Escapist News Now: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Announced, Featuring Kevin Spacey

[ExtraDebit]

I was actually fed up with FPS but having avoided the genre for a couple of years I finally bought COD Ghost and it wasn't half bad especially the multiplayer.

However I really think they should change up the railshooter formula in campaign mode....make it more like metal gear 5 and give us some dynamic gameplay for christ sake!...There is a reason why minecraft is so popular, it's because it respect the gamer and give us CHOICE! even if they can't make the game completely dynamic they can at least take it off the rails for a change! dammit!

...knowing how the AAA industry works, pigs will fly before that ever happens.

 

[Objectable]

Eh. Still not as cool as Sean Bean in Train Simulator. Now THERE's celebrity endorsement.
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Also, I do hope the Future Stuff(tm) is more than just one mission gimmicks. I'm looking at you, Digitally Scanned SEAL Team Six dog.

 

[Ambitiousmould]

As cool as some of those things look, I'm absolutely certain that they'll be included for part of a mission and/or a cutscene each. I stand to be corrected, should the situation arise, but I highly doubt it. CoD is just late to the party on everything it does, so maybe rather than playing catch-up and going '*pant* *pant* See...guys...we have mechs and cool gadgets now!' they should jump on ahead and make some innovations of their own. Then again while we're saying what should happen I might as well just say I should win the lottery, and that a magical pixie ocelot should grant me infinite Yorkshire puddings for life, because none of it's going to happen.

 

[LobsterFeng]

I can't wait for Advanced Warfare 2 featuring the Harlem Globetrotters.

I would play it. War has changed, and so has basketball. They are one in the same.

 

[OuendanCyrus]

Why yes, I would like another Advance Wars game please.

 

[Floppertje]

I'm pretty sure I'd be on the evil team in that situation. Yeah, he's kinda brutal about the whole thing, but he's also totally right. I think I'll actually buy this.

 

[andrearene]

No Andrea Rene, it is not "pretty great". It looks terrible with more bland CoD action scenes just with a tinge of desperation driving it to evade the shouts of its detractors.
Like any big name grab this blatent it's just bringing him in hopes that some of his prestige rubs off on them.
For Kevin Spacey he probably did all his lines in the bathroom as he took his poop, because this is just a pay check for him. I can't imagine Kevin Spacey was looking at someone play CoD and thought "Holy cow I got to be apart of that!"

You guys are just impossible to please. If you aren't into over-the-top action military shooters, then yeah, you'll think this looks like hot garbage. But if you like big set pieces, fast-paced shooting, and a general "popcorn flick" nature in your games then it looks pretty great. It's okay if you don't though

 

[Beetlebum]

Huh. There is a difference in games and movies/television shows if you use famous actors. In film and television, paying a lot for a good actor is a good investment since they are a very strong multiplying force and can make an enourmous difference in quality, even if they cost insane amounts of moneys.

In games they take up part of the budget, yet have very little effect on the end result. Good voiceacting can't save a bad game and high actor fees could lead to less focus(read: money) on gameplay, art or QA.

Not saying it'll be a bad game, saying that its a wrong step towards mega-blockbuster games instead of good games.

 

[sageoftruth]

Eh. Still not as cool as Sean Bean in Train Simulator. Now THERE's celebrity endorsement.
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Also, I do hope the Future Stuff(tm) is more than just one mission gimmicks. I'm looking at you, Digitally Scanned SEAL Team Six dog.

That can't be Sean Bean. He made it all the way through the commercial without getting killed by something.

 

[sageoftruth]

As cool as some of those things look, I'm absolutely certain that they'll be included for part of a mission and/or a cutscene each. I stand to be corrected, should the situation arise, but I highly doubt it. CoD is just late to the party on everything it does, so maybe rather than playing catch-up and going '*pant* *pant* See...guys...we have mechs and cool gadgets now!' they should jump on ahead and make some innovations of their own. Then again while we're saying what should happen I might as well just say I should win the lottery, and that a magical pixie ocelot should grant me infinite Yorkshire puddings for life, because none of it's going to happen.

I think it's too late for that. They've definitely fallen into the spectacle trap. Now Activison is literally afraid to do anything that looks less graphically impressive, cool and explodey than the previous game, and when the time comes to actually work on a good story or freer gameplay mechanics, they look at you and go, "Can't you see that I'm busy making my game look pretty?"

 

[Machine Man 1992]

Oh my god people, it's just an announcement trailer. It's going to sell like gangbusters anyway, so I don't know why you all insist on complaining, unless everyone here is psychic and can see the future.

Anyway, this new Call of Duty looks like it's going for the Blops 2 approach, with future gear and a villain who's actually in the right.

 

[jhoroz]

Don't waste a breath mourning the game industry. Every kitten grows up to be a cat. It seemed so harmless at first -loud, violent, lapping up their saucer of mountain dew- but once their claws get long enough, it draws blood. Sometimes from the hands of the consumers that feed it.

For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: Pay or pay more.

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