Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Using Brand-New Tech and a New Engine

[oldtaku]

Who thought the engine was the worst part of Ghosts, seriously? It's the (single player) gameplay.

 

[thom_cat_]

Has CoD sunk so low it is now ripping off Elysium's power armor or is this suppose to be what the military is cooking up in the near future?

Now I'm not fond of CoD or anything that follows this constant repetitive release schedule unless it's episodic content, but calling that a rip off of anything, let alone Elysium, is silly. Powered exoskeletons are an old idea, and like any broad concept it's free to be used by whatever media feels like it.

Start calling things rip offs when they're cloning something directly from something else, not when they're using broad concepts and real mechanical devices as hundreds have before them.

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

Getting the nicest, newest car in the world's not gonna matter much if you keep driving down the same, tired road every year.

And yet Mario 2D platformers have been selling for over 30 years and Madden for over 25 years.

i dont think its a fair comparison you know, mario actually fucking changes

sure they have those 2D platformers, but theres also the 3D platformers, the sport games, the kart racing games, the RPG games, etc


CoD is a bad, repetitive, and unfortunately best selling joke

God dammit you are correct! We need CoD kart racing, RPG and party games this is the way!

id prefer any of the above over yet another extremely uninspired shooter

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

Getting the nicest, newest car in the world's not gonna matter much if you keep driving down the same, tired road every year.

And yet Mario 2D platformers have been selling for over 30 years and Madden for over 25 years.

i dont think its a fair comparison you know, mario actually fucking changes

sure they have those 2D platformers, but theres also the 3D platformers, the sport games, the kart racing games, the RPG games, etc


CoD is a bad, repetitive, and unfortunately best selling joke

Which has nothing to do with the fact that 2D Mario games have been selling for 30+ years, running and jumping while moving to the right over and over again. Sure the power-ups (weapons, perks) change and the levels (maps) but it is the same year after year of copy paste.

again, that might be the case, but the mario franchise doesnt stagnate

im not exactly agaisnt giving people what they want, what i AM agaisnt is eroding the industry with a franchise that doesnt take any risks, and that is only giving away the messages of "its ok to whore out your franchise!", "abusive DLC is the way to go!", "only FPS games sell a lot!", "and only if they have multiplayer!"

some terrible advices the the rest of the industry, atleast the stupid part, is already wrote down

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Shiny graphics are all well and good, but I hope that two-and-a-half years of development meant that the story got a good deal of attention. I know CoD games don't have the greatest story and are often full of plot holes, but I still have fun with them and I'm able to suspend my disbelief enough to not question why Russia is suddenly at war with the entire world, when before it was just the U.S.

But damn did the campaign in Ghosts suck. Boring characters, boring story, boring locations, boring everything. When the 'character death' happened in this one, instead of getting upset and, "Okay, not it's personal," I just went, "Okay, bye." That man was so annoying anyway.
So yeah, the story better be leaps, bounds, entire freaking sky scrapers above Ghosts, or I fear I may actually be done with Call of Duty. Last chance.

 

[truckspond]

If this is ACTUALLY on a new engine then it could be interesting. Heck, they could even release the game in two engines. The old engine for last gen, the new engine for this gen and possibly an option to choose which engine for PC in order to get the most hardware support.

Wait... this is CoD we are talking about here so that won't happen...

Well, as long it doesn't kill the framerate when it has to render more than one person's face like what happens in Pro Evoluton Soccer 2014 then it should be fine.

All of the above aside, I mainly play games for the singleplayer story so I was disappointed with Titanfall because it was multiplayer only. As this campaign looks interesting I may pick it up... unless it's an online multiplayer campaign in which case it gets ignored

 

[Glaice]

Unless they out and say what the engine is, I won't believe them.

 

[garjian]

Looking forward to the even more advanced fish AI this "new tech" can produce.
My sources are telling me that not only will fish swim away to avoid you, they'll also flock to food flakes and eat them. CALL OF DUTY! FUCK YEAH!!!

