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Call of Duty 4 Announced
The fourth title in the extremely well received Call of Duty series has been announced. Infinity Ward is now working on Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat . The title will end the series' reliance on the theatre of World War II, and will place gamers into a current-day setting fighting terrorists in the Middle East. While the chance to get away from WWII will be appreciated by game-players, not everyone is happy about that hackneyed title. "What followed [Medal of Honor] were such games as Day of Defeat (Activision, 2003) and Men of Valor (Vivendi, 2004.) Ubisoft briefly bucked the trend, boldly replacing the near-mandatory 'of' with 'in' for its 2005 release 'Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30,' but soon fell right in line with the rest of its industry brethren with the 2006 real-time strategy game Faces of War. Ditto for THQ's 2006 RTS game Company of Heroes. Later this year, retail shelves will be graced with THQ's Frontlines: Fuel of War and Midway's Hour of Victory. (That's why for the last couple of years, we and a number of our peers have jokingly created our own World War II game titles, Mad Libs-style, like Call of Honor, Men of Duty, Company of Brothers, etc.)"
When I first heard they were bucking World War II with Call of Duty 4, I assumed that meant the new setting was Hoth.
Glad to see I was wrong!
With all the anti-war sediment in the US right now, I wonder if good ol' Jack is going to jump on this one too. He could sue saying this game leads to the youth wanting to join up and fight the terrorists, and then they get killed. But maybe not as he has left America's army alone so far...
Is this an article about a new game or how companies name their titles? I can't tell from the summary, but i think that the article might be about how to name a ww2 title.
Cod1 was amazing, cod2 was ok, didn't get cod3, and i'm probably going to leave cod4 on the shelves.
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Shouldn't the summary say "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" and not "Modern Combat?" Battlefield 2 is "Modern Combat" and TFA says "Modern Warfare."
Will there be a PC/Windows port for CoD4? How come CoD3 didn't have one? I loved the first two CoD games. :(
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Sounds boring.
Politics aside, it'd be one hell of a lot more fun to play as an insurgent.
...what a prominent and outstanding plot. middle east, terrorists, WOW...never heard THAT one before. if it has oil in it, i will surely faint in surprise!
Another uninspired 1st person shooter. Extra points for being a sequel.
There is a war going on for your mind.
You never want to engage in modem warfare with NO CARRIER.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
I for one love COD2 (COD3 is console-only). It's a nice FPS title with simple movement controls...run, jump, lay prone, etc...and fairly simple weapon controls...aim, shoot, switch weapons, throw grenade, etc. In general, the set of key combinations that one must memorize is fairly simple.
In contrast, modern day combat titles like BF2 and BF2142 tend to have hundreds of key combinations...so you can, for example, parachute, land, pull out your knife, roll, jump into a chopper, fly the chopper, launch hellfire missiles, open your MRE, eat a cookie, cast magic missile, blah, blah, blah.
Some of us like an old school multiplayer FPS titles with simplistic controls and a world that resets every 15 to 20 minutes...rather than a BF2-like (or WoW-like) quest to amass an array of items (and/or ranks) that give you a disproportionate advantage after spending the better half of your life indoors staring at an LCD...and pounding a custom keyboard with printed overlays.
Oh well, my player's group will keep our COD2 servers running the same way that we keep our COD UO servers running...but sooner or later the guests stop coming and we have to retire the older games and move forward...as we have had to retire our Spearhead and MoH servers. *sigh*
One good exception to the Foo of Bar naming rule (and a damn good game besides) is Tripwire Interactive's Red Orchestra:Ostfront 41-45.
/some/ shooters and you have to account for wind and bullet drop. It also does combined arms (infantry and armor, and soon an anti-tank gun), and VoIP chat is integrated so you can coordinate with your squad online. There's no offline campaign as such, but you can practice with bots just like in Unreal Tournament 2004. The bots are reasonably intelligent, but FFS don't let them drive your tank.
It's a WWII FPS set on the Eastern Front, using the Unreal Engine 2.5. What makes it different is that it tries to be realistic, within reason. No crosshairs, you have to use your gunsights, and it simulates projectile physics, so no insta-hit weapons like
There's also a thriving mod community. Some make maps (10 community maps will be included in the next official update) and some make full mods with new weapons, maps, and sides, like Carpathian Crosses, which includes the Romanians and their equipment.
The game goes for IIRC $20 on Steam.
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i want Call of Duty: Pacific Theatre i want to fight on midway, i want to bomb hiroshima.
I'm waiting for "Call of Duty 5: Republican Chickenhawk".
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IW will not get a single cent from anyone that I know personally.
Some qualifications: I was active as a captain in a gaming clan that held #1 ladder rankings consistantly (Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive, and finally CoD2) in multiple ladders in two respected gaming leagues for several years running. I was very involved in the CoD PC gaming community and spent countless hours of my life involved these games. I state this not as "bragging" but merely to emphasize that I know and understand the original CoD community that put Infitity Ward on the map in the first place.
No one complained (too much) about the single-player aspect of CoD2 (aside from performance issues, buggy code, etc...) even though it was obvious from the first moment that this was a console game ported to PC.
In essence, Infinity Ward basically pissed all over the PC community that made them and laughed all the way to the bank.
