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Oscar-Winning Writer Confirmed to be Working on Call of Duty: Ghosts

Academy-award winning writer of Syriana Stephen Gaghan has been confirmed to be working with Infinity Ward on Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Gaghan was rumored to be working on the game after some teaser images attributed a quote to 'S. Gaghan' but the news was unconfirmed until moments ago when Gaghan himself Tweeted out an update confirming his involvement.

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NYC_Gamer3992d ago

The single player story should be top notch then

Snookies123992d ago (Edited 3992d ago )

Let's hope! MW2 was the last one I played through, it had a great campaign. The ones after that, not so much for me personally... Campaign is the only reason I'd play CoD, as I find the multiplayer quite unimpressive.

-Mika-3992d ago

I had no idea who this guy was but after looking at his IMBD page. I was not impressed.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm...

@ Snookies

You obviously haven't played the black ops game. Their stories are really good. Black ops 2 bad ending was really awesome.

BISHOP-BRASIL3992d ago

@-Mika-

Not impressed here either... I mean, he's not that bad of a writer, but definetely not notable. Syriana is as boring as it gets. He's best works are Rules Of Engagement and Traffic, but he actually had only done the screenplay, not wrote 'em. Everything else is meh...

elhebbo163992d ago

@bishop i dunno, never underestimate someones talent (unless they have a very long track record with mediocre work) this could be his big break if the story is good (if not then oh well).

coolbeans3992d ago (Edited 3992d ago )

I wouldn't be too sure about that. The thing you have to remember about stories for a series like this are almost certainly designed with the set-pieces, locations, and stuff first in mind and then filling them in with context (which will be his job). I'm not 100% sure that's how it's always worked for CoD, but I recall that's how ND operated with Uncharted so I'm figuring something similar here.

The most I can see him doing is making the dialogue decent. The only certain end result of this is really just going to be some more fluff for reviewers to mention WHY the story must supposedly be top notch now when it's released. That could just be me showing my cynical side, but I'm still trying to get over several sites idolizing Alex Garland's input for Enslaved.

RTheRebel3992d ago

Shoot the evil brown guy, then find the Russian who wants to start WW3. Ta Da
AMERRRicCA F* Yea

_QQ_3992d ago

Naw man COD stories are so deep and innovative.

Kalowest3992d ago

LMFAO, /S at it's best!

PigPen3992d ago

All this teasing, come on with the game so I can distant myself from N4G.

secretcode3992d ago

I'll be honest: When has plot actually effected ANYTHING in a Call of Duty game? All you do is walk to point A, shoot 30 of character B, defend point C, and so on. At best the plot just allows for really neat set pieces and environments. :\

coolbeans3992d ago

I contend there's a few entries that show signs of creativity (to varying degrees). I'll be the first to admit Black Ops' psychological premise is stealing from Fight Club (or whatever came before it), but standing by its ludicrous convictions the whole way through supplied some good twists.

rasputiny3992d ago

very interesting development!

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All Call of Duty Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "Call of Duty has to be the most recognizable franchise on the planet. They didn’t get that way by only making a handful of games.

COD has a long and storied career. Launching as a PC WW2 first-person shooter, Call of Duty has gone through numerous makeovers and been on just about every system. The series has gone through some serious highs and tragic lows. I’ll be looking at each Call of Duty game, the good the bad, and the ugly."

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UnSelf798d ago

Vanguard better be at the fkn bottom. Can’t believe ppl haven’t eviscerated that game with all its lacking

Minimoth798d ago

Yeah, it's close to the bottom. There are a couple of worse ones. Infinite Warfare definitely deserves its place.

KyRo798d ago

There's a number a lot worse than Vangaurd. It's also a lot better than that car crash Treyarch released before it.

XbladeTeddy798d ago

World at War is my favourite. Didn't know the N-Gage had a Call of Duty.

MadLad797d ago

Same for me.
I was never huge into Call of Duty, but I sunk a lot of time into WaW.
Both the campaign and the multiplayer are on point. Wouldn't mind a remaster.

I quit on CoD for a long while. Though I'm the odd man out that actually really enjoyed the campaign for WWII, being I got it through Humble monthly way back when.

TheLigX798d ago

I really enjoyed the Infinite campaign. Multiplayer... not so much.

Yppupdam798d ago

I agree, The Infinite campaign feels more like it's own thing that they slapped the CoD name on. If it stood on it's own, (sans the CoD name) I think it could have been it's own scifi franchise. And a damn good looking game, to boot. I never bothered to play the multiplayer.

victorMaje798d ago

MW 2019 apart from the desastrous file sizes is way better than AW.

MadLad797d ago

That was one I grabbed for Playstation because it pretty much just came out during the Redbox purge of videogames, and I got it for dirt cheap.

It was great coming home to an update every night, and watching one game eat up almost half my console's memory.

Amplitude798d ago (Edited 798d ago )

Will get disagrees but Infinite Warfare campaign was really good. Decent story, set pieces were amazing and if it didn't have the CoD game on it I'm sure people would have been more into it. Advanced Warfare was alright too. Titanfall 2 was just 1000 times better than both but I enjoyed them for their campaigns. I literally barely gaf about the story I'm in it for the set pieces and 5 hours of being stoned watching cool nonsense happen if I'm in the mood to play a CoD campaign. If I'm looking for a deep plot I'm gonna go somewhere else.
Ghosts was the worst story-wise though lol that cliffhanger ending was so bs.

Also MW 2019 was sick and is one of the best CoD games in yeeeears not sure why it's so low on this dude's list. Campaign was great, multiplayer was great and Warzone was fun for a while. Over it now but shrugs.

Beat the Vanguard campaign too but I can't even remember a single thing about it other than that it felt like it was 45 minutes long. Might be the most forgettable thing I've ever played lol just fully erased from my brain

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Call of Duty Multiplayer This Decade Ranked (2010-2019)

Call of Duty multiplayer ranked from worst to best! 2019 is coming to a close and MP1st ranks the best COD multiplayer games this decade.

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Ray Tracing in Monster Hunter World, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Watch_Dogs 2, COD: Ghosts & more

DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s members Benchmark PC Tech, Jose cangrejo, WillTalksTech, Zetman and MissinInAction have published some videos, showing Monster Hunter World, Black Mesa Xen, Watch_Dogs 2, Call of Duty Ghosts, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, The Sinking City, Remember Me, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Dishonored 2 with the ray tracing/path tracing effects that Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod introduces."

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Pyroxfaglover1759d ago

Wore implementation I've ever seen,.. guess it just does not work all that great on every engine

MarkyMark891759d ago (Edited 1759d ago )

Agree, but this gives me hope that one day Ray Tracing can be a software based feature and not require some type of proprietary hardware to achieve. Software will always outpace Hardware so it could happen, but I feel like its going to take a lot more time to achieve the same level that RTX has already shown glimpses of so far. Really just waiting for Cyberpunk to see if RTX is actually something viable. I think if anybody can truly showcase RTX Features it would be Projekt Red.

zeal0us1759d ago

Too bad it doesn't make Mankind Divided a better game.

starchild1759d ago

It doesn't need to, the game was already fantastic, imo.

zeal0us1759d ago

Human Revolution was a better game and not to mention longer.

isarai1759d ago

Reshade is not raytracing, its a screen space post processing effect. Thats like calling SSAO "global illumination"