things I learned from Mason's grave
1. He was 56 in Suffer with Me.
2. David is probably in his forties or late 30s
3. If Mason had lived he would be 92 in 2025
David was born in 1979, so he's 46, I know he looks way younger lol
@@deckardshaw6696 I thought he was in his twenties when I first played 😂😂
@@levonwilliams I thought he was in his early thirties, but I had some doubts since I doubt that you can become Commander already at 30 years
@@deckardshaw6696 hes rank is Commander so it makes sense, if he was in his 30s he'd probably be a Sargeant or Captain like Woods and Mason
@@h3llc4tEvo Exactly, that's what I said, even though Woods was 59 in Suffer With Me and he was still a sergeant lol
Farid doesn't get enough credit. What a fucking chad
The best arabian guy from the series.
“To those you serve your life means nothing”
@@4x250ltar PEW!
I’m now just realizing I never had the best ending, i always let tha annoying bitch die 😂
I find it funny af how Menendez thought he would get away from the patrols by just wearing the uniform
Probably would be wearing a helmet, I would hope
I find it funny how as a kid I never picked up on the fact that in the bad ending Menendez got into woods room by wearing a military uniform
Meanwhile he was literally the worlds most wanted man and this security guard guarding woods room somehow didn’t recognize him. Wouldn’t his face be easily recognized or maybe his voice ?🤣
24:17
bros playing hitman
I figured he ambushed the patrols. He'd play Little Lost Seal only for his mercs to jump the patrols at the right moment.
funny how
Rest in Peace, Kamar de los Reyes.
Nobody could have played the role of Raul Menendez better than you. Rest easy.
I just finished the game today, Wow! (Bought it about a month back)
... Now I'm kinda glad I let him live. (It was actually cause I knew he wanted martyrdom, so the idea of him losing his mind in ADX Colorado appealed to me.
Now I'm glad. I didn't do it just for good taste LOL. Seriously, fantastic role! The way he opens the door in Syria or wherever it was to his army was chilling!!!
Vale Kamar!
Rest in peace, that man did a great job.
The best antagonist on the very last good COD before downfall. 😢
🙏🏻🙏🏻😞😞
@@Jiterdomer id argue bo3, but i guess it depends on what aspect of cod you like, zombies, or multiplayer
One thing I liked about Black Ops 2 that separated from other Cods was the choices and consequences of your actions
One thing?
first and only game i can think of that has choices that actually matter
@@josheliwa2381 not only at all lol first yes but what about Until dawn, heavy rain,beyond 2 souls, the walking dead
@@HydeGLA in the call of duty franchise i meant, my bad i shouldve clarified
Cold war was simular about the options
I know the best ending requires Harpers death, but even today I never kill him, he’s just too badass
Exactly
Vale a pena o matar para o Woods reencontrar seu melhor amigo
Yeah I couldn't get myself to shoot him either. But I had no idea it would affect the story tho might just replay it soon.
"Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice, Mason."
I just killed him to keep karma alive. And not leave farid in shame even tho menendez knew he was a traitor
I honestly hate havin' to kill harper to get the best ending, considering how we have to see how it nearly breaks farid, I feel bad for the guy, seein' the struggle of how he would be trying to hold back tears.
Farid also dies anyway, even if he gets rescued he gets shot by Salazar
@@h3llc4tEvo Which is another reason it sucks having to kill Harper, considering Harper didn't take Salazar's bogus betrayal.
I remember when I was a kid in my original play through Harper lived but got scarred by fire in the boat mission. As Foried I tried to shoot Menendez, Karma died, and I killed Menendez. And Mason died because I knew it was gonna be Mason and I didn’t think there was going to be an option where he lived. I didn’t know that until after I finished the game.
