How 'Modern Warfare II' Became The Most Realistic 'Call Of Duty' Game | Movies Insider | Insider
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- "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II" is the most realistic version of the game yet. The first-person shooter game has incorporated methods of photogrammetry and performance capture to transport our world into the world of "Modern Warfare," scanning in everything from Ghost's mask to fully-costumed characters. The team even distresses its costumes in real life to add naturalistic wear and tear to the military gear in the game. And it creates and scans real miniature models to stand in for BattlePass's emblem and rewards. We visited Infinity Ward's studio in LA to find out how the developer continues pushing the boundaries of realism and immersion in video games.
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How 'Modern Warfare II' Became The Most Realistic 'Call Of Duty' Game | Movies Insider | Insider
It’s absolutely incredible that ALL of this effort and time go into making literally 1 video game and this is just one part of the game. Then you have the whole story line that needs to be created, the gameplay itself, characters, multiplier etc. insane. Hats off!
And then you have Snoop Dog.
@@darekmaver listen dude, the game devs try their best but activision just wants to make trash collabs, its not the devs' faults, activision signs there checks so they gotta listen to whatever activision wants
The sad part is that no production value seemed to go into the actual dialogue and story. They obliterated all characters from MW1. Still great mission design and graphics and gunplay but man that was maybe the worst COD regarding quality of dialog and story. Soap and Ghost were so overblown it was painful to watch.
@@listrahtes the budget on the story recording: 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💶💶💶💶💶💶💶💶💶💶💶💶💶💶💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷
the budget on the storyline,dialog,multiplayer,player feedback,anti cheat:🪙
and mfs still hate on devs
Photogrammetry is in part why the game takes 160+ gb on the ssd.
Jup
so stupid imo
And why my 2007 nzxt computer can barely run it
Not really, 3D models consume wayyy less space than textures. Assuming that MW2 uses 4k textures for the maximum setting, a set of textures for each model would be over 200mb if uncompressed
It's literally 81GB, just straight up lying. WZ + MW2
It's been interesting to see over the last decade; Developers are no longer trying to recreate real life through creating textures and models manually. It's become the norm among AAA studios to use performance capture and scans of practical props/characters. It's an exciting time where we get to see truly photorealistic games.
Wait is that a good thing
@@assassin8636 That depends on what you mean by 'good'.
Yea common for AAA, given Indie and AA's budget.
oh wait you mean that's good? when most of them taking 999+gb of the space now days
Mortal Kombat's digitized graphics on the Sega Genesis wasn't good enough for you? I'm only half serious. The scanning is just a technique. It make sense for some games and not for other.
Fun fact, the actor who plays the General is named Glenn. He was on the board of my film school in Dallas.
Really nice guy with a huge heart. Loved learning from him.
He’s a veteran of the call of duty franchise! He’s only ever been an unseen voice actor, so this is first role as an actual character you can actually see in the franchise. He also starred in one of my fav medical genres, so lucky you got to learn from him!
I think he was in the "24" tv series as well
@@mateosimon4237I even saw him in csi
@@mateosimon4237 Yes he played Aaron Pierce in 24. Very good character btw
Damn that guy was in everything
Imagine you've spent the last three years of your life putting such an incredible amount of effort into making this one of the most authentic-looking and sounding military shooters ever, only to look over at the intern's computer and see them modelling a cat/human hybrid names Sgt. Pspspsps
the best skin in the game
I've always felt like the campaign guys absolutely hate the designers for the multi-player shop lol
@@305backup I like how when the new game drops everything is serious and tactical looking and it just gets ridiculously goofy by the end.
@@Jake-yf3gvbecause if people saw all the shop stuff on launch they would be turned away.
This was beautiful. To all the artists, designers, engineers, prop masters, and crew that worked together to make this game look and sound amazing - thank you.
Skill based footsteps btw
Yeah it's about time you showed some appreciation. They did it all outta the kindness of their own hearts, just for you !
@@ubahfly5409 pure sarcasm... I love it.
You mean the work they did in between r@ping their coworkers and spreading revenge p0rn?
For the record, call of duty sucks now. If you play multiplayer, matches are pretty much predetermined. Skill based match making will buff and nerf you mid game to make you do better or worse depending on your average skill over a couple previous matches. It’s crazy and frustrating.
@@joethomas2014 Ok man, but who asked?
as a Latin American The way Las Almas was so thoughtfully loyal to a north Mexican city that I got into a photography tour during the "Alone" mission. Gorgeous altogether. Bravo team
Its hard to find good men in Mexico thats for sure, a country where criminals still rules
i know i am late to comment but i wish Las Almas was real so i can take more pictures
*"As a" always negates everything you say after.. Are you special? No..*
we have reached a point where visuals arent the limitations its the creativity of devs.
Disk space is an issue, amount of textures that can be loaded to memory and such. There is plenty of issues that need to be respected.
