By John Walker on May 14th, 2011 at 11:03 am.
It’s been a funny week for leaks and attacks. Deus Ex Human Revolution’s website getting hacked (which does seem a bit like Thief 4′s website getting stolen), an MP leaking a game announcement (which is my favourite embargo break ever – presumably Creative Assembly will be punishing Vaizey by refusing to give him preview code), and then the rather astonishing complete spoil-fest of not only huge amounts of content for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, but even that Modern Warfare 3 exists. Activision and Infinity Ward have sprung into action and created four teaser trailers that confirm it all for themselves. You can watch them below.
Just as Jim predicted (to me in private the other day), Infinity Ward just aren’t populated enough to develop the game on their own. Which means Activision’s favourite substitute teachers, Raven, will be stepping in to help with the unruly class. There’s also support from the freshly qualified classroom assistants, Sledgehammer Games.
Today there are four teasers, one for each of four countries that you’ll be modernly warring in during the game. How did they manage to pull them together so quickly? By not really including any game. However, there is a strong suggestion that there’s some impressively detailed recreation of real-world city streets. It looks like quite a chunk of London in England’s (sorry, “3ngland’s” teaser).
So, America:
England (along with emergency services sirens from the 1980s – good work!):
France:
And most impressively, Germany:
14/05/2011 at 11:09 lethu says:
The world belongs to those who sleep not.
14/05/2011 at 12:51 Koshzor says:
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14/05/2011 at 12:56 Baka says:
Thanks Koshzor!
€: Hu, where did the translation go? Now I’m confused.
14/05/2011 at 11:11 Antsy says:
Hmm, I was hoping for a screenshot with an elevator rendition of The Girl From Ipanema. I dared to dream. :(
14/05/2011 at 11:23 Ghil says:
It would’ve been the perfect teaser. I shed a tear at the thought of such a perfect moment.
14/05/2011 at 11:14 Pew pew LAZORS says:
Am3rica…
14/05/2011 at 11:20 bigtoeohno says:
F**K YEAH!!!
14/05/2011 at 11:27 jon_hill987 says:
H3r3 to sav3 th3 moth3rf**king day y3ah!
14/05/2011 at 13:12 Corrupt_Tiki says:
You’re not doing it right jon;
should read:
H3R3 T0 S4V3 TH3 M0TH3RFUCKING D4Y Y34H!
15/05/2011 at 00:07 Commisar says:
eh, I’ll just wait for battlefield 3, at least the single player will be a surprise
14/05/2011 at 11:21 JackShandy says:
Thank gosh all those countries have E’s in the names. I don’t know what I’d have done without that.
14/05/2011 at 14:40 sidhellfire says:
Rest of the world can relax I guess.
14/05/2011 at 11:24 DiGi says:
These trailers looks like first Battlefield 3 teaser.
14/05/2011 at 12:44 John Connor says:
These trailers look like the first MW2 trailers.
14/05/2011 at 19:42 RaytraceRat says:
These trailers looks like green trailers.
14/05/2011 at 22:52 notjasonlee says:
when in doubt, add an s
15/05/2011 at 21:28 Nick says:
these trailers look like trailers for a short game that won’t be very good.
14/05/2011 at 11:31 GenBanks says:
The Russians are going to take over the world!!
We should have known.
…and they’re only going to fight battles near major architectural landmarks.
14/05/2011 at 11:34 GenBanks says:
also, isn’t it sort of odd that they speak english in the germany trailer? My only guess is they didn’t want their audience to get confused about who the bad guys were.
14/05/2011 at 11:40 Antsy says:
The Russians are coming!
Hah, thats blindsided everyone that was expecting the baddie to be a Tasmanian with a axe to grind.
14/05/2011 at 11:44 CMaster says:
@Genbanks. I hear a mix of English and German in the G3rmany trailer. I’d suggest that what you’re hearing is communication in English between a unit (possibly tank?) on the ground and NATO command (which probably uses English) followed by the German leader issuing commands to the unit.
14/05/2011 at 12:38 stahlwerk says:
CMaster seems to be correct, the german is reporting “visual contact with the enemy” and stuff like that. Kudos for using native speakers, I’ve heard worse.
