Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $24.17.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $5.63/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 3870 512 MB, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.
Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II propels players into a near future Cold War
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
July 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $13.19. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 10 in the 8 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $24.17 BANGER line 4 times.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Arma 3 ($29.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Black Ops II ($39.99, scores 65).
74 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
None of the 770 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
7.1 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
52% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
167 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops II scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/202990/call-of-duty-black-ops-iiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 23.
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