@@Wintercomet100 Someone has pointed out a great strategy, but it's technically a glitch, if you skip the Achilles heel mission, the game assumes you saved Harper, but somehow Farid is still alive, so he protects Karma and Harper lives throuhout the game lmfao
@DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheapD4C how do you skip the mission. Can it be done after you play the game through the 1st time or after
0:00 Karma lives, Mason lives, completes all four Strike Force Missions, Spare Menendez (Good Ending)
11:44 Karma dies, Mason dies, Menendez is killed (Alternate Ending)
19:58 Karma lives, Mason dies, Spare Menendez
22:22 Karma dies, Mason lives, Spare Menendez
26:54 Karma lives, Mason lives, Menendez is killed
29:52 Karma lives, Mason dies, Menendez is killed
32:20 Karma dies, Mason lives, Menendez is killed (Canon Ending)
35:18 Karma dies, Mason lives, Spare Menendez (Bad Ending)
How do you know that Karma dies, Mason lives and Menendez is killed is the canon one?
@@tomaxxghost6891 Treyarch released a timeline video revealing the canon outcomes
Ok and what? U wany medal?
Ok good ending is the way to go got it
Wow real interesting did not know that was the canon ending I thought the good ending was canon
The best campaign and still holds the tittle… never will disappoint
The more I rewatch the cinematic aspect of the game, the more I try to understand why some options in the game lead to the best / good ending and ofc bad/ worst ending. Hated the fact killing Harper led to a better ending. However, I would believe in any soldiers interest or profession ((of course I can be wrong about this)) but they would fight for peace and justice and not just kill anyone because they are being shunned or frowned upon by others because they’re wearing a uniform from a completely different country. But because it’s morally right. And I would believe maybe Harper would’ve died for Faid anyway since it was in his line of duty to shoot or take a life from another civilian…
Then again it was pressed against his temple and blew his brains out and gave someone MASSIVE TRAMA, But again as stated, I’m just noticing how much I hated it, but now relishing the fact that it was sadly correct in many aspects.
I like to think of WAW-BO2 as one continuous game
@@Scaven03 best ending is harper lives menendez died
@@Alioszek yeah
I still believe WAW will forever hold that title imo. The atmosphere, the mission design, the music, even just the small humanizing story the apply to you’re squad leaders just make it an absolutely perfect war experience.
Bro, I played this game my whole childhood and I never knew there were alternate endings.
i remember the day i found out there were alternative endings. i was at recess with my friends i remember i was arguing with 2 of my friends about how the ending was
i remember during the mission to save Karma
i had a thermal scope and i thought “hey let me try to break the game and snipe the guy”
i got him and it ended the mission
Hackerman
yeah, i did knew that you could probably kill DeFalco i just never expected to bring an XPR or that it would be such an epic Bossfight
I did the same
If you do that, you can skip the Strike Force mission where you have to save her, I think
@@SubatomicMule3, wait, there was a Strike Force mission for that? I thought there were only 4 missions, and they all involved the SDC.
I actually didn't know that this game had 8 endings
Yep this was when cods campaigns weren't in decay
@@axemanh141 the only campaign I hated was infinity warfares can't stand that game
@@actiononlyfilms i actually liked that game. It's shame about the ending. I really can't stand those sort of endings for the protagonist. It's just my preference.
@@njcknames yeah it's mainly alterations. based on choices made through the game.
@@actiononlyfilms Infinite Warfare's campaign is good tf you mean lmao Vanguard's campaign is mid and bo3's campaign is trash
god the scene of where woods is walking up to mason breaks me every time bro I swear 😭, and then the music playing in the background makes it like 10x sadder
Walking? You mean rolling 🛞
I love how even after menendez kills woods, he still had some sort of respect by carrying him to his death bed.
I thought you couldn't kill Woods 😉
@@KingShibeur funny guy😂
On my first playthrough mason and menendez died but karma lived. Damn this game was fire
whats the ending?
@@zaid4031 Cordis die but water and power grids stay operational
@@zaid4031 whatever you make of it, literally. there are a series of choices you make that have a significant affect on the ending and fate for a lot of characters.
