Sledgehammer notes that a large proportion of the engine is brand new

Jun 9, 2014 07:09 GMT  ·  By

The upcoming title in the Call of Duty series of first-person military shooters, Sledgehammer Games' Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, will be including some new and fancy technology.

The beans have already been spilled on the game's facial animation tech, mirroring the techniques and functions found in Avatar 2, the upcoming sequel to James Cameron's groundbreaking sci-fi thriller.

Since its reveal last month, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has garnered a lot of attention from the gaming community. Sledgehammer Games has many people who worked at Visceral Games, most notably known for putting together the Dead Space series, and as such is intent on delivering an intelligent and well-crafted storyline.

Advanced Warfare's audio design is yet another marvel of modern technology, with the engineers aiming to not only replicate the sound of heavy firearms use, but also to mimic the vibrations of gunfire and to provide realistic effects for bullets that hit different targets such as enemies and walls.

In addition to this, Sledgehammer also intends to deliver an ambitiously photorealistic appearance to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, a feat that it plans to achieve by using a combination of an abundance of data sourced from real-world scans, in conjunction with new rendering technology and its artists' masterful implementation.

Furthermore, Kevin Spacey's helping hand delivering the plot and the futuristic warfare hardware that will accompany the 2054 setting will ensure that the next call of duty will be an important leap in from direction that the franchise first established in 2003.

The game will apparently also include a new engine, but Sledgehammer also notes that it features some code from older games, but with enough of it being brand new, as revealed by Edge magazine.

"Although what the studio means by new in this context isn't what the internet means when it complains about the old COD engine. We have new rendering, animation, physics and audio systems," Chief Operating and Development Officer of Sledgehammer Games, Michael Condrey, explains.

The developer has also released a new batch of screenshots from the upcoming tactical shooter, allowing a closer look at real-time shadows, lighting, showing some impressive textures and highlighting the destructibility of the environments.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is currently scheduled to come out on November 4 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC platforms, and a gameplay demonstration is expected to be revealed during this week's E3 convention in Los Angeles.

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