Weirdness: Has Call of Duty: Ghosts Given You Déjà Vu?

Well that..... that just seems lazy!

Its a shame that Infinity Ward after claiming they wanted to do something different with Call Of Duty ended up being the same old bone with a new coat of paint.

Oh i'm sorry were you expecting something new and fresh out of COD? Besides that classic Dog, Wolf and Fish AI you have got nothing.

Its lazy. I find the idea of paying homage to something you only created yourself a few years ago to be a tad odd. Then again they've added a game mode with aliens so who knows!?

Why would it be a homage? I just think IW thought they could get away with it.

I'd love to give them the benefit of the doubt, but it seems such an odd scene to pay homage to. I freely admit that I'm not particularly well versed in the franchise history, but is that a memorable and defining scene in MW2? This is very weird indeed.

@get2sammyb I suppose that makes a little more sense. But as you say, it seems like an unwise move for a series so often accused of being too samey.

lol.
yikes.

It's a completely different scene - one has them walking towards a car and one has them walking towards a helicopter, completely different I tell ya

OK not completely different, but just different enough to NOT be an homage. If it was exactly the same the homage theory would fly better.

The footage from Ghosts is clearly clipped in a couple of places so it syncs up with the MW2 video in order to maximise the obviousness that they've directly lifted the animation. I'm voting for no homage, just corner cutting, plain and simple.

IW are doing a great job of making Trryarch/BlOps2 look almost groundbreaking in comparison.

For the record, I had BlOps2, really enjoyed it.

MW2 was a very popular game also COD Ghosts is set in a different universe to Modern Warfare, that video is showing the ending of MW2 and i believe the start of COD Ghosts. Doesn't anyone remember "Ghost" from MW2? as i believe he is in COD Ghosts also , IW are paying homage to Modern Warfare 2 .

@banacheck I'm sure that's going to be the company line. Xbone 720p is an MS exclusive homage to the 360 too...

@KALofKRYPTON
actually the XboxOne cannot pay homage to the 360, thay use the same memory but how it's used is totally different on XboxOne.

@banacheck okaaaaay...
That was a joke. Ghosts only runs at 720p on the Xbone.
The RAM you mean? Same type, DDR3 if I remember, but a lot more of it. It still uses X86 architecture, and ESRAM.
So yeah, maybe look up the words 'homage' and 'facetious'...

@rjejr
disagree , something doesn't have to be exactly the same to be a homage , it just needs be similar enough to be recognised from the thing it's playing homage to .

What's more annoying to me is that MW2 on PC looks better than Ghost on Xbox360. If it's such a "new" engine, why does the MW2 engine (which was a modified Quake III engine... btw) look so much better? This isn't a PC vs Console argument.. this is just purely lazy (or severely miss-managed) developers building inefficient engines.

@nathanuc1988 thought they were still using the same engine and 'improving' it with each game.

@nathanuc1988 @KALofKRYPTON Aye its still IDtech3 at the heart of their engine. Looks nothing like the Quake3 engine anymore but its still there. There was a rumour banding around that they'd switched to Source but that was baloney as you'd clearly see an improvement as its a more advanced engine, even with it being from 2007 Can't beleive these guys are still getting away with using the core of an engine from 1999 (Yes IDtech3 is THAT old)

The original Call of Duty on PC used the Quake3 engine in 2003 and its carried on from there

It's a fair bet that there's very little, if any 'original' code left.
Unless they really want to compete in the same space as Battlefield, they really don't need a new engine. And for a 2 year turn around, the investment in resources could cripple them if it doesn't come together.

Lots of games recycle at least a little bit of animation. But most games don't make it so obvious

They do it to themselves by trying to release a game every year (impossible to produce quality in that time), which is clearly a financial decision by the company. They will keep on churning them out while people keep on buying them. Its that simple.

At the movement they are making billions. Why stop. I wouldn't.

Lol my friend and I were joking about Cod Ghosts today and he brought this up. I didn't think it was real, I thought it was just a joke lol.

@Ginkgo in fairness, it's a game every two years with Infinity Ward and Treyarch taking turns. Still, it's got to be a huge amount of pressure at this point.
It also seems a bit of a shame for a studio to be basically shackled in to making sequels.

@KALofKRYPTON : Fair point. But they do still feel a bit like a production line. At some point they are going to have to take the plunge, throw away their engine and rebuild it for next gen from the ground up as their graphics get further behind. But why stop the train if people keep getting on. Milk that cash cow. It would be business insanity not to.

Well since black ops 2 is the first call of duty i ever game a chance this doesnt bother me! So ghost try to not let me down or i will have wasted a pre-order! =/

Same type, DDR3 if I remember, but a lot more of it. It still uses X86 architecture, and ESRAM.
So yeah, maybe look up the words 'homage' and 'facetious'...

Xbox360 used eDRAM not eSRAM the XboxOne uses,

So each CoD is a grab-bag of the same Lego pieces from 1999/2003 that they combobulate into new ones? Yes.

They've copy pasted the game for years, why not the endings too?