When I did my first play through karma dies mason dies and Menendez dies
my was karma, mason and menendez dies
Karma, Mason, and Menendez outcomes (in short):
0:00 All three live, plus Woods
11:14 All three died (Player chooses to kill Mennedez. Woods still alive)
19:58 Karma and Menendez live, Mason (and Woods) died
22:22 Mason and Menendez live, Karma (and Woods) died
26:54 Karma and Mason live, only Menendez who died
29:51 Only Karma who lived
32:20 Only Mason who lived
35:17 Everyone died, plus Woods (Menendez is spared. However, he also died by burning himself after looking for his sister's grave)
The endings for bo2 are so good. It's a shame we'll probably never get a call of duty story as good as this again
And the way the story is told is also unique.
this why i hate you nostalgic freaks. mw2019 and mw2 2022 have stories better than this hell even the cold war campaign is better than this
I feel like cold war tried to do bo2 way but it do alright but not as good as bo2
I thought the BO2 story was terrible. So schizophrenic and all the decisions made no sense at all. Just my view, thought BO1 was way better. It was also schizophrenic but only because Mason was legit crazy!
@@fullrandom117I've got 4 endings in this game best cod game ever nothing can change my mind about this game multi-player best campaign best zombies good until tranzit ruined it.
The part where you kill Harper was important because the part is that if you kill Harper then Karma lives for being defended by Farid, but if Farid dies then that’s how Menendez kills Woods in the end.
nope if you kill Menendez, he won't be able to kill woods
but i let harper die and karma still died so raul escaped n killed woods then himself
@@FearFxlyou didn't do the strike team missions
@@absolution6191 no i missed one cuz i wanted to finally beat the last one n get it over with lol
Thx for explaining i was so confused over this because i let farid die.. i didn't wanna kill harper.!
RIP Kamar De Los Reyes. Raul Menendez was an amazing antagonist. One of my favorites. You will be missed ❤
“I fell”
“Yea..but you got back up”
Damn it, Mason. Why you gotta be so cool?
''I'll shove this wheelchair up your''
''Ass.''
11:50 Harper just spawnin' in section's left side is just freakin' hilarious😂
This was the peak for Call Of Duty campaigns in my opinion. Just the sheer amount of choice and different endings gave it so much replayability
Ah... Poor mason. He had to take 3 bullet to his leg.
And also basically whatever the hell happened in BO1
surprised David didnt turn out bad, considering how much shit both had to go through
@@h3llc4tEvo, hey, Mason got full-on brainwashed, and he turned out (relatively) fine. The main characters in Black Ops are some of the toughest sons-of-bitches you're likely to encounter.
@@occam7382 absolutely
You know the most unironic idiotic thing is that jimmy Kimmel would actually consider inviting Raul menendez
29:51 After 12 years, we can officially say this is the canon ending, confirmed by Treyarch after the BO6 direct. 🚬
Hits really hard
Why this ending and not the second? If Menendez died and everyone knew about his death, then what's the point of Karma surviving? It looks much better when she is killed by DeFalco and it comes out very shocking. And Harper remains alive
@EldarioS_01 yea I get what you mean, but I mean this is 1990s, around 30 years or so before bo2 so that outcome with the girl would have nothing to do with it. Although it may have something to do that affects bo3 campaign and bo4. Only if bo4 had a campaign that was supposed to be a filler between the events of bo2 and bo3...
@@shad0w_g4ming You didn't understand. What I'm saying is that what's the point in Karma's survival if after Menendez's death this viral video still goes online and Cordis Dee rebels anyway?
This is my favorite ending. It seemed the most realistic and bittersweet.
The "best" ending except Mason is killed is the actual best ending. Gut wrenching but fantastic stuff.
Agreed, narratively the best as it sort of cheapens Section's whole motivation against Menendez if it turns out Mason was just alive the whole time.
The Kill Menendez is canon this shows how Activision didn't care for the Black Ops series after II.
@Jiterdomer I mean look at what happens to the world in BO3 and BO4
I was at the mission Odysseus when i remembered that there were good and bad endings.... sooo i literally rewound the entire story starting from old wounds and doing literally every mission twice LMAO just to get the best ending. It was worth it.
From BO4's perspective, the actual Canonical Order for BO2's Campaign Timeline is Karma Dies, Farid's Sacrifice, Mason and Harper Lives, Kill Menendez (also completing the Strike Force Missions) and "Cordis Die" happens, so this is the Canonical Path that was chosen for BO4 Timeline placement despite that it has no Campaign (and wished it should've never Existed).
