Confirming months of rumours, Activision has finally announced the very-expected Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a sequel to Treyarch's last cold war-era outing that will this time take the action to a near-future 2025 setting.

Also as expected, the official release date for what is an annual series anyway is November 13th 2012 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Watch the debut trailer below (or here in our HD video library) and stay tuned for many more details on the next Call of Duty experience later today.

Lol, i thought IW was meant to be modern warfare and Treyarch was meant to be oldschool warfare not future warfare.

f*** this whole game and its 2003 graphics.

Horses! Dubstep!

We Frontlines: Fuel of War now!

lol mechwarriors

I swear it looks like a s***ty bf3

It might share the Call of Duty name but everything Treyarch touches turns to...whats something worse than s***?

Hmm new era was essential, but the old engine AGAIN?! lolol

Looks f***ing awful.

never thought the series shouldve stopped until now

man that trailer looked like s***, what the f*** are treyarch/acti thinking trying to get people pumped for number 13435163 CoD with that.

f***ing lol, how on earth can they call that 2025? do they realise this is 2012, not 1980?

the sharks have been jumped

http://youtu.be/DNE0sg1n8VE

Would be great if they bothered to use a different engine but I would imagine Activision is pulling the purse strings and its cheaper to go with the tech they got to maximise profits. I agree the series should have ended or other developers should have had a go with the IP. I prefer Treyarch over InfinityWard too.

After watching that trailer again anyone else think of Command & Conquer Tiberiam Wars?

probably half the people that say it looks s*** will be in the purchase line at the midnight launches.

probably half the people that say it looks s*** will be in the purchase line at the midnight launches.

This is QGL. Surely not. Maybe if this was the 'epic pr0 xbox aus pwnage' forum that would be the case.

http://xaiax.net/media/public/images/comedy/mw2boycotters.jpg

It might share the Call of Duty name but everything Treyarch touches turns to...whats something worse than s***?

are retarded?
Black Ops was way better then mw2 and mw3.
W@W was an improvement of COD4 not a sideways step like mw2 to mw3.

But this does look like s***.

Yeah, i didnt see any reason for the treyarch hate. I thought both COD5 and Blops were more enjoyable than their predecessor in terms of SP. Blops MP sucked but we all know that and IMO COD5 MP was better than COD4 but thats because i preferred the old school weapons, bigger maps and dogs instead of choppers (f*** the tank noobs though).

I remember the L4D2 boycott group.

i loved Seelow on cod5, snipings was fun

just watched the trailer

+1 looks terrible.

i loved Seelow on cod5, snipings was fun

Hell yeah, that downfall map was f***ing awesome. Also airfield, cliffside, seelow. I was either a m1garand with scope sniper or a mad bunnyhopping mp40 flanker. Best multiplayer of my life.

Ill buy it from a Cdkey site, Not worth paying aussie retail price.

Wtf, looks like they're trying to be Metal Gear Solid or something, that just looks ridiculous

Terminator of Duty: Black rise of the machines ops 2

Are they using the.... unreal engine?

poo

Are they using the.... unreal engine?

Nope. same old proprietary engine they and Infinity Ward (and now Sledgehammer and Raven) been slapping new coats of paint on (in fairness, obviously rewriting huge chunks of) since 2003, It's actually originally id Tech 3 based.

In World at War, they called it IW3.0, in MW2, they called it IW4.0, in MW3, they called it "The MW3 engine", but it's all just an evolution of the same tech that they share between Activision-owned studios.