Unfortunately, creativity in the Call of Duty series seems to be a fluke rather than any sort of tradition.
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Unfortunately, creativity in the Call of Duty series seems to be a fluke rather than any sort of tradition.
specialguy
Banned
COD REALLY needs to make the campaign 30 FPS and do a graphics overhaul.
I mean, I used to play the COD campaigns even though they suck (generally I dont do multiplayer in any game), at least the game was pretty. But after BF3 this year, it really looked dated.
I understood them sticking with 60 FPS, as long as the sales were out of this world, why fix what aint broken? But now that sales have taken a small hit, now is the time...
I mean, I used to play the COD campaigns even though they suck (generally I dont do multiplayer in any game), at least the game was pretty. But after BF3 this year, it really looked dated.
I understood them sticking with 60 FPS, as long as the sales were out of this world, why fix what aint broken? But now that sales have taken a small hit, now is the time...
StevePharma
Member
I think you should consider what a 'small hit' in sales means for CoD-numbers
. These games continue to make a profit that is out of this world, there is no way Activision is revamping it. Maybe on the next-gen systems...I dare to state that the CoD-audience at large doesn't care as much about graphical fidelity.
shinobi602
Member
You don't play multiplayer, you thought the campaigns sucked, but still played the "game" just because it was pretty? Lol.
And sales have taken a small hit, what?
I'm not...Treyarch has shown that they're the developer willing to take a risk and try something new with the franchise. I don't really like CoD much, but I do think Black Ops 1 was probably the best the series has been.
OR Civil War maybe? For your "killstreak perk" would be canister shells for the cannons? Wouldn't sell well other than for a gimmick, but then again annual franchises eventually rely on those to sell.
Sephiroth503
Member
Wouldn't be the biggest COD fan, played through all the SP and dabbed into the MP now and then.
Liked how BLOPS tried to change things up a little bit from Modern Warfare and enjoyed that MP alot more than the Modern Warfare offerings.
As someone said, feels like Treyarch try to bring the series forward a bit more than IW, so hopefully this will be good. They have my interest anyway, will follow news on this one.
Liked how BLOPS tried to change things up a little bit from Modern Warfare and enjoyed that MP alot more than the Modern Warfare offerings.
As someone said, feels like Treyarch try to bring the series forward a bit more than IW, so hopefully this will be good. They have my interest anyway, will follow news on this one.
shinobi602
Member
Yes please.
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
Dammit, are these screens real? I'm a sucker for sci-fi so it might pique my interest. Though if this is too "near future" then I could probably ignore it.
Why must every futuristic game either be an extremely near future where not much has changed or a far off future where our rate of technological increase plummets? I want more *pew pew* dammit!
Starfish_Oxide
Member
I bet 1000 internets that there will be aliens involved somehow.
Fake. Easily made in Photoshop we'll start getting a lot more of these type of "leaks" no people have access to the logo.
Come on now, Spielberg didn't write this.
Well if we're comparing campaigns now then BF3 had a really terrible campaign compared to the normal CoD offering.
Starfish_Oxide
Member
Criminal Upper
Banned
I will applaud them for doing more futuristic stuff. Something I've been curious in for a while.
I'd rather they didn't, with the next-generation of consoles on the horizon I would prefer they put work into getting ready for them with an engine that can be sustained properly than trying to get better graphics out of what they have already.
Some people can't see the difference, but I personally love how smooth CoD has been with keeping it at 60FPS and it would be a damn shame if they went against that in the game of graphics.
But can't be Russia/China/Nazis/Terrorists again. Can it?
It's never been China. Even though it's the most likely adversary the US would fight against if a WW broke out. Game devs don't have a lot of balls, so they stick to Russia/terrorists/NK.
Starfish_Oxide
Member
I know but since Homefront did that last year. I decided to throw it in because Treyarch aren't that big of copycats. At least i hope not.
