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EGM Review: Call of Duty: Ghosts (Next-Gen)

Even a billion-dollar franchise like Call of Duty feels pressure sometimes, and this year’s entry, Call of Duty: Ghosts, probably had even more than usual. Fans were concerned about Infinity Ward stepping away from the Modern Warfare series and introducing something new—not to mention rival Battlefield 4 raising the stakes on next-gen with 32-on-32 multiplayer.

imt5583837d ago

Not a single word about framedrops! Odd.

XboxFun3837d ago

7.5 rating and you're concern is the framedrops??

I guess...

MRMagoo1233837d ago

whats wrong with a 7.5? will 7.5 be a concern when ppl review Ryse and give it 5 or 6 ?

5 is an average game, a bad game would be a 3 or 2 maybe even a 4 but 7.5 isnt bad. If Ryse gets a 5 or a 7.5 i will think "well the games average, looks pretty and must be ok to play".

Belking3837d ago

I knew this game wasn't gonna score high. When it was announced that it was 1080p everyone focused on that, forgetting that 1080p offers no advantages and increases the chance of a performance hit. Sony really needs to rethink their mandated policy for 1080p games on their console.

GuruMeditation3837d ago

#1 1080p does have advantages #2 there would be a performance hit, but on a game like COD, it really shouldn't happen at all #3 Sony doesn't 'mandate' 1080p. I'm sure it's a target, but they most certainly aren't forcing any devs to achieve that. So, you know, try harder king of bells.

imt5583837d ago

Wrong! Sony's policy for 1080p is no reason. Reason is that PS4 is capable for 1080p.

B-radical3837d ago (Edited 3837d ago )

Infinity ward got lazy on both versions thats all there is to it

MRMagoo1233837d ago

All versions even pc, but to be fair to them , they are spread out across 6 platforms it really cant be easy to get all that done for release, maybe they should have just pulled back launch for next gen and concentrated on the older platforms first then finished off the next gen ones when they could use the whole team on them.

buynit3837d ago (Edited 3837d ago )

I never heard of sony mandating that... Its not sony or 1080p's fault that the game isnt great its acti. fault they are the ones that have given up on the game..

Ju3837d ago

It didn't get the rating for being 1080, dou...but for being the same ol'.

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BABY-JEDI3837d ago

I'm not a fan of COD. The review score here is purely down to the franchise being the same as it always has been. It looks good, but the gameplay & perks system hasn't really moved on in the reviewers opinion. As for blaming the 1080p resolution. Belking your just plain dumb. I know exactly what your up to troll boy.

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All Call of Duty Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "Call of Duty has to be the most recognizable franchise on the planet. They didn’t get that way by only making a handful of games.

COD has a long and storied career. Launching as a PC WW2 first-person shooter, Call of Duty has gone through numerous makeovers and been on just about every system. The series has gone through some serious highs and tragic lows. I’ll be looking at each Call of Duty game, the good the bad, and the ugly."

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UnSelf819d ago

Vanguard better be at the fkn bottom. Can’t believe ppl haven’t eviscerated that game with all its lacking

Minimoth819d ago

Yeah, it's close to the bottom. There are a couple of worse ones. Infinite Warfare definitely deserves its place.

KyRo819d ago

There's a number a lot worse than Vangaurd. It's also a lot better than that car crash Treyarch released before it.

XbladeTeddy819d ago

World at War is my favourite. Didn't know the N-Gage had a Call of Duty.

MadLad818d ago

Same for me.
I was never huge into Call of Duty, but I sunk a lot of time into WaW.
Both the campaign and the multiplayer are on point. Wouldn't mind a remaster.

I quit on CoD for a long while. Though I'm the odd man out that actually really enjoyed the campaign for WWII, being I got it through Humble monthly way back when.

TheLigX819d ago

I really enjoyed the Infinite campaign. Multiplayer... not so much.

Yppupdam819d ago

I agree, The Infinite campaign feels more like it's own thing that they slapped the CoD name on. If it stood on it's own, (sans the CoD name) I think it could have been it's own scifi franchise. And a damn good looking game, to boot. I never bothered to play the multiplayer.

victorMaje819d ago

MW 2019 apart from the desastrous file sizes is way better than AW.

MadLad818d ago

That was one I grabbed for Playstation because it pretty much just came out during the Redbox purge of videogames, and I got it for dirt cheap.

It was great coming home to an update every night, and watching one game eat up almost half my console's memory.

Amplitude819d ago (Edited 819d ago )

Will get disagrees but Infinite Warfare campaign was really good. Decent story, set pieces were amazing and if it didn't have the CoD game on it I'm sure people would have been more into it. Advanced Warfare was alright too. Titanfall 2 was just 1000 times better than both but I enjoyed them for their campaigns. I literally barely gaf about the story I'm in it for the set pieces and 5 hours of being stoned watching cool nonsense happen if I'm in the mood to play a CoD campaign. If I'm looking for a deep plot I'm gonna go somewhere else.
Ghosts was the worst story-wise though lol that cliffhanger ending was so bs.

Also MW 2019 was sick and is one of the best CoD games in yeeeears not sure why it's so low on this dude's list. Campaign was great, multiplayer was great and Warzone was fun for a while. Over it now but shrugs.

Beat the Vanguard campaign too but I can't even remember a single thing about it other than that it felt like it was 45 minutes long. Might be the most forgettable thing I've ever played lol just fully erased from my brain

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Call of Duty Multiplayer This Decade Ranked (2010-2019)

Call of Duty multiplayer ranked from worst to best! 2019 is coming to a close and MP1st ranks the best COD multiplayer games this decade.

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Ray Tracing in Monster Hunter World, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Watch_Dogs 2, COD: Ghosts & more

DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s members Benchmark PC Tech, Jose cangrejo, WillTalksTech, Zetman and MissinInAction have published some videos, showing Monster Hunter World, Black Mesa Xen, Watch_Dogs 2, Call of Duty Ghosts, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, The Sinking City, Remember Me, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Dishonored 2 with the ray tracing/path tracing effects that Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod introduces."

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Pyroxfaglover1780d ago

Wore implementation I've ever seen,.. guess it just does not work all that great on every engine

MarkyMark891780d ago (Edited 1780d ago )

Agree, but this gives me hope that one day Ray Tracing can be a software based feature and not require some type of proprietary hardware to achieve. Software will always outpace Hardware so it could happen, but I feel like its going to take a lot more time to achieve the same level that RTX has already shown glimpses of so far. Really just waiting for Cyberpunk to see if RTX is actually something viable. I think if anybody can truly showcase RTX Features it would be Projekt Red.

zeal0us1780d ago

Too bad it doesn't make Mankind Divided a better game.

starchild1780d ago

It doesn't need to, the game was already fantastic, imo.

zeal0us1780d ago

Human Revolution was a better game and not to mention longer.

isarai1780d ago

Reshade is not raytracing, its a screen space post processing effect. Thats like calling SSAO "global illumination"