This technically makes the series uncountable.

Which is believable now that its net rivals some real countries GDP.

Well, sitting army.

Some might say thats unfair.

But including a weak soldier in your squad really would cause problems.

And you have to expect problems if you insist on taking a Wii into a combat zone.

And felt like it.

In fact, several maps were just remakes from earlier titles.

At this rate, the series will soon be using hieroglyphics to tell the games apart.

And have enough money to build a solid gold pyramid.

Black Ops IIfollowedModern Warfareinto the future, though there were still plenty of historical missions.

Because 80s conflicts now count as historical, and many of you now feel quite old.

Another interesting stroy was real-life former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega suing Activision over use of his likeness.

The suit was dismissed under free speech laws.

The only common complaint at the time was that the game was too short.

The games marketing was best summarized as Kevin Spacey saturation bombardment.

Overbalancing the traditional movie-you-play fell into something that felt more like a traditional Hollywood blockbuster.

In that you were supposed to just take it no matter how many plot holes appeared.

But they made up for this by adding Bruce Campbell for the Exo Zombies mode.

Because you’re free to improve anything by adding Bruce Campbell.

It was still a great game.

Its just unfortunate it was the direct sequel to two better games.

Though they still included World War 2||as the setting for their Zombies mode.

Unfortunately, those emotions were Dammit, Im still stuck in World War II.

Dont get us wrong, it was a perfectly polished World War II shooter.

And the ting of an ejected M1 Garand clip had never been so perfectly rendered.

A step we took for months, but still.

If you ever want to scare young gamers, tell them you lived in the days of health packs!

A spin-off,Big Red One, experimented with restricting the story to a single squad of characters.

It redefined multiplayer shooting.

It tightened the mechanics like they were an actual gun it was going to bring into combat.

It moved the series out of endless brown mud to active modern theatres.

If it had been any better at shooting, every other game would have surrendered.

It also includes the most infamous setpiece in the series history.

Polished single-player, then-unparalleled multiplayer, everything everyone was expecting and a little bit more.