1. No More Philosophising
This is the one Im most excited about. Call of Duty has always been bogged down by some inexplicable desire to be intellectual; whenever you die, there are quotes from Gore Vidal and Albert Einstein. At the end of every mission, your comrades invariably launch into some soul-searching monologue, soliloquising over the horrors of war. What nonsense. This is a game that lets you kill bad guys by the hemisphere-load, and gives you RC car bombs to do it with. You cant have your cake and drop an airstrike on it: none of this chin-stroking and topicality works when you spend most of the game snow-skiing over chasms with a grin on your face. But by dragging Call of Duty into the future, Treyarch is binning realism and letting loose. Its complete fantasy where contemporary and historical settings tempt jarring melodrama, Black Ops IIs future is the perfect place for CoD to get silly, guilt-free. Nukes, lasers and death: its all in the name of fun now Call of Duty has pried off the verisimilitude collar. I cant wait to see what Treyarch comes up with now theyve ditched the pretentiousness. November 13th cant get here fast enough.