With the news that Activision will be announcing the next Call of Duty next week on May 1st, during the 2012 NBA Playoffs (go Sixers!), its time to talk about what I would like to see from a game, that if evidence is correct, will most likely be a sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops. A game that I only had two minor issues with and because of that, I will be focusing only on the multiplayer aspect of the game, and more specifically the only two issues I had with it.

Call of Duty: Black Ops brought some changes to the traditional multiplayer style of Call of Duty, with the introduction of CoD points. This brings me to the first thing I would like to see in Black Ops 2’s multiplayer; the removal of CoD points! These points took away some of the satisfaction that came with leveling up a specific gun until you unlocked the desired attachment. CoD points made it too easy to acquire the attachments like the red dot sight or a fore-arm grip;  things that can make any decent player a serious threat. For Black Ops 2, I would like to see a return to the traditional earning of XP for weapons, as it has always been in the Modern Warfare series.

The other thing that I would like to see brought back to the series’ multiplayer would be a return to how killstreaks used to function. While it was more challenging to get 11 kills on your own, without the assistance of your death dealing killstreaks rewards, the amount of killstreaks available to players was limited because of this. The original Black Ops only offered 15 total killstreak rewards to choose from, compared to the total of 28 killstreak (including the bonus MOAB for 25 kills) split up amongst the different strike packages. If Black Ops 2 were to make the return to the traditional killstreak style, where your attack helicopter kills and so forth are included in your total killstreak, this would allow for more variety in the amount of killstreak rewards available to players.

As long as they fix these two things, and don’t stray to far from Call of Duty’s true form, Black Ops 2 should not only be able to match the enjoyment brought by its predecessors, but also their sales.