CoD 4 graphics...
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I finished the game rapidly and am now on typically on boring Veteran, which I am finding rather easy...sort of. I just used the same tactics I used in CoD 2 & 3 - just hold out at a choke point and rush forward like an immigrant at our borders and pray for the 'Checkpoint Reached' notification to appear. I am repeating the same procedures I used previously. I must admit to ranting over MSN whilst chatting to Nokkon because those magical flaming grenades just keep appearing at my feet in the TV studio shoot out. I go prone for 1second to catch a breather, and theres a grenade appears. I hide in a tiny room, and four of the buggers appear. I went through these pathetic motions in CoD 2!
I just cannot find myself liking it. I get angry instead. To me it's just CoD 3.5! The same linear levels, the same stupid AI squaddies who insist on sticking their head out as I line up a sniper rifle shot therefore making the round restart.
Ok so I'm whining on about the game as opposed to the visuals but there's little to say in that area. It just looks poor (yes I have a HDTV). There seems to be a distinct lack of AA in places too. Paprika looked decent in some places and horrible in others. Even GRAW 1 looked better from what I remember.
Oh hang on there's a dog mauling at my neck - Hooray! Something new! Killer K9 units!
I finished the game rapidly and am now on typically on boring Veteran, which I am finding rather easy...sort of. I just used the same tactics I used in CoD 2 & 3 - just hold out at a choke point and rush forward like an immigrant at our borders and pray for the 'Checkpoint Reached' notification to appear. I am repeating the same procedures I used previously. I must admit to ranting over MSN whilst chatting to Nokkon because those magical flaming grenades just keep appearing at my feet in the TV studio shoot out. I go prone for 1second to catch a breather, and theres a grenade appears. I hide in a tiny room, and four of the buggers appear. I went through these pathetic motions in CoD 2!
I just cannot find myself liking it. I get angry instead. To me it's just CoD 3.5! The same linear levels, the same stupid AI squaddies who insist on sticking their head out as I line up a sniper rifle shot therefore making the round restart.
Ok so I'm whining on about the game as opposed to the visuals but there's little to say in that area. It just looks poor (yes I have a HDTV). There seems to be a distinct lack of AA in places too. Paprika looked decent in some places and horrible in others. Even GRAW 1 looked better from what I remember.
Oh hang on there's a dog mauling at my neck - Hooray! Something new! Killer K9 units!
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I was really impressed with a lot of it when my brother bought it round on Christmas Day (and his PS3). Aside from sucking with analogue sticks, and wishing it handled like Metroid, I was thoroughly impressed.
I do see what you mean about the grenades and how linear it can be - I was watching my brother in the TV studio bit (I think, lots of computers, lots of grenades) and every time he died and it reloaded it was just trial and error till he discovered where all the enemies were hiding. Fair enough, you could argue they were in strategic positions, but it very much felt like a game from yesteryear that simply required you to remember a pattern.
Still a bloody enjoyable game though, you miserable git!
I do see what you mean about the grenades and how linear it can be - I was watching my brother in the TV studio bit (I think, lots of computers, lots of grenades) and every time he died and it reloaded it was just trial and error till he discovered where all the enemies were hiding. Fair enough, you could argue they were in strategic positions, but it very much felt like a game from yesteryear that simply required you to remember a pattern.
Still a bloody enjoyable game though, you miserable git!
I tell you, the only bits I actually enjoyed was seeing Paprika and that wheel...for some reason it scares me and lastly the 130 Gunship mission where you bomb nasty evils on the ground below. I thought that was very erm realistic.
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So I got the one game that I had been avoiding handed to be as an Christmas present from my gf. CoD flaming 4.
I've been avoiding it because I tire of it's stupidly scripted gameplay. I hate scripted magical damn grenades that appear at my feet...not one but four of the buggers.
I hate AI enemies that spawn in my face and poke me in the eye so I die. Well you all get my drift. This is a whine thread!
