Comments on: Ex-plo-sion! Call Of Duty Trailer

By: SirNuke

SirNuke — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:45:02 +0000

To note, there are two campaigns in CoD5 (I don’t care what Activision calls it): one is with the US Marines in the Pacific, the other is with the Russian Army attacking Berlin.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:00:02 +0000

Is the AI still blindingly awful? How about ‘infinite respawning enemies until you cross [x] line’? I learned a valuable lesson with CoD4 — any good idea can be ruined with bad designers.

As an aside, what the fuck is with games making it look like some guy/tank/whatever waltzes in with a flamethrower, and actually lights people on fire 10 feet away? The vast majority of flamethrower related deaths were asphyxiation, and they were used to drive people back, not actually wipe out entire companies or whatever Rambo bullshit this game will have you do.

By: araczynski

araczynski — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:55:00 +0000

i hope those were console graphics, because they looked seriously weak.

By: Klumhru

Klumhru — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:01:44 +0000

The Allies also used converted LCTs, designated LCT(R) that were laden with massed rocket tubes (1000 or more) and launched in volleys of 50-100 60lbs rockets at short intervals.

Allied land based mountings were fairly uncommon though, with the calliope only produced in low numbers, ditto the British (originated from the Z gun AA system) Land Mattress system.

In the trailer though, the truck mounted launcher is a Katyusha mount, seeing as the same sequence shows a tank advancing through a village, which is either a T34/80 or an IS-1. The infantry in the sequence looks distinctly Russian as well.

By: darthpugwash

darthpugwash — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:49:39 +0000

Though Company of Heroes would have you think that every third Allied tank was a Calliope. ;)

By: Zoso

Zoso — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:43:04 +0000

The British and Americans used rocket artillery too, albeit in smaller quantities, but with much better names (like Xylophone, Mattress or the confusingly designated T34 (not that T34) Calliope).

By: darthpugwash

darthpugwash — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:25:01 +0000

Very explodey. Hopefully it will turn out to be in the same ballpark as COD4. I have to admit though that I’m more interested in whatever Infinity Ward’s next game will be.

BTW, it wasn’t just the Russians that used rocket artillery in WW2, the Germans did also (nebelwerfers). I think the rocket truck at the start is meant to be a katyusha, so yeah that’s the Russian front, not the Pacific.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:45:56 +0000

I think they are Russians? I know there’s a Russian section, for one thing.

By: Aftershock

Aftershock — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:44:18 +0000

Looked to be a lot of scripting there.

And since when was there rocket artillery in the Pacific Theatre? AFAIK, it was only the Russians that deployed rocket artillery in WWII.

By: Sainted

Sainted — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:15:05 +0000

And how much of that was scripted?

By: Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:40:52 +0000

Senethro obviously didn’t play Company of Heroes. =P

By: Dreamhacker

Dreamhacker — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:01:08 +0000

I read a book on the D-Day, where a crewmember of a flame tank talked about the landings. He said it was quite horrible to see the results of the flame tank.