I was reading the Black Ops II wikipedia article and found out that Menendez's actor, Kamar de los Reyes, died from cancer on December 24 of last year (2023) at the age of 56. Rest in peace and thank you for the amazing performance.
Black Ops 2 proved that call of duty taking place in the future isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It just needs quality gameplay and an interesting story.
I remember I played it all the time and got super good at it I would run insane matches and be a beast at the game, and then my Copy stopped working and I just never managed to reach the last prestige level, the PS3 data is still there and the game never worked again. Sad times
Even BO4 is a bit futuristic, and it still has people running at 20 MPH with no stamina limit, it's a good game, but not as good as the old days, like I said, still the best COD in years.
@@absolutemonarchy307 i love how its fast paced. And thats why i loved bo2? Lol if you had a full lobby of good players, it was very fast paced lol. Idk what you played but it wasnt bo2 lol
The game does show the "why" for Raul's motivations. The relationship with his sister is all he had left, in the beginning of the game or so you see a cutscene of her preventing him from suicide as kids, while she gets burned, she kinda becomes his personal reason to keep on living in that moment, besides the already established hatred for the U.S.A, her killing goes on to make it stronger and darker, he's not just living for her & and ideology anymore, his living for retribution
yes, raul's entire life had been ruined by the americans and his sister was the one thing he had left, when that too was gone, his hatred for america only grew. at one point he loses his mind and is driven to kill all those he felt were responsible for it.
yes, and this led him to create two channels and have two of his followers recruit young kids into cordis die. These channels are known as jake paul and logan paul.
i dont get how he didn't play orgins, or buried. he just played 2 maps and said "up this sucks" at least look up at the maps and see them before giving your opinion
I really liked transit. Shadows of evil was very well made as well. Transit zombies to this day is some of the most fun ive had playing a game. Tbh i think its my favourite game ever. The only reason i stopped was because my disc broke. Then i bought ghosts pn ps4 and it had EXStiNctIOn instead of zombies so that sucked. Tbf exstinction isnt bad but i found it really boring. I won it once and that was it
Fun fact: one of the writers of the black ops 2 campaign, David S. Goyer was also one of the writers of the dark knight trilogy. No wonder why black ops 2’s campaign is the best in the entire franchise
@@Ravensbro04 Great argument 👏 lol I like all of the movies. They're not all great films. Batman Begins was a decent starting point, The Dark Knight was the best of the series, and The Dark Knight Rises was objectively poor. Nolan even admits this himself.
I know this is an old review, but just to counter argue your point about why Mason doesn't show up for 40 years. It's very obvious. Menendez was still out there at large and a serious threat. If he was believed to be dead, Mason was safe. Once Menendez is either dead or in custody, it's finally safe for Alex to come out of hiding and reveal he is alive and well
@@mr.rufasi2729 ik this is old but Mason couldn't stop him. number one Mason was very old, and after the incident of getting shot he most likely had to hide for a while to heal his leg while trying to stay off the grid. even after he healed, guarantee his leg was still too damaged to go back into fighting
I don’t think Mason would completely cut ties with his son and Woods, even if Menendez was that powerful. Mason has faced worse odds and pushed forward all the same. I think it would have been better if we were given the option to either shoot the guards or not shoot at all, in which Mason is then killed by Menendez and Woods is blind-sided and captured by Noriega. On a separate note, there’s no way I can believe Woods would listen to Noriega and shoot someone dragged in front of him. He’d at least demand the hood be removed.
I just replayed this campaign and Menendez's motivations were more deep than just his sister's death, the CIA killed the rest of his family and Josephina was all he had left, if you listen to some of woods' dialogue he explains everything in one of the cutscenes
Variety Gamer ye ik about that I like this guy but if he is gonna make a 40 minute vid surely he should be doing enough research and sometimes he really messes up like calling bo3 zombies bad
Him: Shits on tranzit Zombies community: Thats fair, it shouldve been shelved for next gen. Him: Shits on Mob of the Dead Zombies community: Well hey now...
well to be honest his argument for mob to me makes no sense, he says he would explore kino and der riese to the ends of the earth when it comes to the lore and story in those 2 maps yet that is the purpose of Mob of the dead in the first place, Mob is the story map of black ops 2, Mob of the Dead is what every black ops 3 and 4 map wish it was story wise, The story in Mob is fantastic from the crew to the overall setting and the idea of these 4 gangsters trapped in purgatory with them stuck in a loop trying to constantly escape but always ending up on the golden gate bridge and then eventually dying and then coming back to life to repeat the cycle all over again, Mob also easily has the best dialogue out of any zombies map period with the crew having badass and funny quotes but you can also hear them slowly start to emotionally breakdown when they get to pack a punch and they realize that they cant escape with them yelling at the sky questioning life and just wanting to die wanting the cycle to end wanting to rest. I understand why he calls Mob tedious with its long setup process but it really isnt as bad as he described it, to me the setup gets easier the more you replay the map because the steps required to get the plane parts aren't even that hard in the first place all your really doing is just shocking a few boxes in different locations and there you go, the hells retriever isn't that bad either and the free blundergat is pretty simple to get when you have the locations down and the acid gat parts are in pretty easy to find. Overall though i understand why he calls Mob tedious it can be very tough for a beginner but he missed the point of Mob of the Dead being a story map.
@@jamesmcgrath8392 I bought bo2 3 days ago, I played mob and on my first game I figured out how to obtain all the plane parts, and on my second game I built the plane, I didn’t search up a tutorial. Mob is pretty easy to figure out, the only thing in the map you need to search up is the shield, and the acid gat parts, and the map is easy as with afterlife giving free self revives, since the map flows so well it’s not tedious all the parts are placed near perks and important places in the map, so it doesn’t feel like a chore to get the bare minimum.
@@user-xu1ru1nu3y why tf is the game not fu*king remastered yet I wanna play it cause I dont have a ps3 or xbox 360 Activision should fu*king remaster it cause I wanna fu*king play it 😡😡😡
When you realize that the setting of Black Ops 2 takes place 4 years from now and we're still nowhere near the level of technology envisioned in that game.
black ops 1 was the last one i even bothered to buy, mw3 looked so samey to mw2, and black ops 2 just looked even more samey somehow, but maybe i was wrong after watching this video.
@@nietzchepreacher9477 Black ops 2 actually has a fun multiplayer mode with actually balanced weapons. Most if not all guns are actually viable for use excluding special gimmick weapons and launchers.
All of the technology in this game is stuff that I could see being made and used in the military in the next 5 to 10 years and it wouldve been cool to see them focus a tiny bit more on the tech
Also the weapons were either based on real world firearms, (XM8, M27, SCAR-H, Kel Tec KSG, FN Five Seven) and prototypes yet to be used (KAP40, SMR, M1216) or updated models of real guns, such as PDW-57 looking like an updated P90. These weren’t guns made from scratch and having inspiration, but real world basis
@Anakin Skywalker I reckon there could be something similar to it. Maybe like a suit which changes to a different camo depending on what environment they are in.
This was the last of the golden era COD games. 2007 - 2012 was COD's best years. Modern Warfare World at War Modern Warfare 2 Black Ops Modern Warfare 3 Black Ops 2.
15:00 uh yes we did learn why Raul’s sister was so important. They literally say in the game about how after his family was burned in a fire by the work of the government, she was all that he had left.
ZeUberStriker yeah but it’s still the reason for it all. So there never was no reason. And the reasoning may be lazy, but the way they told you about it, and introduce it all, really isn’t
@@zeuberstriker TL;DR: The concept may be lazy, but it all depends on how you take on the concept. Sometimes, they may be some overplayed tropes and storytelling gimmicks that get old and repetitive, but sometimes, you get one story where they have a take on the trope and make it interesting.
What I loved about the story so much is how plausible it all is. And how it makes a point to contrast modern (futuristic) warfare against the past and how US actions in the past in other countries can come back to haunt us. Raul Menendez, his whole social media uprising, social unrest, disillusionment with patriotism, the over reliance on technology and drones, cyberwarfare, I feel like they really did their homework when writing this one.
It is actually very explainable why Menendez is as bloodthirsty as he is... its constantly explained. The CIA smoked his father, of whom he and menendez made a wealthy living through illicit means - drug smuggling, gun running, etc. His sister was essentially his only family left, and she was left burnt and blind at a young age after a fire, to which Menendez devoted his life to protecting her, she became his last remaining vessel for what a good life could feel like. Losing her meant losing the only thing moving him forward in life. With nothing left to lose, he took out his long growing anger - to Woods and Mason for killing his Sister, and to America for killing his father and causing so much trouble globally due to its covert imperialistic methods. It's very much explained what his backstory and motivation is.
also he explains his sister and the fire more when he says that an american started the fire for insurance money, putting the worker's lives on the line for $11,000. it is a major reason why he hates america and capitalism
Minty Coffee having exposition explained to us like that is bad storytelling. “Show don’t tell” should always be the way to go, we should have SEEN and played through the making of Raul Menendez
@@AustinU25 This was actually shown, with the scene before the game even starts. It shows the clips of the warehouse burning down and a young boy holding a burning girl; figuring that she died, he attempts to kill himself with the locket before hearing the words "Don't Leave Me" yelled out by the girl.