Don't tell me about dullard, ultra tiresome vet mode either. I've done CoD2 (hardest imo) and am stuck on the latter levels on CoD 3 because some pleb can't design a map with enough checkpoints.
Don't tell me about Multiplayer either. I've no interest in playing with 10yr old yanks who insist on telling me who won the damn war when they weren't even conceived. Besides Live is fubar'd.
TO THE POINT FFS I HEAR YOU ALL SCREAM!
Ok...When CoD4 arrived I ignored it and played Mass Effect to the death. I heard all these gamers saying that CoD4 had the best graphics (lols) on the 360. So over Christmas I played my copy...and finished it in two sittings - in total 4hrs.
Now am I going blind here, because the graphics are frankly crap. What I see is an overhauled CoD 3 with different weapon's and very similar concepts e.g plant a flamin bomb on a tank and run forest gump style. The first few levels looked utterly drab and I actually checked my TV to make sure dynamic contrast wasn't on by accident.
I admit it got better by the time I reached Paprika, but overall I just didn't feel this was anywhere near a 'great' game. It felt like a minor update.
Yes, I'm in a mood. First day back at work and the damn Xmas tree next to my desk has fallen over knocking my cup o coffee onto a few invoices.
dude? the multiplayer is the best team based game ive played on the 360?
The graphics for the 360 look great and the game play is so smooth...
The career is short and sweet and kept me wanting more and it didnt get repetitive!
If the graphics were any better the frame rate would suffer and then you would whine about that???
With some people you just cant win!!!
I think it or Assassins Creed are the best visuals on the console by quite a long way.
You could just set "Voice" to '0' in the options and not hear anyone talking and just play.
The problem you have with CoD4 is that you don't want to like it, this was the case before you played it and it's clearly tainted your view on what is one of the very best games out at the moment and the best multiplayer game on the Xbox360.
You could just set "Voice" to '0' in the options and not hear anyone talking and just play.
The problem you have with CoD4 is that you don't want to like it, this was the case before you played it and it's clearly tainted your view on what is one of the very best games out at the moment and the best multiplayer game on the Xbox360.
That's partially what makes the COD games quite good on vet mode. They sort of force you press on, waiting will cost you - you must have seen that from playing cod 2 on vet. That's one of the slightly bad aspects of halo 3 single player on legendary. yes, its definately harder than other modes, but you can simply sit back and take as long as you need as the enemies don't charge (partially fixed with a skull turned on) and just stand still. More often than not, you can find a nice 'in between' spot where you can shoot the enemies whilst they ignore you. In the COD games I have played you can't do this.
I got to the infamous forest final checkpoint in COD3 (at end of forest level where you have to cross the main road and use a grenade launcher to destroy a road block) and was finding that bit rather annoying , so do take you point about checkpoints. If you die there you have to repeat a good 15 minutes of gameplay - not good game design at all imo.
First of all know that I am very, very patient when it comes to games, even when it comes to graphics. Gameplay (not 4hrs of it) always comes first.
It's hard to enjoy a game when you feel you've been through the motions twice before (CoD2/3). Nokkon, I've played games that I can't stand (EDF 2017), I have no problems with that. CoD 4 has it's good points but I still see CoD 3 in disguise here. The gameplay to me is the same, the visuals are just poor in a lot of places and I can use and progress through the levels with the same silly tactics.
I enjoyed reading the Artbook and the SAS DVD more than the game. Nurf!
Hey this is fun hehe, hometime!
It's hard to enjoy a game when you feel you've been through the motions twice before (CoD2/3). Nokkon, I've played games that I can't stand (EDF 2017), I have no problems with that. CoD 4 has it's good points but I still see CoD 3 in disguise here. The gameplay to me is the same, the visuals are just poor in a lot of places and I can use and progress through the levels with the same silly tactics.
I enjoyed reading the Artbook and the SAS DVD more than the game. Nurf!