Black Ops 4 didn't happen, neither did Black Ops 3 (story wise, zombies was pretty good on both)
@Roniixxthis ISN'T CNC TT, buddy.
@Roniixx would you rather talk about Vanguard 😒
Yeah this isn’t true
How can we know since there's no campaign ?
18:28 the person in the grave in the top left of the US soldier in Iraq was the same age as me right now when he died. Its a video game but it really does put things into perspective how young soldiers are, and this was real. I never really appeciated that while playing CoD as a kid but now I get it.
I played through this campaign so many fkn times man, just to get each ending and change what decisions I made each time. This is the only campaign (apart from black ops 1) which I wouldn’t think twice about replaying it over and over, this hits right in the nostalgia balls😩🙌🏻
What about World at War?
@@occam7382 world at war is up there for sure, but I only replayed that campaign about 3 times compared to bo1 & 2
@@keiganemslie2519, fair. Those three games have to be my absolute favorite in the series, the story they tell is just... "chef's kiss" glorious.
The Mason's Grave cutscene really gives the eerie feelings. Especially in Mason's gravestone, where unlike many of the gravestones have notable millitary services, Mason's grave had none with the most notable one being "Friend" and once the quote of Semper Fidelis. Shows that people like Mason don't go out with a blaze of glory, they just gets a quiet and somber end.
19:59 is my canon ending because we don’t see David mason in bo3 and it’s never explained what Alex mason was doing for those 30 years In “hiding”
@PeterKOSZ Actually they mentioned me eras in one of the missions so uh ur incorrect
fun fact, bo3 is infact like 40 years into the future. (or something) but it does continue from the bo2 story line
That’s because BO3 is total dogshit
@@good_hoonter_percy Barely lol
@Roniixx BO3 is litteraly just futuristic but recycles the plot from BO1 entirely, its just the imaginary friend is Taylor instead of Reznov, the digital thingy is the numbers, and the interrogation where you were rememembering everything is instead that whole "your life flashes as you die" cliche, Corvis is probably just a recycling of Kravchenko and Dragovich as instead of putting the numbers in your ming he infects the digital interface thingy, its just the same bullshit from Black Ops 1 but its in the 2060s instead of the 1960s
I just love how in such a hateful voice we here Woods saying Menendez and I also like how he excepts his feet of being a cripple by him grabbing Menendez’s spaz 12 shotgun, and he pulls the barrel to his other knee cap because he knows that he’s going to get crippled so he’s just making it happen faster
This game really needs to be remastered
FRRRR
So true. Bo2 needs a remaster very badly
It's still good the way it was
not necessarily, graphics still hold to this day
@@beefybacon yes they do
Somehow I understand every ending besides the best one.
Menendez still wanted revenge after woods lived and took care of David, but the government is holding woods.
He choose to grow not only his followers and army but created 2 plans just in case one of them goes the other way.
Which explains why he escape prison to go to wood's retirement home and why he created that video for his followers.
Menendez did 4D Chess to kill woods but the icing of the cake would be him going to his sister's grave because he would of let his followers go ahead with his other plan once someone found out he burn to death in his sister's grave.
The worst ending would of show us of him killing himself and his followers going after the government then just him killing himself.
he was in jail, how the hell would he do anything about it? he couldnt escape and there's no way for him to contact Cordis Die, unless his jailcell just happens to have wifi and a computer
@@h3llc4tEvo I like how you think he need wifi and connection to do his plans when you forget he have an army.
One of them can post the video for him when he does and for him escaping was shown many times in the endings besides the best ending.
Menendez always finds a way for his plans to work, even though the story of BO2. Having himself capture and put on the Obama ship is a great example of him having his plan work.
@@h3llc4tEvo, I mean, in the bad endings, Menendez escapes to kill Woods, so clearly he can do that. Although, you could make the case that the Celerium virus helped in that.
