3rd Person View in Modern Warfare 2?

While live broadcasting a copy of the game someone got it early, he was playing in third person. This very well may be the "big secret" Robert Bowling was hinting at.

The broadcaster was playing OFFLINE...this is not yet confirmed for ONLINE.

Notice the CROSSHAIRS (for COD4 if it were spectator mode they aren't shown).

[The_Darkest_Red]

Are you kidding? There is no way they would put 3rd person view in MW2, the multiplayer aspect of the game would be COMPLETELY different. Everyone who has been playing Uncharted 2 knows what I'm talking about, when you are in 3rd person you can look around corners without actually moving your character to "look" around them. Not to mention you have insane peripheral vision compared to a 1st person game. I refuse to believe this.

Note that I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing to do in a game, I love the multiplayer of Uncharted 2 for instance, but it completely changes the game. You wouldn't even be able to play in 1st person because of the severe disadvantage you would have to cope with.

Maybe if it was only single player it would be a little more believable but I still don't think they will put it in the game at all.

FAKE.

[evrfighter]

um wtf?
spectator?

[WildArmed]

yeah its fake. Look at ths stiff animations + crappy video quality + the speed of those message on the top right screen prove its some1's lame attempt to coz an uproar

[Timesplitter14]

What if it's just a replay feature?

[HolyOrangeCows]

You see their crosshairs in spectator mode in MW2.

[sunnygrg]

Looks like a straight ripoff from the pages of SOCOM.

[redgaurd]

agree this is fake. There is no way they would do this at all!!!

[ZombieAutopsy]

i think 402 just kinda comfirmed it, but who knows.

"Just an FYI, if you're wanting a spoiler free and pure Modern Warfare 2 experience, now would be a good time for a media blackout. #MW2" — fourzerotwo

http://twitter.com/fourzero...

also check out this article
http://www.n4g.com/NewsPend...

[Xbox Avatars Shoe]

This canNOT be true because then what would be the use of the gun attachments like different sites and scopes. What would be the point of attaching the heartbeat sensor or the red dot site if you can't see/use them? If this 3rd person was REAL, everybody would just run around with a silencer and grenade launcher since. Plus, CoD has always been about realism like aiming down the sites as if you were holding a real gun but a 3rd person view would mess that up. Not to mention those animations were crap and if that 3rd person view was intentionally put in place by IW, the animations would be fluid and smooth. The animation when he climbed the ladder was horrendous!

Also, IW has said MW2 will NOT have customizable characters because it's an FPS and you don't see your own character an in FPS. Why would they shoot down a much wanted feature, like customizable characters, for a completely invalid reason? Even if they were hiding the 3rd person view, they wouldn't deny character customization. IW usually doesn't plain-out lie, they say stuff like "You'll have to play the game to find out" or "We're not talking about that right now."

It's not like games cannot be hacked; CoD4 was hacked on PS3 and coincidently the guy in this video is playing on PS3. I'm not saying it's easier to hack PS3, it's just that CoD4 was already hacked on PS3 and MW2's coding can't be much different.

[Xbox Avatars Shoe]

"While live broadcasting a copy of the game someone got it early"

Um, what? Oh, video game "journalism"...

[p0Wer]

It's probably just some cheat that you unlock and can enable after collecting 30 intel within the game. Just like how you could play MW1 in black&white, etc.

IW are NOT stupid enough to put this into multiplayer, at least I think so.

EDIT: http://360.kombo.com/articl...

WTF.

[Madusha]

@Xbox Avatars Shoe:

"Um, what? Oh, video game "journalism"... "

Just so you know...the whole article was written by "tosh61" and he/she does not belong to the YourEMGN staff. Tosh61 needed a website to host this article as his original submission linked directly to a YouTube Video and that is not allowed according to the n4g posting guidelines.

Thanks,
Madusha
Founder of YourEMGN

[mauleriscool]

Here is a video of him playing first person

[prabx]

fast forward to 3:28 & o.0 !!!

Looks like you have to go upto 60 rank level to be able to go to next prestige -_-

[Look_Behind]

I played COD4 in 3rd person by typing
set cg_thirdperson 1 <--- Something like that.
into my gamesave (Its patched now but you can do it in splitscreen).
It looks like this is now an actual option in private match. Hopefully it displays private matches in a list like on RFOM and obviously the host would password it to make private if he wants.

