First Modern Warfare 2 Footage Arrives

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• I think that for some reason, they were holding back on the gore and visceral feeling of the weapons (was... : the archvile
• Bunny Hopping pisses me off. : RookieCAF
• Oh for gods sake don't say that there's bunny hopping in the game! There is, but god help you if you m... : richm74
• The P90 + Doubletap is spamtastic fun. : Dynotaku
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  I actually liked the weapons...they felt a lot better/more fun than the utter shit we got in CS. I hones... : Vorlonesque
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    I totally agree with you there. It's just that the P90 and the RPD seem way too unbalances/too spammy. : UMG
    • In all fairness the P90 is a very fast firing weapon with very low recoil in reality (at the expense of "... : Vorlonesque

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• Looked at least as good to me. : Mad BH
• looked exactly like COD4 to me : quadeh
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  reminding me of the GTA series with its expansion games on the same engine. I wouldn't expect big upgrad... : prokat
  • Don't expect significant upgrades or a new engine until the next console hardware generation. No question... : kungfusquirrel
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  Doesn't really bother me. I'd rather have a rock solid framerate with less than stellar graphics than a g... : pyide
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    That's why you play on PC, and not having to use 4 year old hardware *cough*360*cough* : wreck2
    • I know, but even with highish end hardware a game like Crysis will still suffer from framerate issues at ... : pyide
    • Exactly. : wytefang
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  These days the publishers don't want the PC versions of games looking much better, so don't expect much m... : free2game365
  • Yeah, that's pretty lame - shackled by the functional but unspectacular hardware of consoles. Sigh. : wytefang
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  I'm guessing I am the only one that thought it looked awesome then, I'll even say it. It looked awesome! ... : Durajim
  • Snowmobile's made me think of John McClain in Die Hard 2. :P : wreck2
• Looked exactly like COD4 to me, but 10 seconds of footage is really too minimal to draw any kind of subst... : Milleh

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• Signing this COD4 gun sounds were weak-sauce post. : Priest77

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• COD4 wasn't "photorealistic" but it certainly was immersive. I think that kind of visual appeal does more... : Cruciform
• ARGH I HATE IT TOO!! : soggybagel
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  Ohh noes. It didn't have bloom, hdr lighting, parallax mapping, pixel shader 50, god rays etc. etc. No wo... : TwiiK
  • Sorry, but when a game series has had the same gameplay concepts for years, I expect something a little m... : scary_monster
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  Can you cite an example of how CoD4 was outdated other than Crysis which was killing PCs when it was firs... : Lightzout
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    its outdated because its a heavily modified version of the engine they used in COD2. : Klebold
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      So I guess Bioshock was outdated too for using modified Unreal 2.5 tech? : Wisp!
      • yep : qwplayer
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  Yea, I really hated the player animations and lighting in COD4, they looked terrible online. I think Bat... : phinn
  • I thought CoD4 was awesome, but yeah the animations are absolutely horrible online. Everyone seems to mo... : burning eye
• I'm amazed so many of you can be so judgmental about a full blown game from 10 seconds of footage. : K1Bond007
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  Well visually CoD 4 was really good, it was a lot easier on your hardware, compared to Crysis. As for the... : droveri
  • the underwater stuff is probably just pre-mission in game cutscene. like the helicopter insertion in CoD4 : pyide
  • Maybe than the first Crysis, but Crysis: Warhead looked great and didn't need a lot of hardware power. : gohan2518
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  CoD4 felt more real to me than Crysis did when playing them. Best Graphics, I agree. : eonix
  • My friends and I felt the same way until we played Crysis on Very High with a steady 25-30fps..... : CrabsJarrard
• But "Best Graphics" is not necessarily the use of DX10.1, parallax occlusion mapping and SSAO. That would... : Anchovy
• somehow i dont care... if its as fun as previous games i will still enjoy it immensly : Angry Max
• COD4 wasn't about visual fidelity, it was about the an environment that was immersive in a peripheral sen... : spyrext
• It's not the number of polygons that make a game seem real or immersive, it's the fact that when you're p... : getlefty
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  CoD4 looked great and still does. : Fred Garvin
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    That having been said I really don't feel "best graphics" awards were warranted...though part of the prob... : Vorlonesque
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      I know this is sacrilege to some, but IMO art counts far more than tech. : Fred Garvin
      • I don't entirely disagree...I think they're two different things that happen to be complimentary. Blizza... : Vorlonesque
• Outdated for PC maybe, but it looks great on consoles. : TurtlePerson2
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  The appeal of COD4's graphics to me was really the framerate. To me knowledge, there is not an fps to dat... : at0micgarden
  • Did you know that COD4 runs at a res of 600p (1066x600) on the Xbox 360. Yes, that is ancient resolution.... : scary_monster
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  This "graphics are outdated" bs needs to stop. CoD4 was a critical and commercial success because it was... : mnsnota
  • I pretty much agree...but I do think that part of scary_monster's point was that a lot of people went on ... : Vorlonesque
• There is alot of BS here 1. Higher poly counts can make some it easier to believe whats going on around... : UMG