Most guns in the game existed back in 2012 , or at least were prototypes. Instead of the BB guns of Black Ops 3/4 , those weapons both looked and sounded like Nerf Toys
Playing black ops 2 when I was young were some of the best times of my life. I loved the zombies but even the multiplayer lobbies when everyone was mic’d up was so badass at that time. After bo3 that’s when it all went downhill.
@@iamgooddoggo567 BO3 wasnt that bad it was BO4 that ruined it But BO2 was really really really fun! i was very very good at it i should have started my own youtube channel extremely good.
Well, to be fair it's explained that Menendez's father was assassinated by the CIA and his sister was almost killed in an insurance scam fire. So his sister is literally his only family who survived nearly being burned alive only to be killed young anyway. So although it's not very realistic it's still a serviceable story and grounded in reality some.
Yeah, it's fine and all, but I'm surprised you didn't show the intro cutscene of the game. The one that plays the very first time you boot up the game where you get to see the Menendez and his sister as children. It was honestly pretty emotional and another great highlight of campaign.
fun fact: in black ops declassified, the ps vita version of bo1, you actually get to play a mission as mason where you kill rauls father. its a shame you need the vita version to actually play this, but it gives more insight to menedez character. when he saw his father get shot he ran for it, he wasn't born a monster. america molded his hatred, mason made it grow to its highest. menedez is a super detailed character. his motivations are rooted in history. the reason his country was impoverished and forced his father into a cartel was because of america starting the Contra War. a war which happened in real life during the cold war, in which CIA backed forces would face off against communist forces, both sides murdering many innocents. this is one of many examples of americas endemic corruption and brutality. the fact that people who have the same exact mindset as menedez for almost the same exact reasoning is why he's such a good villain. there are many others like him, though none of them could realistically achieve what he did.
I was young when i played WaW, MW 2 (And MW3 and BO1-2 but i remember them a lot more). It is a big shame that i don't completely remember the campaign that i know i loved so much at the time (My favourite being WaW). You have no idea when you live in the gold age of a game you love.
To be fair, the reason why Raul was so attached to Josefina is because she is the only comfort the world brings to him. His family is involved in the drug cartel, putting himself in a bad spot. He have seen the worst of humanity because of it and his sister is the only good that he sees in this world
His story is kinda sad, I liked that part of the mission where you play as menendez in the cartel compound that’s under siege and your running around with a machete lol
Menendez had lost his family after the CIA had taken out his father when they had to go to drug running after they lost everything in an earthquake, he saw this as America’s fault so after he lost his sister he wanted the world to “suffer with me”
Toe Sniffa She was already burnt I believe. When the guy that goes after her looks at her face he goes “what is this monster” and slams her, prompting Menendez to rage and stab him.
@@asgnt3408 no it was for insurance money and it wasnt the cia that why he hate capitalism he sees it as corrupt she died when the cia raided his conpound woods lost it and threw a grenade thats what killed her
Probably not as funny but I personally laughed a bit at lines like "Nurse Batshit! Where's my smokes?!" and "Ah you're all a couple of fuckin broads! Work this shit out on your own."
With Menendez' relationship with his sister, I swear there was a scene that showed her saving him from a house fire and being proper scarred by it, and that's why he holds her so dearly, no?
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. There is definitely a lot of reasons he holds his sister so close. They've been through a lot, and they are the only family they had left. Not to mention his hatred for Americans in the first place (who are the reason she got burnt so bad in the fire) but when woods killed her he had plenty of reasons to do what he did. That part of the video felt rushed and like he didn't do as much research as he could have.
@@ForeHead. And also the general view of Americans in Latin America at the era. (Like how they just made coups, set dictatorships, and took all the national resources of other lands just for themselves).
@@lukegardner7523 don’t stir up unnecessary conflict, but I will say you sound like the “critic” of a friend group that argues on everything that anyone says thinking that it helps when I’m reality you’re just making everyone despise you
@@frazza5503 I like it, but I also don't like it at the same time. It is fun when you have a group to play with to do the Easter eggs and the adventure to get the pack a punch, but when you play alone or when you play the map a lot it gets a little tedious. Therefore, I find it's best to have some maps be like kino der toten with an "easy" to reach pack a punch and perks but have a Easter egg that is complicated and gives you some sort of bonus weapon or a buy-able ending, but then have the opposite map where you go on an adventure to get the pack a punch so you can appease both types of players.
@@dmitryivanov5411 I didnt like how zombies focused on fetch quests but at least the maps tried to reconcile both types of players to an extent. As long as there was a way to get whatever you wanted on solo it was fine. Not great but it worked.
I honestly think they should have a mix between the 2 kinds of maps, the simple original type maps like world at war but at other times they have the super complex maps like BO2
15:05 Actually (and yeah you can criticize it for being a bit hidden) there’s a clip that plays when you stay at the main menu for long enough (maybe some other places) that shows Josefina saving Raul from the fire caused by the CIA torching the Menendez drug cartel. This causes her to be burned and disfigured, which is why the solider says she looks like a freak, and also why Raul gets so pissed off at this comment and also why He feels so indebted to her.
Which also adds more pain to Menendez considering the fact his father died and the only family he had left was Josefina, seeing his people also get caught in the crossfire and abused by Noriega's men just added more fuel to his fiery hate to americans. And the salt that really burned the wound was Woods indirectly killing his sister with a grenade because his rage towards Menendez. At this point he lost everything he loved and everything that kept him from being an absolute monster, the US did nothing but destabilize his country and leave him as a lone man, so his hatred towards the US is justifiable.
Actually, it was an American torching the warehouse for insurance money. $11,000. I believe Menendez mentioned this during his interrogation on Odysseus
The campaign was freaking amazing and had a really big sense of dread to it, some parts made you feel like there was no way out and that everyone was gonna die.
@@Black-ops-guy mason and woods live actually if you get the good ending. Which to me is perfect, they deserve to survive. I just wish woods dying get crippled
"In the future, we might have drone wars," It's quite happening right now. Something is prophetic about BO2, I think, and it would be way scarier if a sort of Menendez figure actually comes out IRL.
@@jazzxgaming1171 bo3 aint, the campain isnt very good but the multiplayer is awesome, it is the only cod game (in completer future so not bo2 or goasts) that the futiristic thing works and the zombies is easily the best side thing in any cod game and bo3 has the best zombies.
Honestly, the loadouts system made singleplayer replays so much fun. Like: Hudson: MASON THE BOATS ARE CLOSING IN! USE THE MOUNTED GUNS TO Mason: (holding a WAR MACHINE minigun from the future) Turret sections are for P U S S I E S! LEEROOOOOOOY JEEEENKENZ
Hudson: “Wait. Mason what the hell is that thing and why does it look like it’s from the future?” Mason: “Don’t ask how I got it, just sit back while I break the time/space continuum.
MuddyPiggy69 Harper: Section! Take down DeFalco before he gets away with Karma! Section: *headshots DeFalco with a rusty outdated M1911* Harper: Well alright then. I'm not gonna complain.
Man BO2 was the first and last time I bought all the DLCs for a CoD game. DLC Zombie maps were absolute bomb. Had so much fun with my friends back in the day, I was 12 or 13 but I still remember everything. Good times.
I need clorox Bleach No, you’re talking about the Campaign’s theme. That’s the eerie one. The multiplayer theme is wayyyy more pumped up than Black ops 1. It’s called “Adrenaline.” It’s very good.
I recently replayed Black Ops 2: It was my favorite as a kid and it was recently on sale. It really does hold up to this day. The campaign is amazing and, well, multiplayer may only have 400~ ish people but just the campaign alone was worth it. I'm playing through BOps1 again now, but 2 will always have a good place in my heart.
I regularly play BO2 on ps3, and I have to say that there's actually not as many hackers/modders as previous years. You can find a clean lobby on the first try practically every time.
the lords crusaders no i think that isn‘t true as he says „mullah rahman, do not concern yourself with local politics“ that means he worked WITH rahman _(he tells them the americans must suffer, rahman betrays them in the end)_ and WITH kravchenko _(sold him weapons)_ which leads to the conclusion that menendez worked with two sides
Menendez is the best villain in the series by far, every other villain is the most cartoonishly evil trope of character. But for Menendez, you actually feel for him, and understand why he does the things he does. Also Bo2 had the most balanced multiplayer by far, everything has a counter, the substitution of scorestreaks instead of kill streaks urges people to play the objective, and Bo2 also undeniably had the best competitive scene. Bo2 zombies also had arguably the two best maps in the history of zombies, Mob of the Dead and Origins. Best Cod, change my mind.
The only issue with multiplayer I had with BO2 is the quick scopers and trick shooters. (Played on PS3) But for the most part, I enjoyed multiplayer. Coming back to MP though on Xbox One via backward compatibility, I honestly don't like it due to the hacking. I would be willing to get back to Master Prestige and get my diamond camo snipers back, but not at the expense of it being ill-gotten. Love the campaign but I wish they expanded on the Strike missions (especially in later games, but to no avail, unfortunately). The reason I wish they expanded on Strike missions is that it was a good mix of RTS gameplay mixed with FPS. If it incorporated RTS a little more and/or better, it would have really sold to me on a deeper level. I know that it wouldn't sell to many who aren't an RTS fan, but it would be nice since those missions are optional anyway.
@@Quurze Yeah I definitely agree, snipers should not be a sniper and shotgun in one. Snipers should have close to no chance at winning a close range gun fight, and yet whenever I run up on a sniper in close quarters, I'm 85% sure I'll get barrel stuffed, but I still appreciate how they made every class of weapons viable to use. And yeah the Strike missions were never a selling point.
