RtCW2: First Screenshots (Wolfenstein)

by peoples • 16 Jul 2008, 00:23 • Journals
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53682

Real screenshots, no more scans from a magazine. First thoughts?
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RazZaH 16 Jul 2008, 01:25
wait i ll check it out !


doesnt look thaaaat nice imo...

but care as long as the gameplay owns :)
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:32
Enviroments look nice, but I am bit vary on the models, they don't look as bad as they did in the scans, but I expected more.

I know that most people here will tune everything down to get decent FPS for MP, but I guess the looks mean something too :)
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hex4 16 Jul 2008, 01:26
apart from the fact that they are the same as the scans...

i can see the "second-view" like cod weapons will be available (slower game?) for an mp40...
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:27
They aren't, get your eyes checked, there are 2 new ones at least.
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hex4 16 Jul 2008, 01:28
soz forgot to say: most of them...
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:30
What do you mean by this: "i can see the "second-view" like cod weapons will be available (slower game?) for an mp40..."

If you remember, RtCW had different gameplay in MP and SP, you run faster, shoot more rapidly and so on. More intense.
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hex4 16 Jul 2008, 01:34
i dont know how you explain it tbh but if you played COD, with any weapon you had a second shooting view being a sniper, thompson, garand anything... if you see the s/s the players are holding their weapon at their eye level not like ET...
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Raull 16 Jul 2008, 01:38
those are the computer controlled players in SP. I really wouldnt draw any conclusions based on how they hold their guns. I think the nazis in RTCW sp held their guns like that too.
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douille 16 Jul 2008, 02:09
ironsight ! it sux :(
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hex4 16 Jul 2008, 02:13
ye thats it

and yes it sux
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med1xza 16 Jul 2008, 03:58
It doesnt mean that iron sights will be used, even in single player, they are just animations on the models, think of ET and shrugging characters, you dont notice your own character doing it, you just see your health/ammo packs on screen as normal. Also iron sights dont mean it will be slow, its just the trend with games that use them at the moment. If iron sight aiming is used, lets just hope they dont follow the trend.
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w0nd3r 16 Jul 2008, 01:26
one word: horrible
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:28
One question: why? I would like hear that too, keep this as a discussion rather than as a poll.
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w0nd3r 16 Jul 2008, 01:30
reminds me of Quakewars a bit :o) I don't like games, which are looking like laser boooooooom baaaaam ARMAGEDDON greeeeeeeeeeeeeenn eye cancer :D
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:31
Hey, RtCW had lazers too, but not in MP. These are shots from the SP part - or so I think, it would be hard to balance that lazers be here weapon :l
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w0nd3r 16 Jul 2008, 01:34
that's a knock-down argument. but I don't understand why these ppl are always programming games for high-end hardware. that's kinda weird
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:55
That doesn't seem to be a game for that high-end hardware. You can buy HD4850 for 150euros, and it will run this easily.
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w0nd3r 16 Jul 2008, 01:56
gief me 150€ and it's okay x[
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:57
Or better wording, if you can run Quake 4, you can run this.
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duNzy 16 Jul 2008, 01:28
looks like DOD:S for me with a spice of dragons
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:29
where be the dragons? :)
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duNzy 16 Jul 2008, 01:30
look , up in the sky!!
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duNzy 16 Jul 2008, 01:32
it's a plane!
it's a bird!
no , it's ze dragons
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pupupup 16 Jul 2008, 01:30
looks nice
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Puubuu 16 Jul 2008, 01:31
Well, watching the ground on one of the screenshots, I have to say that this game infact doesn't look better, but worse than ET.
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:35
Well, that might be just too evident on these stills. Also, I don't know which version these are from. Art assets are optimized for every platform, and if this is from X360 version or PS3 version it would explain the certain lack of detail.

I am more worried about the lack of detail in the models. Looking back at the screenshot from DNF, they had a lot more detail going on.
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ANGAiil 16 Jul 2008, 01:32
"Finally, remember that RtCW2 is the first game of id Software have been developed primarily for the Xbox 360." AHAH
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:53
That's someone interpreting things wrong. It has been developed X360 as the primary development platfrom. That changes things.

Also, it's never a reason to have worse game. Since, essentially, you can do your assets and scale them down for the consoles.
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Yossarian 16 Jul 2008, 01:36
looks bad, very bad :/
if you check high res screenshots
same engine as q4/d3/qw = guess what

even cod4 (q3 engine) produces higher quality of picture and better feeling

anyway, gentleman, prepare your game controllers!
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:56
Certainly has it roots in id Tech 4, but Carmack already said that they have very little in common. Some highlevel hierarchy stuff, but beyond that it's like apples and oranges.
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st'logic 16 Jul 2008, 01:38
MAIN:



The Wolfenstein multiplayer experience continues the world-renowned tradition of class-based team objective gameplay."











yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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PC 16 Jul 2008, 01:38
Where's the Thompson? :(
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w0nd3r 16 Jul 2008, 01:40
It has been replaced with a uber-mega-green-yellow-power-laser
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PC 16 Jul 2008, 01:43
Let's hope not!
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xeoxis 16 Jul 2008, 01:45
Needs dragons.
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 02:00
what kind of dragons would be the best? medieval ones?
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xeoxis 16 Jul 2008, 02:06
DRAGONS FROM HARRY POTTER!
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duNzy 16 Jul 2008, 02:07
image: dragons

rawr!
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 02:20
this is odd... but I be thinking those dragons be gay? of course, in a totally non-gay way that is!
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ETNiES 16 Jul 2008, 01:45
no gloves no win! Hands look weird and over sized! Yes i know its only an early screenshot but still :P
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 01:58
I wouldn't say these are early, or not that early, game has been in development for years. But things can change rapidly, as with DNF where they changed the Duke model 3 times in 1 year.
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drv4c 16 Jul 2008, 01:53
i doubt that the laz0r gun will be in multiplayer

i also don't really care about graphics as long as it will be optimised good
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rize 16 Jul 2008, 02:05
dunno why but i like the pictures if they r from a single player
hope multiplayer game will be little different

ps: awesome general caps
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Roach 16 Jul 2008, 02:11
sux. I would like to see some ingame footage.
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tactics 16 Jul 2008, 02:13
Looks like it'll stay true to the "environment" of RTCW, we only have to see if that holds true for gameplay as well.

http://www.wolfenstein.com/
© 2009 id Software, Inc. All rights reserved

Guess it won't be in time for Christmas.
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 02:30
Wrong url?
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tactics 16 Jul 2008, 02:32
What? That's what it says on the URL I posted... I saw your screenshots on the other one, too.
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peoples 16 Jul 2008, 02:39
You know, I didn't see that "© 2009 id Software, Inc. All rights reserved" on the site. Only generic advertisements. Since it is registered for Activision by markmonito company, that protects your trademarks, by registering different domains automatically.

http://www.markmonitor.com/
http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=WOLFENSTEIN&tld=com
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tactics 16 Jul 2008, 02:50
It's right under the "endrant" advertisement. :)
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dinev 16 Jul 2008, 02:33
guys you can't expect that game to totally be like et :D that's not what id wants and also it wouldn't be possible because et is just the ultimate fps tacticshooter there can't be naything better..et has it all
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Furiouz 16 Jul 2008, 03:17
3 words: this just simply sucks
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envyy 16 Jul 2008, 03:30
I Rly dunno what to say right now Cos the clock is now 3:30 Swedish time
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Cachucha 16 Jul 2008, 08:42
ooh so you have like a cover system now
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duumed 16 Jul 2008, 14:32
looks cool
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