Is the art and effects in CoD dated?

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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

How old were the comment? After restating the campaign with the new patch, there is nothing dated about graphics. Compared to any other combat flight sim out there I doubt there is anything out there that does it better.

It's definately on par with the other two contenders.

Cheers!

Yes but that in no way makes it modern.

Think about this: year 2011, there are flightsims out with near or photorealistic graphics and they would be mainstream market games.
FPS's are the niche. Then when everyone has been playing BF2/DOD/CS and then Modern warfare 2 comes out in year 2011/2012 everyone is like omg its so pretty, then people point out that flight sims have hyper realistic graphics and effects then the people who like MW2 say: Well all the other FPS games graphics suck in comparison! Therefore since MW2 looks better than other older FPS it must be next gen/cutting edge graphics!

Just because it looks better than other games in a small market in no way means that it takes advantage of modern tech or is even particularly good looking. Thats the point I was making in my other post, these comparisons are stupid because comparing COD to a flight sim from years ago is the same as comparing COD to Crysis 2, instead of genre we are talking about hardware and software capabilities and techniques though.

The ONLY way we can make a clear headed and accurate judgement of COD's graphics is to compare it to current gen or recent sims, (which is hard now that we are in a tech shift) or analyze the underlying graphical tech and methods used to create the games graphics, and then look at how well the game is performing. Currently this is pointing towards the game performing very badly for what it is displaying and what it is displaying is not spectacular. Outside of the forum bubble people are all saying this, look at the pc gamer article for example.