By John Walker on November 7th, 2011 at 9:44 am.
There’s a new live action trailer for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. However, first of all, I’ve had enough of live action trailers for games. Secondly, it’s embarrassingly rubbish. So instead, below, you can watch Oliver Sacks giving a lecture on hallucinations.
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07/11/2011 at 09:50 HelderPinto says:
Facepalm.
07/11/2011 at 10:05 Dominus says:
double facepalm
07/11/2011 at 10:16 abigbat says:
I found it difficult to watch.
07/11/2011 at 10:16 Richard Beer says:
You know what? I laughed. I mean, we’ve been banging on about how seriously all these manshooters take themselves; isn’t this a refreshing change from the oh-so-serious only-you-can-save-the-world crap we normally get served?
Sorry. I liked it!
07/11/2011 at 10:36 Hanban says:
I liked it too. :(
I won’t ever buy another Call of Duty game, but I do find Jonah Hill very charming!
07/11/2011 at 10:40 Keymonk says:
But the trailer isn’t the game. The game still takes itself seriously.
07/11/2011 at 11:09 Keirley says:
Got to agree, I found it kind of charming.
07/11/2011 at 12:23 bear912 says:
I found it somewhat amusing. It wasn’t as good as the live-action trailer for Black Ops, though…
07/11/2011 at 12:31 jezcentral says:
I liked it. I won’t be buying it until it goes on a Steam Sale in 3 year’s time, but I liked this ad.
07/11/2011 at 17:45 Mctittles says:
Thanks for saving us from the horror of live action trailers! Much better vid.
07/11/2011 at 09:56 MrCraigL says:
The trailer is brilliant purely because it ends with a serious man saying “Rated M for mature”.
07/11/2011 at 10:54 Jumwa says:
Ugh. Too early, I should be banned from typing.
07/11/2011 at 09:57 TheDreido says:
“Embarrassingly rubbish”?
I didn’t think it was too bad. Although I won’t be buying the game (fool me once shame on you (MW2), fool me twice shame on me); this advert was fun in its own completely unrelated to the game way.
Edit: I love TED talks, never (rarely?) are they uninteresting.
07/11/2011 at 10:54 Jumwa says:
I seem to recall one about the wonders of privately funded education and how private companies do everything better that was pretty yawn. Though perhaps I’m confusing things.
07/11/2011 at 20:11 Reefpirate says:
Private education usually does do a lot better.
07/11/2011 at 09:59 JuJuCam says:
I’m tempted to go to a MW3 midnight launch event to purchase Battlefield 3.
07/11/2011 at 10:20 WMain00 says:
Do so! Do it for us!
07/11/2011 at 10:22 Bharg says:
That would be raaaad, duuuude.
07/11/2011 at 10:30 MortiZ says:
I approve!
07/11/2011 at 10:46 oceanclub says:
No no, you should go to the launch and ask for Minecraft.
P.
07/11/2011 at 10:49 gillesv says:
Stick it to the man! The “man” being one multi-billion dollar corporation and the “sticking it to” being giving money to *another* multi-billion dollar corporation.
07/11/2011 at 10:00 Dana says:
I found it slightly amusing, and far from rubbish.
07/11/2011 at 10:05 Squishpoke says:
I approve of RPS’s standards.
07/11/2011 at 10:21 ynamite says:
Likewise!
What a rubbish trailer. Hey look, we have cheesy lines, kack jokes and overpaid film stars on board both of which can only ever act that one role well enough and not much else besides.
I generally have no trouble respecting the opinion of others, but how anybody can find this trash good (never mind brilliant) is beyond my ability to comprehend shit.
07/11/2011 at 13:19 Agaetis181 says:
^ Welcome to America. Why do you think Hollywood still exists? People love this kind of soulless bullshit.
07/11/2011 at 15:42 Synesthesia says:
well, the buk said it first, but bad taste will ALWAYS make more millionaires than good taste. I think he said it without the caps, though.
(that was a good tedtalk, by the way. Anyone up for some acid?)
07/11/2011 at 10:07 Ishy says:
Black Ops “soldier in all of us” trailer was miles better than this. They went from Black Ops’ highly inclusive video to… a bunch of white soldier guys looking slightly tough. Sigh.
07/11/2011 at 10:16 TheRAIDER says:
Wow, nice video, thanks a lot!
