Infinity Ward lead artist Michael Boon writes candidly about how the studio made Call of Duty 4 one of the best-looking games around. (Trivia: CoD4 characters actually use less polys than CoD2's.)
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
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The original Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 games have been drawing players back in
I really hope we get other activision games on GP soon. My dream would be Scarface but I know the license probably expired
Love me some Scarface! I even bought the comics. Yeah, licensing would probably be an impasse.
I played through Scarface again last year and it still holds up. Such a fun game. I would love for Xbox to get the rights back to remaster Scarface and make a sequel. It sold well and they had plans for Scarface 2, 3, and 4. With how long it takes Rockstar to make games the market is wide open.
That game was so much fun. Expected a cheap GTA clone but it was a good drug empire building game.
They didn't just have plans but there's actual gameplay out there for scarface 2
Seriously man we need games like
True crime
Sleeping dogs
Watch dogs( more like original not legion)
And proper saints row
GTA can’t be the only option we need other games
None of those games had dedicated servers on console in the first place? Were always player hosted. Did something change?
but it wont last long untill compitive games like Assiants creed ect. overrun cod 4, but yet again, 2 different genres
i looks so amazing, that it scared me sometimes lol. i was like, holy moly im at war lol.
"Our tools pipeline, which I complained about as being "rudimentary" during CoD2 development, was actually quite robust by the time we shipped CoD2, and improved significantly during the first year or so of development on CoD4. From the beginning of development, every developer had a 360 test kit on his or her desk, and we could make changes on our PCs and see them in the game on the 360 within 5 seconds."
That's why you gotta love the XBOX 360. Development tools are better than on any other console.
It looks a lot nicer than it really is does because of the 60 fps. It's surprising how much better a game looks at that framerate. However, most environments (some levels don't look so great) look great from a distance, but everything up close has a somewhat flat and printed-like low res texture look. Gears of War is still the best graphical showcase for the system, but I don't understand how these mult-million dollar games don't look as graphically impressive as some smaller budgeted games.
It just feels like that a bunch of these big developers are cutting corners and using alot of last gen models instead of starting from scratch.
The same goes for the new Ratchet. Seriously, walk up to anything in that game and tell me that it looks just as good as it did from a distance. Plus, the interior levels aren't impressive at all. I've played all the Ratchet's and this new game doesn't feel nor look like the graphical overhaul everyone says it is.
No hate. I just think people give too much praise and credit
who thinks COD 4's graphics aren't all that huh? i mean i've heard so much about them and when i got the game and played it i was like, yeah the graphics are great, but not as good as some people say they are. Gears, Bioshock, KZ2 kills it. I have a sony 42' 1080i lcd and all my games look awesome. for those who say to try it on 1080p, my buddy's tv is 1080p and it looks basically the same. don't get me wrong, i think COD 4 is one of the best games around, but the graphics aren't 'OMG AMAZING'.