John Linneman boots up BLOPs 2 on Xbox One, and stacks it up against the existing last-gen versions of the game.Īs good as it was though, it wasn't perfect, with some stutter and slowdown prominent mostly in the campaign. It ran more smoothly than its PS3 counterpart and absolutely wiped the floor with the lacklustre Wii U release (even in its fully patched form - from which we took fresh captures for this new video). This is perhaps the most technically demanding Call of Duty game of the last generation.Īnd this Xbox One re-release also benefits from being built upon the finest last-gen version of the game available. The scene where you use a wing suit to infiltrate an enemy compound still holds up nicely today. In addition to the 60fps target, the development team introduced new water effects, improved lighting and some other nice features into the mix. It's not a stunning game by modern standards, but Treyarch was pushing the boundaries of its engine back in 2012 when it was first released. It runs at 880x720 on Xbox 360 - which is rather low - but at the same time, its high frame-rate allows the game to hold up better than you'd expect. Sure, stripped down versions of more recent COD games were released on these older machines, but this was truly the last great title in the series produced with last-gen consoles in mind.īLOPs 2 also demonstrates how far we've come in terms of image quality expectations on consoles since its release. It's a fascinating release to go back to, because not only is BLOPs 2 one of the most successful games in the Call of Duty franchise, it's also the last major installment designed with last generation consoles in mind. And not surprisingly, bearing in mind the results of virtually every back-compat title we see these days, Xbox One represents the definitive way to play this library classic - on console, at least. After months of relentless 'feedback' from the userbase, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is finally available for Xbox One users via the wonder of backwards compatibility.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer can rest easy - for now.
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