CoD 4 Visuals - pwn pwn pwn

[Nestor Makhno]

CoD4's Pripyat makes Stalker look like RO. The beginning of the sniper mission there is far and away the most atmospheric thing I have ever played.

The Azerbaijani village is pretty special too.

South Russia next - woo-hoo!

Some of the textures are a bit bumpy-shiney but not enough to ruin superb immersion.

Gameplay is still twitch-fest malarkey bollox tho

 

[SheepDip]

So what I think you're saying is that CoD4 looks better than STALKER, but the gameplay is pants?

Fascinating.

I know which I'd rather play.

Screenies btw?

 

[D3terioNation]

Have you played online yet Nester? I find the gfx even more impressive on multiplayer! Actually runs smoother too!

 

[Conscript]

I played the demo and found the GFX to be a bit too 'soft'. Everything seemed a bit colourful. Wasn't too keen on the linear, scripted gameplay either. Although player animations were fantastic.

 

[Nagels]

Gameplay is still twitch-fest malarkey bollox tho

Agreed, big targets, small maps and lightning speed of foot.
Well crafted game to look at.......RO still wins tho

 

[Soviet]

COD4 graphics are all smoke and mirrors tricks to hide the fact the engine is still a highly modified Quake III.

 

[Sgt.Rock]

I wonder what the graphics would look like if they went to a next-gen engine and put their smoke and mirrors skills to use!

 

[Bluehawk]

John Carmack must be kind of pissed to see people still using his older tech instead of D3 and the upcoming Rage Tech5 thing-a-majig.

 

[Hummer9120]

COD4 graphics are all smoke and mirrors tricks to hide the fact the engine is still a highly modified Quake III.

What is your point?

 

[Soviet]

Point being that if Infinity Ward really wanted to push the boundaries of the the genre, the elaborate cinematic illusions their technology is capable of would fall apart.

Nestor, does COD4 have the same sense of dread, doom and shear atmosphere in the Pripyat level as the final assault with Duty in Stalker? I would have serious trouble believing that. I probably won't find out until the game hits $29.99 on Steam.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

It does not - it has the sense of being a crumbling, ruined, ****ty, Brezhnev-era Soviet town-turned-ghost town.

The ruined apartment block in 'South Russia' when you are chasing Zakhaev's son is very, very convincing - I could almost smell the smouldering polyester curtains. I know a bit (not much) about level design and I would say that the devs sent an art team over to live in Russia for a while.

It's the first non-Russian-designed game that actually appears to be in Russia not some abstract fantasy of what Russia is like.

BTW the entire storyboard of the game appears to have been scripted by Dick Cheney.

Here are some screens:

Getting into Pripyat:

After the 'hit' (coriolis effect ftw):

 

[Polygon]

CoD visuals are fantastic, but for the love of everything that is holy, PLEASE get off the linear, rail story system! I'm tired of feeling like I'm on some kind of modern warfare amusement park ride!

 

[Hummer9120]

Shamelessly stolen from another clans forums.

 

[Reddog]

What I am most impressed by is how well it runs and looks.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

 

[D3terioNation]

What I am most impressed by is how well it runs and looks.

Same here!

I wonder what their secret is, cos all COD games have managed to do this flawlessly!

Some online levels look miles better then CS:Source but runs so much better with sooooo much more going on!

I apsolutly love watching how you were killed. Adds so much more to the fun factor. This is the only COD game I have played online btw!

 

[Coey]

Yeah, CoD games run very well on nearly all systems I've heard. Apart from CoD4 which doesn't even try to run on my machine but there you go. Apparently my card doesn't have the proper alpha channels.

 

[DraKon2k]

Graphics were really good, but now I don't really notice them anymore.

 

[Dcode]

CoD2 at the time in DX9 mode barley ran on anything.

 

[Coey]

Yes, well running CoD2 on a combine harvester isn't advisable.