Way to go Treyarch, this looks promising! 4-play-co-op FTW! :)

Rammy

so....does the wii version go online at all?

bigman88zz

I like what I've seen so far, although the whole flamethrower thing seems like more of a selling point to me than an actual logical gameplay addition. Duuuuuude! This game's gotta FLAMETHROWER! AWESOME!!!

Also NeVeRMoRe666, stop fishing for 'your girlfriend is a keeper!' responses ;)

PollockRoc

Well, for all the hate people have been dising out at COD5, I must say im glad I didn't prejudge the game, because im likign what it's showing me. Still wiaiting for the Wii version screenies and gameplay movies, tought, so im not sold yet.

Shiryu

And yet there is still a COD to be ANYWHERE near as good as the first.

muscrat_01

This looks quite Good maybe dispite the Fact that Infinite Ward is not making this. It still looks good.

Ryosukekun21

I'm sold on this already, fwiw.

hotdamn

4 player co-op is the first redeeming feature, but I don't know if that turns it into a sale for me.

TrjnRabbit

@KingBroly: Read the presser. 360 & PS3 support 4-player coop online and two-player coop splitscreen

Luke Plunkett

Sounds like well I may check it out just for the fact that the difficulty level changes based on how good me or my friend playin with me online is. No more impossible modes with a set difficulty (im callin you out Metal Gear with your European Extreme mode where i cant be seen or gameover. but i love metal gear regardless). Meh, still looks like Battlefield 1942 with better graphics and co-op if you ask me.

Jnkzm4

4 Players Co-Op?!?!?! FINALLY!! I hope it's like the Halo Model. My gf hates halo (not realistic or gory enough...) and that's the only game where we can have multiple players online at once on one xbox! Yaaay!

NeVeRMoRe666

I doubted this game but my faith is restored. These screens are awesome.

Eon.

so I'm guessing that means the Wii version has split screen multiplayer while the other versions don't.

KingBroly

these screens look nice.

just like Quake Wars: Enemy Territory screen before release.

everyone remembered what happened to Quake Wars?

oh. right. no one does. no one's even heard of it before.

drunkentyger

Yawn. Ill wait for Infinity Ward to make another COD.

Altima NEO

Lucky i got a big tv. This sounds more than awesome. I feel kinda stupid now saying i would skip this game and get CoD 6.

Chrinkster

4 coop play,its gonna be a gr8 game nice graphics too a must have definatly

johnnystahl

DP. 4-player coop makes this a must get for me.

Shinryoma

I like what I see.

Shinryoma

One huge drawback. It's WW2.

ManiO

I always felt that CoD campaigns were epic, CoD3's wasn't as epic as either 2 or 4, but I hope Treyarch can pull it off, especially with the Co-Op.

SovietEngland

They really keep an eye out, Activision. Excellent timing on a PR push.

Snake726

@Shiryu:
with your logic every next game game can run on wii..yeha just turn off some effects and it can run but thats not the point.All the hard work for making that game look better and shiny will be gone.Most of the FPS games are praised with their visuals.
If i was a developer i wouldn't port my game by making its graphics worse.

GimmeCat

Thank goodness it's not only set in the pacific, that's the one thing that COD has continuously impressed me with, it's not like most WW2 games that go all 'Super American Soldier' and forget there were lots of nations involved. *Cough, Medal of Honour*

Klopfer123

@DigiMish: I don't, but since I have COD4 on the PC, truly, I can see that engine running on the Wii, seriously! sure you need to turn off some of the higher visual effects, but considering the Wii hardware as it is, I really don't see how it cannot run.

PS: Pls note I run COD4 smoothly with everythign on low. Still looks good and plays like a dream at constant 60fps. Besides, I've seen some imperssive FPS game engines in my time on the Gamecube, so truly the devs have just been really really lazy on jumping into wii seriusly. I beleive this game wil be one to bridge that. Time will tell.

Shiryu

Ugh, more World War II. Great. The co-op is nice though. If they allow you to use a guest login for online play, then I'll be sold. I swear, that is the only thing I didn't like about CoD4.

thelivingrobot

4 player co-op? thats so 80's!
its all about 8 player co-op now! viva la Resistance!

GimmeCat

i'm all in!

pissa

@Shiryu: It won't look even close to the CoD4 engine on the Wii. Don't believe that marketing talk.

DigiMish

Looks good love the concept art.

MarkHawk

"as well as new, groundbreaking tools - like co-op and the flamethrower - to succeed in the epic fight."

New/groundbreaking? X-D Timesplitters 2 had both of those about 6 years ago.

This better have a love story of some kind or this is just gonna be another generic shooter.

fadecy

yay for splitscreen co-op..!!!

