Call of Duty: Black Ops II [Standard edition] (Xbox 360)

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New characters include: Section's DEVGRU teammates Mike Harper ( Michael Rooker) and Javier Salazar (Celestino Cornielle), their commanding officer Admiral Tommy Briggs ( Tony Todd), the CIA double agent Farid ( Omid Abtahi), US President Marion Bosworth (Cira Larkin), Strategic Defense Coalition leader General Tian Zhao ( Byron Mann), Tacitus Corporation ex-employee Chloe Lynch (codenamed Karma) ( Erin Cahill). Steven O'Donnell and Stephanie Bendixsen, of Australian video game talk show Good Game, both gave the game an 8.

Unlike past games, weapons in Black Ops II have a progression system, which is used to unlock weapon attachments. These changes were introduced to shift the emphasis towards objective-based gameplay, to reward players who work in teams and to make the game more accessible to new players. The mujahideen then betray the Americans and Zhao, leaving them to die in the desert until they are rescued by two civilians; Mason hallucinates that one of them is Reznov. One missile completely destroys Nuketown and all present, except for one individual, Marlton Johnson, who escapes after hiding out in the site's bunker.IGN editor Anthony Gallegos describes the game as "a good example of how to evolve an annualized franchise". In reality, the escape plan never came to fruition, and Weasel was killed by the other three on New Year's Eve, while the rest were given the death penalty weeks later. Their shaky relationship is further strained when Jason Hudson approaches Mason for an assignment in Angola—Frank Woods and his team have disappeared while attempting to take out an arms smuggling ring; the CIA has already disavowed their actions, but Hudson hopes to rescue any survivors.

The 2025 section of the game features Alex Mason's son David (codenamed Section) (Rich MacDonald) as the protagonist, in which Menendez is plotting against the United States and China, with one of his ultimate goals being to see the United States locked in a new Cold War with China, in revenge for his many misfortunes. The Die Rise map is a larger zombies survival map taking place in two semi-destroyed skyscrapers in Shanghai, where one to four players use elevators to travel between floors. Whereas players still receive in-game rewards, these are unlocked by performing certain actions – such as killing other players, successfully capturing territory, and so on – rather than simply killing other players.

Strike Force missions allow the player to control a number of different war assets, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, jet fighters and robots. Not all of them paid off, but knowing that the team was willing to eschew the safe route helped ward off any stagnation that may have begun to creep into the series as of late. By this time, Group 935's operatives have been wiped out, and Maxis himself was lobotomized when he began to turn into a zombie. A war track pack containing a selection of Black Ops II songs is featured in Black Ops Cold War's season two battle pass.