Call Of Duty: Ranking Every Game From Worst To Best

2. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2

Black Ops 2 is about as close to reinvention as the Call of Duty series has gotten since the original Modern Warfare. Treyarch took several bold steps forward by introducing a narrative transpiring in both the mid-1980s and 2025, while also throwing in a branching storyline, which would result in a number of different endings depending on the decisions players made throughout the game (usually involving letting someone live or die). Furthermore, gone were the cartoonish villains of the previous titles: Raul Menendez was instead a complex, ambiguous figure, enhancing the feeling that Treyarch were really up to something a little riskier here. That's not all, though: there's the insane Los Angeles-set action of the end-game, the strategic Strike Force mode, and of course, the unique Pick Ten customisation system, which promoted more freedom than ever before. It admittedly didn't feature the series' best assembly of multiplayer maps, though in honesty, that Nuketown 24/7 playlist was enough for plenty of players by itself.