@@sturmtruppenelite3247 I made a new account on the ps3 for Bo2, have two days played and 500+ wins and while there are quite a few hackers, it definitely isn't unplayable.
@@Go-Go-Guts No need, I agree with you. BO2 had the best system for multiplier, and it's crazy how the other COD games after BO2 didn't use it for theirs. Zombies was, in my opinion, was a bit mixed even with MOTD and Origins packed with it. But I actually had fun with Tranzit and Nuketown (planning to get all the maps now that I've got a console and the game) since it helped me learn how to get good with the game. Campaign was awesome, since they made new innovations with how you can play it. Raul Menendaz is definitely one of the best COD antagonists since you can relate with him and his character is made to be organic rather than being a cartoon villian or standard movie/video game villain.
I played over 500 hardpoint/SnD gamebattles then had over 100 days played on multiplayer. This game sucked up my time from 7th grade to sophomore year of high school.
I actually loved BO2 depiction of near future, it gave slightly dystopic and cyberpunk-like atmosphere. Also loved its story as Second Cold War between US and West vs. China and East.
One key point to the campaigns replayability is that the challenges unlocked new (really interesting) weapons, abilities and camos, that you could use for almost all missions when replaying
Honestly, Raul is one of my all time favorite CoD villains. Even a bit better than Makarov. He's got such a presence, whenever he's around you know shits about to get fucked. His theme is amazing too.
@@judgejudys3xdungeon94 Makarov was still a character. He was a simplistic antagonist, but he was one nonetheless. You don't need a sympathetic backstory for a good villain, nor to completely understand his motivation. Makarov had a simple backstory, history, motivation, and quite frankly he IS still one of the more memorable CoD villains. So bite me.
@@rev0568 sorry, didn't mean to come off as arrogant. I dunno, I never really saw much in the MW trilogy characters. Felt like they could only spout basic exposition during loading screens and gameplay, and didn't have the same quality/length of screen time as the Treyarch characters. I like Makarov's presentation, truly degenerative and offputting, but I like lore and backstory in my games and that's something Treyarch did a lot better.
Jacob Robinson after Inram’s death the ultranationalist was failing apart and they needed a leader and Mak took over and started his campaign against America (fun fact he knew Allen was an American due to Sherperd telling him)
@@rockyfalldownstairs ikr, he's good in the game. Not real life 'cause he killed innocent people and accused people of being witches and beheading them
i remember being 8-9 years old and i was so hyped for this game it was so cool and unreachable to me no game on this planet gave me these emotions ever
That one particular scene in the BO2 campaign where you were jumping over furniture in the club and blasting people with the pistol in slowmo while Skrillex played BLEW MY FRESHMAN MIND
6:30 I know I'm late, but the reason Harper says this to Woods is because he thinks that due to Woods' age, he isn't all the way there mentally. He even says that Woods is a "vegetable." So the exposition isn't really forced there, but it kinda is at the same time.
@Dead Man Walking And NOT black ops 3 or 4. They both had 'black ops' in the title, but Black ops 3 had nothing to do with bo1 or 2, and black ops 4 dosen't even have a story. WaW should've been called bo1, bo1 should've been bo2 and bo2 should've been bo3. this would've made for the PERFECT trilogy. but these games in my eyes, are the best in the cod series. I think infinity ward and treyarch just stopped caring after bo2, which is why I bo2 was my favorite COD game, and was the last good call of duty game that wasn't a soft reboot/ remaster.
@@officialprincelouie Agreed. The only thing that connects the original 3 games with BO3 is one scene with Nova Six and a small mention of Raul Menendez. BO4 didn't have a campaign, but it kind of had a better connection to the old games than BO3, but then again the connections were also very small. If the series' main story had to end, I'd pick BO2 to be that end. The canon ending of the game wrapped things up nicely, and the Avenged Sevenfold concert was amazing, even though it isn't canon. BO3 and BO4 feel more like side-stories or expansions that don't add anything to the overall Black Ops story.
@@saintcd775 it's nice to know that someone agrees with me. if you want, pretty soon, i plan to replay these games and eventually review them on my youtube channel with only one video.Subcribe if you want!
To me, it was such a brilliant move to set the campaign in the near future of 2025. Because it's unique, it's not a thing you usually see. If some type of Media goes for a futuristic style they usually go all the way and present a much more distant future. What makes the near future setting way more interesting, in my opinion, is that almost everything is plausible. Sure some things like the magic gloves may be a little over the top but who really knows, with how fast technology advances nowadays it could exist in the near future.
And most of the tech is very convincing, specially the whole "Using drones for combat" like the Quads, ASDs and CLAWs. Another good factor is the abundance of technological and information war, cyber attacks and such would be more common in a world with tecnology like this
as someone who has to regularly baby sit a 6 year old, Young David immediately switching his attitude when Alex actually has to go back to the army is 100% realistic.
Piotrus ._. Idk if you’ve played BO2 dlc, but MOTD and Origins in BO2 were considered some of the best maps in Zombies. I mentioned that map cuz AM said he never played the other dlc maps.
Transit suffered a lot from the tech at the time. They added in the fog, fire, and denizens (the things you have to knife off your face) to slow you down, because the map was so big and innovative, that the last gen literally couldn't handle it.
@Shifty Nifty Yeah, they were dreaming to high and so they had to add the fog so you wouldn’t see the loading in. I hope they remaster it without the fog
@@PFCZynner That's actually really cool, my grandfather plays Xbox, we used to play gta v together, however i am on pc now so there is a select amount of games we can play, pretty much anyone in my family games apart from my grandmother, my mother used to 1v1 me on (any cod none specific) mw3 most of the time, it was so fun.
When he forgot origins from zombies: You've pack a puchned your last pack a punch Edit: jeasus christ how many pepole commented on this,I straight up started a fight in the comments lol
@@blankblank5409 couldn't be true(r, is that even a word?) I mean it kicked off the Primis storyline,had a very fun Easter egg ngl, and a very cool setting
@@bronson3150 I'm not the biggest fan of die rise,the setting of the map is interesting and skybox/sky is beautiful and I like the "falling meteors" effect (the small ones in the sky not the big ones) the wonder wepone is neat but it was made so you can fall of the map easily, some perk spots are annoying and in some cases thay just steel your points,the map is Eh in opnien Buierd was great, nothing to say
Act Man, I really enjoyed this video but your points around the 15:20 mark, If you watch the cut scenes/transitional scenes and listen to the dialogue. The reason Raul has a hatred towards the US is due to the CIA killing most of his family, him only having his sister left. Americans burned a warehouse for insurance money severely burning her. In the mission "Old Wounds", you notice Woods through a grenade, and then a scene of a body bag, The person in the body bag is Josefina. Therefore his last reminisce of sanity taken away from him. Yes I will agree it is far-fetched but it still makes sense.
I was gonna point this out too. I remember a cutscene in the beginning of the campaign where it showed two siblings escaping a burning house and it’s led on to believe that it’s Raul and his sister as kids
StormFuzion224 Indeed, also because the CIA murdered his father and torched their warehouse which ended with his sister being disfigured from the fire. Also he has his fare share of problems with capitalism and how the rich treat the poor, which is why he did not bomb America or killed the president as he said, but wanted to inspire his movement to rise up against the government
Black Ops 2 Multiplayer was the only Call of Duty that got me for more than one year. After 2 years we started playing LEAGUE and then everybody got a PS4 and an era came to an end. Just great memories.
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Viktor Reznov vs. Raul Menendez
Who wins?
Hard pick, but I say, Reznov.
Reznov
Is this a trick question?
Reznov
Reznov
24:15
“You get to ride camels in the desert!”
*shows horses*
Big OOF by me
He said oof, I'm subscribed.
Oh hey it’s you. I watch you
I know this is nitpicky, but there is a small OOF @35:55, it was Jimmy Kimmel's show not Jimmy Fallon's show.
to be fair they're basically the same person
"We are the same Mason, only efficiently used in 2 games then betrayed, abandoned, forgotten."
Wow I've finally found you in my comment section, Jfreak!
@@TheActMan I don't comment often.
"You may be betrayed, you were abandoned, but don't you never, ever think that we forgot about you,Mason.
*_Ahem_*
Blops 4.
Not an excuse for them not being used for brand recognition tho
In vorkuta we are all brothers
Man you really missed out. The endless nights in summer time. Man
You gonna make a homie cry fr😤
Some Randy bruh don't be sad that it's gone. Be happy it happened
Fuuuuck yeah ;-;
early morning tranzit runs in the summers haha. good times boys.
λEpic Swagλ rockin hardcore trickshots with the homies till 4 am
I was reading the Black Ops II wikipedia article and found out that Menendez's actor, Kamar de los Reyes, died from cancer on December 24 of last year (2023) at the age of 56.
Rest in peace and thank you for the amazing performance.
Poor guy, his acting was amazing
@@yellowdude9425ya he was great! I was playing the campaign today (June 2024)!
I pay my respects and thank him for doing a wonderful job at voice acting. Rest in Peace. 🫡
agreed
Black Ops 2 proved that call of duty taking place in the future isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It just needs quality gameplay and an interesting story.