When you get a question wrong
The teacher: 14:36
Pretty much
1st time I've ended the game, I didn't let Woods interrogate Kravchenko, on purpose. After what he did, even after Dragovich's death ... I couldn't let that one slip and let it shoot. As one said : "Dragovich, Kravchenko, Steiner, they all must die ...". When I shot Mason 3 times in the head, I've regretted everything ... Karma died, but I've killed Menendez as well. Again without hesitation, because of what he made me do. Kill the character that introduced me to my first FPS, my first Call of Duty.
Mason is confirmed dead. Rest in peace king
Treyarch has their head stuck up their ass now so don't take them seriously
18:13 Man seeing old Woods😢 and when Mason puts his hand on his shoulder along with the music jus makes me sad😢
If we look from Menendez's point of view, we can see a brother just avenging his sister's death, by killing the ones responsible.
He also roped one of the guys children into it and traumatized the kid for life so that hardly makes him the good giy
I think this is what sets BO2 apart from WaW and BO1. You're not made to feel like a cog in a machine. Instead the entire plot is driven by a small set of main characters, one of which is you, and is defined by themes of grief, loss and vengeance on a very personal level
Hes a piece of shit sociopath, look what he did to woods and his men in Vietnam.
He tortured and executed Woods’ team for weeks making him watch, and purposely left ONLY him alive to have the slowest and grossest death possible. The dude was an inexcusable psycho before losing his sister
@@brandyDC That is the reason I like MW3 more than Bo2. I HATE that to stop this POS once and for all I have to let him live. I wanted to do to him what I did to makarov in that game.
David seeing his dad is the best cod game ending ever created it's so wholesome and amazing
Menendez decides to blame everyone but himself. I mean, he tortured Frank's men right in front of him, damn near killed him, and Menendez doesn't expect retaliation? How the hell was Woods supposed to know Raul's sister was in that room, and caught up in the blast!
Well…Let's see who is REALLY to blame for everything, it is Menendez's father, first the guy was a drug dealer, precisely in what was a civil war (and believe me the Sandinistas were not very different from the Contras) and it sounds kind of counterproductive. What can I say, but the CIA had little or no control over the issue, of couser the CIA send weapons and some founding, but unlike Afghanistan at that time, the Contras were not trustworthy at all, and to make it more complicated, the guy had accumulated power too quickly which brought too much attention to the point of seeing him as a threat by everyone, if he did not swear allegiance to the Sandinistas they would kill him, if he messed with the Sandinistas the Contras or the CIA he killed him and if he turned out to be too dangerous for all of them, they would come and kill him.
The real irony is that if he never got into the cartel business, his sister would still be alive and well. Poverty is no excuse for immorality and crime.
You know, when I shot Mason I actually got the good ending first try because I wanted Menendez to suffer, I had a whole panic attack at the end lol
The music, the story the characters man how good was the times
I literally played this all the time as a kid I'm 18 NOW JUET LEARNING THAT THERES MULTIPLE ENDINGS
lmao
Thats a true hard work behind the video. Appreciate it, for sharing it with us.
i love how viciously woods says "MENENDEZ" at 1:47
That's woods not mason
@@cringestuff2694 mixup mb! thanks for pointing that out
29:46 that aged well.
The first ending is one of the greatest endings to a game. That and the emotional impact and epic fucking music as you see david realize his dads alive
You know I always wondering in “Suffer With Me” when Menedez shoots Woods, while Woods is on the ground incapacitated he grabs the shotgun and places it on his 2nd knee on purpose.
came here because of bo6, mason is confirmed dead, devs confirmed it. the 6th ending here is canon.
1 decade and still the best BO I've ever played, thanks treyarch.
"I'll introduce you to somebody, Al this is Dave. Dave.... This is your dad" funny as all get out
"Ah, you're a couple of f*cking broads, work this sh*t out on your own. Need some smokes... Nurse Batsh*t, where's my smokes?!" Woods is one of the best characters in Call of Duty history. Change my mind.
Being locked in a room and forced to watch Jimmy Kimmel has to be worse than lighting yourself on fire over the corpse of your own sister
Just replayed the game for the first time since release and got the worst ending. I feel very bad about myself
Same lol
Same xd Bro that DeFalco mission to get Karma was too damn hard in Veteran couldn't get there in time
@@endstoday_Shipwreck. The other 2 Strike Force missions.