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• I play my PC games on a 26" LCD with my face approximately 2' from the screen. Big win IMHO. I have a hu... : samduhman
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  connect your PC into your HD TV?? win win : okellyc
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    This is what I do. I've been playing Fallout 3 at 1080p, 4xAA/16xAF, 60fps, on 42 inches of LCD glory. Be... : Rehevkor
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      5.1, big comfy couch, legs reclined. : freakynipples69
      • Yup, that too. : Rehevkor
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      It's great, but what do you do for controls? i tried using a wireless keyboard/mouse while sitting on the... : waxthirteen
      • Use a couple of TV stand trays or heck make a custom keyboard/mouse lap stand for yourself. Now there's a... : bstrad
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  I play on the 360 because I have over a dozen actual friends (as opposed to internet friends) that I play... : getlefty
  • My fiancee sits on my lap when I'm playing games on my computer. Mind you it's not great while playing CS... : bstrad
• A 24" monitor near your face is usually biggger than a 45" TV more far away. Add a comfy armchair, and pc... : Turin Turambar
• Godammit! All valid answers.. : Kolpath
• Both, I'm sure ActiBliz would like your $109.98. : jermm
• 360 has more shackers, better matchmaking, way less cheating. I'm going for 360 for sure :) : pun][sher
• I bought a 28" screen ~ 3 weeks ago i think ... and you can always connect TV's to a PC.. : ClawHammR
• Plug the PC into your T.V. it's an HDTV, you have to be able to. : ElArabDeMagnifico
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  To Kolpath's OP: Considering that a decent-sized LCD monitor (say 22 or 24 inches) is the same as playin... : wytefang
  • Having a Samsung 22" T220, - definitely leaning towards the PC version, - which with a HD4850, - may well... : Kolpath
• I'd say PC. : datim
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  I am going to say xbox360. I owned co4 on both and the PC version was just frustrating. 90% of servers ar... : HisKillSkill
  • maybe they are going to make it more than 12-18 with modern2, that was just my experience with cod4. : HisKillSkill

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• More sand? : comiekazie

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• ModWar2 sounds good to me. : silverback1138
• CoD4:2 : Mad BH
• ModernW : kungfusquirrel
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  I agree MW is mechwarrior, but when was the last time contextual it was used in everyday conversation, mu... : greh kleh
  • I referred to MW4 while playing CS:S yesterday. : AxeMan808
  • MW is not dead man! Its just ... sleeping? : IHATEDUST
• MWar2 :D : Scythe99
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  I'll probably call it Modern Warfare 2. :P : OmegaRed59
  • This. : angry jellyfish
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  Call of Duty... Four. Two. : Whistler77
  • ^^ This is retarded but probably the reason for the re-branding. : IHATEDUST
• COD6. : psamathos
• MWF2 - COME ON, IT'S SIMPLE : Syrek
• MW. Mechwar is Old & Busted : eonix
• I played some of the Mechwarrior games and that wasn't the first thing I thought of when I read MW2. Tho... : TurtlePerson2

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  You're thinking of BF2142. BF2 was desert, jungle, temperate eastern europe, and midwest US during the s... : datim
  • He probably means BC2. : -efx-