Tbh the best cod game
@ExcaliberDG11 no the best cod game
@ExcaliberDG11 wtf you think it's MW2? hell nah It's Bo2
@ExcaliberDG11 It's still the best cod tho BETTER than any
Nah bro, the real best cod game is Black ops 1
the biggest tragedy in history is you missing out on prime BLOPS 2 multiplayer days
Probably the best days of my childhood :( The endless nights with 4 friends splitscreen playing custom games and zombies :( I tear up every time :(
Now i can only have bots to play with me instead
I remember I played it all the time and got super good at it I would run insane matches and be a beast at the game, and then my Copy stopped working and I just never managed to reach the last prestige level, the PS3 data is still there and the game never worked again.
Sad times
Now I only run into modders when I try to play online 😭😭
Not if you played PRIME MW2
It's futuristic but it's not TOO futuristic.
exactly
QWERTY very true
Even BO4 is a bit futuristic, and it still has people running at 20 MPH with no stamina limit, it's a good game, but not as good as the old days, like I said, still the best COD in years.
@@superkamiguru6856 EXACTLY. B04 is way too fast paced making the gameplay very unenjoyable dying every 15 seconds
@@absolutemonarchy307 i love how its fast paced. And thats why i loved bo2? Lol if you had a full lobby of good players, it was very fast paced lol. Idk what you played but it wasnt bo2 lol
The game does show the "why" for Raul's motivations. The relationship with his sister is all he had left, in the beginning of the game or so you see a cutscene of her preventing him from suicide as kids, while she gets burned, she kinda becomes his personal reason to keep on living in that moment, besides the already established hatred for the U.S.A, her killing goes on to make it stronger and darker, he's not just living for her & and ideology anymore, his living for retribution
This. I can't believe he didn't get that, I understood him on my first playthrough
@@Corner-for-Assorted-Oats This is video is older now. Act man hopefully caught onto it later or after the video uploaded.
Yeah, I think that cutscene plays if you stay on the title screen for a bit without interacting or touching any buttons.
yes, raul's entire life had been ruined by the americans and his sister was the one thing he had left, when that too was gone, his hatred for america only grew. at one point he loses his mind and is driven to kill all those he felt were responsible for it.
Yeah she’s pretty much the last of his family since the US killed his father in Black Ops declassified and most of his family
Do you think Raul Menendez's vids got demonitized?
Most likely
yes, and this led him to create two channels and have two of his followers recruit young kids into cordis die. These channels are known as jake paul and logan paul.
This man asking the real questions
No this is an alternate history where RUclips didn’t fuck over their content creators, hence why the RUclips UI wasn’t changed.
bl4ckp4nth3r HM no how would he get his weapons
"COD BO2 zombie sucks!"
Unfortunately for you, History will not see it that way.
i dont get how he didn't play orgins, or buried. he just played 2 maps and said "up this sucks" at least look up at the maps and see them before giving your opinion
bo2 lit had the best zombies
@@2wohs no bo1 zombies is still the best
@@davidfuller6899 Fr dude.. but how did he not like Mob of the dead tho lol
@@davidfuller6899 guess the act man has no taste.
When he said zombies sucks, my childhood died a little
Mob of the dead and buried was my favorite when I was younger
Post what youre favorite map was and tell me why
I really liked transit. Shadows of evil was very well made as well. Transit zombies to this day is some of the most fun ive had playing a game. Tbh i think its my favourite game ever. The only reason i stopped was because my disc broke. Then i bought ghosts pn ps4 and it had EXStiNctIOn instead of zombies so that sucked. Tbf exstinction isnt bad but i found it really boring. I won it once and that was it
I never liked zombies myself tbh only multiplayer
BO2 zombies was okay imo. It was lightyears better than BO4 zombies, arguably better than WAW, but not as good as BO1 or BO3.
Fun fact: one of the writers of the black ops 2 campaign, David S. Goyer was also one of the writers of the dark knight trilogy. No wonder why black ops 2’s campaign is the best in the entire franchise
Wow just wow thanks for mentioning that
Well not sure if that's the best example. There's one good movie in that trilogy 🤷♂️
@@MacSmithvox lol foh
@@Ravensbro04 Great argument 👏 lol
I like all of the movies. They're not all great films. Batman Begins was a decent starting point, The Dark Knight was the best of the series, and The Dark Knight Rises was objectively poor. Nolan even admits this himself.
@@MacSmithvox Nolan said that TDKR was bad? Source?
Im late but in latin america we loved tranzit, just because it was fun to leave our friends out of the bus, like in real life
I'm from america and i love tranzit, it has nothing to do with nationality it's just different tastes.
@@ZoeyTheSobble pretty sure it’s a joke
Lmao
I'm from Canada and I love Tranzit, although my taste in zombies maps is far more sophisticated, I love going back to Tranzit every once in awhile.
BIKER!!!
Never clicked on a video so fast.
Optimus heeeey its Optimus!
Optimus Hi dude!
I stayed up late to watch haha
Been enjoying your channel as well bro thanks
Same lol, btw didnt expect to see you here
"Was zombies good"
Briggs: NO
Noriega (who's played origins): Fool
YoU RoTtEn CoCkSuCkEr
nO oNe ShAll KnOw I bEtRaYeD him
Yes I'll be getting origins
@@Darth-vade123 don't forget about motd and buried,pal.
@Ximvaks not that one.
I know this is an old review, but just to counter argue your point about why Mason doesn't show up for 40 years. It's very obvious. Menendez was still out there at large and a serious threat. If he was believed to be dead, Mason was safe. Once Menendez is either dead or in custody, it's finally safe for Alex to come out of hiding and reveal he is alive and well
I kinda get this logic but at the same time I don’t think mason would hide away from menendez he would try to stop him
@@mr.rufasi2729 ik this is old but Mason couldn't stop him. number one Mason was very old, and after the incident of getting shot he most likely had to hide for a while to heal his leg while trying to stay off the grid. even after he healed, guarantee his leg was still too damaged to go back into fighting
Honestly they should make a black ops game about what he did in that timespan
@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 or a comic would be fine too
I don’t think Mason would completely cut ties with his son and Woods, even if Menendez was that powerful. Mason has faced worse odds and pushed forward all the same.
I think it would have been better if we were given the option to either shoot the guards or not shoot at all, in which Mason is then killed by Menendez and Woods is blind-sided and captured by Noriega.
On a separate note, there’s no way I can believe Woods would listen to Noriega and shoot someone dragged in front of him. He’d at least demand the hood be removed.
I just replayed this campaign and Menendez's motivations were more deep than just his sister's death, the CIA killed the rest of his family and Josephina was all he had left, if you listen to some of woods' dialogue he explains everything in one of the cutscenes
Damn, I wish he picked up on that.
Variety Gamer ye ik about that I like this guy but if he is gonna make a 40 minute vid surely he should be doing enough research and sometimes he really messes up like calling bo3 zombies bad
ÅÑØÑŸMØÜŠ - why does he hate bo3 so much? Zombies is
Isn’t that bad for bo3
Kodiak Christianson I think it’s one of the best zombies of the best so go ask him
@@mr_bear6362 tOo coMPleX aND tEDiOus
Him: Shits on tranzit
Zombies community: Thats fair, it shouldve been shelved for next gen.
Him: Shits on Mob of the Dead
Zombies community: Well hey now...
Too far 😡
well to be honest his argument for mob to me makes no sense, he says he would explore kino and der riese to the ends of the earth when it comes to the lore and story in those 2 maps yet that is the purpose of Mob of the dead in the first place, Mob is the story map of black ops 2, Mob of the Dead is what every black ops 3 and 4 map wish it was story wise, The story in Mob is fantastic from the crew to the overall setting and the idea of these 4 gangsters trapped in purgatory with them stuck in a loop trying to constantly escape but always ending up on the golden gate bridge and then eventually dying and then coming back to life to repeat the cycle all over again, Mob also easily has the best dialogue out of any zombies map period with the crew having badass and funny quotes but you can also hear them slowly start to emotionally breakdown when they get to pack a punch and they realize that they cant escape with them yelling at the sky questioning life and just wanting to die wanting the cycle to end wanting to rest. I understand why he calls Mob tedious with its long setup process but it really isnt as bad as he described it, to me the setup gets easier the more you replay the map because the steps required to get the plane parts aren't even that hard in the first place all your really doing is just shocking a few boxes in different locations and there you go, the hells retriever isn't that bad either and the free blundergat is pretty simple to get when you have the locations down and the acid gat parts are in pretty easy to find. Overall though i understand why he calls Mob tedious it can be very tough for a beginner but he missed the point of Mob of the Dead being a story map.
@@jamesmcgrath8392 I bought bo2 3 days ago, I played mob and on my first game I figured out how to obtain all the plane parts, and on my second game I built the plane, I didn’t search up a tutorial. Mob is pretty easy to figure out, the only thing in the map you need to search up is the shield, and the acid gat parts, and the map is easy as with afterlife giving free self revives, since the map flows so well it’s not tedious all the parts are placed near perks and important places in the map, so it doesn’t feel like a chore to get the bare minimum.
@@user-xu1ru1nu3y why tf is the game not fu*king remastered yet I wanna play it cause I dont have a ps3 or xbox 360 Activision should fu*king remaster it cause I wanna fu*king play it 😡😡😡
@@aidanbrown8097 bc it wouldn’t make money lmao
When you realize that the setting of Black Ops 2 takes place 4 years from now and we're still nowhere near the level of technology envisioned in that game.