14/05/2011 at 14:10 Tatourmi says:
The french speakers however are definitely not native. “SHEBELEBELEU LE FRANCE TOUR EIFFEL” yeah right.
15/05/2011 at 14:21 Matt says:
Zut alors!
15/05/2011 at 20:48 Dozer says:
I’m a Tasmanian, but I don’t have an axe. But I do have a hacksaw, and a 1kg powder fire extinguisher I got for £10 from Lidl seven years ago. I could grind the fire extinguisher with the hacksaw and die of suffocation in the powder. Would this be a good plot for MW4?
14/05/2011 at 11:36 sk2k says:
Yeah, all nice and so.–off topic– Can we have some coverage for SPAZ now ? :) It is (more or less) out since monday and it irritates me that it does not received mention on the RPS front page.
14/05/2011 at 11:42 D says:
Let me help you with your very uninformative post.
http://www.spacepiratesandzombies.com
14/05/2011 at 14:42 Urael says:
I am now irritated as well. This is BRILLIANT.
14/05/2011 at 11:38 DainIronfoot says:
Green.
14/05/2011 at 11:50 Alegis says:
gr33n
14/05/2011 at 12:34 stahlwerk says:
0l1v3
14/05/2011 at 11:39 lurkalisk says:
So… “odin, dva, tri, chyetirye” (one, two, three, four, in Russian).
Essentially, COUNTRIES ARE INVOLVED, WAR IS TO BE! … In numerical order?
14/05/2011 at 17:27 Man Raised by Puffins says:
One, Two, Three, Four?
He’s declaring a thumb war! Quick, activate Digitus Prime!
14/05/2011 at 11:39 SuperNashwanPower says:
Passable american-guy-does-english-accent efforts this time out. Only falls down at the word “Beericades”, which I presume is a wall of Eastern European lager designed to slow down the russians.
14/05/2011 at 19:48 stahlwerk says:
Their shots of Russian Standard will cut right through.
14/05/2011 at 12:10 Holysheep says:
Fun fact: I am French. However I don’t understand -at all- The FRANC3 trailer. They got Eiffel Tower right, tho.
14/05/2011 at 14:16 Tatourmi says:
Yup, in exactly the same situation. Here is what it looked like: http://www.nanarland.com/play_video.php?vid=107
14/05/2011 at 12:23 mjessen says:
I couldn’t resist and read the story spoilers… WWII theme is over but they’re still bringing the war to germany (which is were I live)… weird, but I’m curious what it would like to be driving a tank through Hamburg, my hometown…
15/05/2011 at 01:02 medwards says:
I’m kind of torn here… I was planning on skipping MW3 because of the IW fiasco, but I really want to see semi-accurate Germany and France in a video game, especially after seeing Spreepark at the end of Hanna. Like you say, something about re-seeing the places you know.
14/05/2011 at 12:25 Rosti says:
The England trailer makes me want to watch Life on Mars. So that’s something positive to take from all this, I guess.
14/05/2011 at 12:40 Guiscard says:
One of these days there will be a high budget manshoot that portrays the noble Russians repulsing the evil West and its world domination plans, with the help of the defiant generic not-sure-which-country-they’re-from Arab brothers, instead of the other way around.
14/05/2011 at 12:57 cheat2win says:
↑
This please.
14/05/2011 at 13:15 lethu says:
MGS4 almost had this, at least for the “with the help of the defiant generic not-sure-which-country-they’re-from Arab brothers” part, and it was kinda refreshing.
14/05/2011 at 14:03 Pew pew LAZORS says:
I would like to place a preorder for this.
14/05/2011 at 14:28 Mad Hamish says:
I think it should be Vladamir Putin repelling the forces of the west single handed. Serious Sam style.
edit: a bare chested Putin, possibly on his horse.
14/05/2011 at 14:46 sidhellfire says:
Yeah, Putin would never need a help from Freedom Fighters/Resistance/Terrorists however you call them.
14/05/2011 at 17:28 SquidLord says:
Isn’t that, effectively and with lattitude for interpretation, exactly what Brink is? Of course, they morally grey it up a bit, which is wonderful, but its certainly readable as a tale of the oppressed Russian (and other ethics) fighting off the shackles of The Man (who are also, strangely, ethnics but primarily white).
