Modern Warfare 2’ Being Indistinguishable From Reality

Whereas it’s been identified for some time that Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 2 could be utilizing a brand new engine, as would the Warzone sequel, now that the marketing campaign has arrived early, we’re beginning to see precisely what that appears like.

And it’s wild.

A viral video is making the rounds on Twitter, showcasing a mission set in Amsterdam. And it’s so wildly detailed it appears to be like nearly indistinguishable from actuality, with some joking it nearly appears to be like even higher than precise photographs, one way or the other.

Some are stating that on this case, this mission is kind of a “hallway” mission, the place you’re not in an enormous firefight, however merely strolling a pre-ordained path down the road with minimal fight. It does appear to be it was particularly crafted to point out off the capabilities of the tech. And people capabilities are…huge. I’m reminded of the Unreal Engine 5 Matrix tech demo which was essentially the most real looking wanting generated metropolis I’d ever seen within the sport, and solely the start of what’s attainable (Trendy Warfare 2 will not be utilizing UE5).

If there’s one shortcoming it’s that the realism of the human characters will not be fairly matching the realism of their environments, from their movement to their look. They’re not horrible, however they’re not nice both. You possibly can see extra of that within the full video of the mission:

That is simply the primary sport made utilizing this new engine, and that signifies that loads larger and higher choices might be coming as they proceed to max out its capabilities. Whereas we’re a number of years into this new console technology, we’ve got not but absolutely reached their potential, and naturally on PC the place issues like the brand new 4090 exist, it’s a special story altogether by way of how far issues may be pushed. Even video games like Cyberpunk 2077 on CDPR’s getting old REDengine look flawless with present prime tech. Think about what occurs once they do make their subsequent sport in Unreal Engine 5.

This stands in sharp distinction to the appearance of the metaverse, the place a current level of controversy has been how poor Meta’s Horizon graphics have been particularly, even with promised upgrades coming. Extra conventional video video games proceed to dash ahead into the longer term whereas a platform like VR continues to be taking part in catch-up to tech from two generations in the past, exterior of uncommon exceptions like Half Life: Alyx, that are few and much between.

This video has roughly offered me on the marketing campaign of Trendy Warfare 2, after I’ve skipped the final two. I gotta see what else this sport is able to, I believe.

Replace: Some extra details about why this new engine appears to be like so good, and the way we are able to anticipate different, non-Trendy Warfare video games to additionally use it, given a giant shift coming to the sequence.

One huge factor about this new engine for Trendy Warfare 2 is that Name of Responsibility is now altering to have every part being made on a single, unified engine as an alternative of disparate variations like they did up to now.

“When one of many groups places in a extremely cool rendering or audio or animation characteristic,” Infinity Ward co-studio head and Trendy Warfare 2 artistic director Patrick Kelly stated at a preview again in June 2022, “then we’ve got to have a bunch of individuals implement it within the different engine, after which one other engine once more.”

Nonetheless, that doesn’t imply that every one the video games will really feel precisely the identical as each other:

“A Black Ops sport traditionally has had a barely totally different really feel – some totally different artwork course and issues like that – than an Infinity Ward sport. And I’ll inform you, from my standpoint, from our standpoint, we have a good time and embrace that we’re not trying to mash all of them collectively into one.”

This new Infinity Ward engine we’re seeing in motion additionally makes use of components of engines from different studios, which have all mixed into the “tremendous engine” you see above. The concept is that they used the “better of the perfect” options from all of the totally different engines they had been beforehand working with. And sure, which means different video games like the following Black Ops title also needs to look this good.

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