2007-05-19 16:31:42 NEW Hi-Res Screens Call of Duty 4

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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?i...

Saturday 19-May-2007 2:00 PM The first crop of official Modern Warfare information explodes right in our face
We've seen the trailer, and the silence has finally been broken with the first official details on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

An in-depth preview on Infinity Ward's new game, appearing on PCZone.co.uk, reveales Call of Duty 4's storyline revolves around the machinations of Zakhaev, a Russian ultra-nationalist with aims to bring the Soviet Union back into existence and in the style of his idol, Stalin.

Zakhaev initiates civil war in the Mother Land and, aware that other world powers will attempt to intervene, hatches a trap to tie-down US forces in Middle Eastern country.

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British intelligence, meanwhile, has been tracking Zakhaev and tries to convince the US of the true reason for the Middle East conflict...

Call of Duty's campaign system, essentially playing through a number of small individual and independent scenarios stacked back to back, has been ditched, instead you have two storylines, one played from viewpoint of an SAS trooper and the other a member of US elite fighting force Force Recon, that interweave, with both plots coming together in a climax on Russian soil.

Infinity Ward president Grant Collier explains that the developer really wants CoD 4 "to play out like an episode of 24", and to this end it's been working with TV scriptwriters "who understand how to get a strong, episodic storyline going".

"We're able to have continuous characters throughout the game while being able to change locations," he continues. "In previous games we changed locations through the various campaigns, but you lost contact with all the characters from that storyline. And besides Price and McGregor, do you really remember any of the characters from Call Of Duty? No. Our goal is for you to really get to know these characters, to have an attachment to them, and at the end of the game, remember them."

So, changes in not just setting for the first-person shooter series but in the formula too. But PC Zone says that Modern Warfare still looks and feels like a Call of Duty game, "but in today's world, complete with blinding pace, terrifying weaponry and state-of-the-art technology."

You can read the magazine's in-depth preview online right now on the PC Zone website, and for even more details and exclusive screenshots go pick up a copy of Issue #182 out this coming Thursday, May 24, from shop shelves!

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2007-05-19 23:34:33

Purely fictional setup this time.. interesting. They also ditched the campaign formula. Not sure how I feel about all that. I trust the gameplay though.

To be honest I would have preferred that IW stick to history. They could still manage to do that while moving the series in a more modern direction. There have been plenty of conflicts in this world between WWII and the present, many of them could adapted into an interesting story/campaign. I also loved the history/war channel clips used as cutscenes in COD2.

This sounds vastly different.

2007-05-20 00:46:06

I also like the WW2 setting, but i can understand the switch to a modern conflict. To be honest, CoD was never about gameplay to me, but graphics. It's a straight forward FPS with no tactical elements and easy aiming. The most realistic WW2 game i've played was Red Orchestra. I think BiA3 will be awesome in graphics as well as gameplay. At least for the graphics part MoH Airborne looks really impressive to me.
The competition appears to be really strong, so i can understand why they switch to another combat scenario. On the other side, CoD without the WW2 setting isn't CoD.

2007-05-20 03:44:34

Well it seems to me that more recent historic conflicts don't have the same iconic value of good vs evil, thus making them more sensitive issues to tackle in a pure entertainment medium. At least that's a reason I can think of that most developers seem to avoid them.

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2007-05-20 04:09:23 In reply to SimonM7 (2007-05-20 03:44:34)

2007-05-20 11:19:42

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Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

October 20th 2007 (A good day)

2007-05-20 11:59:42

Link?

Nice checklist
- 60fps
- Explosions can destroy world geometry
- Vehicles have damage areas (?)
- Realistic munition penetration and ballistics

Now where on those gameplay screenshots?

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The fans have spoken. Concerning the graphics of the Halo 3 Beta: "There's so many little effects and things going on that make this game pretty much 2nd only to Gears at the moment."

2007-05-20 12:12:34 In reply to Acert93 (2007-05-20 11:59:42)

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Halle Berry: Delgado i am feeling really reall dirty tonight, shall i call Jessica Simpson for a threesome?