14/05/2011 at 20:45 FunkyBadger3 says:
Little Vladii wouldn’t ride anything as feminine as a horse – unless it was Sleipnier – he would ride a.. a.. a tiger… with frickin’ laser beams on its head!
15/05/2011 at 20:53 Dozer says:
IL2 Sturmovik (the original one) was like this. In that it was a reasonably accurate flight simulator originally featuring the Russian-German(/Hungarian/Italian/Slovakian/Rumanian/Finnish) conflict in WW2.
14/05/2011 at 12:46 John Connor says:
I like how the story got spoiled. SPOILER ALERT: Man runs down corridor, shoots people, jumps into helicopter.
It makes me sad to see how much of a joke this series has become.
14/05/2011 at 12:52 Koshzor says:
In all 4 trailers you can hear russian speach. While UK, Germany and France are ok. US line doesen’t make any sense. I will try to translate with mistakes they made.
“Один. Уничтожить враженью надежду на побеждение.”
One. Destroy enemeis hope for deefit .
“Два. Используй все к своему преимуществу.”
Two. Use everything to your advantage.
“Три. Воспользуйся слабостью своего врага.”
Three. Use weakness of your enemy.
“Четыре. Атакуй с неожиданной стороны”
Four. Attack from unexpected side.
14/05/2011 at 13:14 Holysheep says:
Nope, like I said, the French one haves no sense either.
I’m pretty sure Google translator was used in the process.
The first sentence is IMPOSSIBLE to understand, except ” Tour Effeil ”
Then they say with a bad canadian accent ” We can see some smoke from here, we are heading to * I didn’t understand *” and then I wasn’t able to understand the rest.
14/05/2011 at 13:16 GameOverMan says:
Quotes from Sun Tzu’s Art of War in russian, perhaps?
14/05/2011 at 14:21 Tatourmi says:
He actually only meant to talk about the russian end talk.
14/05/2011 at 16:24 gimperial says:
побеждение is victory: destroy enemy’s hope at victory/destroy enemy’s hope to win
14/05/2011 at 18:09 Koshzor says:
Yep, i meant only Russian lines. I don’t speak French and only little of German. There is no such word as “побеждение”. But we can use analogies, right?
“Уничтожить надежду врага на поражение.”
Still it sounds wrong and can be translated like “Destroy enemies hope for (their) defeat”. How we suppose to make this happen? Do we need to kill our own troops?
The right like should sound like “Уничтожить надежду врага на победу”. Still not the best one, but i am not the best translator in the world, so my appologies.
14/05/2011 at 20:47 FunkyBadger3 says:
How we suppose to make this happen? Do we need to kill our own troops?
Wonder if Marshall Zhukov will be a boss baddy in the zombie levels…
14/05/2011 at 13:27 mueti says:
Funnily enough I saw a parody of those teasers before the actual teasers. It took the 3-thing and some ‘green footage’. I laughed.
Then I saw these and it killed the parody, as I realized it basically just did what some bonehead in Activision’s marketing department did themselves. Am3rica? Seriously?
14/05/2011 at 13:49 Teddy Leach says:
For christ’s sake, could someone just shoot everyone that’s got something to do with the Modern Warfare series?
15/05/2011 at 02:05 rayne117 says:
Didn’t Activision do that already?
15/05/2011 at 09:54 Avish says:
They did.
But they just keep re-spawning….
14/05/2011 at 13:59 Rush Ton says:
Dear game developers. I know you think the number 3 looks similar to the letter E and therefore these can be used interchangeably. This is, however not the case, so can you please stop doing it. Thank you.
15/05/2011 at 20:56 Dozer says:
Likewise:
Д is not A (it is ‘D’)
Я is not R (it is ‘ya’)
Ш is not W (it is ‘sh’)
И is not N (it is ‘I’)
15/05/2011 at 22:10 stahlwerk says:
λ or Λ is not A. Σ is not E.