Will be buying!

TheApprentice

Co-op was a natural progression for the CoD series. I'm still sitting this one out, as nothing can get more WW2 intensive than rushing the Reichstag as a Russian conscript in CoD.

Who's with me?

DigiMish

@drunkentyger: Quake wars looks justl ike it did in the screens

NessD12

@bigman88zzKingBroly: Im gonna have to go ahead ans say YES. Medal of Honor 2 coudl pull it off, so theres no reason why the Wii version of COD5 wont.

Shiryu

"It's going to look better than any Wii game I've ever seen on the market. For all intents and purposes it's the same game. (as 360/PS3 version). This will easily the best shooter on the Wii." - Senior producer Noah Heller

If they make it happen, I will be very happy to buy it indeed. I always believed the COD4 engine could run on the Wii, I will be happy to see it happening. Also co-op/multiplayer support has also been reconfirmed for the Wii version. Oh, and zapper support, if thats your thing.

Let the good times roll. b ^_^ d

Shiryu

@Luke Plunkett: Ok, but my point of the Wii version not having online co-op still stands. And if I'm reading this right, it sounds like the Wii version has no online play at all.

KingBroly

I wanna be Japan so bad! I wonder if I'll be able to bomb my own house?

Channing

@Narishma: Because its easier to follow it that way.

Luke Plunkett

@NessD12: "Quake wars looks justl ike it did in the screens."

Agreed, the animation just sucked... From what I remember.

Replica23

I feel like I've played this game before... Oh, that's right, I have. I believe they called it "Call of Duty: 2".

Asara

Why do you guys keep calling it COD5? Didn't they drop the 5 from the title?

Narishma

Looking good so far!

V.Volker

needs more ANZACs

i_am_ben

lol @ "a unique co-op mode for two players"

Mayu-mayu

@GimmeCat: I am sorry... it seems no one is even reading what im writing anymore nowadays...

Where did I say "every game will run on the Wii"? I said that the COD4 engine can surely run on the Wii. I say this based on my own experience with it on the PC, because I do not have a top noch PC and I can still play COD4 at 1024x768 with all settings on low at constant 60 fps. Cod4 engine? very likely. Crysys engine? Nope. HL2 engine? Maybe... UT 2004 engine? Sure, why not.

Sorry if you cannot live without bloom and other such trickery, but I sure do. By the way, did you know that the biggest fps boost I have its from turning off the ragdoll physics? Im ok with pre-determined death animations (I loved them on COD1 and DOD, anyway).

If I was a developer, id take a look at the marked and witness the ratio of Wii sales to 360/PS3. If was a developer, id be ashamed of myself for disregarding the Wii prior to it's release and now having to go "catch up" on trying to make a good name for myself as a 3rd party developer.

Good thing im not one. I really believe it must be hard to e a 3rd party dev on the wii and trying to output titles that are better then Nintendo ones.

Shiryu

@Fisketryne: It has been indeed a wasted opportunity in all of these years of WW2 shooters, one wich sadly, looks like will continue with CO5.

However, this is a industry, a bussiness, these games needs to turn profit. No way a game that would allow you to be a terrorist as we perceived then in Europe/USA/Japan would sell well, not to mention the obvious political and media scandal that would ensue.

Good videogame material? Definetly!
Profitable? I think not...

Shiryu

What an awesome idea, a game where I can shoot Nazis!

Starsky

Ok. So a lot of people seem to be tired of the old WWII FPS-schtick. Well, I'm as indifferent to Trayarchs games as the next guy, and I'm sure someone else has pointed this out before - but how about letting us play like the nazis and/or Japanese in COD5? Now that would be interesting and automatically make you think more about what you are doing while also allowing this particular (and uninspired) developer to explore some new ground.

MGS4 can be a yawn sometimes, but I like the way that Kojima is trying to say something important while still providing some fun. Playing the bad guy is one way of doing that. The problem with selling such a game - if only done for shock value - would be something like we saw happen with the Manhunt series, where it's hard to find justification for all the horrible violence. However, you could go the way of "Letters from Iwo Jima" where we follow the "bad guys" (if anyone believes in that term anymore) through an entire game because it teaches us more about totalitarian rules and their effects.

COD6 could then still be modern warfare, but seen from the eyes of the Taliban, Al-Qaida, young boy sent to kill himself in an Israeli market or any other self proclaimed freedom fighter that we in the west see as terrorists. Still killing nazis or other one-dimensional threats can probably still be fun, but wouldn't it be more interesting if game developers tried to do more?

Fisketryne

Uh... We're going back to Europe, again? Gah. Why Treyarch, Why?!?

