Eric Hirshberg of Activision just stepped onto the relatively quiet in terms of gaming Xbox One stage to detail the new Call of Duty game – Ghosts, also announcing
Infinity Ward are developing and they’ve moved on from the Modern Warfare series to create this brand new branch of Call of Duty. They’re achieving this with brand new characters, a brand new story in a new world developed with a fresh, next-generation engine, which includes new technology – Sub-D – to improve curves the closer you get, subverting anti-aliasing.
Stephen Gaghan, writer of Traffic and Syriana is on board to make a game involving more “emotional” characters. It starts with the US in disarray and you’ll meet a fresh group of squad members, including a dog that’s on your side.
The multiplayer will have more dynamic maps – even more so than Treyarch’s attempt with Black Ops II, including dynamic moving logs, flooding and the ability to set traps. It will also have the much sought after character customisation.
They showed a visual comparison to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and the visuals have certainly improved – they’ve really improved the arms of the playable character (since that’s what you see) to make it look better. There’ll even be Kinect and SmartGlass support on the Xbox One, as well as the now standard timed exclusive DLC.
Ghosts was then trailered and, while not as action packed or gameplay-focused as previous titles, it all looked very good. Using in-engine footage, the trailer showed America after a major catastrophe, dogs and explosions – not quite different from Modern Warfare, then.
Awayze
Xbox-“2 exclusives a year from the same lame shooting franchises”
gazzagb
The setting reminds me a lot of Homefront, which I thought had one of the best SP’s from a new IP this gen, so no complaints there. From previous experience, IW’s storylines have been fantastic (even if they are a bit ridiculous) and the characters include some that I’ve connected with most in any game. I also like the fact they don’t appear to have gone futuristic, that really put me off Blops2.
Shame we didn’t see any gameplay or a live demo, but I expect they’re saving that for their usual appearance at MS’s E3 presentation.
KeRaSh
They used the word gameplay pretty loosely… It was in-engine footage (and not that impressive…) but it was far from actual gameplay.
maney911
Is it me or are those graphics (I know it’s only a YouTube video) not look very impressive, maybe marginally better than what we get on consoles now. I was expecting a big jump in graphics capabilities, that has not impressed me.
Loxstokk
Sub-D? Getting really bored with studios trying to make gaming tech sound ‘Cool’. Just call it what it is – scaling level of detail by increasing model subdivisions (similar to the new Killzone.
Still, nice to see an evolution of the COD IP, even if it isn’t as much of one as I’d hoped.
Kennykazey
It’s easier during conversation though, isn’t it?
hazelam
a dog, but no women?
customization of everything, except gender.
no so next gen in that department then? o_O
the engine looks good, but the game looks a bit meh to me.
if you like the series i’m sure this’ll be a decent entry though.
and getting a decent writer in couldn’t hurt.
Kennykazey
Women as elite soldiers? Get outta here! :-P
RocketSOL
Everything they showed as being new was only new to the franchise itself and not video games, most of it has been done already in other games! I wasn’t expecting a mind blowing reveal but there was nothing that stood out to me…oh, maybe AI fish…that’s a show stopper. :)
sheepysean13
Is it just me or did they steal mechanics from at least two games? Having a dog companion, such as Fallout or Fable, and the ability to lean and shoot from cover like in Medal of Honor Warfighter…
Kennykazey
Or Killzone 2 *cough*…
UKZ-N3M1515
Dissapointing visuals for a next gen title… And the gameplay will still be the same… And it will still get near record breaking sales.
RudeAwakening
Off topic here but is it my browser or is the site broken, nothing seems to be loading in properly.