14/05/2011 at 14:01 Comrade Communist says:
“Уничтожить вражную надежду на побеждение!”? WHAT A SHAME! They could at least find someone who could speak russian correctly and without accent for such a game!
14/05/2011 at 14:08 Sunjammer says:
So, so tired of Evil Russians. So tired.
14/05/2011 at 18:11 Koshzor says:
But it’s true! We are evil! Why are you so tired of us? We still got nukes! Wanna see one? :(
/jk
14/05/2011 at 20:01 skurmedel says:
I am in agreement. Sadly dropping evil russian plots will probably mean we get evil chinese plots instead.
15/05/2011 at 21:01 Dozer says:
Is there another plausable antagonist though? Other than North Korea as a transparent China substitute? Perhaps we can have Call of Duty: Post-Modern Warfare, where a multinational team of demolition engineers take down all the surviving buildings designed by Le Corbusier.
15/05/2011 at 22:02 stahlwerk says:
@Dozer: ze germans, way ahead of you, ja!
Actually, judging from recent developments in world peace, practically anywhere could be a “credible” scenario for a modern warfare game, seems like being an oppressive dick to your people seems to be the thing for the season.
14/05/2011 at 14:10 Basilicus says:
Enough of this small-squad muckle. Go back to World War 2. Or, better yet, World War I. I want the drama of thousands being cut down as tanks emerge rumbling from a winter forest. I want shoddy equipment that falls apart and jams constantly because you haven’t been resupplied in a month. I want to see trenchfoot!
14/05/2011 at 14:59 Teddy Leach says:
I want to see a CoD set in the Crimean War.
14/05/2011 at 19:17 TheSaddestSort says:
Charge of the Light Brigade would be cheapened by not being able to control your horse.
14/05/2011 at 14:10 Sinnorfin says:
USA…er..AM3RICA…At least there is now high chance of a D3MO…
14/05/2011 at 14:40 CaspianRoach says:
Why would developers want to make a Demo for a game that is destined to succeed?
14/05/2011 at 15:14 emotionengine says:
Boring! The real scoop is here.
14/05/2011 at 15:38 Tancosin says:
That looks awesome.
14/05/2011 at 15:27 A-Scale says:
Russia must have a lot of mans to be able to fight the US3, F3ANCE, 3ERMANY and BR3TA3N all at once!
14/05/2011 at 15:46 Teddy Leach says:
G3RMANY and… Britain, surely?
14/05/2011 at 20:50 FunkyBadger3 says:
History would suggest this is the case… more men that guns, a lot of the time…
14/05/2011 at 15:51 Snuffy the Evil says:
Modern Warfar3?
16/05/2011 at 11:09 Pop says:
It’s a step away from Modern WARFACE, which is what we’re all really waiting for.
14/05/2011 at 17:54 tungstenHead says:
MW33333333! It’s fun going down hill!
14/05/2011 at 18:11 noclip says:
This article needs more s/e/3/
14/05/2011 at 18:34 aldo_14 says:
I’m impressed they have been keeping up to date with political news, and thus have decided the SNP victory in the Scottish elections will result in a breakup of the UK.
That’s why, right?
14/05/2011 at 18:39 BAshment says:
“England (along with emergency services sirens from the 1980s – good work!):”
It’s ok so is anti Russian sentiment.
14/05/2011 at 18:45 Bungle says:
Are we really going to be forced to sit through six months of CoD marketing this year? Or did they just release this stuff to rain on Brink’s parade?
Another former CoD player who hates it here.
15/05/2011 at 00:27 xeon06 says:
Haha, the French spoken in the France trailer is pretty bad and accented. Was it that hard to find a native French speaker?
15/05/2011 at 18:17 Koshzor says:
1T’S 4M3R1C4N W4Y T0 M4K3 TR41L3RS
15/05/2011 at 15:16 Hazzard65 says:
yaaaawn
16/05/2011 at 11:09 Pop says:
Finally an FPS with action in Germany!
16/05/2011 at 11:45 mootpoint says:
Anyone else who read the logo as MAN 3?
16/05/2011 at 13:37 DeanLearner says:
Oh sweet! To start I was like ‘fuck no’ but then when they wrote AM3RICA instead of AMERICA I was like ‘fuck yes’