Activision aware gamers want 'better-looking' Call of Duty

Black Ops II = the only thing that can save Call of Duty.

This is it. Make it or break it. If this one fails, then there is no hope left.

How about instead of tweaking with the outdated engine even more, you actually create a new engine!!! :O Crazy huh? But yes I understand activision you want to pump out a new damn COD every year to milk the cow. Every time you tweak with an old engine, the more issues and bugs arise.

Graphical improvement are definitely welcome, but Treyarc needs to focus on the issues first. People have been exploiting CoD bugs for a while. Quickscoping, aimbots, they all need to go. People using them should have been banned years ago. Besides, sniping is a support mode, not an assault mode.

Is that what gamers want? I don't recall hearing much about CoD lacking quality in the graphics department. The graphics are typically held in high regard in online reviews. I DO however see a lot of folks complaining about playing a game that has remained the same for a number of iterations.

At least this game will work on the first day, won't take a lot of shots with a sniper to take down someone in hardcore, implement their funds on better multiplayer gameplay. (Looking forward to Zombies)

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They should improve the graphics, imagine Call of Duty with BF3 graphics? To all you CoD haters, I remember when you used to say 'Stop this franchise' blablablah. Now from the comments I can see you rather have a 'change of gameplay?' Make up your mind.

I'm just wondering what Zombies will be like!

Wait a second...a modified version of the black ops 1 engine...correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they use a modified version of the cod4 engine? Honestly Activision, the problem isn't just the graphics, the engine is outdated, the franchise needs to take a break and start fresh, give your developers a couple of years to really tune the game instead of rehashing year after year. Everyone is getting sick of it, and the quality of the cod games has been sinking since mw1. If you truly wish to keep your money cow going, give it a break to bring back the milk.

It's pretty hard to do engine upgrades when the people responsible for developing it left due to shady management. It also doesn't help that every change has to be completed and tested within a single year to meet the annual release date. I find it amazing that this is still fundamentally the Quake 3 engine as modified for MoH: Allied Assault.

Next generation consoles will make the difference in visuals. I can only imagine minor enhancements at this stage in the current generation of consoles life-cycles. This is because of the limitations of the hardware in the consoles. If there wasn't a Call of Duty every year; people would notice the changes a lot more because there would be more time for a larger number of enhancements that currently get unnoticed from one iteration to the next.

How about work on the gameplay? But they do have to please all the little graphics whores out there...

Call of duty's graphics dont improve because its a console game, its that simple, and in the balance you have to do between graphics or fps for consoles, they choosed fps, nothing wrong with that.

Its all Bullshit. Never gonna buy any game from this franchise. The multiplayer is ruled by hackers and cheaters. And the matchmaking in multi F**king bullshit. Once i had play against 7 people, me being the only person in my team. To top it up, now there's new problem with theirs servers. They are asking us to check our service provider and routers. Activision why the F dont you check your server for once??

I think they need a new direction, honestly CoD turned into Need for Speed with an iteration every year, people got bored by this, its time they move to new terrain and create an open world cod with vehicle battles in the veins of the BF series.

@DashRender619

That's what alotta people are saying, "fix the single-player and ditch the dlc rackets". But Activision doesn't listen to consumers; they listen to share holders. And shareholders want the 8th gen (flashier graphics) so that they can block used games and nix bc.

This has corporate propaganda written all over it.

I don't hear alotta complaints regarding CoD's graphics. But I do hear a swarm of complaints regarding CoD's often half-assed single-player campaigns and dlc rackets. Which means Activision isn't paying much attention to their consumers.

Honestly, I think Activision is cooking up the whole "gamers want better looking..." just to impose the 8th gen. The upcoming 8th gen is also a hot button topic, with all this talk of "used-game blocking" and "no bc". But, regardless of what gamers want, the console makers and mega-publishers are gonna force it.

Most of us are smart enough to not buy the 8th gen consoles. But, the gamers who compusively do buy them will only encourage gaming's current problems. Thanks, chumps.

@DashRender619 speak for yourself

i don't want a better looking COD,i want a better SP experience.thats why i'm more interested in Dishonored,Bioshock,and Prey 2.

@DashRender619 LOL?

I never bought the last cod game. It will take more than graphical Improvements to bring me back to the franchise.

Lol, same engine just slightly modified = big plans for activision. Why don't you hear the calls to stop making the franchise so stale and actually try and do something new and innovative with the gameplay? I forgot, half measures such as modifying an existing engine is much easier when your chucking them out on 2 year cycles (2 years by treyarch and 2 by infinity ward since they do consecutive games).

Wow... EVERY article about BO2 has "Same Engine? No buy" comments all over and now they address that and all of a sudden everyone is like "graphics don't matter, gameplay!!" haha Quite a fickle bunch us gamers are...

we shall see

I don't play CoD,but at this point,CoD "hate" doesn't have much with the franchise itself.

It's just there,and even if Activision truly innovated something and updated the graphics engine,we would still be seeing a lot of "haters".It's cool to "hate" on CoD nowdays,but it's also cool to buy it on the release date,when the "hate" suddenly goes away...

An entirely new engine is needed, not just a slight graphics upgrade.

No.

We want a BETTER call of duty. Not recycled junk.

60fps is good... the way the game plays is good... the competitiveness is good... the changes for BO2 are good... despite all the hate the game is actually setting up to be a good one... just imagine it with deeper more graphics with more depth and an engine that made the environments feel 3D/believable the majority of the time... now that would be the icing on the cake

Give me stick figures and new gameplay over....slightly better looking rehash... Kinda how it doesn't matter how attractive you are on the outside if you are a major b***h. I mean, yea you look good, but I still wish you were dead..

I would rather have a better/longer campaign from COD. The last COD looked great, the campaign was only about 4 to 6 hours long. For a guy who only plays COD for the SP, it wasn't worth the $35 dollars I payed for it during a Steam sale.

I didn't want a Call of Duty in general!

Better looking? How many games was that already?