Salen

FUCK YEA !!!!!!!!! it ends in berlin just like i wanted it too !!!!!!!! yay i wont be forced to play as the americans through the whole game :D yay!!

Viper

@marmidukestank: Did you realize that "Medal of Honor" has been running for more years than the actual WW2 itself?

Shiryu

Looks like another brown/greyscale WWII shooter.

Pretty soon there will be more WWII FPS protagonists than actual people who were ever in the Allied forces.

marmidukestank

@Channing: Well, they did loose out in the end, you do know that, right?

Why would you wanna be a japanene soldier, runnign aorund with katanas screamign BANZAI in a middle of the jungle?

...never mind, I have just answered my own question... BANZAI! \o/

Shiryu

I'm in the Big J at the moment , and yes advertisements are all over the place, it is nuts. In Shibuya there are semi trucks that drive around with speakers blasting metal gear solid music. Ive seen convince stores carry this game too, that normally don't carry videos games. For any of you that want to go to japan, learn some Japanese and culture first, make your life a whole lot easier.

poopdeedoo

@Shiryu: Can I ask you what you system specs are? I never thought I would be able to run COD4 on my PC...but if you think it can run on Wii, then perhaps I could get away with it.

Krondonian

One request... smaller multiplay maps for local play. I got CoD3 with my 360, and even with 4 people we had to fdefine "boundaries" where no player could go. PLZ make some maps that ARE'NT from the campaign!

Argo117

"unique co-op mode" for the Wii? my guess is a rail shooter.

salmonax

Okay, they officially have my attention with those screenshots.

Just fix the single player, please? No more infinite respawn points that kill the experience!

catapult37

So now I can take 3 buddies with me to beat the shit out of riceball eating, swordwielding Japanese soldiers? Awesome.

I do wonder why its suddenly not a wise decision to put both sides'story in a game though. Movies have done it on subjects as touchy as 9/11, and those moderately good-selling jrpgs have done it for years to add a human touch to the people you're fighting against. Patriotism sells, but I do like to think that the majority of people know that both sides of any conflict are fighting for some kind of cause.

muu

So I guess that whole "We're going to the Pacific theater to fight those Japs" was a bunch of bullhockey and chips. We're not going there as much as driving through on the scenic route to Europe. *sigh*

Treyarch needs to stop beating the CoD WW2 horse and learn to make other games, or maybe go find a new franchise to ruin.

Salen

@gencid:

Yeah, WWII has been used on war games for like forever.

A fictional WWIII would be nice.

xCruciaLx

Looking good. But the setting (WWII) is tired beyond any helping. How about a fictional WWIII?

gencid

Nice graphics, looks like it also has good gameplay but I'm still going to pass on it. Same thing with that last Medal of Honor; I loved CoD1, CoD2 and MoH, but I'm sick of WWII games like a fat kid who ate too much chocolate.

fdisk

@Shiryu: I'm quite sure a game where you play as a "terrorist" or a nazi would raise media-blitz. But if it was any good, it probably would earn it's money back - greatly helped by the same media interest. Also, if it was done with a good story and in good taste, the game could be easily defended from citics.

I have no idea how such a game could be designed, but I think we all should be concerned with how to forward video games as art and social commentary. It would be refreshing to see game developers say something important while still being able to provide gameplay and revenue.

MGS4 shows that the "language" of video games still is immature when it comes to tackling serious issues. But the only way to remedy this is to make more "serious" games and let developers learn from each other.

(I'm also suspecting that Kojima's story telling technique seems under developed and preachy to me because of culture differences.)

Fisketryne

"allows players to rank up and unlock perks in competitive multiplayer by completing challenges and earning experience points"

ooooohh lets copy the good stuff infinity ward introduced, AGAIN, and we'll fool suckers into buying something crappy made by a crappy developer with zero vision!!!

cue 50 comments of "ZOMG i'm a moron, i'll buy this!"

treyarch doesn't innovate, they imitate. fuck em

Pete193

these look like screenshots from the trailer to be honest.

Dakobah

Wait! CoD 3 had 4-player splitscreen - this has 4-player co-op. Seems almost unbelievable these two might both appear in CoD5.

Just a hunch, but I bet they'll remove the 4p split, just to stay loyal to being unsupportive of local multiplayer.

kryo

While we're making demands to no one in particular, how about letting me play as an Australian soldier. We've seen what the yanks did a bunch of times and it was unquestionably impressive, but we did some pretty neat stuff too, dagnabbit.

Jackablade

@Revenge_of_Nekojin:

"The co-op campaign allows players to rank up and unlock perks in competitive multiplayer by completing challenges and earning experience points, adding continuous re-playability and team-based gameplay."

