Black Ops 2: 10 Reasons To Ignore The Hate

3. The Series Keeps Getting More Cinematic

The scope of the storyline in Black Ops II has you running all over the world, through two (three if you count the Strike Team missions) different story strands. As if that weren't enough, the levels you do fight through are rich with details, as well as action choreography and plotting that makes it feel more like an interactive movie than a simple video game.

Which, basically, is what Black Ops II can be considered: it's a movie where you get to interact with the world and choose your own path, your own course of action, and ultimately your own ending. That's not meant as an insult, as some may tell you that the abundance of cut-scenes and auto-pilot sequences takes away the game aspect and emphasises the movie aspect all too heavily. In Black Ops II, the cinematic like quality makes it easier to get sucked into the stellar story, and play as if your life depended on it.

This has been a long time coming for the Call of Duty franchise, as it's slowly but surely turned itself more into the aforementioned interactive movie format. Even in their advertising campaigns, you see commercials that seem set up to tease the latest blockbuster action franchise, and the sales figures these games rack up only help to bolster the comparison.

This leads to more care and crafting being put into the final product, turning the passive medium of a movie into a more interactive (and therefore more readily re-lived) experience in the home. Even the fact that you have so many people who work in the medium of films crossing over into video games speaks to the precedent embellished by games like this that keep turning out a product that is as cinematic (if not sometimes better) of an experience than that of a major film.