Didn’t see a thread (unless there is one and search didn’t find it) for this.
IGN.com has a trailer up: http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/142220...aw_reveal.html
I’ve enjoyed the COD franchise over the years. I’ve played the first one, COD 2 and COD: Modern Warfare. The latter being intense as hell. But this looks amazing. It’s scheduled release date is Nov. 11, 2008. With this and C&C Red Alert 3 coming out, I know how my winter will be spent!
It uses the same engine at 4 but it’s the developers from 3. That gameplay footage makes the flamethrower look awesome - the hand-to-hand rushes look intense, but reminds me how tired that era is in the genre.
They need to set this apart from the crowd. True, it needs to look good - so give us bloody 1080p - native 1080p this time around. Proper game invite system. Ditch prestige, if you’re going to put in 500+ ranks, do it properly. Allow community maps, skins and character customisation. Actually have some clan features - allowances for clan matches, leagues etc. Fix every problem that Infinity Ward couldn’t be bothered to fix.
Then, Treyarch, we’ll talk. Until then - Call of Duty 3? Remember that? No, neither do I.
Sorry I sound angry - but that fucker was a disaster and this whole thing seems rushed.
Since it’s not the original developers, I’ll skip his shit and wait for the next one, developed by the real team. I’ll entertain myself with some Spore and RA3.
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| Originally Posted by Brendan View Post With this and C&C Red Alert 3 coming out, I know how my winter will be spent! |
And it’s good. So much better than Tiberium Wars. October can’t get there soon enough.
Oh, hey, look! It’s a WW2 FPS! We certainly need another one of those. I hear there’s an obscure part of Guam that hasn’t been displayed in glorious bling-mapping yet. Or something. So, there ya go!
If this keeps up we’re going to get Call Of Duty: Tarawa Day 2 and Medal Of Honor: The Battle For The Kharkov Train Station. Give it a rest please.
Can we at least get [FPS] World War I?
Oh wait, I’ll just play CoD4 because there are times when COD4 > sex. Not many, but damn I love that game.
Every time I hear an announcement for a World War II game I hope that it’s a belated sequel to the brutally underrated Sniper Elite. Such a brilliant, brilliant game that seemed to get completely lost last generation.
I can understand the appeal of World War II to developers, it’s probably the last war which was clearly cut as a battle between good and bad. There’s no need to have shades of grey when you’re dealing with the Nazi’s and those crazy, crazy, harikari happy Japanese.
How would an FPS World War 1 game work exactly? Just spend the majority of the playtime in a trench playing Quick Time Events to stave off trench foot.
I’m sure there’d be moments where you have to put your gas mask on in five seconds or suffer a horrible, brutal death. Speaking of which, the death scenes would be way more horrific.
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| Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post How would an FPS World War 1 game work exactly? Just spend the majority of the playtime in a trench playing Quick Time Events to stave off trench foot. |
That was just on the western front. In other fronts all kinds of cool shit was going down. You could be a Boer scout fighting against the Germans in the jungles of East Africa. Or an Australian cavalryman operating alongside the Arabs against the Ottomans in the Middle East.
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| Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post Every time I hear an announcement for a World War II game I hope that it’s a belated sequel to the brutally underrated Sniper Elite. Such a brilliant, brilliant game that seemed to get completely lost last generation. I can understand the appeal of World War II to developers, it’s probably the last war which was clearly cut as a battle between good and bad. There’s no need to have shades of grey when you’re dealing with the Nazi’s and those crazy, crazy, harikari happy Japanese. How would an FPS World War 1 game work exactly? Just spend the majority of the playtime in a trench playing Quick Time Events to stave off trench foot. |
Wasn’t Sniper Elite a Rebellion (of AvP fame) title? If not, my apologies but I swear I played it. That fucker was pretty tough. Tense too.
Yes it was a Rebellion game and yes it was hard as all fuck. But it was worth it to see Nazi skulls pop like grapes in glorious slow motion.
It was indeed glorious. A next-gen version of this would be welcome - especially in natural settings (SE’s town-settings were terrible). You could have a fucking battle going on around you that would tear you apart if you tried to play it run n gun - and you have a single target who needs to go down. Some higher-ranking enemy guy. Nothing but a compass, a map and a rifle for the hardest difficulty setting.
Basically CoD4’s Chernobyl mission as an entire game. Sign me up!
Treyarch = no thanks
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| Originally Posted by Bees?! View Post Basically CoD4’s Chernobyl mission as an entire game. Sign me up! |
CoD4 has a Chernobyl mission? Damn, I need to play the single player.
All my friends who own 360s and PS3s have basically had them almost solely as CoD4 multiplayer machines since the game was released. Barely any other games get any play time.
Back to WWII with an inferior developer? No thanks. No red dot sites, no airstrikes, no choppers? Again, no thanks. I’m sure it will be a decent game, but after Call of Duty 4 it’s all a big step backwards. Easily the best of the popular current-gen FPS multiplayer games(yes, TF2 is great). I’ve still yet to tire of it.
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| Originally Posted by Nexus-7 View Post CoD4 has a Chernobyl mission? Damn, I need to play the single player. |
It technically has two. One of them (the assassination and escape) is still the only mission I haven’t beaten on Veteran so if that’s the one that all of Sniper Elite is being compared to I’ll be glad I missed it.
No, I was just saying it’d be great to have a next-gen Sniper Elite styled on those missions. Sniper Elite isn’t quite as taxing as Veteran CoD4 Chernobyl.
I just wish it was. I want a fucking hard game for my collection so I don’t finish it before i’ve even bought it.
Imagine the achievements and trophies they could make for it…
There’s hard and there’s ridiculous. COD4 Chernobyl was ridiculous. I don’t have the time or the inclination to play the same 3 minute stretch of gameplay for an hour just so I can beat it.
The wait for the pickup was ridiculous. The rest of the mission was sublime. An entire game of it would probably entail a lot of patience and planning, much like the original Commandos games.
Multiplayer beta keys for this went out today. I don’t know what to make of it – it’s basically just a reskinned Call of Duty 4. The only exceptional differences are controllable vehicles, and instead of getting a patrol helicopter as a bonus for kill streaks, you can now call in a pack of vicious hounds to run around the map, biting opponents’ throats.
Even so, if anyone else in here has the beta, I’d love to get some games going.
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| Originally Posted by blunderbuss View Post instead of getting a patrol helicopter as a bonus for kill streaks, you can now call in a pack of vicious hounds to run around the map, biting opponents’ throats. |
Okay, I was skeptical… but that sounds great. All I can think of is the monkeys from that Timesplitters 2 mode, but scary.