We’re starting to make exo suits tho 😂😂 fuck we skipped a few cods go back
Thats what they want you to think👁
Look up China gear
@@chief_tenkaichi no we’re actually making exo suits to lift heavy shit
@@dawsynlarson696 Oh I know I was talking to the dude who said technology isn’t up to par
We never knew we were living in the good times
Truly😔
🥲
All we knew was that we were having fun
You're living the good times now. You just don't realise it yet.
@@TheOneEpicplayer 2023 is not a good time
Black Ops II was the last objectively great Call of Duty IMO. No other entry after that grabbed my attention and stole my time anywhere near as much
Critical Nobody
I remember seeing people hating on it so much when it was first released.
black ops 1 was the last one i even bothered to buy, mw3 looked so samey to mw2, and black ops 2 just looked even more samey somehow, but maybe i was wrong after watching this video.
The story man.... so good
Agreed
@@nietzchepreacher9477 Black ops 2 actually has a fun multiplayer mode with actually balanced weapons. Most if not all guns are actually viable for use excluding special gimmick weapons and launchers.
Thing with the futuristic stuff in this game is that the technology was genuinely interesting and somewhat realistic
All of the technology in this game is stuff that I could see being made and used in the military in the next 5 to 10 years and it wouldve been cool to see them focus a tiny bit more on the tech
Also the weapons were either based on real world firearms, (XM8, M27, SCAR-H, Kel Tec KSG, FN Five Seven) and prototypes yet to be used (KAP40, SMR, M1216) or updated models of real guns, such as PDW-57 looking like an updated P90. These weren’t guns made from scratch and having inspiration, but real world basis
@Anakin Skywalker I mean who knows? Maybe not "invisibility" per-se, but... adaptable camo? Kinda like chameleons?
@Anakin Skywalker I reckon there could be something similar to it. Maybe like a suit which changes to a different camo depending on what environment they are in.
@Anakin Skywalker yeah I dont think we will have that yet
Bo2 best campaign
Bo3 worst campaign
Bo4 what’s a campaign?
*campaign has left the chat*
Accurate
God ghost had a really good campaign tho
Bo3 campaign wasn't bad you had to actually pay attention to get the story they didn't just put it right in front of you like they usually do
Bo1 best campaign
RIP Kamar De Los Reyes :(
thank you for being the best antagonist in the series
This was the last of the golden era COD games.
2007 - 2012 was COD's best years.
Modern Warfare
World at War
Modern Warfare 2
Black Ops
Modern Warfare 3
Black Ops 2.
NUTCool I miss it
@@Pil0nsill0 Me too.
NUTCool facts! those 6 were gems
i would include ghost because the campaign was great, atleast in my opinion
@@Carabastin wtf...
"you get to ride camels in the desert"
*is riding a horse*
Lol. He Called Captain Price "Soap" when he beats Yuri up after Soap's death in the MW3 video also
humpless camel
Was just thinking that
Ak47 Nemo eh same difference
Relax your tits, like you don’t make mistakes
15:00 uh yes we did learn why Raul’s sister was so important. They literally say in the game about how after his family was burned in a fire by the work of the government, she was all that he had left.
I thought there was a cutscene in the game, like maybe in the intro that shows his sister getting burned.
@@Circurose yea
I never did like the "they where all I had left" reason for villians, it always seems lazy.
ZeUberStriker yeah but it’s still the reason for it all. So there never was no reason. And the reasoning may be lazy, but the way they told you about it, and introduce it all, really isn’t
@@zeuberstriker TL;DR: The concept may be lazy, but it all depends on how you take on the concept.
Sometimes, they may be some overplayed tropes and storytelling gimmicks that get old and repetitive, but sometimes, you get one story where they have a take on the trope and make it interesting.
What I loved about the story so much is how plausible it all is. And how it makes a point to contrast modern (futuristic) warfare against the past and how US actions in the past in other countries can come back to haunt us.
Raul Menendez, his whole social media uprising, social unrest, disillusionment with patriotism, the over reliance on technology and drones, cyberwarfare, I feel like they really did their homework when writing this one.
It is actually very explainable why Menendez is as bloodthirsty as he is... its constantly explained.
The CIA smoked his father, of whom he and menendez made a wealthy living through illicit means - drug smuggling, gun running, etc. His sister was essentially his only family left, and she was left burnt and blind at a young age after a fire, to which Menendez devoted his life to protecting her, she became his last remaining vessel for what a good life could feel like. Losing her meant losing the only thing moving him forward in life. With nothing left to lose, he took out his long growing anger - to Woods and Mason for killing his Sister, and to America for killing his father and causing so much trouble globally due to its covert imperialistic methods.
It's very much explained what his backstory and motivation is.
also he explains his sister and the fire more when he says that an american started the fire for insurance money, putting the worker's lives on the line for $11,000. it is a major reason why he hates america and capitalism
Minty Coffee having exposition explained to us like that is bad storytelling. “Show don’t tell” should always be the way to go, we should have SEEN and played through the making of Raul Menendez
@@AustinU25 This was actually shown, with the scene before the game even starts. It shows the clips of the warehouse burning down and a young boy holding a burning girl; figuring that she died, he attempts to kill himself with the locket before hearing the words "Don't Leave Me" yelled out by the girl.
@Christopher Milam He blamed it on the fact that they did it in the first place, making it personal for him. The man was unhinged already.
Yes.
Don't forget that while playing as Menendez in Time and Fate, your kills are messier and involve a lot of dismemberment and decapitation.
Holy shit, this comment has more likes than any of my others.
@@bean1an143 As of the time of me writing this comment, you have 29 likes. It did not "blow up" lmfao
@@cumuluschoir5945 It did for me. I only get about 3 likes for any comments I wrote, so that's just me being a newbie.
Yeah playing the bad guy of the game was insane and awesome.
@@abramsullivan7764 Definitely one of my favorite monents in Black Ops 2.
11:29 *"You can't kill me, I'm a fuckin' onion, Mason."*
*tears up*
@@coltforceplayz5285 lol I see what you did there
Im a godamn mason, onion!
[Anxmaly] [GD] I’m a Mason onion, goddamn
@@coltforceplayz5285 LOL🤣🤣🤣
I love that the majority of the guns in Black Ops 2 are actual guns. The XM8 (M8A1 in game) was actually considered to be a replacement for the M16.
Sucks that the XM8 never got adopted
Most guns in the game existed back in 2012 , or at least were prototypes. Instead of the BB guns of Black Ops 3/4 , those weapons both looked and sounded like Nerf Toys
Playing black ops 2 when I was young were some of the best times of my life. I loved the zombies but even the multiplayer lobbies when everyone was mic’d up was so badass at that time. After bo3 that’s when it all went downhill.
Bo3 was my favorite cod in my opinion
@@iamgooddoggo567 understandable
Yea zombis was god
@@iamgooddoggo567 BO3 wasnt that bad it was BO4 that ruined it But BO2 was really really really fun! i was very very good at it i should have started my own youtube channel extremely good.
Bo3 was the only newer game that was actually good multiplayer was good and zombies is amazing just a shame you have to pay for all the other maps
The BO2 main theme is hands down the best CoD theme ever.
MANKINI PLAYTIME no it’s not Bo1 is
Nope its mw2
_[Laughs in Modern Warfare 2 Intro Theme]_
Of course it is. It's by Trent Reznor.
[Laughs in BO1 multiplayer theme]
Well, to be fair it's explained that Menendez's father was assassinated by the CIA and his sister was almost killed in an insurance scam fire. So his sister is literally his only family who survived nearly being burned alive only to be killed young anyway. So although it's not very realistic it's still a serviceable story and grounded in reality some.
Yep! And that's what matters! So my only real issue with the story isn't even a big one
Yeah, it's fine and all, but I'm surprised you didn't show the intro cutscene of the game. The one that plays the very first time you boot up the game where you get to see the Menendez and his sister as children. It was honestly pretty emotional and another great highlight of campaign.
@@TheActMan so is MW2 next?
fun fact: in black ops declassified, the ps vita version of bo1, you actually get to play a mission as mason where you kill rauls father. its a shame you need the vita version to actually play this, but it gives more insight to menedez character. when he saw his father get shot he ran for it, he wasn't born a monster. america molded his hatred, mason made it grow to its highest.
menedez is a super detailed character. his motivations are rooted in history. the reason his country was impoverished and forced his father into a cartel was because of america starting the Contra War. a war which happened in real life during the cold war, in which CIA backed forces would face off against communist forces, both sides murdering many innocents. this is one of many examples of americas endemic corruption and brutality. the fact that people who have the same exact mindset as menedez for almost the same exact reasoning is why he's such a good villain. there are many others like him, though none of them could realistically achieve what he did.
I was young when i played WaW, MW 2 (And MW3 and BO1-2 but i remember them a lot more). It is a big shame that i don't completely remember the campaign that i know i loved so much at the time (My favourite being WaW). You have no idea when you live in the gold age of a game you love.
To be fair, the reason why Raul was so attached to Josefina is because she is the only comfort the world brings to him. His family is involved in the drug cartel, putting himself in a bad spot. He have seen the worst of humanity because of it and his sister is the only good that he sees in this world
Also his family died in an earthquake which Salazar explained so Josefina was literally his only family left.
His story is kinda sad, I liked that part of the mission where you play as menendez in the cartel compound that’s under siege and your running around with a machete lol
Like john wick with his dog
His dad got killed by the CIA and his sister only wanted to live for him.