[StanLee]

Sadly, it seems to be true. The problem is, Call of Duty wasn't animated to be a 3rd person shooter so the animations are stiff with character sprites poorly animated. Why this would be compelling to anyone is beyond me.

[aceitman]

its replay mode like uncharted

[Tapewurm]

I hope this is real. I starting liking the tactical shooter genre mainly due to Socom...this will be a welcome change in my eyes. Uncharted 2's multiplayer is a blast, but this could be what Socom: Confrontation was supposed to be (Even though recent patches have made Socom: Confrontation much better than it was at launch). I hope Zipper takes notice and puts 3rd person view in MAG as well. That is if this is true. I know I may be in the minority here with this view, but I simply prefer the option to have the 3rd person view.

[Bits-N-Kibbles]

I'd be more likely to break the bank and buy it if it had online option for 3rd person shooter. Most likely it won't though because MW is too fast pace kill everything before you get killed than tactical 3rd person SOCOM.

If MW2 is anything like COD4 (I'm pretty sure its damn close) then 3rd person probably wouldn't be too good with the gameplay style.

[likedamaster]

Don't get your panties in a bunch, everyone knows this is not what MW2 will be. I thought Crysis would've worked better in 3rd person, personally. But I also thought Red Faction Guerrilla would have been better in 1st person.

[frostypants]

Not sure why anyone is disagreeing with The_Darkest_Red. He's absolutely correct. 3rd person view would completely change the dynamic of the game. It effectively eliminates your ability to ambush or sneak up behind people, because people are no longer restricted to the eye-level viewpoint of their character.

If CoD institutes a 3rd person view, I have no reason to buy it. I play CoD for FPS. Gears on the 360 and Uncharted 2 on the PS3 have the 3rd person aspect cornered. It's just not what people play CoD for, and to institute 3rd person would defy the entire basis of the series. Nevermind that CoD lacks the canned-cover system necessary...

[Christopher]

I think it would be a great option for the single player game. I definitely would only play in third-person if I had the option.

[The Lazy One]

3rd person ruined Ghost Recon. That game was so much fun to play online before they made it 3rd person.

[life doomer]

wtf, this has to be fake.

edit:@The_Darkest_Red, you are fast at editing.

[swiftshot93]

What?!

This cant be the big secret, its TOO damn huge!

I think the secret was that you fight in D.C., this is just....crazy.

[tosh61]

no this is straight from the live stream...screenshotted. I didn't fake this!!

[tosh61]

if you watched the live stream (he ended jsut shortly ago) you saw the 3rd person. ITS REAL.

[Madusha]

...if you say so...

[Skyreno]

>> oh crap ...that guy ls lucky

[tosh61]

did you see the livestream? I don't really want to change the title to "3rd Person View in Modern Warfare 2?" because it IS in it.

[life doomer]

yo momma....

[DavidMacDougall]

This would make the online alot harder. You'll have the kids trying to "Pwn" you and you'll have the slower guys ambushing your using 3rd person.

Might just get this game after all lol

[Klipz-Wish]

It is probably a replay or spectator

[tosh61]

UPDATED WITH VIDEO LINK INSTEAD OF PIC

[euchreprof]

the Xbox 360 version didn't have enough space to fit this feature in, but the PS3 will have the 3rd Person view option.

[Forbidden_Darkness]

wow, that better be single player only though, otherwise it'll ruin the online

[jhooty14]

pleasee i dont want this to be real :(

[KingKionic]

WOW!!!!

[Skyreno]

i think that in multyplayer.... >> oh crap now that sucks

[Skyreno]

now this will make it easy in multyplayer ...if you kow what i mean :(

[chase167]

i hope so

[neonlight45]

I don't believe it because if you look closely at how the camera moves you will see that the entire body moves and in 3rd person view games you can move the camera without moving the body at all.

[stb]

there is a special mode in the game where you can play in 3rd person as well, if you see well, he is recording it with his webcam using youutube service, the reflect in his pc screen in the tv screen just do it for me making it real cus theres a Computer in the Background though, If you watch the screen you can see it.. He had it up while streaming gameplay. , it isnt the standard mode in the main game but for be an extra it is quite cool.