Really interesting.
Perhaps this can explain why so many people like cod?
They probably see something else!
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07/11/2011 at 10:17 asshibbitty says:
Damn that’s a good lecture on hallucinations. Tonight let’s all have hallucinations.
07/11/2011 at 10:26 Bharg says:
Well, the trailer was much more entertaining than this news, Sir.
07/11/2011 at 10:29 mondomau says:
What news? Or were you talking about the TED talk? I really hope you weren’t.
07/11/2011 at 10:31 kikito says:
You must be seeing things. Maybe it’s Charles Bonnet Syndrome.
07/11/2011 at 10:38 Thunderbeak says:
Well, if it’s entertaining there’s likely to be an emotional connection, therefore it’s probably not Charles Bonnet Syndrome.
07/11/2011 at 10:28 JohnArr says:
I love thinking that CTF_Face or CS_Office share cell clusters with real world landmarks.
I’d really like to have played that paintball game at CoD:XP that they modeled after a game map. I know the digital map back to front and it would be interesting to see if I could navigate the real arena with the same speed and unconscious thought as the virtual.
07/11/2011 at 13:22 Gundato says:
I miss Facing Worlds. Need to reinstall one of the UTs pretty soon.
07/11/2011 at 10:38 Tusque D'Ivoire says:
So the RPS hivemind seems convinced that MW3 is more rubbish thatn BF3? is that just talking about the Multiplayer or a general consensus?
07/11/2011 at 10:51 gillesv says:
No, we’re just saying that’s a rubbish trailer.
07/11/2011 at 10:38 Gundrea says:
The talk did provide some background but it didn’t really engage in the subject in depth. It was really just an introductory piece to the visual cortex and wetware image processing.
07/11/2011 at 12:55 Caspian says:
One of the rules of TED is that you only get 18 minutes – Not enough time for in=depth wetware analysis, I fear…
07/11/2011 at 10:47 Advanced Assault Hippo says:
Wow, what an overreaction. Was it really that bad?
I have no interest in MW, but I found it quite amusing.
07/11/2011 at 12:43 Tatourmi says:
Yup. Wasn’t genius, that’s for sure, but it was way better than the other usual live action trailers out there. And way better than their other marketing stuff. Well, I still won’t buy it but I do think that RPS’s reaction is a bit overkill here.
07/11/2011 at 15:04 Urthman says:
I have no interest in MW, but that’s a brilliant trailer. Because at this point, the only people they need to make trailers for are the folks who say, “Those games look pretty neat, but I’d get online and everyone whose played the first two would be so much better than I am that I’d never catch up.”
The fans are gonna buy it. People like me are never gonna buy it. “The Noob” is their target audience and they are shamelessly pandering to them. Well done. (Slow golf clap.)
07/11/2011 at 10:59 Burning Man says:
I really liked that trailer. RPS YOU ARE WRONG AND NYAAAH!!
07/11/2011 at 11:02 MonkeyMonster says:
That is tho thongue in thcheek I cantht thype. Rather amusing and spot on pisstake.
07/11/2011 at 11:29 indigohjones says:
Wait, was that Dwight Howard at the end?
07/11/2011 at 11:32 Moni says:
I liked it, but I do agree that Sam Worthington is an emotional black hole.
07/11/2011 at 11:36 TheBigBookOfTerror says:
Isn’t this just a rehash of that little short youtube movie with Andy Whitfield in? I’m assuming the same team behind it and the other gaming in real life vids made this.
This ad just highlights the elements that I really dislike about online gaming. For me, multiplayer should be about enjoying a gaming experience with a friend, not an excuse to be a boastful arsehole.
07/11/2011 at 12:08 olemars says:
It’s pretty weird to listen to the beginning of that Sacks ted talk after having heard the Ode to the Brain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7jSFeVz1U
07/11/2011 at 12:11 Kal says:
Are you kidding me? That was hilarious. Thoroughly tongue-in-cheek self-deprecating humour.
I think someone has a case of the Mondays….
07/11/2011 at 15:17 Faceless says:
I don’t think you understand what ‘self-deprecating’ or ‘tongue-in-cheek’ mean.
07/11/2011 at 12:15 sneetch says:
After watching the MW3 live action trailer I have to say the greatest irony was “Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Rated M for Mature” part at the very end. It was ok, well made anyway.
