Call of Duty: Black Ops II — Steam gift

Call of Duty®: Black Ops II — a Steam gift to your library: branching story, Zombies and a legendary multiplayer

Black Ops II is the entry where the Call of Duty series took a real swing. Treyarch shipped it on November 13, 2012, split the narrative between the 1980s Cold War and a near-future 2025, brought branching choices and multiple endings to the series for the first time, and piled on a standalone co-op Zombies mode plus a multiplayer fans still talk about. Here the game arrives as a Steam gift and binds to your account for good, not someone else's profile.

Story: two eras, one antagonist

The campaign ties generations together. In the 1980s you play Cold War black-ops veterans; in 2025 you play their descendants facing a charismatic terrorist, Raul Menendez. This future runs on drones and automated weapons, and that's exactly the web the enemy turns against humanity. The story isn't a flat corridor — the past explains the motives of the present, and one flows from the other.

Branches and multiple endings

The boldest part of Black Ops II is choice. Who to save, who to trust, how a key scene plays out — it all forks the plot. The optional Strike Force missions, with light real-time strategy elements, feed into the outcome too. Fumble a moment or nail it, and you earn your own ending. For a series famous for tightly scripted set-pieces, this was an unexpected move, and it's what keeps the campaign replayable for years.

Zombies: a game within the game

Zombies in Black Ops II is effectively a separate product under one cover. It moved to the multiplayer engine, which let it push more undead and more players at once. The flagship TranZit map links several locations by bus rides, alongside classic Survival rounds and the Grief mode where two teams sabotage each other. Co-op supports up to four players, and the base game alone is enough to sink many evenings into zombie rounds.

Multiplayer: the Pick 10 and Scorestreak systems

The online side reshaped the series' habits. The Pick 10 system gave you ten slots to spend however you like: more guns means trading away perks, more perks means dropping grenades. The Scorestreak system rewarded not just clean kills but any useful action in a match — captures, team support, recon. Add multi-team matches for three or more sides, and multiplayer became flexible and unforgettable to a whole generation.

Editions: Standard and Digital Deluxe

We deliver Black Ops II as a Steam gift in two variants, and the difference is worth knowing before you buy:

• Standard — the full game: the branching campaign, all of Zombies and multiplayer. Nothing extra to buy to play everything at once.
• Digital Deluxe — the same full game plus a bonus set: the Nuketown Zombies and iconic Nuketown 2025 maps, an exclusive weapon camo, player card backgrounds, the official soundtrack and a token for Call of Duty: World at War.

Common misconception: the four Season Pass map packs are NOT part of Digital Deluxe. If you want the DLC maps too, the Season Pass is bought separately — more on that below.

Season Pass and map packs

The Season Pass bundles four DLC packs released across 2013: Revolution, Uprising (with the Mob of the Dead zombies map), Vengeance and Apocalypse (with the Origins zombies map). Each adds several multiplayer maps and one new zombies map. The key catch: the Season Pass and individual map packs are add-ons — they work only on top of an installed Black Ops II on the same account and aren't a standalone game. So if you don't own the game yet, grab the "Game" or "Deluxe Edition" variant first and add maps later.

Why people still play Black Ops II

Three things keep it alive: a campaign with real consequences, Zombies as standalone entertainment, and a multiplayer many still rate as the series' peak for balance and loadout freedom. Buying Black Ops II as a gift is worth it for the nostalgia and for finally playing the branching story through to every ending. It's light on hardware by today's standards, so it'll run on almost any PC.

How we gift the game through Steam

Delivery uses no keys or codes. You provide your Steam account region and the friend-invite link to your profile — grab it in the client under Friends → Add a Friend → invite via invite link. Place the order and the bot knocks on your friends list via that link, sends the gift and leaves your list after delivery. No manual request confirmation, no Steam Guard, and no site registration needed to buy. Payment works from Russia and the CIS, and order questions go to the site chat. We don't promise a specific delivery time — it's a live service through the bot.

Steam account region and accepting the gift

Steam accepts the gift under two conditions. First, your account region matches the chosen variant's region (visible from the lot's currency). Second, Black Ops II isn't already in that account's library: a gift for an owned game won't be accepted and the money returns to your balance. That second point is the most common reason for a failed gift, so check it in advance. Also make sure friend-adding is allowed in your profile privacy settings, or the bot can't reach you. The game needs no separate promo codes; any active lot discount is already in the price.

More from our range

If you like the military theme but want command over vehicles and infantry rather than a shooter, look at Men of War — a real-time military strategy where every tank, gun and soldier is under your direct control; after the branching drama of Black Ops II it's a fresh angle. And to stay flexible, you can top up your Steam wallet and then buy whatever you want yourself — from multiplayer map packs to entirely different titles. Both are available here, with payment from Russia and the CIS.

🕹️ The whole series

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