[ZombieAutopsy]

Sent 402 an email asking him to comment about it but i doubt he'll even read it.

[The Hunter]

I Tweet him also on twitter.. I think it is fake, why the hell they choosed for 3rd person view, they killed there own game with that i think!

[ZombieAutopsy]

Yea if they have 3rd person view and its online it could very well kill it for me, I'm not saying that i wouldn't like to be able to play in third person but i wouldnt want 3rd person view aloud in the same games as 1st person it would just ruin the game IMO.

[NecrumSlavery]

The camera is probably either chasing the player by a second user..or...there will be a theatre mode like halo or uncharted

[etownone]

guys that like socom might like this

maybe they will have an option:
multiplayer games in FPview and others in 3rd person view

[del_the_funky]

i agree i play socom and the new one sucks, if its a choice of 3rd and 1st person view and u can switch it i think it would bring more people to the title of the game, plus who would care if you can swicth

[rocky212]

guys this is what the developers use to test the game. they have all sorts of options such as changing camera, removing certain stuff etc. there was a mod on pc cod4 that allowed you to change camera, etc

this isn't part of the real game, its just some dev playing with a different cam angle... lol.

[NoBias]

And if it does happen, I'm sure you'll "forget" to respond to this.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

I really hope to see more 3rd person games come out. Im big into Gears/Uncharted online. Personally was never good at MGS4's lol, but great game. But games like them, I truely dig and would love to see more!

[SynGamer]

3rd person as an option would be great. There are a lot of people (like my girlfriend) who can't play 3rd person because it gives her a headache, causes nausea/headaches, and as a result she misses out on great games like MW1. 3rd person would really open up the game for a lot of people, which would be awesome.

[Basjohn]

I think you mean that she can't play 1ST person?

And while I agree it would add a new perspective (lame pun intended) to the game, multiplayer would really HAVE to group players with similar perspectives together to avoid giving an unfair advantage like a few others here have said.

[SynGamer]

Yeah, I meant to say she get's headaches playing 1st person view games, not 3rd, sorry. I'd love to be able to potentially one of the best games of the year with her but 1st person kills it for her.

[RockmanII7]

I hope this is true. One more reason for me to avoid this game.

[Digital Commando]

People are really stupid aren't they?

[NoBias]

Just remember your comment. It's going to get turned around on you.

Are you really that stupid?

[Stationfan]

I say its spectator mode, you can do the same with Killzone 2,

[MWong]

This can't be real especially for multiplayer. Maybe for single player campaign, but I doubt even then. It would be a cool idea for single player mode. I say it's a fake.

[Ps_alm3k]

looks like i might have to buy this crappy game after all..

[Gago]

thats replay mode you idiots

even COD4 had that

[BaSeBaLlKiD721]

uh well maybe I wasn't aware, but there's no replay mode in COD4

[kaveti6616]

Makes the textures look sharper if you're in third person view. I gotta say, it would be a good move by Infinity Ward if there was a multiplayer mode that allowed for 3rd person POV matches.

[arakouftaian]

it look better then socom, but still socom has better maps
but this could be big

i allways want a 3rd p view in killzone2
spectador mode look soo good in killzone2.

i may nbuy thsi game know day one if this is real

[Sanhlami]

thats freaken cool. I wouldn't mind having a 3rd person online feature to play on MW2. It would have a lot more replayability if it can have the option to change to tps.

[Tdmd]

OMG I so hope this is true!! I wasn't gone pick this game up this year, but if its true I can play in 3rd person view it will be a day one for me!! Please,please, pretty please let it be true! =D

[Ps_alm3k]

F@Q You Activision!!!

and plus one for IW !!!!

Take a look at this !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[BattleAxe]

Looks real to me. If this is the case, then I'm not sure what to think about it. If I want to play a TPS, I'll play SOCOM. Looks like IW might be going the way of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter(console version). If it is a TPS, I might just hold off for a while and get more play time out of Uncharted 2.

[mauleriscool]

If you looked at the playlist picture it has every FPS mode from cod4 but added 2 3rd person modes

[CaulkSlap]

God I hope that's spectator or something. That would ruin the game twice as bad as the consolized PC multiplayer mode. Not buying it for that reason alone.