@@alexwest2573 Some parts are tragic, but Menendez brought a lot of shit down on himself. You can even argue he caused his sister's death.
That menu music...
Is someone cutting onions?
@@Harry-tm9pn maint theme ost bo2. its the anthem of all the good cods
Me
actually shed 2 tears
I did:(
the genius of trent reznor, homies
I can’t imagine how good bo2 remastered would be. Also without micro transactions such as loot boxes like what they did with cod4
There will be microtransacions
Decsy Other than paid dlc, micro transactions and loot boxes in CoD games are basically dead or dying (MW3 reference)
bro i wish, they already made a remake of modern warfare 1 and 2( MW2 campain) and they made MW 2019,
They better not change the lines if they make a remake.
burning toast They need to bring back Ed Harris as Hudson
I love the creativity of Black Ops 2 Zombies menu. The map selection, the music, it works so damn well
Menendez had lost his family after the CIA had taken out his father when they had to go to drug running after they lost everything in an earthquake, he saw this as America’s fault so after he lost his sister he wanted the world to “suffer with me”
It shows you how his sister was burnt and he almost lost her
Toe Sniffa She was already burnt I believe. When the guy that goes after her looks at her face he goes “what is this monster” and slams her, prompting Menendez to rage and stab him.
jurado1010 she was burnt when the CIA torched Menendez’s father’s compound trapping them inside, leading to Josefina to be burnt
@@asgnt3408 no it was for insurance money and it wasnt the cia that why he hate capitalism he sees it as corrupt she died when the cia raided his conpound woods lost it and threw a grenade thats what killed her
Easy Peat I don’t thinks that’s how it was I remember the cutscene
I remember laughing my ass off when Woods got out of his wheelchair and started playing the drums
Hahaha
Menendez: WTF!?
Woods: oh that shit, ah I was fuckin lazy
Probably not as funny but I personally laughed a bit at lines like "Nurse Batshit! Where's my smokes?!" and "Ah you're all a couple of fuckin broads! Work this shit out on your own."
It was never intended to be there
Someone broke into 3arc files and placed it there (as a joke?)
That was what I heard atleast.
What makes it better is that woods got out of the chair on accident and menedaz’s reaction was real
I love the black ops 2 theme music. Super nostalgic at this point.
Lol i thought just the same thing
DEATH TO THE MPLA
That zombies menu music gives me chills
Deadass cried listening to this shit..this was my childhood
@@shakiron5913 I used to be scared of it when I was younger lol
With Menendez' relationship with his sister, I swear there was a scene that showed her saving him from a house fire and being proper scarred by it, and that's why he holds her so dearly, no?
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. There is definitely a lot of reasons he holds his sister so close. They've been through a lot, and they are the only family they had left. Not to mention his hatred for Americans in the first place (who are the reason she got burnt so bad in the fire) but when woods killed her he had plenty of reasons to do what he did. That part of the video felt rushed and like he didn't do as much research as he could have.
@@ForeHead. plus the fact his dad was killed by the CIA I'm pretty sure
@@ForeHead. And also the general view of Americans in Latin America at the era. (Like how they just made coups, set dictatorships, and took all the national resources of other lands just for themselves).
Anybody else remember the good old days, when you could just put a disc in and play the game without downloading it. good times.
Agreed
Developers used to try a lot harder to get the game right the first time!
Yeah i remember getting my xbox one and i had to wait like 10hours for the game to install THEN had to wait for it to update
Remember when one scratch could cause you to need to buy a new one
@@keelin4273 thats shitty. All my updates/dowloads take like...30 min lol get better internet
The Act Man: Call of Duty Black Ops 2 is about suffering.
*The connection to the host was lost.*
*Migrating host.*
The most tragic plot twist in all of video gaming, TBH.
Tbh bo2 has been ruined over the years
Ww2: old
Modern: old
Future: old
Cavemen warfare: $$$
They should make an old ass cod, like pre 20th century
It sort of worked for far cry
Goddamn just do vietnam
lol
TrueNorth Productions Black Ops Had Vietnam, and other places too
Can’t believe it’s already been 10 years, one of my favorites ever and changed the whole scene with DLCs!!
Black ops 2 was one of the few CoD games to nail all three aspects. Multiplayer, Campaign and Zombies.
@BarcrestPlayers Tranzit wasn't the greatest map sure but Survival and Grief on Town was fun. Plus we eventually got Origins and Mob of the Dead.
Pedro Farnsworth and buried and nuketown
Pedro Farnsworth people were hating on it so much when it released...
pack a punch is my Bff
Except the zombies is dogshit.
This man actually tried to shit on our homie Mob of the Dead
Wait does everything have issues
Haven't you heard of nothing being perfect
Even Origins has some flaws
@@lukegardner7523 don’t stir up unnecessary conflict, but I will say you sound like the “critic” of a friend group that argues on everything that anyone says thinking that it helps when I’m reality you’re just making everyone despise you
@ChipperParrot uh oh, we got a toxic Origins fanboy here
"You like doing that every time you play this game?"
Zombies community: yes
exactly, if shit was easy then it would just be boring
yeah i honestly liked having to get plane parts to pack a punch, simplicity is not always needed.
@@frazza5503 I like it, but I also don't like it at the same time. It is fun when you have a group to play with to do the Easter eggs and the adventure to get the pack a punch, but when you play alone or when you play the map a lot it gets a little tedious. Therefore, I find it's best to have some maps be like kino der toten with an "easy" to reach pack a punch and perks but have a Easter egg that is complicated and gives you some sort of bonus weapon or a buy-able ending, but then have the opposite map where you go on an adventure to get the pack a punch so you can appease both types of players.
@@dmitryivanov5411 I didnt like how zombies focused on fetch quests but at least the maps tried to reconcile both types of players to an extent. As long as there was a way to get whatever you wanted on solo it was fine. Not great but it worked.
I honestly think they should have a mix between the 2 kinds of maps, the simple original type maps like world at war but at other times they have the super complex maps like BO2
"No reason for Harper to say this" I think he was checking to see if Woods has dementia
15:05 Actually (and yeah you can criticize it for being a bit hidden) there’s a clip that plays when you stay at the main menu for long enough (maybe some other places) that shows Josefina saving Raul from the fire caused by the CIA torching the Menendez drug cartel. This causes her to be burned and disfigured, which is why the solider says she looks like a freak, and also why Raul gets so pissed off at this comment and also why He feels so indebted to her.
It’s explained in a cutscene before a mission which I can’t remember the name of
Yeah I was about to say that it is shown that she's the only family he has left
Which also adds more pain to Menendez considering the fact his father died and the only family he had left was Josefina, seeing his people also get caught in the crossfire and abused by Noriega's men just added more fuel to his fiery hate to americans.
And the salt that really burned the wound was Woods indirectly killing his sister with a grenade because his rage towards Menendez.
At this point he lost everything he loved and everything that kept him from being an absolute monster, the US did nothing but destabilize his country and leave him as a lone man, so his hatred towards the US is justifiable.
thank you
Actually, it was an American torching the warehouse for insurance money. $11,000. I believe Menendez mentioned this during his interrogation on Odysseus
The campaign was freaking amazing and had a really big sense of dread to it, some parts made you feel like there was no way out and that everyone was gonna die.
Everyone does die in bo2 tho, it’s brutal
@@Black-ops-guy mason and woods live actually if you get the good ending. Which to me is perfect, they deserve to survive. I just wish woods dying get crippled
"In the future, we might have drone wars,"
It's quite happening right now.
Something is prophetic about BO2, I think, and it would be way scarier if a sort of Menendez figure actually comes out IRL.
The last good one and only good futuristic call of duty
The Mact Man I actually thought BO3 was a good game, just not a good CoD game. Imagine had it been its own IP. Would've been far better.
The Mact Man Nice name
Andrei Valdez agree
No Cod 4 was the best futuristic game
Black ops 3 was a good futuristic game.
The most ironic thing COD went to a 3 yr Dev cycle 1 extra year to make the game......and the games got worse LMAO. That says it all really.
WookiesYaUncle All the good devs left and the remaining team members needed an extra year just to make something passable.
Prince Original Watch Act Man's CoD WWII video and you'll understand.
Prince Original Nah bo3 trash ww2 trash
@@mr.s9783 i liked ww2 more than waw
@@jazzxgaming1171 bo3 aint, the campain isnt very good but the multiplayer is awesome, it is the only cod game (in completer future so not bo2 or goasts) that the futiristic thing works and the zombies is easily the best side thing in any cod game and bo3 has the best zombies.
Honestly, the loadouts system made singleplayer replays so much fun. Like:
Hudson: MASON THE BOATS ARE CLOSING IN! USE THE MOUNTED GUNS TO
Mason: (holding a WAR MACHINE minigun from the future) Turret sections are for P U S S I E S! LEEROOOOOOOY JEEEENKENZ
Hudson: “Wait. Mason what the hell is that thing and why does it look like it’s from the future?”
Mason: “Don’t ask how I got it, just sit back while I break the time/space continuum.
MuddyPiggy69 Harper: Section! Take down DeFalco before he gets away with Karma!
Section: *headshots DeFalco with a rusty outdated M1911*
Harper: Well alright then. I'm not gonna complain.
THAT’S RIGHT! I use to go back to the missions that took place in the past, and would get that gun that charges up. I forgot the name.