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
BF3 had some cool "gimmick" moments though. I'm not gonna lie, I felt like a bad ass when my jet took off and again when I sky dived into the battlefield. But after the novelty wore off there was nothing there.
Nuclear terror. Either Iran or North Korea. But as with most CoDs you'll probably be fighting a collective of opposing forces.
StevePharma
Member
The flipside is that porting it would be cheap, especially compared to making the Wii version. They really don't have much to lose, but they have a lot to gain from establishing the series on the platform early on if it takes off. No risk, high return. There are good arguments both ways.
Someone will ask in an interview this week, anyway.
Tylahedras
Banned
I so want to it to be China, just once, lets pop that cherry.
Rahxephon91
Banned
Could always be an American civil war.
EYEL1NER
Member
I don't care if they do or not, because I enjoyed the hell out of the BlOps campaign. It was certainly better than the MW2, MW3, and Battlefield 3 campaigns, and on par with, if not slightly better than, Medal of Honor. I guess I would give it the nod over MoH.
A lot of people never even touch the campaign modes in CoD games; I finish the campaign before I even start multiplayer. It's just a hold-over from the period where I didn't play multiplayer games online for about 3 years or so (with the exception of MW2. I never even got to play W@W online).
They aren't some deep games with AAA stories, but I like them for what they are, the same as I liked The Expendables. It's just a couple hours of action, which I sometimes need. The Halo games are too far and few between, so other FPS games have to fill the void (but I am not trying to claim Halo games have the best stories or anything either. I just like the series the best of all the console FPS's out there).
So yeah, I liked the BlOps campaign a lot. And I am looking forward to the Black Ops 2 campaign. I am going to run through it as soon as I get it. And then play the multiplayer, because I will need to rid myself of the memories of atrocious IW-designed MW3 maps.
EvilDick34
Banned
Damn, some people in this thread get super sensitive over opinions that this game has jumped the shark.
shinobi602
Member
IISANDERII
Member
I hope it uses the MW2/3 engine this time, not the one from W@W.
Miggytronz
Member
Im pretty sure they said it was.
You know all the games use the Quake III engine right?
Future US civil war scenario?
Interesting...
OccupyUSA?
It would be interesting if it mirrored the communist revolutions where the poor rose up to seize power from the rich. But that's never gonna happen.
Yeah, I actually want a real future CoD, not just half future. I want laserguns, mechs, zero-g space missions... all the good stuff.
It's modified to the point of it being something else entirely. Infinity Ward worked on different versions of the MW engine with incremental improvements between them.
I would want to play as the rich people in that scenario.
Why? The rich people lose.
Buckethead
Banned
I like the box art.
I will play this video game.
*backs out slowly*
I will play this video game.
*backs out slowly*
not really. q3 engine was the base, but that was a long time ago. treyarch and iw use different versions of the engine. they started with the mw1 engine and developed on their own.
I think COD campaigns are the best BF3 may look great but the campaign sucks.
dragonelite
Member
Would be cool if cod had servers now that bf3 also has them and could be a way to combat against Halo 4
R
Rösti
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Darker version of the cover artwork: http://callofduty.com/etc/designs/callofduty/img/blackops2/bg_body.jpg
Lighter version of the cover artwork: http://callofduty.com/etc/designs/callofduty/img/blackops2/home/bg_home.jpg
This strikes me as nothing special, at least if the game is only available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. If a PC version or Wii U version will be made available I might raise an eyebrow, but as it is now it's just more of the same to me. I find those helicopters in the images Goldrusher posted quite laughable, they look like flying, deformed bicycles.
Lighter version of the cover artwork: http://callofduty.com/etc/designs/callofduty/img/blackops2/home/bg_home.jpg
This strikes me as nothing special, at least if the game is only available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. If a PC version or Wii U version will be made available I might raise an eyebrow, but as it is now it's just more of the same to me. I find those helicopters in the images Goldrusher posted quite laughable, they look like flying, deformed bicycles.
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Call of Brown: Brown Ops II
Infamous Chris
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This.