[villevalorox]

its fake u guys. it's so unpolished to be real. the character moves like an oblivion person. and he was sliding on a ladder in another one of his vids. it's something like playback, if it is 3rd person then tht really is crappy and unpolished.. lame

[Ps_alm3k]

from a fps view of the next guy running like that, ........
its the same...right?

[Idle h4nds]

I was looking on the IW forums and ppl are saying that TPS mode is in but only for certain playlists. They also have the classic FPS only playlist's available but you can not toggle TP and FP while in game.

[mauleriscool]

The game is still first person with an extra third person mode

[Ninjamonkey]

The creater of the cideo even said right at the atart using a speech bubble "not me playing"

So how is this even news?

[DARK WITNESS]

I think it's fake... but if it were real, the only way I see it working is if it's a game type thats fixed so everyone is in third person.

as many have said, it would change the way the game needs to be played quite a lot. the two different views would not work together.

[mrv321]

Uncharted 2 vs MW2... is now a fair comparison. Oh and Uncharted 2 wins.

[glennc]

not interested in 3rd person for shooters at all.

[Clance]

Boycott!?

[kesvalk]

strange...

perhaps they want to cater to FPS gamers AND TPS gamers

long live tha money!!!

[Wikkid666]

Tech Demo! I know it's a crappy capture, but no one else noticed that there was no AI at all?

[Alcohog]

It could just be an alternate mode in multiplayer, as in 3rd person gametype. Then it wouldn't be a disadvantage versus peeps in the first person view. Its obviously not fake as some of you want to believe, thats just ignorant. You're looking at a goddam video of it in action.

[maverick1191]

nar this looks like spectator view they wouldn't do 3rd person as you can see around corners by moving the camera plus all the MP vids have been in 1st person

[Cajun Chicken]

That's pretty cool. I liked it when Serious Sam offered that kind of choice.

[HeHateMe]

That's just what we need, another game full of corner campers.

[WarPonyDestroyer]

Devs should tweet this today. Crush or confirm please.

[Shrinkwrap]

Nothing unsual about the video makes it fake.

looks like you get to play two diffrent types of modes.

First person and third person matches. ? WOW

Have to admit.. Slick move if this is the case.

I could now believe this will be the largest selling game to date.

Edit. To bad..
After getting a closer look at the video, it appears to be a Replay HUD...

[striped94]

Woe everyone just stop freaking out already. Third person will have its own seperate online game modes. People in 1st person will not be in the same game as people in 3rd person. It's all about giving people a choice. Socom fans may love the 3rd person games, while traditional FPS fans will play the original CoD modes.

[GekkeWouter]

Its a multiplayer mode option: third person Cage match and third person TDM will be implemented in the Multiplayer. (maybe more modes) So an entire server will be 3rd person. if you dont want to play 3rd person, simply dont go into the third person game modes. they'll just be a little extra for who wants to play in third person. So if you play first person, everyone in the server will play first person.

[superrey19]

damn this is surprising, but it seems 3rd person is limited to a specific mode in muliplayer, so its actually kinda interesting to see how that works out. I doubt they were dumb enough to mix 1st person view with 3rd person in the other game modes.

[Tdmd]

I was so excited about this, but now that I've watched the video for a second time, it seams as an really poorly animated TPS and that sucks. Also, if what ppl are saying here is true it will be pretty limited. In less than 24hs this game went from 'meh' to 'absolutly must have' and than back to the 'meh' status again. I hate FPS games. Oh well... it's a shame, it could have been the game I've been waiting for since I got tired of playing MGO.

[ajay_solidsnake]

So this was the surprise IW was talking about ???

[Goomba12]

wow i love when bloggers try hard to get hits. Wish N4G had a better quality control over fake crap like this.

[Violentine]

spectating mode

[HINDERIZATION]

if the player has the option to switch from 1st to 3rd then that would be great. though i prefer 1st person, it would be nice to try out the 3rd person view and take it for a spin. And I have heard that there will be a theatre feature where you can record videos from online and edit them and put them online as well.

[monkey602]

So many people blasting this to hell.

Any of you feeling stupid now that it has been confirmed?

[Miacosa]

looks like a psp version

[Dellis]

Its real confirmed on IGN