 

[Dragonlayer]

Peanut from Jeff Dunham said it best "Polish a Turd it's still a Turd"

In the trailer when Kevin Spacey was saying how people aren't tolerant and how they don't want freedom and yadda yadda yadda, I wasn't quite sure whether he was talking about 3rd world nations or the foul-mouthed corridor-loving sect of the CoD fanbase.

"Moderators have been trying to install polite manners in the multiplayer fanbase for a decade and it hasn't worked one time. These gamers don't have the most basic building blocks to support polite manners, little things like 'We ought to be tolerant of those beat us in matches', 'We ought to be tolerant of those who like a different franchise to us', that a reviewer ought to be able to give a game a bad score! COD Gamers don't want polite manners, they want kill-streaks, updates and golden guns. And that's where I come in...."

OT

Sounds cool Sledgehammer, looking forward to what you come up with: what I'd like to see are some truly awe-inspiring urban battles with greater freedom of movement. Doesn't have to be completely sandbox, but give me enough detours, side-streets, alleyways and buildings to rampage through while all hell breaks loose and I'll be dead chuffed.

 

[Dragonlayer]

I wish Activision wouldn't announce CoDs until like the day before, so we can just have one compressed "CoD sucks I'm cool because I don't like popular things" thread and then move on instead of going through the motions for half a year every year.

There should be an Escapist drinking game where you take a shot every time you read a positive post about an upcoming COD or Bioware title: it's the best kind of drinking game because you can still legally drive!

Apologies to Yatzhee for stealing one of his lines.

 

[RA92]

In the trailer when Kevin Spacey was saying how people aren't tolerant and how they don't want freedom and yadda yadda yadda, I wasn't quite sure whether he was talking about 3rd world nations or the foul-mouthed corridor-loving sect of the CoD fanbase.

"Moderators have been trying to install polite manners in the multiplayer fanbase for a decade and it hasn't worked one time. These gamers don't have the most basic building blocks to support polite manners, little things like 'We ought to be tolerant of those beat us in matches', 'We ought to be tolerant of those who like a different franchise to us', that a reviewer ought to be able to give a game a bad score! COD Gamers don't want polite manners, they want kill-streaks, updates and golden guns. And that's where I come in...."

Hahaha! That wasn't too bad. Thanks.

 

[Dragonlayer]

In the trailer when Kevin Spacey was saying how people aren't tolerant and how they don't want freedom and yadda yadda yadda, I wasn't quite sure whether he was talking about 3rd world nations or the foul-mouthed corridor-loving sect of the CoD fanbase.

"Moderators have been trying to install polite manners in the multiplayer fanbase for a decade and it hasn't worked one time. These gamers don't have the most basic building blocks to support polite manners, little things like 'We ought to be tolerant of those beat us in matches', 'We ought to be tolerant of those who like a different franchise to us', that a reviewer ought to be able to give a game a bad score! COD Gamers don't want polite manners, they want kill-streaks, updates and golden guns. And that's where I come in...."

Hahaha! That wasn't too bad. Thanks.

*Takes a bow* Glad I could entertain.

 

[Tuxedoman]

I am cautiously optimistic about this game. I've noticed that Call of Duty, like EA and Facebook and many other large companies, get a lot of mindless hate about them. People seem to just attack whatever is put forward rather than actually critiquing real flaws.

I get that you may not like a studio, or a franchise, or a government body, but if you just start going off at EVERYTHING put forward, then it makes the real arguments seem less valid as there is so much noise coming from people just hopping on the hate train.

This was the problem with the Occupy movements, it was the problem with the fan reaction to the Mass Effect ending, and it seems like its the same problem with the newest Call of Duty. Wait for some actual gameplay to come out before calling it an uninspired military shooter, as you never know. Activision's money-fiends will want their cash cow to stay relevant; best way to do that is to actually make a good game.

Oh, and the power armour here seems like its based off of... you know.. the real power armour we have. And that is probably the same source as the power armour in many other near-future games and films.