Campaign

If you thought the Campaign is innovative, wait till you get a load of the multiplayer. The Create a Class system is now completely gone and replaced by Treyarch’s new Pick 10 system. You basically have 10 points to select what weapons, attachments, perks, lethals and secondary equipment you want. Don’t want to carry a secondary? Drop it and use the point elsewhere, want to go knife only? Grab extra perks and equipment with the points left over! The possibilities are endless, and this new system allows you to completely customize your class and tailor them around specific game modes.

Now that’s not all that has been changed, the Perks has received a major makeover. Long gone are the pro perks and perks which affect your guns, yes perks like Sleight of Hand and QuickDraw are no longer perks and have been moved to the weapons attachments section. The Pointstreak system from Modern Warfare 3 has also been scrapped and replaced with the Score Streak system, now you get “Killstreaks” by earning points, this greatly encourages players to go for the objective. This will also reduce incentive to play kill only game modes like Team Deathmatch and Free for All. These changes will force slayers and players who want a high k/d to play the objective.

The leveling and Prestiging system has also been changed, in previous games after Prestiging you would lose all your equipment and weapon levels. Now after Level 55 (max level in Black Ops 2) when you Prestige you only lose the equipment you unlocked and not the levels. After Prestiging you also get a Prestige token which you can use to unlock any Pick 10 item forever to use in future prestiges, get a refund of your Unlock tokens or reset your states altogether. After each level up you get an Unlock token, 55 total in each prestige to unlock Pick 10 items during that specific Prestige. This also means that you cannot unlock everything in a single Prestige, giving another incentive to Prestige.