Tom's Hardware writes:
"Here at Tom's Games we're big fans of Infinity Ward and Call of Duty 4 so when the opportunity to interview Robert Bowling - Community Relations Manager at Infinity Ward and IAmFourZeroTwo blogger - at GDC presented itself we jumped at the chance.
We'll give you fair warning, we discuss the end of the game and the fates of certain characters so plot spoilers abound."
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.
Call Of Duty is back with its yearly instalment, but is Modern Warfare 3 breaking new ground, or just a lazy cash grab? The answer may not surprise you in today's review from JDR.
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?
"They'd never handled that much load at once and at any given time we had over 100,000 players playing on PS3."
That's great to hear :) I've always thought 50,000 Max on PS3 but WOW! Guess I was wrong.
Hmmm... I wonder if Socom Confrontation can beat that? ;)
Since when did Tomshardware become a videogame review site? They went from respectable (for the most part) computer hardware review site to a gamer's site? Most interesting indeed.
Actually, if you check the leaderboards, you can see ppl ranked as 'low' as 500k +
So yeah, many ppl got CoD4 on PS3, and many took it online ;)
Will really have to wow me. I've seen some video of confrontation and it does look good. I hope they include escort, and all the other classic objectives that made socom great. No quick sniping ho. COD4 for the meantime is tighter than a knats ass, the ranking system is a #1, the gameplay is real and it just dominates all other combat sims.