Seriously though, live action trailers for games are pointless, you won’t see a live action trailer for the next Pixar movie: show the product you’re advertising.
07/11/2011 at 12:30 drewski says:
I think this is the first video I’ve watched on RPS for about a year. I would probably watch a lot more of them if they weren’t shitty trailers for boring games.
07/11/2011 at 12:31 Ricc says:
I don’t know about your live-action fatigue, but that trailer was actually kinda well-made. It certainly had a lot less cynicism than this news post. :/
I do thank you for that TED-video, though. Fascinating topic.
07/11/2011 at 12:38 Raiyan 1.0 says:
It was ‘meh’ compared to the BlOps trailer, but I didn’t find anything too offensive.
I can understand the live action fatigue, though.
07/11/2011 at 12:41 DigitalSignalX says:
I kept thinking it was the same guy from the Fallout Nuka Break internet serials.
07/11/2011 at 12:55 Post-Internet Syndrome says:
Oliver Sacks is great.
07/11/2011 at 17:31 Hodge says:
+1
07/11/2011 at 13:32 Tenver says:
The live action trailer was embarrassing, but it was good as a piece of comedy.
07/11/2011 at 13:44 Berzee says:
mumblemumble felicia day mumble
07/11/2011 at 14:05 Dakia says:
I’m definitely passing on this iteration, but I was laughing my ass off at this trailer. The difference in players is all too true.
07/11/2011 at 14:21 Buceph says:
It started out ok. I was wondering what RPS was complaining about, but after twenty seconds of minor funny it did get embarrassingly rubbish, good call John.
I am l33t h4x0r, u r rubbish n00b. But I train yous and you be l33t h4x0r 2. Then we b real manly mans and we all train udder rubbish n00bs to be l33t h4x0r 2.
Also we r not fat neckbeards playing at army manshoots.
07/11/2011 at 14:24 Falfa says:
Hallucinations talk was impressive. I have learnt a lot today.
Trailer….where?
07/11/2011 at 14:32 LennyLeonardo says:
The trailer was ok – certainly more entertaining than the usual shouty-explodey Michael Bay style gameplay trailers.
But never mind that, thank you so much for posting the Oliver Sacks talk – best thing I’ve seen on the internet for ages, absolutely fascinating.
Now if only someone would make a game out of that.
07/11/2011 at 14:34 Groove says:
I like to imagine the joke is that 1:30 is how long it takes before you think you’re awesome at MW multiplayer.
07/11/2011 at 15:30 ZillaRacing says:
Even Activision thinks tubers are noobs.
07/11/2011 at 16:33 Kandon Arc says:
And yet they do nothing to solve the problem.
07/11/2011 at 15:45 node says:
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say I enjoyed it quite a lot and know many others did too. Big budget visuals, strong concept, some amusing touches.
The phrase”lighten up and stop automatically attaching dismissive cynicism to everything-CoD” comes to mind, and I’m not even a big CoD player.
07/11/2011 at 15:50 WotevahMang says:
Yeah BlOps LA trailer was better…reflecting who we are as modern society that play these manshoot games. This trailer…well its ok. Its not inspired and felt like its run through focus group like Microaoft ads. They have the money to burn on licensing AC/DC music, c list actors, special effects, might as well use it on something other than making the game better. The video illustrates their goal of making MW3 deep for the vets, yet noob friendly which was outlined at the XP event.
07/11/2011 at 16:19 achoo5000 says:
Jonah Hill lost weight.
07/11/2011 at 16:37 Kandon Arc says:
I don’t know I really enjoyed it. Particularly when he tried to rpg someone right in front of him; saw that a lot in MW.
Of course I’m still not going to buy the game or consider it as anything other than a souless cash cow, but it was fun to watch. And that TED video was great so I get two enjoyable videos from one article. Hooray!
07/11/2011 at 19:26 RogerioFM says:
I think that your comment was simply to vent your anger torwards CoD, which I understand, since I was let down many times, specially since the Ad is very good. But I can’t get angry at you, the video you posted was incredibly interesting.
08/11/2011 at 00:55 Styles says:
And THIS is why I don’t check other gaming websites any more….T.E.D lecture was awesome.
08/11/2011 at 06:49 Crazygeek777 says:
I don’t understand what problem you people have with the video. i found the old guys lecture very interesting and informative.