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[Nirolak]

I think that'd look a lot better with subsurface scattering.

As it stands he suffers from concrete skin syndrome that was the standard last gen, but doesn't look so hot this gen.

The core asset quality doesn't seem bad, but the material properties don't look good as is.

 

[Orayn]

Kinda hard to make any judgments from just that, but hopefully it's a bigger tech update than Ghosts.

That's a pretty good face guys.

Will they finally take off the shackles that is the Quake 3 engine?

Spoiler

Don't tell me it's heavily modified. I know it is. They still need a new engine and it's more fun to just say it's the Q3 engine.

It's more fun but it's not accurate. That's like saying Valve is still using the Quake 1 engine.

 

[Pachimari]

Wasn't there talk of this being police-centered?

 

[Yasae]

It's now on a three year development cycle since there are three main teams working on it, so that's plenty of time for each team to come up with new tech and stories. Sledgehammer has been free since Modern Warfare 3 wrapped up in 2011.

In other news, it's still the same game it was seven years ago. So there's that.

 

[boredofcanada]

Give me a story I want to care about and characters whose names I will remember when the SP campaign ends.

Hell no give me more batshit insane explosions. The less it makes sense the better.

 

[VisceralBowl]

Wasn't there talk of this being police-centered?

I think that was the next Battlefield game.

 

[jbug617]

So we should be getting the first trailer in a couple of weeks during Eastern Conference playoffs based on what happened in the past.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Rofl

 

[iamthedogethatwatches]

lmao at cod boys seeing a CG image and nutting all over their new keyboard.

how can u possibly get excited over a rinse & repeat?

 

[Grover Cleveland]

Yes, from this screenshot I can positively conclude, without a shadow of a doubt, that that is indeed a man.

 

[RoboPlato]

Looks good to me, aside from the eyes, especially for a game that'll be 60fps. I'm just glad the series is finally getting an engine update after the same one for nearly 12 years.

 

[Gorillaz]

The eyes are definitely "dead"

 

[DrkSage]

Hey guys they posted another picture:

Next gen is here!

 

[chickdigger802]

bets on which rapper is voice acting this fine gentleman?

 

[i3allistic]

i just hope the Maps dont suck ...

 

[Thursday War]

you can almost taste the compression

 

[Orayn]

Give me a story I want to care about and characters whose names I will remember when the SP campaign ends.

Hell no give me more batshit insane explosions. The less it makes sense the better.

I maintain that the best thing CoD could do, in terms of both quality and justifying its silly campaigns, would be to give the audience both of these and make it like The Expendables.

 

[Nzyme32]

Well at least it's obvious where their priorities are. Not a single hint of anything other than graphicz (which doesn't seem to be it's strong suit already), no doubt exactly what the target audience cares for. The only way to get interest from me is to actually show off a completely re-imagined game and gameplay that's actually inovative or at least inspired rather the the tired old drudgery that COD has become

 

[Dr.Schlomo]

bets on which rapper is voice acting this fine gentleman?

Hopefully....

 

[vocab]

Considering you never see the faces up close like in multiplayer...

Is it still on the quake 3 engine. Thats all I need to know.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

bets on which rapper is voice acting this fine gentleman?

http://youtu.be/qKdP-P4_lJw

 

[ReplacementPelican]

Looks... okay? Nothing special but hey ho, COD isn't know for its graphics.

 

[MR ARCADE FOREVER]

Will the next COD be revealed at E3???

 

[TheSeks]

For some reason that close-up is unintentionally hilarious to me.

Gotta show those pores off, NEXT-GEN™ HD.

(When we all know that level of detail won't matter/be in the game)

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Looks good apart from the blank dead eyes =/

 

[Nuke Soda]

Hey guys they posted another picture:

Doesn't swim away, pre-order canceled.

 

[Gorillaz]

bets on which rapper is voice acting this fine gentleman?

Good ol Macklemore will save the day

 

[Gurish]

I think it looks very impressive.
Wonder what photo realistic games everybody are playing that this model is not impressive anymore.
It looks great.

 

[Always-honest]

Another modern military game. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Well... It's a Call of Duty thread after all...

lmao at cod boys seeing a CG image and nutting all over their new keyboard.

how can u possibly get excited over a rinse & repeat?

Well, i guess you just made them a compliment.

 

[ricardokenshin]

Hell no give me more batshit insane explosions. The less it makes sense the better.

michael bay is that you?

Let's hope the single player is a little bit good, like the first call of duty

 

[R3TRODYCE]

Looks decent but then again it's a close up.

 

[TheZink]

Haggard...is that you? A man can dream can't he.

 

[mangochutney]

Wonder how they got hold of that image, he only showed it for a second during the talk.

 

[StoopKid]

Will the next COD be revealed at E3???

15 min demo at Microsoft conference I bet.

 

[SolidSnakex]

In other news, it's still the same game it was seven years ago. So there's that.

They're never going to completely change the formula. It makes no sense for them to do that since the game is still incredibly popular (it sold 9m units in the US alone by the end of last year). But Sledgehammer's game is probably the first shot at something "different" from the brand.

 

[dcelw540]

Wasn't there talk of this being police-centered?

That was the battlefield game, the next cod is supposed to be future warfare

 

[Always-honest]

I think that'd look a lot better with subsurface scattering.

Yes. Tombraider DE really showed how big a difference that makes.

 

[Dr_Biscuit]

I tried to fix it.

 

[jelly]

Doesn't really matter if the rest of game is still same old.

Lipstick on a pig.

Nice to see their trying though.

 

[Samir Sedlar]

I only have 2 simple request from Sledgehammer

1) Forget about Modern Warfare Story, or Reboot it somehow.

2) Make the main character freaking talking, seriously this is so important to me, it's one of the reasons why I love Treyarch CoD's more, Give me a character that is actually human and talks, I don't want to be a freaking floating hands.

 

[Byron Bluth]

Infamous has pretty much set the bar for graphics this gen, at least for me.

Looking at the Watch Dogs videos recently released, and playing Titanfall and such, it just doesn't feel and look the same.

Dat lighting engine

 

[Neuromancer]

Haggard...is that you? A man can dream can't he.

I thought the same thing. =(

Haggard lives on, as a squad mate of mine in CoD Ghosts.

 

[Respawn]

It's now on a three year development cycle since there are three main teams working on it, so that's plenty of time for each team to come up with new tech and stories. Sledgehammer has been free since Modern Warfare 3 wrapped up in 2011.

Well that's good to know. This one had some time to soak in development.

 

[Moaradin]

lol at the IGN watermark

 

[BoosterDuck]

moar dogs pls

 

[MR ARCADE FOREVER]

15 min demo at Microsoft conference I bet.

Maybe they will have titanfall 2 instead

 

[Ghost Rider]

I literally thought "that's odd, what's Denzel Washington doing in COD?"

 

[Creaking]

Beanie doesn't look too futuristic, so I'm gonna say contemporary setting.

Yeah, little bummed on that possibility. Was hoping Sledge would do something a little more wild.

Still, we'll see.

 

[TheRealTalker]

For some reason that close-up is unintentionally hilarious to me.

same lol

 

[AlwaysPlaying]

The whole COD series, no matter if it was MW or BO is something that I have this compulsion to play through the single player campaign, even if I know and have been told that it is complete crap. I feel that I HAVE to play through it once and within a week of release. Usually I wont pay full price for anything, save a few, so its a strage compulsion at that. We shall see if Im wading through crap again with this new title or if the series can come back from the turd that was Ghosts.