Delgado: HALLE what have i told you about bothering me when i'm playing Mass Effect!!! now get out and dont come back for 2 months!! (Slams door

2007-05-20 12:48:32

Man, CoD is all about the gameplay to me... It's nice and fast and still a bit tactical, teamplay seems to be a big issue in the COD games and that's whats appealing to me....

I also really like the weapons and how u have to "aim down the sights" instead of the reticule shooting, every other game offers... Can't wait what they are gonna give us in the "weapons load-out" department

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2007-05-20 17:10:41

my only downpoint no coop, i think they just lost a big amount of sales by keeping it just single player, playing shooters with your friends online is the way forword imo.

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Halle Berry: Delgado i am feeling really reall dirty tonight, shall i call Jessica Simpson for a threesome?

Delgado: HALLE what have i told you about bothering me when i'm playing Mass Effect!!! now get out and dont come back for 2 months!! (Slams door

2007-05-20 17:17:13

The screens in the new Game Informer look pretty amazing.

2007-05-20 18:18:05

When will it be released?

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2007-05-20 18:19:33

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STREETS OF RAGE
On to another Middle Eastern level, and this time you and the Force Recon squad have to rescue an M1A1 Abrams tank and work alongside it through the tight streets. The action gets more chaotic when the tank rolls over a car, crushing it in real-time, and you enter an area teeming with Al-Asad's soldiers, armed to the teeth with automatic weapons, grenades and RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades, not copies of Diablo).

Explosions now have a physical shock wave - walls collapse sending rubble and dust particles into the air and vehicles can be shot to pieces and will blow up if damaged enough. You can now pick up grenades that have been thrown at you and chuck them back as well, with access to tear gas and flashbangs as well as smoke and frag grenades. The ballistics and impact of every weapon have been accurately modelled too, allowing you to use, say, a heavy machine gun to shoot through walls and ceilings to kill bad guys.

WAR IS PRETTY
Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has really improved visually, as you would expect for any new next-gen game, so you'll be seeing realistic foliage in the Russian levels, gorgeous rippling water, birds and butterflies flying around. If the beautiful terrain wasn't populated with mad Commie terrorists trying to kill you with rocket launchers, you'd believe it was a sneak-peak at a new Elder Scrolls game. Also, to aid your immersion, Infinity Ward have gone further by reducing the amount of HUD information than in other Call Of Duty games - they've got rid of the mini-map in single-player, and information on weapon choice pops up then fades away quickly.

In the final level we got to look at, your character and the Force Recon soldiers go into an area deep in Al-Asad territory to find a crashed helicopter, at night, in hugely dangerous, boggy wasteland littered with war debris and derelict buildings. As with all the levels, it begins with a satellite view of the terrain, which then zooms in quickly to show the battle landscape at eye level, like a military Google Earth.

Amid the intense fighting, Collier demonstrates the night-vision goggles that give you a bright green-eyed view of the ensuing chaos, allowing you to spot targets easily in the darkness.

"We've created new technology to emulate what the human eye sees, so we've looked through real night vision, filmed through night vision, compared the two and then modified it. We've found that eyes and cameras are very different. Also, there's a depth of field system, so when you're staring at someone down a sight, they're in fine detail, but in peripheral vision, you don't really have them full focus. We don't want people to notice, we just want it to feel natural."

Collier also shows the same dark building interiors without night vision, to show how another subtle visual effect is used to further convince the player that what you're seeing is real. "When people move about in low-level light, the human eye can actually pick that up, unless it's pitch black.

Rim lighting is a faint outline of the characters in the darkness, so people can have fun in dark levels, without having to crank up the gamma settings on their monitor."

To finish, we're shown one of the most impressive first-person shooter weapons I've ever seen - a massive rocket launcher that, when picked up, allows you to electronically tag your distant target using the weapon's HUD, then unleash a truly devastating explosion that rocks the environment and kills any living matter within the radius of the fire storm.