After the release of the buggy-as-hell map-pack and Patch 1.3, our clan abandoned the game and rolled those servers back to UT2K4 - a game that may be dated but still kicks ass. Many other clans either dropped out of sight, or went back to playing CoD and CoD:UO - there are still more UO servers than CoD2 servers to this day.
Well, at least 35 people in my clan aside from m
In this version (via a cheat code) you can play the new Senator Reid unit.
... don' get all hot and bothered about it.
He goes around stabbing the troops in the back, all the while screaming "I support the troops that lost the war!!", or alternately "Don't question my patriotism".
It is a joke people
I mean c'mon of almost the whole of the article this is about the word of in the titles of games. Of the all of slashdot slownewsday articles this is the worst of them all.
Day of Defeat came out in 2001 as a free mod, pretty much making it the first and not a copycat.
That Summary was a total TROLL
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Isn't Battlefield 2 a :Modern Combat titled game too?
WW2 first person shooters always make me wonder about something:
...but it seems it does. A regret and revulsion at the acts of war. Once again, please note that this is not the same as the Vietnam war where many of the soldiers in many cases realize how manipulated they were by the usa government, how wrong that war was, how they were the brutal, unjust, invaders who committed horrible attrocities against native population that neither wanted them nor needed them. We are talking about people who fought for their country IN their country, for their lives and for the lives of their families.
... thats a big number ...i wonder whats for dinner ....mmm ham". It is just figures on the TV.
..for sure...this time.
:)
... pressing and holding T A B gave a funny message about another id title Commander Keen if i remember correctly.
The perspective on "great war" (lower case) by common people.
See, my grandparents lived in Poland during WW2 and fought as part of polish resistance. Their perspective of what happened differs vastly from anyone else i have talked to about this. Their recollections, when they were inclined to talk about their experiences were always very guarded, they rarely spoke about what their did, but the impression i always had was one of horror and dread.
Don't get me wrong, they did not sit at home waiting for it all to blow over. They fought, they were members of the resistance. They did what we today see as entertainment. My grandfather once remarked that if you wore two coats of fur you could run in front of "pepesza" (russian el-cheapo submachine gun) and you'd "probably be alright".
When they did speak about their war, they are always saddened, their eyes become downcast. I sometimes get this really strange feeling of regret or embarrassment, of revulsion at the thought that they killed nazi soldiers. It is a little hard to understand perhaps, i mean, that is what war is, nazi soldiers during the occupation of some European countries were absolute animals in so many cases, killing them, in self defense and in defense of your own country, should not create such feelings
Fast forward over 60 years into the future.
"We have no great war", to quote tylor durden. We play computer games where we think nothing of gunning down people in these games. We re-play the D-DAY landing in nearly every signle ww2 shooter! The operation "market garden" is probably the 2nd most popular and GLORIOUS mission in many shooters. Myself, a person from Poland, love playing the d-day maps from German side and sniping/operating artillery then towards the end of the map fighting at close range in the trenches, etc.
We see WW2 as an event to which we have to pay lip service, yes, it was bad, we say without any real understanding really how bad it was. We enjoy these games and think of them as fun adventures. We watch reports of death tolls in Durfur or Iraq or Afghanistan or many other places of conflict and furrow our brow thinking "hey, 95 thats 5 less than yesterday
We start to take "great war" lighter and lighter. "godwin's law" is a common joke, playing as nazis in ww2 shooters is a feature that is pretty much essential from most game titles. Nazi apologizer's and holocaust deniers (seriously wtf), nazi/jew jokes aplenty, etc.
Where is this going ?
Think on this: after WW2, for many many years the sentiment among the people of the world was "never again". As time goes by, we forget the atrocities and horror of a world war. We start to see it more and more often as an adventure, a game almost. This scares me sometimes (no i am not some crusty old fart, i am only 28) because of what it implies for the future. Next time our great leader starts to beat the drums of war, instead of standing up united and saying "oh no you le didnt!" we'll have enough people claiming "wait, did he say we can win fabulous prizes?!" so that these people who are against war will be easily dismissed. Then before you know it we'll be enjoying another great war that will be over by spring
Anyways, back my beloved "murder simulators"
PS, original wolf3d = best ww2 shooter ever
Does anyone else find it extremely tasteless that we entertain ourselves with games about war in the Middle East, at the same time as real people are actually being killed and injured in real fighting there?
If I were an Iraqi, I would probably think: what a bunch of smug, thoughtless bastards.
For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke
I just watched Natural Born Killers and it's only a couple of days after the Virginia Tech massacre. It was a bit tasteless of me, in retrospect, but I don't think I was really insulting the victims.
My feeling is that if we gave every horrible thing happening in the world its proper weight we'd all go mad with grief. People are murdered, raped, starved to death or killed in terrifying and grotesque accidents in their thousands every day. The only way to cope is to trivialise things and distance yourself from them. There's no other way, even if we made the world as safe and pleasant as possible (feed all the poor, spend all our resources on medical and psychological care) then horrible things would still happen every day. We can't stop it, we have to just deal with it.
I am with you on this one. IW will never get another penny of mine.
A lot of this info has been known for a while, GameSpot posted in its rumor about a site that nabbed the info back in November. There's more info about it at GameSpot: http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?t opic_id=25139680&print=1