That is what I read. I did read what you copied as well, but seeing them boast about completing challenges sounded like they did what every other game has and just threw in a few stages with a couple objectives here and there and called it co-op.

Capp

Finally, one reason why COD5 is already better than COD4. Hopefully Treyarch can get rid of the "bad" taste that COD3 left in people's mouths.

I wonder if by adding vehicles can they avoid turning to battlefield-ish, unless that's what people want...

exkon

I think I"ll be picking this up for the PS3. I doubt that the Wii version will live up to the hype.

mlubczyn

@Capp: FTA: For the first time ever players will experience harrowing single-player missions together for greater camaraderie and tactical execution.

So I guess you just can't read.

Revenge_of_Nekojin

Well considering they haven't changed the mission structures that they recycle game after game since the first one and seeing as they've, for whatever reason, returned to WWII, I think it's a pretty safe bet that very little of what they say will convince me to throw ANY money it's way, not even a rental.

jihadjoe343

Ok, did I read that right?
4-player co-op is not actually going through the campaign but basically just completing a few side quests to gain experience points, that you can "play over and over again"??.

*sigh*
I hope I misread that because I am so sick and tired of the co-op they stick in games having nothing at all to do with the story line. Why can't they just allow you to play the EXACT same campaign mode with 2-4 players as you would by yourself. That is what most people would want judging by the responses on all the xbox forums.

Capp

OBJECTION! Technically, WWII is still going today as the Japanese and Russian never signed any treaties with each other and such. So ,technically, WWII still continues today and your MoH being longer then WWII has been thrawted.

Doshi

@Shiryu:
but that bloom and hig res tex and effects are the main force of COD4 engine.If u strip them out it wont be a COD 4 engine anymore then whats the point?

If i was a logical developer i will only release casual games on Wii they sell more! they are easy to develop! i know it sounds evil(i hate ubisoft titles in wii) but thats how it works.

GimmeCat

This looks like it will be great. Screw comparisons to COD4! why would you miss out on a great game just because you've played an amazing one? By that logic i would have stopped buying games after the windwaker (not intending to start zelda arguments..)!

Ahmunnaeetchoo

4 player co-op is cool and all... but don't you think we've fought more battles of WWII now then the actual war? Can't they go for something a little more original now?

chirokitsune

Wow...Maybe I should buy a copy...and burn it so someone else doesn't have to suffer.

MysteryMeat

@Shiryu: If Infinity Ward were saying they could make it run on the Wii, I'd buy it. But since it's Treyarch, when they say the Wii version will be the same as the PS3 and 360 versions what they probably mean is we're just making a Wii version and we're going to port it to the other consoles. I learned to distrust Treyarch long ago.

And Berlin? We're going to play in Berlin? Oh. Thanks, Treyarch. I was hoping for another chance to play a WWII game set in Europe. Because I can't get that in any other title.

wild homes and gardens

Cover system, pl0x + ty.

Americo

looks like more of the same.

rockett1

"The co-op campaign allows players to rank up and unlock perks in competitive multiplayer".

So it seems they are keeping the perk system, which is a definite plus for the game.

lilsamuraijoe

4-player co-op?! Woah, I might just have to buy this! =\..

Katorok

@MysteryMeat:

Wow, why are posting such negative comments as well? Burn a copy? Someone seems to burn you for being so stupid to judge a game so early in its stage. Do find yourself special being with the crowd of haters? You know very few details on this game as well but you already want to make stupid remarks. Grow up. You have no reason to dis this game so early at this stage.

Xcite79

@Altima NEO:

That is pretty stupid considering there is still very few details known about this game and it has a long time before its release. Its smarter to wait to make judgments by having hands on time or at least waiting for reviews but you want to make your whole judgement based on it being a WW2 game and Treyarch making it.

Xcite79

It's time to stop calling this COD5 - it is only called World at War in Activision's press materials.

gin

I can only imagine what COD6 will be, the future? The same characters as 4 and continued on? 4 did set the bar for no more WW2.

Talleh

No not perks D; they were annoying in CoD4.

DranzerKire

@Dekabreak:
lol WoW it is WaW

durr

Dekabreak

Pyro's in COD:WoW?

That's it, I'm getting this game

Dekabreak

So what was with the Japanese narration? IF they are not going to break the norms and let me play from a new perspective, no thanks.

Yuki

*sigh*. Why does it have to be WWII again? Why not try WWI if they have to go a world war rout? Why not make up a war? Do something other than WWII please!

CyberSkull

Will this run in 720p this time, and not 576p?

But other than that, it looks great. I don't care if it's WWII again.

btw, what do people think about Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway?

Not only is it the last war franchise to hit next-gen, but it's still in WWII and is using Unreal.

AZRoboto