Dogbert0228
08-31-2003, 02:37 AM
The game looks awesome. I cannot wait. Forget school, church, everything. This game will be my life when it is released.
Activision is working on a new WWII shooter that promises to be an interesting alternative to Medal of Honor. Call of Duty's claim to fame is that it will let you play as three different soldiers: a U.S. paratrooper on D-Day, a member of the British Airborne, and a Russian conscript.
Activision says the use of different soldiers won't just be cosmetic. Senior producer Thaine Lyman says, "The player will be experiencing a different battle style, from the coordinated tactical strikes of the U.S. to British commando raids to the massive Russian ground charges throwing wave after wave of bodies at the enemy. There will be a great variety of missions: huge battle sequences, assault and defense, infiltration, sabotage, stealth, sniper, and several vehicle-based missions, to name just a few."
Lyman says the game's A.I. is an area of major focus. "Both allies and enemies will understand and make intelligent use of cover points, different stances, suppressing fire, squad movement and tactics, leaning, corner behavior, field of fire, visibility, and more. They will look and act like real soldiers in a real war."
Crafting a Medal of Honor-style game with the A.I. of a game like Operation Flashpoint may be a tall order, but the development team has some major street cred. Infinity Ward is comprised of more than 20 former members of 2015, the company that developed Allied Assault.
The game will include multiplayer, but he says it's too early to say what forms that will take. However, Lyman did confirm that Call of Duty, unlike Medal of Honor, will have blood: "We're not intending to glorify violence, but if you want to be realistic, you have to show blood. The animators at Infinity Ward will be conveying the harshness of war through location-based hit, pain, and death animations. It's all a part of the realistic gameplay experience that Call of Duty is about."
Now here's a screenshot that I thought was cool, because it looks like it comes straight from 'Enemy at the Gates' (awesome movie) and the opening battle at Leningrad. There are more screeen shots over at www.computergamingworld.com
http://www.gamers.com/i/pics/1444043.jpg
Activision is working on a new WWII shooter that promises to be an interesting alternative to Medal of Honor. Call of Duty's claim to fame is that it will let you play as three different soldiers: a U.S. paratrooper on D-Day, a member of the British Airborne, and a Russian conscript.
Activision says the use of different soldiers won't just be cosmetic. Senior producer Thaine Lyman says, "The player will be experiencing a different battle style, from the coordinated tactical strikes of the U.S. to British commando raids to the massive Russian ground charges throwing wave after wave of bodies at the enemy. There will be a great variety of missions: huge battle sequences, assault and defense, infiltration, sabotage, stealth, sniper, and several vehicle-based missions, to name just a few."
Lyman says the game's A.I. is an area of major focus. "Both allies and enemies will understand and make intelligent use of cover points, different stances, suppressing fire, squad movement and tactics, leaning, corner behavior, field of fire, visibility, and more. They will look and act like real soldiers in a real war."
Crafting a Medal of Honor-style game with the A.I. of a game like Operation Flashpoint may be a tall order, but the development team has some major street cred. Infinity Ward is comprised of more than 20 former members of 2015, the company that developed Allied Assault.
The game will include multiplayer, but he says it's too early to say what forms that will take. However, Lyman did confirm that Call of Duty, unlike Medal of Honor, will have blood: "We're not intending to glorify violence, but if you want to be realistic, you have to show blood. The animators at Infinity Ward will be conveying the harshness of war through location-based hit, pain, and death animations. It's all a part of the realistic gameplay experience that Call of Duty is about."
Now here's a screenshot that I thought was cool, because it looks like it comes straight from 'Enemy at the Gates' (awesome movie) and the opening battle at Leningrad. There are more screeen shots over at www.computergamingworld.com
http://www.gamers.com/i/pics/1444043.jpg