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  Rumors are the next COD is Cold War. : M337ING
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    Cold War? What would be the concept? Diplomatically defeating the Russians? : niiftyniichy
    • My understanding was it was going to be in Nam, which happened during the Cold War. : Fenring42
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      there were several wars within the Cold War. You know.. that thing in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Grenad... : K1Bond007
      • Playing the Grenada missions in COD: Cold War would be like playing with cheat codes on. : Floppygrandma
    • It'll mostly involve building lots of ICBMs and waiting for their planned economy to collapse, then disma... : psamathos
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      It dosent have to be historically accurate. What about it being the Cold War becoming hot? : Beady
      • Reminds me of Operation Flashpoint. : gohan2518
  • That would be fucking amazing...I'd pretty much buy any game with such a setting (also, if its cold war, ... : Vorlonesque
• As long as It's Infinity Ward doing it, I'm all over it. : silverback1138
• I wouldn't be so sure. I think they're setting up branches. World at War 2 might be their WW2 line if the... : K1Bond007
• Cold War could work. The SAS guys mention Beirut in passing during the mission to rescue that Russian ... : relaxative
• Yeah that makes sense. I thought when you were referring to the Cold War, you meant on the scale of battl... : niiftyniichy

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  Correct. They dropped it to differentiate the Infinity Ward produced games from the Treyarch ones. I thin... : f1kt1t1ous
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    hahaha, it has been increasingly apparent that IW hates treyarch : retarded talking dinosaur
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      How is that apparent? : mittense
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        well, not necessarily the company, but it seems more than obvious that they resent treyarch's involvement... : retarded talking dinosaur
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          whats the credits song say? : choppp
          • Doesn't say anything. There is no dig at Treyarch that I'm aware of. They didn't even drop the name Call ... : K1Bond007
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            They refer to it as "the third call of duty by infinity ward" : retarded talking dinosaur
            • ...and it is. So what? : K1Bond007

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• That building looked like a McDonalds or something with a DriveThru : johngloid

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  Why wouldn't it use the same engine? They built a good engine and consoles haven't gotten any better. : TurtlePerson2
  • It was an observation : megarust32

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  That would be Tomorrow Never Dies. : NFXFSX
  • Damn it, You are right. I can't believe I messed that one up with the second dumbest Bond movie to probab... : Sailor of Fortune

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• lol what i did took skill. you dont bring a semi auto shotty on block and out score everyone consta... : -=kodiak=-
• I take pride in looking at my radar, figuring out where the enemy are dug in, and tossing a grenade into ... : pupismyname

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• Yep, that's kind of funny, but who cares? It's COD6. : TurtlePerson2

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• I know. Argh. : lightly inclined

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  Or SAS! Lets see that mans handlebar mustache dripping with iced water....... if he survived the last ... : richm74
  • He wasn't shown dead so he's not dead. Both Americans died but the SAS guy was still alive at the end. : getlefty

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• The video came encoded at 60fps. : Nick Breckon
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  Every game since Call of Duty 2 was proprietary tech. They just kept a similar console and interface to t... : M337ING
  • ^^correct answer here : deveus1
  • They still license from id : johngloid
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    The engine is still built from the core of the Q3 engine. : abjectblitz
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      It's not. The redid the engine for COD4. : razlebol
      • I don't buy that, there's... Q3'isms in there.. just like Halflife 2 sometimes has "Quake'isms" : Toraz Chryx
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        Sure they redid it added tons of new features and rewrote other, but the core is still built upon Q3. Can... : abjectblitz
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          Yeah, there were some parts when flying around in a chopper on one of those rail shooting segments, where... : pyide
          • It's like they had an old hammer (the Quake 3 engine). They put a new head on it for Call of Duty 2. Then... : slackshoe
          • personally I always preferred the Quake1'y feel that Half Life and whatnot inherited, Q2 has probably ... : Toraz Chryx
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        If I remember they redid it completely after COD1. : MrLobo
        • They're still using enough to have to have "contains technology licensed from id software" on the box, je... : kungfusquirrel
• Looks as smooth as COD4... : razlebol
• looks like the normal 60fps that CoD console games are known for : Mansmells

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• The hell? : michaelleung
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  Escort mission: safely bring Bristol's baby to the landing pad for extraction. : Wisp!
  • I detect an abortion joke here. : coldfusioncs

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• MW2 = FAPc^2 ? : Kurashu

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• underwater ice : stewballz123