Call of Duty: Black Ops II is a
first-person shooter video game,
developed by
Treyarch
and published by
Activision (
Square Enix for
Japan). It was released on
November 13, 2012 for
PlayStation 3,
Xbox 360,
and
Microsoft Windows and on November 18, 2012 in
North America, November 30, 2012 in Europe and Australia for the
Wii U.
Square-Enix
released the game for the Japanese market on November 22, 2012 as a subbed
version. A Japanese voice-dubbed version was released separately on December
20, 2012. The Japanese release of the Wii U port is only the dubbed version
since the console was not available in Japan in November.
Black Ops II
is the ninth game in the
Call of Duty franchise of video games and a
sequel to the 2010 game
Call of Duty: Black Ops. The game was
launched at 16,000 stores worldwide at midnight on November 13, 2012.