Buying Black ops 2 all depends on who you are or how you feel about the franchise. Personally, I believe they are starting to over stretch the franchise. I can easily see this game being the last, well, at least from treyarch.
The thing that changed CoD forever was CoD 4, this mainly started all of their futuristic/more modern things like weapons and all that other shit. But, going future was way overboard, they took a huge risk by trying this and it FAILED. Everything is fucked up. You can't just add 2 weapons and a new scope or whatever "future" things they added and say it's a game based in the future. Honestly, call of duty is terrible, and need to rename the franchise to call of quickscope.
I hate call of duty and will probably until a new better one comes out. So yes, its a waste of money and fucking time.
Couldn't have said it better, Cod is a huge fail in gameplay but yet staying on the top because more and more 12 year olds buy the game and like sheep, make the company grow bigger.
Its funny because you guys think its just some twelve year old's buying the game. No there are obviously lots of teens and young adults buying it as well. It sells like crazy and it does for a reason. The gameplay can be simple and a little spammy but (cant believe I am defending CoD) Its probably the best tactical shooting game outside of CS. It requires a hair trigger, alot of looking over your shoulder, and shooting skills to come out on top.
I will also disagree with you on the future part. Treyarch actually tries to do something different when it makes its CoD aka every one they have made so far. They try new things, and try to actually put together a good story (lets not say good, maybe an ok story). My point being, is that what Treyarch has done is much better then what MW2 and MW3 have done, which is to say have an actual story that feels like it has an impact.
I enjoyed Black Ops 1 much better then MW2, and am finding Black Ops 2 enjoyable as well, hell its got Micky Rouke's voice in it (look it up)
I will certainly agree that CoD4 was the height of the series, and nothing beats All Guilled Up, a classic game level in all of shooterdom.
I will also agree that the series is stale, and if much does not change, they might lose their player base. I'll just say this. Something must be working if you are selling 200M games every single opening night. At that rate, they will outsell every Mario game combined.