Farid is such a legend for his actions
Yeah. He was a pretty cool dude. He didn't deserve to die. Especially by getting shot by f*cking Salazar.
It was so stupid he was shot on the shoulder and he is probably dead cuz we don’t see him no more
@@ghostwhencodghosts9114Yeah was just playing and it sucks how hes actually dead after that Scene I fully expected him to survive
Actually underrated. Without him the whole fucking grid would be getting molested by a worm. RIP Farid
Man, while Cold War was definitely alright and a small step up from the installments that surrounded it, I couldn't help but be reminded the entire time I played it of how much better Black Ops II was. The original handled everything, from the story, to the gunplay, to the gore, to the tone, to the story choices, to the voice acting, to the writing, to the weapon variety, to the handling of the Black Ops characters, to the twists, to the freaking MUSIC way better back in the day. It was so freaking good
Well we finally know what’s canon.
Mason dies.
Menedez dies.
Harper dies.
Karma and Briggs live.
Karma stops the celerium worm.
People riot.
I wish I knew the canons of GTA 4. This is my dream
But regarding Harper and Karma it is not confirmed
@@EldarioS_01 GTA5 gave us the answers to most of those 10 years ago.
Ivan lives.
Playboy X dies.
Darko lives.
Derrick dies.
Kate dies.
@@adriandude85 GTA V confirmed only about Derrick. And even in GTA 4 itself it was already confirmed, when Niko and Kate talked on the way to Roman's wedding. And about Roman and LifeWilder many still doubt
Bro stop saying this bo6 didn’t happen this way lmao, don’t comment shit before you know for sure
Man, Mernendez is hell of an antagoist, I really like the ending that he wins
Bruh that dude at 7:29 on the left I like how he disappears out of no where 😂
I saw that like what 😂😂😂
best video of these endings! showing all the changes was perfect.
Fun fact, when you shoot mason in the head
he has a visible bullet wound in his forehead, he doesn't have one if you don't.
fun fact: every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa
man. that moment where the character just fall down a burning place and hang on a metal beam is like call of duty ghosts's (my favourite) hunted mission on low budget
I love this game so much I used to play this a lot years ago. This is one of the best memorable games I've ever played. When I watch these cutscenes again, the nostalgia kicks in.
basically every end cutscene's trigger:
Mason dies: grave visit
Mason lives: talk
Menendez dies: protest
Menendez lives and Karma lives: Menendez bash his head in jail
Menendez lives and Karma dies: Menendez escapes and kills Woods
Karma lives: she solves a virus and stops Menendez's escape (if he lives)
Karma dies: CIA nerd struggles with a virus and Menendez escapes to kill Woods (if he lives)
you can also unlock the worst ending if karma and mason both live, and you spare menendez but you don’t complete the strike force missions. it's the ending i got :(
I got the ending where chloe Mason and woods die but Menendez lived. I was like 8 and to this day that one short clip of Menendez's sister still scares tf out of me lmao
29:51 is my favorite ending realistically ngl
It's also the canon ending, acording to the developers.
One thing I really like about this campaign is that it inspired Black Ops 3's campaign when it came to player loadouts. Not many other Cods since have let your prep before missions in the same way those two did.
The world was so close or is close to become a Black Ops 2 reality.
At least there's no such things as the SDC, or Celerium, or Raul Menendez in real life... right? Right?
We pretty much have the technology from Black Ops 2 already, the missions in BO2 have happened based on real life events and the US has a female leader though Kamala Harris is pretty bit cringe.
@@occam7382If you know you know my friend. Let’s just say you can take bo2’s campaign as predictive programming. You know there’s many talks of a a “cyber pandemic” in which all major systems collapse. Sounds a lot like the celerium worm doesn’t it? And ofc Cordis die, just the US (and world) devolving into anarchy. All so conveniently fitting into our timeline. It’s already 2024, and it would seem we’re syncing up pretty well to the game.
I really love how in the old games villains were successful in their plans. Like Menendez avenging his sister, Imran nuking the 30k marines, Makarov with his no russian. It's impossible to see this now, like in reboots all of villians plans were failing and even in CW Perseus can succeed only once, and that is only if you pick USSR ending.