Hey this is fun hehe, hometime!
That's exactly where I was on CoD3 when it first came out - and I haven't returned to that game since then. It's some of the most pathetic level design ever. I'm buggered if I'm going to spend 20mins fighting through a ton of enemies and then man a mortar I've hardly any experience on.
cod4 is one of the best single player campaigns ive played on 360 and pc right up there with crysis as i finished them back to back very good story with free flowing battles and storyline this is what single player games are all about gfx were spot on for what kinnda game this is!!
its so good i even bought a copy for mp on the pc as well the only few games ive bought on my pc apart from crysis and ut3 im a css gamer at heart but this mp is 2 times better than the main game!!!
and i have mass effect the gfx are bland feels more like wing commander with a 3rd person section of role play and before anyone moans ive played through like 4 hours of it (as i have like 50 360 games and can't play them all)
its so good i even bought a copy for mp on the pc as well the only few games ive bought on my pc apart from crysis and ut3 im a css gamer at heart but this mp is 2 times better than the main game!!!
and i have mass effect the gfx are bland feels more like wing commander with a 3rd person section of role play and before anyone moans ive played through like 4 hours of it (as i have like 50 360 games and can't play them all)
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CoD4 is nothing like CoD3, but it certainly bares a resemblance to Call of Duty 2. CoD3 wasn't slick and was quite poor and unprofessional with it's production values at times where as CoD4 never is.
I told you not to do it on an easy difficulty first because it's too short. Either way, it's a multiplayer game
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I told you not to do it on an easy difficulty first because it's too short. Either way, it's a multiplayer game
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I only played the first few missions to learn the controls then went straight online, love it 
Doesn't really feel much differet from cod 2 though tbh. Though it seems like every gun in the game kills you in 2-3 shots so i dont see the need to be desperate to get unlocks when my favourite gun is the first assault rifle anyway, once you get used to it you only gota fire one bust into them and they die. Great game, though the urber powerful sniper rifles that others have unlocked do get on your nervs in the big maps first time, started making me think about the awp in cs which i think was a big mistake personaly.
O and that tv station is so frustating they dont stop throwing nades at you, but i found out that flash bangs seem to totaly own them. You just throw them in the air and then just run to cover and shoot them in the back and do it again. No one uses them in multiplayer though it seems. Why is this?
Doesn't really feel much differet from cod 2 though tbh. Though it seems like every gun in the game kills you in 2-3 shots so i dont see the need to be desperate to get unlocks when my favourite gun is the first assault rifle anyway, once you get used to it you only gota fire one bust into them and they die. Great game, though the urber powerful sniper rifles that others have unlocked do get on your nervs in the big maps first time, started making me think about the awp in cs which i think was a big mistake personaly.O and that tv station is so frustating they dont stop throwing nades at you, but i found out that flash bangs seem to totaly own them. You just throw them in the air and then just run to cover and shoot them in the back and do it again. No one uses them in multiplayer though it seems. Why is this?
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yeah agreed iw spend time bug testing i mean the mp beta on the 360 and sp on the pc was massive (as in the amount of people who played it)must have played the mp to death when it was on beta
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Graphics are amazing when you don't have to pay £3000 just to play a £30 game...
Best game i've got at the moment. Online is superb. Infact i haven't played any other games for nearly 3 weeks since completing Assassins Creed.
Running it on PS3.
Best game i've got at the moment. Online is superb. Infact i haven't played any other games for nearly 3 weeks since completing Assassins Creed.
Running it on PS3.
CoD4 is nothing like CoD3, but it certainly bares a resemblance to Call of Duty 2. CoD3 wasn't slick and was quite poor and unprofessional with it's production values at times where as CoD4 never is.
I told you not to do it on an easy difficulty first because it's too short. Either way, it's a multiplayer game
Sounds similar to Halo 3 then, multiplayer based. Although i'll be getting cod4 at the weekend.