@@lorddraugr3138
Is it one those special type of weapons?
just another person
Yis
Man BO2 was the first and last time I bought all the DLCs for a CoD game. DLC Zombie maps were absolute bomb. Had so much fun with my friends back in the day, I was 12 or 13 but I still remember everything. Good times.
Same actually
You missed out on WAW and BO1. They had some great zombies. It was also the last time I bought cod DLC too.
1 more thing, the badass pumped multiplayer theme.
Ur Boy Seth nah thats black ops 1
@@ineedcloroxbleach6886 no its bo2. Bo1 multiplayer theme is good but not as good as bo2.
Ur Boy Seth bo1 is more pumped up if u take a look at it. The bo2 one is actually very eerie at the beginning
I need clorox Bleach No, you’re talking about the Campaign’s theme. That’s the eerie one. The multiplayer theme is wayyyy more pumped up than Black ops 1. It’s called “Adrenaline.” It’s very good.
Ur Boy Seth too similar too pg3d
“I hate when games do this, changing voice actors in sequels”
They aren’t recasting the same guy to voice woods in Cold War
Then I hate Cold War 😏
@Anakin Skywalker it's even worse for Mason
😨😰😥😥😢😢😢😢😥😥😱😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Rip
They are recasting everyone Hudson mason and woods
Act man, You forgot to mention how badass the soundtrack is. And that the multiplayer theme is probably the best in the series.
Man I humm that shit in my head
the boss bo2 and nw2 are the best games in the franchise
i get BO2 vibes when i play apex(from the menu soundtrack), anyone else?
the boss NOT probably, it is.
I LOVE it so much that i bought it from the itunes store.
I recently replayed Black Ops 2: It was my favorite as a kid and it was recently on sale. It really does hold up to this day. The campaign is amazing and, well, multiplayer may only have 400~ ish people but just the campaign alone was worth it.
I'm playing through BOps1 again now, but 2 will always have a good place in my heart.
Naming my child mason so when he does math I can scream “MASON WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN”
Bro I have never had any more likes then 5
You are smart
R/madlads
Why are my random comments getting so many likes
@@chryosolite9397 cuz they are funny
The Communist and please put me on the actual r/mad lads
Me: *hears the Sentence “black ops 2”
Also me: D E A T H T O T H E M P L A
Idk why it said “black ops 1” so I edited it to “black ops 2”
CommanderButter THERE HERE, HERE THEY COME MY BROTHERS
That is the best voice line In bo2. Thanks zavimbi
OUR JOURNY HAS BEGUN
Commissar Dabadibadooba THE MOTORS HAVE STOPPED
You picked literally the worst time to play because basically everyone is a hacker now
R9dog unfortunately...
I regularly play BO2 on ps3, and I have to say that there's actually not as many hackers/modders as previous years. You can find a clean lobby on the first try practically every time.
@@Coaxox oh dude try it on xbox 360, I cant find a game without hackers lol
Where’s the old population???
FrogChip only cuz Xbox 360 is full of modern, it’s because of XBOX360LSBEST, if he didn’t exist, we’d still have lobbied without hackers
The amount of memories that flood back into my head when just looking at those maps and HEARING THAT MAIN MENU THEME.. it leaves me with no words..
I love these fucking reviews so much
I love you so fucking much
The Act Man No I love you so fucking much.
love all around boys
No homo though
It's always good to see a Why is It Awesome review. This shows that you don't have to make negative reviews to million of clicks.
@@rascoehunter3608 you mean fucking assewome
Fun fact in the first mission the person Menendez is talking to on the radio is kravchenko
Rullah haman too
the lords crusaders 7 years 7 YEARS I say and I never knew that
the lords crusaders no i think that isn‘t true as he says „mullah rahman, do not concern yourself with local politics“ that means he worked WITH rahman _(he tells them the americans must suffer, rahman betrays them in the end)_ and WITH kravchenko _(sold him weapons)_ which leads to the conclusion that menendez worked with two sides
Mazen Jar El-Nabi I’m pretty sure I saw kravchencos name when I had subtitles on
Menendez is the best villain in the series by far, every other villain is the most cartoonishly evil trope of character. But for Menendez, you actually feel for him, and understand why he does the things he does. Also Bo2 had the most balanced multiplayer by far, everything has a counter, the substitution of scorestreaks instead of kill streaks urges people to play the objective, and Bo2 also undeniably had the best competitive scene. Bo2 zombies also had arguably the two best maps in the history of zombies, Mob of the Dead and Origins. Best Cod, change my mind.
The only issue with multiplayer I had with BO2 is the quick scopers and trick shooters. (Played on PS3) But for the most part, I enjoyed multiplayer. Coming back to MP though on Xbox One via backward compatibility, I honestly don't like it due to the hacking. I would be willing to get back to Master Prestige and get my diamond camo snipers back, but not at the expense of it being ill-gotten. Love the campaign but I wish they expanded on the Strike missions (especially in later games, but to no avail, unfortunately). The reason I wish they expanded on Strike missions is that it was a good mix of RTS gameplay mixed with FPS. If it incorporated RTS a little more and/or better, it would have really sold to me on a deeper level. I know that it wouldn't sell to many who aren't an RTS fan, but it would be nice since those missions are optional anyway.
@@Quurze Yeah I definitely agree, snipers should not be a sniper and shotgun in one. Snipers should have close to no chance at winning a close range gun fight, and yet whenever I run up on a sniper in close quarters, I'm 85% sure I'll get barrel stuffed, but I still appreciate how they made every class of weapons viable to use. And yeah the Strike missions were never a selling point.
Quurze don’t forget the bloody yanks who use Mod Menus and modded servers
@@sturmtruppenelite3247 I made a new account on the ps3 for Bo2, have two days played and 500+ wins and while there are quite a few hackers, it definitely isn't unplayable.
@@Go-Go-Guts No need, I agree with you. BO2 had the best system for multiplier, and it's crazy how the other COD games after BO2 didn't use it for theirs.
Zombies was, in my opinion, was a bit mixed even with MOTD and Origins packed with it. But I actually had fun with Tranzit and Nuketown (planning to get all the maps now that I've got a console and the game) since it helped me learn how to get good with the game.
Campaign was awesome, since they made new innovations with how you can play it. Raul Menendaz is definitely one of the best COD antagonists since you can relate with him and his character is made to be organic rather than being a cartoon villian or standard movie/video game villain.
Now all we need this year is Menendez, and we are set
Treyarch: Creates Raul Menendez
Viktor Reznov: Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle shall be legendary!
I read that last bit in reznov’s voice.
Now if you don’t mind me, WE TAKE VORKUTA
@@saivinayakdaya4648 Hey do you guys know the music that plays at the end of the video around 38:08? It sounds pretty good.
Josefina!!!
Josefina vs VORKUTA
@@edwardarroyo884 Raul menendez theme, my comrade
Bo2 is probably my favorite video game ever, its ridiculous how much time I spent on that game.
conway Same I spent SO much time on that game
I played over 500 hardpoint/SnD gamebattles then had over 100 days played on multiplayer. This game sucked up my time from 7th grade to sophomore year of high school.
I spent about 6000 hours on it before my brother destroyed my ps3
It is the best game on the planet
I played it so much I made it my mission to unlock all achievements, skins, tags and endings
I actually loved BO2 depiction of near future, it gave slightly dystopic and cyberpunk-like atmosphere. Also loved its story as Second Cold War between US and West vs. China and East.
I can *so* imagine people in 2050s look at this game and love the style we had, just as we love 80's today.
One key point to the campaigns replayability is that the challenges unlocked new (really interesting) weapons, abilities and camos, that you could use for almost all missions when replaying
The dlc was 100% worth the money, I miss this game
All except die rise. Unless you consider the Sliquifier before its huge nerf.
Limmy Lan No it was worth it, u get multiplayer content to.
Isaiah Martinez Ik but that die rise pack have you an exclusive gun (the peacekeeper) in multiplayer and some really good maps.
Isaiah Martinez Get MOTD or Origins.
Isaiah Martinez Nuketown? A lot of people don’t like it but some people do, idk if u wud like it tho.
Honestly, Raul is one of my all time favorite CoD villains. Even a bit better than Makarov. He's got such a presence, whenever he's around you know shits about to get fucked. His theme is amazing too.
Ethan Baker Makarov was a russian plot device. menendez was an actual character
@@judgejudys3xdungeon94 Makarov was still a character. He was a simplistic antagonist, but he was one nonetheless. You don't need a sympathetic backstory for a good villain, nor to completely understand his motivation. Makarov had a simple backstory, history, motivation, and quite frankly he IS still one of the more memorable CoD villains. So bite me.
@@rev0568 sorry, didn't mean to come off as arrogant. I dunno, I never really saw much in the MW trilogy characters. Felt like they could only spout basic exposition during loading screens and gameplay, and didn't have the same quality/length of screen time as the Treyarch characters. I like Makarov's presentation, truly degenerative and offputting, but I like lore and backstory in my games and that's something Treyarch did a lot better.
@@rev0568 Makarov had a motive? What was his motive? I want to hear this.
Jacob Robinson after Inram’s death the ultranationalist was failing apart and they needed a leader and Mak took over and started his campaign against America (fun fact he knew Allen was an American due to Sherperd telling him)
STOP WATCHING THIS BROTHER WE MUST FIGHT THE MPLA
DEATH TO THE MPLA!
safety is on dip shit
Definitely the best real life character in black ops 2. Though the real Savimbi was more soft spoken and articulate.