Reznov was born in 1913 and Mason was born in 1933. Freemason references anybody?
what significance are those dates?
37:25
Damn, what a badass.
Even after the decades of trauma that woods experienced, and in spite of realizing he is about to die by the same man's hands who tortured him so, he still has the balls to tell him to basically fuck himself.
36:55 my First ending was this ending, I was shocked and my reaction was priceless after the ending cutscene
I love the delivery of the "Al, this is Dave. Dave, this is your dad!" line
I prefer the 19:00 ending. It’s canon and makes the most sense. As opposed to mason just fcking off for 30 years
Nah. 11:44
the story of bo2 is so good, i remember when playing it i had a huge grudge over menendez that i didnt want to just kill him cuz killing him would be mercy
Ot took me 10 replays on that mossion to realize that i could kill that guy with the sniper 0:05
The way Menendez kicks Woods the gun but steps on his hand anyway is downright cold.
My first playthrough i had terrible aim and i shot masons leg so i said screw it and shot it twice i didnt know it was a secret he could live
It’s so messed up that the Bops 6 developers want us to believe that option #2 is the canonical ending when we ALL KNOW it should be option #1!
Very Nice
Weird. I thought for the longest time that Menendez yelled “JOSEFINA!” before lighting himself on fire. I swear he did when I saw this at a younger age.
Must be a personal Mandela Effect. He *does* yell it many times in this game.
NURSE BATSHIT! WHERES MY SMOKES?!
It was kinda insane that a Call of Duty game had 8 different endings
I got the best ending by accident since I was going to kill what they told you was Mendez but I completely missed since I suck with snipers
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PC controls are so weird at least for Cod.
IT TOOK ME 12 YEARS TO FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT SAVES KARMA AT THE OBAMA! FARID JUMPS IN FRONT OF THE BULLET, I NEVER KNEW!!
Aint no way in hell he is calling a retired master sergeant a sergeant 😂
Why not?
@@occam7382 because a master sergeant would most likely hold a company sergeant major appointment, so the proper form of address would be Sergeant Major
what i love about BO2 is that there aren’t any direct sequels to it, meaning that you can truly get whatever ending you want and no one can tell you it isn’t canon.
BO6 is the sequel of the 80s missions, and BO3 is way after BO2 and has some references but not direct.
Omggg after all these years I just verly found that they put jimmy Kimmel on the ending lmaoooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭
Poor Harper, he's not even mentioned as living or dead in the endings even though he is a part of the choice. It's just Karma that is mentioned as living or dead. I know it leads to one or the other living or dying, but still. Bro got the secondary citizen treatment.
To be honest, I kind of like the bad ending better it just seems more realistic that would happen
Yo man why you think the bad ending better give your honest opinion
You think woods get what he deserves at end for being a smart ass
@@Stygian_Hunter BO2 has many endings for a reason, its so you can simply do whatever you want in the story instead of having to follow a specific path like mw or bo1
@@h3llc4tEvo, to be fair, Modern Warfare 1 (the OG) and Black Ops 1 have absolutely dope stories. But Black Ops 2 just goes the extra mile by letting you choose how the story goes.
Doesn't make sense because David Mason's the commander of Seal team and its operations. Its pretty easy to get the good ending anyways.
This campaign has the perfect amount of choice, cause, effect imo
Dam only call of duty will have you shoot your friend with a barret 50 cal to the knee 3 times and not have the leg be completely blown off.
17:32 Menendez had a younger sister and she was dead... I felt that this scene has a meaning. I don't think it only means a sad scene.
I kind of wish there was a sequel to this game that was JUST the aftermath of Menendez triggering Cordis Die afternhis death, all the riots and stuff. I know we already have a COD that had the White House in ruins, but the idea is just so chilling and badass that I would like to see it again
Easily the best COD campaign ever.
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@@M4tt.C0llins who tf asked u?
@@aliabdallah102 Who tf asked you to make wrong statements?
@@M4tt.C0llins an opinion isn’t a statement