It was about time to see Activision Blizzard‘s 2019 game be officially revealed.

„Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a powerful experience reimagined from the ground-up. The all-new title […] puts players in a modern-day conflict, where split-second decisions could affect the global balance of power. The new Modern Warfare features a unified narrative experience and progression across a heart racing, epic single-player story, an action-packed multiplayer playground, and new cooperative gameplay.

[…] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare features a new engine delivering an immersive and photo-realistic experience. The new technology utilizes the latest advancements in visual engineering, including a physically-based material system allowing for state of the art photogrammetry, a new hybrid tile-based streaming system, new PBR decal rendering system, world volumetric lighting, 4K HDR, DirectX Raytracing (PC) and more as well as a new GPU geometry pipeline. Spectral rendering delivers thermal heat radiation and infrared identification for both thermal and night-vision in-game imaging. The technical investment provides a cutting edge animation and blend shape system, while the new suite of audio tools supports full Dolby ATMOS, on supported platforms, along with the latest in audio simulation effects,” the press release says. We skipped the comments (PR talk), but it shows that there is significant technological evolution here.

So, they say it’s a new engine. Infinity Ward already tried saying it six years ago before Call of Duty: Ghosts, but they turned out to not really say the truth, so we’ll take that comment with a grain of salt for now. Will there be scripted death animations once again, which has been in the game since 2007?

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which uses the same name as the 2007 game whose reimagined version is the one coming this year, is coming out on October 25 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (where Beenox helps with the port, which will be Battle.net-exclusive). As is usual, the PlayStation 4 will get the DLC early, but there will be no season pass this time. Instead, we’ll get cross-play and a prestige token in Black Ops IIII for those who pre-order.

Source: Gematsu