HEROIC RETURN
Call Of Duty is back. Modern Warfare looks and feels like a Call Of Duty game, but in today's world, complete with blinding pace, terrifying weaponry and state-of-the-art technology. "You've got that intelligent squad surrounding you, you've got intense firefights where you might get pinned down or you might get flanked," adds Collier. "We really want the player to teeter back and forth between feeling like you're crushing these guys, to feeling like, 'Oh my god, I'm so f***ed'!"

The pacing will also be much more varied than Call Of Duty 2, where the action was ramped up to 11 for most of the levels. "You'll be in Russia doing some spy-type stuff in camouflage suits, then you'll head to the Middle East with squad warfare supported by helicopters, then become a gunner on an attack helicopter, then back to Russia protecting a defector from Zakhaev. COD4 even has back-story missions where you go back 15 years in time for a Highlander-style flashback."

With exciting multiplayer modes already well on the way and a single-player campaign that follows the same characters through big trademark action set-pieces in different locations, we're excited. Team this with realistic lighting, AI, weapon ballistics, true physics, mo-cap animation and more gear such as tear gas and thermal goggles, and COD4: Modern Warfare could condemn other shooter franchises stuck in WWII to the history books.

FULL PREVIEW:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?i...

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Halle Berry: Delgado i am feeling really reall dirty tonight, shall i call Jessica Simpson for a threesome?

Delgado: HALLE what have i told you about bothering me when i'm playing Mass Effect!!! now get out and dont come back for 2 months!! (Slams door

2007-05-20 21:02:18 In reply to szaromir (2007-05-20 18:18:05)

2007-05-22 00:43:33

http://www.cod4forums.com/index.php?showtopic=16

British SAS
single player respawn
60FPS

sounds cool

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2007-05-22 01:10:01

Respawns.. hope that doesn't take the challenge out of Veteran.

2007-05-22 01:24:12

can a little birdy send me a pm?

2007-05-22 01:33:31 In reply to Broadbandit (2007-05-22 01:24:12)

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"Black people are called coloured, because we come in all colours" - michael jackson

2007-05-22 22:58:07

On-Line Cooperative Play: Play the single-player missions as a team with up to 3 on-line friends.

http://www.cod4forums.com/index.php?showtopic=31

all of the new info, pls let this be the that is true pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Halle Berry: Delgado i am feeling really reall dirty tonight, shall i call Jessica Simpson for a threesome?

Delgado: HALLE what have i told you about bothering me when i'm playing Mass Effect!!! now get out and dont come back for 2 months!! (Slams door

2007-05-22 23:42:01 In reply to dcdelgado (2007-05-22 22:58:07)

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2007-05-23 03:18:03 In reply to dcdelgado (2007-05-20 17:10:41)

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The fans have spoken. Concerning the graphics of the Halo 3 Beta: "There's so many little effects and things going on that make this game pretty much 2nd only to Gears at the moment."

2007-05-23 07:33:17

Co-op in COD could be pretty interesting. I think COD2 had a fantastic single player campaign though. Light on story, but heavy on action and intensity.

2007-05-23 16:10:54 In reply to Acert93 (2007-05-23 03:18:03)

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Halle Berry: Delgado i am feeling really reall dirty tonight, shall i call Jessica Simpson for a threesome?

Delgado: HALLE what have i told you about bothering me when i'm playing Mass Effect!!! now get out and dont come back for 2 months!! (Slams door

2007-05-24 19:44:50

New work in progress screens.

http://www.gameswank.com/content/view/102/2/

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Halle Berry: Delgado i am feeling really reall dirty tonight, shall i call Jessica Simpson for a threesome?

Delgado: HALLE what have i told you about bothering me when i'm playing Mass Effect!!! now get out and dont come back for 2 months!! (Slams door

2007-05-24 21:44:19

Goddamn. Someone needs to learn how to compress JPEGs without all of the artifacts. Those are horrible. Same pics that were in Game Informer, but they're horrible JPEGs.