Well it would seem that finally the #1 Xbox360 launch title, Call Of Duty 2′s successor COD3 has finally started to spill the beans. At e3 we saw a wicked trailer but we pretty much can rest assured it was only CGI… but the fact is after the craze over COD2 and with Brothers in Arms to compete against COD3 is gonna rock! MasiveUNCfan on the Xbox.com forums has taken the liberty of typing out an article in the newest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly about call of duty 3, and its improvements over its Xbox360 predecessor, and WOW we’re talking some major improvements. Click Read More or check the source for all the awesome details! Can’t wait for IGN’s CoD3 site to be up come July 4th.
Leaps over COD2:
In game system has been rebuilt
Characters move more realistically.
more textures and shaders in the environment
No more boarded up windows so now you can see the turn up landscape all around you.
foliage remains flattened when you walk over (you can track people now, until it is real[ly] destroyed)
Grenades leave real scorched earth.
Surfaces react to bullets like they should, grass is different from steel, steel is different from wood, and wood is different from water.
More than 24 characters on screen at one time.
Destructable cover
Global winds affect smoke grenades.
Now, when a tabk [tank] moves through smoke grenades the somke [smoke] will curl around it.
Bullets through smoke with stream out the other side moving the smoke.
Trees and grass will move with the windThings change:
You actually have to go through the actions of planting a bomb instead of holding A.
You have to row a boat while still trying to shoot you way to freedom.
Hand to hand combat compared to the way Condemed works.
CoD3 campaign takes place during the real campaign called Normandy Breakout. This is after D-day when the troops are moving inland to move the Germans back and liberate Paris.Load times are bring erased between levels.
Play as Americans, British, Polish Resistance, and the Canadian army
Example: When you are fighting with the British you will fight along side the French resistance.
Multiplayer
24 online
Single or Splitscreen [Guest support?]
Players choose their class ranging from medic to sniper.
Each ability as you earn points in rank.
Ex. A scout at first can only call in a couple artillery barages. As they gain ability they will be able to call in a broken arrow
Online leaderboards track stats and rankings by specialty.
New Multiplayer mode called War.
Axis and Allied teams battling for strategic locations.
And of course vehicles.
The post says that cod3.1up.com will launch on July 4th of this year and will contain exclusive screens and ingame screenshots!!!!! Keep in mind that until we see scans these are unsubstantiated rumors. (But good ones.) The game will be out in Fall 2006 for the PC and all next-gen consoles.
Source: XboxIC