DEATH TO THE MPLA
@@rockyfalldownstairs ikr, he's good in the game. Not real life 'cause he killed innocent people and accused people of being witches and beheading them
i remember being 8-9 years old and i was so hyped for this game it was so cool and unreachable to me no game on this planet gave me these emotions ever
That one particular scene in the BO2 campaign where you were jumping over furniture in the club and blasting people with the pistol in slowmo while Skrillex played BLEW MY FRESHMAN MIND
I got the worst ending when I first played and I was traumatized
yeah they did a great job at making you feel like shit in the bad endings.
What happened? I only remember fucking up killing woods I think
I messed up and killed mason, but it is still a good ending because woods is happy and Menendez is dead
lemony fresh Menendez kills Woods, Cortis Die takes over America, Mason dies, and the world’s drone system is hacked
Since my aim was trash I wanted to shoot the head but instead I shot near the chest cuz of the breathing when you hold it for too long
I remember the day when over 3 million people where online that day playing online 5 hours
Same
First Name Surname Yep. Now if you go on all you'll find is hackers.
now you'll only find like 20k or maybe around 15k people online
@@davidaguirre2255 play ps 3 only 10 k
@@lookiamwatchingyou1422 yeah 10k now, I haven't played bo2 in like 2 years so I'm just saying that's how many people were on when I played
6:30 I know I'm late, but the reason Harper says this to Woods is because he thinks that due to Woods' age, he isn't all the way there mentally. He even says that Woods is a "vegetable." So the exposition isn't really forced there, but it kinda is at the same time.
The original Black Ops Trilogy should be remastered.
(World at War, Black Ops 1, Black Ops 2)
Yes
@Dead Man Walking And NOT black ops 3 or 4. They both had 'black ops' in the title, but Black ops 3 had nothing to do with bo1 or 2, and black ops 4 dosen't even have a story. WaW should've been called bo1, bo1 should've been bo2 and bo2 should've been bo3. this would've made for the PERFECT trilogy. but these games in my eyes, are the best in the cod series. I think infinity ward and treyarch just stopped caring after bo2, which is why I bo2 was my favorite COD game, and was the last good call of duty game that wasn't a soft reboot/ remaster.
@@officialprincelouie Agreed. The only thing that connects the original 3 games with BO3 is one scene with Nova Six and a small mention of Raul Menendez. BO4 didn't have a campaign, but it kind of had a better connection to the old games than BO3, but then again the connections were also very small. If the series' main story had to end, I'd pick BO2 to be that end. The canon ending of the game wrapped things up nicely, and the Avenged Sevenfold concert was amazing, even though it isn't canon. BO3 and BO4 feel more like side-stories or expansions that don't add anything to the overall Black Ops story.
@@saintcd775 it's nice to know that someone agrees with me. if you want, pretty soon, i plan to replay these games and eventually review them on my youtube channel with only one video.Subcribe if you want!
@@officialprincelouie I will! Good talk, I'm looking forward to watching your content!
To me, it was such a brilliant move to set the campaign in the near future of 2025. Because it's unique, it's not a thing you usually see. If some type of Media goes for a futuristic style they usually go all the way and present a much more distant future. What makes the near future setting way more interesting, in my opinion, is that almost everything is plausible. Sure some things like the magic gloves may be a little over the top but who really knows, with how fast technology advances nowadays it could exist in the near future.
@Slyphie The Forest Elf what if cordials dia was actually a real thing and we didn’t even know about it
And most of the tech is very convincing, specially the whole "Using drones for combat" like the Quads, ASDs and CLAWs. Another good factor is the abundance of technological and information war, cyber attacks and such would be more common in a world with tecnology like this
Also the technology is part of the plot in a very believable fashion, such as Menendez using social media to start wars
I felt like since the gloves ended up failing mid mission, it made that tech seem so much more plausible. Other than that, I completely agree.
We're much closer to 2025 now...
Honestly bo2 had some of my favorite zombie maps, origins, Alcatraz, buried
Buried all the fucking way that map is the best
@@nickynicky009 He said zombies was trash he bought one dlc
What about Nuketown eh?
Well yes but not everyone can buy dlc for MONEY
@I used to be liberal I`m sorry are you trying to say die rise is better than motd?
as someone who has to regularly baby sit a 6 year old, Young David immediately switching his attitude when Alex actually has to go back to the army is 100% realistic.
Why is the act man: So AWESOME?
The FlamingSpartan I would love a video like that! :)
He's awesome because he's the ACT MAN. And he's not corrupt
You know someone already made that it was in my recommendations a few months ago...
@@Frank-bx4dq smart one
A bandana-wearing Internet yuy cuz he liks odst halo
The act man: *disses MOTD*
Tim Hansen: *very visible anger*
Cyai zon Bruh he didn’t even play Origins. Not here to debate MOTD vs Origins, I’m just saying he never even touched that map
SuperZ 2011 why u talking about origins. I’m not a professional, but I see no origins in this comment😂
Piotrus ._. Idk if you’ve played BO2 dlc, but MOTD and Origins in BO2 were considered some of the best maps in Zombies. I mentioned that map cuz AM said he never played the other dlc maps.
Hahahahaha that’s funny the act man disses motd tim gets triggered 😂🤣
What’s modt?
Sucks you didnt talk about the secret ending were everyone is rocking out to avenged sevenfold
Wait... Really😆
@@earth11116 yes
@@earth11116
ruclips.net/video/zSBpEFZG2M4/видео.html
It's not a secret ending, it just a after-credits scene
mentally insane It’s a secret ending you get for beating the game in veteran I think
oh how the 2025 fictional cold war has aged.
Transit suffered a lot from the tech at the time. They added in the fog, fire, and denizens (the things you have to knife off your face) to slow you down, because the map was so big and innovative, that the last gen literally couldn't handle it.
TheBeast798 ps5 remake should happen
@@jonmeray713PS5, PC, Xbox SX, it would be amazing to see a better version of Tranzit!
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@Shifty Nifty Yeah, they were dreaming to high and so they had to add the fog so you wouldn’t see the loading in. I hope they remaster it without the fog
I remember raging to a lsat target finder. Good times...
My man I used to use AN94 with target finder when I was 8 😂 my stepmom set up the class for me we were such a gaming family back then. Good times
@@PFCZynner That's actually really cool, my grandfather plays Xbox, we used to play gta v together, however i am on pc now so there is a select amount of games we can play, pretty much anyone in my family games apart from my grandmother, my mother used to 1v1 me on (any cod none specific) mw3 most of the time, it was so fun.
LSAT? I haven’t heard that name in years
Fuck bo2 shit game
Lmao that might have been us we were playing CTF and camping on standoff in the spawns with a riot shield, lsat target finder and smoke grenades
When he forgot origins from zombies:
You've pack a puchned your last pack a punch
Edit: jeasus christ how many pepole commented on this,I straight up started a fight in the comments lol
Ikr orgins has simplicity if you want it that way just turn on the six generators and pap is there and getting the staffs aren’t too difficult
@@blankblank5409 couldn't be true(r, is that even a word?) I mean it kicked off the Primis storyline,had a very fun Easter egg ngl, and a very cool setting
This mans not a zombies guy. He’s literally just making zombies sound trash
Hassan Ethar ikr he missed out not playing origins/die rise/buried bo2 zombies were really good
@@bronson3150 I'm not the biggest fan of die rise,the setting of the map is interesting and skybox/sky is beautiful and I like the "falling meteors" effect (the small ones in the sky not the big ones) the wonder wepone is neat but it was made so you can fall of the map easily, some perk spots are annoying and in some cases thay just steel your points,the map is Eh in opnien
Buierd was great, nothing to say
They explain why Josefina was so important to Raul
She was all he had left after their dad died
Act Man, I really enjoyed this video but your points around the 15:20 mark, If you watch the cut scenes/transitional scenes and listen to the dialogue.
The reason Raul has a hatred towards the US is due to the CIA killing most of his family, him only having his sister left. Americans burned a warehouse for insurance money severely burning her. In the mission "Old Wounds", you notice Woods through a grenade, and then a scene of a body bag, The person in the body bag is Josefina. Therefore his last reminisce of sanity taken away from him.
Yes I will agree it is far-fetched but it still makes sense.
I was gonna point this out too. I remember a cutscene in the beginning of the campaign where it showed two siblings escaping a burning house and it’s led on to believe that it’s Raul and his sister as kids
“I didn’t know she was there, David.”
Still it’s a really bad excuse for someone wanting to kill billions
Treyarch: *Made an innovative Call of Duty title*
The Act Man: Nah, I’ll pass.
People: wHAt, InnOvAtiOn?!?! imPoSSibLE
What
Menendaz loves his sister so much because she saved him from a burning building and now the sister looks like a monster because of her face.
I was looking for someone to bring that up. Thanks
The Rando yup
StormFuzion224 Indeed, also because the CIA murdered his father and torched their warehouse which ended with his sister being disfigured from the fire. Also he has his fare share of problems with capitalism and how the rich treat the poor, which is why he did not bomb America or killed the president as he said, but wanted to inspire his movement to rise up against the government
MrVlad4o98 seems family friendly
MrVlad4o98 plus I never knew the cia killed his father, good touch
Black Ops 2 Multiplayer was the only Call of Duty that got me for more than one year. After 2 years we started playing LEAGUE and then everybody got a PS4 and an era came to an end.
Just great memories.