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[ManaByte]

This is what Advanced/Infinite Warfare probably evolved from.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[Krappadizzle]

 

[//DEVIL//]

is this supposed to be this year COD ? I am not following what is coming anymore.

 

[calistan]

is this supposed to be this year COD ? I am not following what is coming anymore.

The date on that build says 2011, so it must be some very old version that goit canned.

 

[AJUMP23]

Pretty cool to see gaming history.

 

[bender]

Wish it would have come to fruition as it looks neat and I enjoyed Gun. Neversoft were a talented bunch.

 

[adamsapple]

Neversoft? The guys who made Tony Hawk?

 

[//DEVIL//]

The date on that build says 2011, so it must be some very old version that goit canned.

explains the graphics... but i like what i saw in terms of settings

 

[calistan]

explains the graphics... but i like what i saw in terms of settings

Yeah, I don't really follow the storyline or characters but I'm sure there was a CoD with low gravity stuff at some point. It all kind of blurs into one big mess. If this became Advanced/Infinite War, that would have been the ones with jet packs and wall-running, and micro-transaction taunts from the top three players at the end of each match. I hated those.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

2011? That was the golden years of COD for me at least. Even if Future Warfare would involve anti-gravity gameplay, the games back then were so much better. But I skipped Infinite Warfare as I dont like sci-fi shit. Although I admit I played TF1.

For you younger COD gamers who never played the 360/PS3 gen games, it was way different back then. The games were slower paced, the maps were designed different, guns had probably double the recoil, and aside from map packs that came out for $15 every couple months, there were no convoluted main screens, e-stores, endless mtx, character skins, neon coloured weapon skins or special guests like Lara Croft or Spawn etc..

 

[CamHostage]

Wish it would have come to fruition as it looks neat and I enjoyed Gun. Neversoft were a talented bunch.

I expected it for a second to look like Gun, which could have been cool, but by the timeline, this was long after any experimentation with the CoD formula was allowed. (Anybody remember that Sledgehammer was originally going to do a third-person, Dead Space-like CoD Vietnam, aka CoD: Fog of War? Or remember seeing cut content for CoD Tactics or CoD Roman Wars?)

I like what they were demoing here, but I'm okay with it not being a real game either. (Did this type of sequence not make it into a CoD? I know they did space stuff but otherwise I have no clue how most of these campaigns played out.)

It's just sad that this was how Neversoft ended; the studio was "merged" with Infinity Ward, and they never made a full CoD but also never made their own game after 2010. (2010 was the whole Vince Zampella / Jason West "breach of contract" contract negotiation/firing debacle, and co-founder Grant Collier had left the year before, so Neversoft and other studios must have been tasked with saving the franchise while Infinity Ward figured out what to do with itself, and they just never could go back. Neversoft had also been chopped down already in layoffs that same 2010 when Acti gave Guitar Hero to Vicarious Visions and closed some studios, Neversoft survived the closure cycle but never regained its identity and was dissolved in 2014.)

 

[Magic Carpet]

Got plenty of that low gravity stuff in Borderlands prequel. I think that was around the same time period.

 

[Three]

They probably reused a lot of that work for this sequence in Ghosts

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Neversoft? The guys who made Tony Hawk?

and Guitar heroe

 

[RoadHazard]

Edit: This post broke

 

[RoadHazard]

and Guitar heroe

 

[StueyDuck]

these seems pretty damn deep into production to get shit canned.

Neversoft always getting the ass end of a deal

 

[Mowcno]

That actually looks pretty interesting and pretty good for WIP footage of a CoD game from 2011. Would have been interesting if this had released in 2013 instead of Ghosts.

 

[YOU PC BRO?!]

I’m confused… I don’t see Lara Croft or Lilith in that clip. I thought this was CoD???

 

[Shut0wen]

Actually cant believe how far in development this was

 

[Spyxos]

Actually cant believe how far in development this was

Probably only this short section was playable.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Sub_Level]

Looks pretty generic. Glad they saved the space setting for Infinite Warfare instead. Neversoft had talented folks but quality-wise they peaked at Tony Hawk 3.

 

[DonJimbo]

Is neversoft the same developer whom had that Call of Duty World War game that afterwards became COD4:MW ?

 

[ManaByte]

Is neversoft the same developer whom had that Call of Duty World War game that afterwards became COD4:MW ?

No this would've been their first COD.

 

[DonJimbo]

No this would've been their first COD.

Oh ok but who was the developer their prototype was very promising

 

[wolffy66]

Trash. Just make present day cod

 

[Kuranghi]

Fuck, it... looks cool

 

[rofif]

They probably reused a lot of that work for this sequence in Ghosts

Ghost campaign was weirdly good when I replayed it recently and I remember it was shit on release

 

[BlueLyria]

Ghost campaign was weirdly good when I replayed it recently and I remember it was shit on release

Probably your perception was tainted from the bad MP

 

[rofif]

Probably your perception was tainted from the bad MP

It was also 2014 and disappointing next gen launch if I remember correctly, so ghost was overshadowed.