Nanite and similar tech overcome some limitations, but its never that easy
needs to be a pinned comment
*only if you have the money and resources for it :)
So true! Now technology has caught up with developers ambition. It’s up the the developers on how they use that technology and how they execute it
The limations are how much money are willing to throw away on game that no one's gonna play in by the end of the year
Normally Insider covers alot of niche topics, food or art. I love seeing Insider videos but I never thought I'd see a MWII video on Insider and I'm absolutely here for it. I adore MWII and seeing these props is interesting and covers parts of the process people didnt know about or overlook.
I thought that MWII was made off of digitally sculpted models originally, but seeing that they have physical props for his outfit and mask is fascinating
I love this game too man. It's quite depressing to see a game you so genuinely love get dunked upon
The cutscenes in this franchise are so photorealistic that some shots blur the boundary of real vs fake. It is really impressive, perhaps one day we’ll have that level of fidelity in game and not pre-rendered.
Excited to see Arago being used in the industry! We're humbled to have our photogrammetry rig recognized and it's great to see how it's making a difference.
Wow it's cool 😎
id love to use one if it wasnt expensive
Wow it’s cool wish I can use one tho
Thanks guys cool of you
as an ex-bungie employee once said: 'this space needs to be fun before it is pretty'
and thats why cod sucks
100%, this game aint fun lol
@@CharnelCrusader94532 Yeah but this is the campaign, which actually _is_ fun
To be fair this is the art and designer team. They aren't the one's in charge of gameplay and creative choices that end. Purely visuals
@@haywire4686 fun more like agony to me . Enemies take take 2 mags to die and ur character who die from one shot what a trash campaign
8:59 That's the real-life sized statue of Ghost when the LAPD responded to a panic button at an Infinity Ward office (One of their designers didn't think about what would happen to the button, so he instinctively pressed it) and had a standoff with that same statue because it looked like a heavily armed man facing backwards. If that is really the original one....
No way fr?
Alejandro was my favorite performance of the game, absolutely awesome how real the character feels because of all the detail
mw2 had an amazing story, the IW team did an amazing job . they all did a good job to bring this game to life .
the story was kinda meh mw 2019 had a way better story and story gameplay i don't know what went wrong
@@potato_duud6166 I agree. MW2 2022 was complete garbage compared to MW 2019. All the censorship and lack of controversial scenes were possibly due to the marketing team being afraid of politicians.
@@FutaCatto2 I don't understand how it happened even the gameplay was just boring the enemies were repetitive and the missions weren't interesting the only good thing about it was ghosts and soap returning everything else was just bland
@@potato_duud6166 I don't like the new Ghost and Soap. They are written like MCU characters. Aside from politicians, the writers are different from MW 2019.
Game play was amazing, story was meh
“We want our game to be as close to reality as possible”
*puts bunny outfit in the in game store*
Emma and her two moms are the reason for this
@@Epsilon-18 😂😂🙌🏼 made me laugh thx man
@@Epsilon-18 wkwkwkw
puts an aimbot onto every controller ...
@@sprayer97 you could play against other mouse and keyboard players and the next thing you'd being saying ohh they were cheating because your that dogshit at cod
They did a great job with graphics
and story line*
And that’s about it lmao
Sound design
Animations
Unlike shitguard
Mw2019 looks phenomenal still like the maya character looks sooooooo real
Yet their player count is still dropping
I really love people that are dedicated to their job. Hands down and hats off to the people at Infinity Ward for pouring in massive efforts just to give us players the game we always love.
but activision is ruining it...
You know we didn’t get exactly just what we actually wanted…….
Yea but the game is starting to become a p2w game now and plus 3000 devs and 11 company work on a single game yet we still have some goofy ahh kill cams, weird glitches, bugs, etc
@@SebasL10 yes we did
@@juehju no we didnt... who dafuq asked for the game to be so casual friendly and to give controller players an aimbot
The realistic details is one of the reasons Infinity Ward became my favorite of the 3 studios since MW2019
Impressive how much effort goes into this. If only the gameplay and technical aspects had this level of passion. I prefer gameplay over graphics, but the effort here is still commendable and the art team is truly gifted.
As a life long gamer that was born in the golden age of gaming (1996) hearing how it’s evolving and progressing to true immersion and realism I can’t express my gratitude for allowing me to continue being involved and truly loving gaming! Every single designer deserve thanks and praise for each game 😊
Your golden age. Mine was around 2010
stone age of gaming*
I was born '94, it truly was an incredible time to grow up when all the systems were coming out and gaming was slowly growing and getting better. I got to experience the consoles that started it all, Atari, N64, etc. and now I've seen how far it's come. It's amazing isn't it? I can't wait to see where it goes.
1989. A kid during the golden age ;)
@@g2jxGhF5G8z1gL7S listen buddy that is a very nasty way of thinking. and also you're just wrong. we had millions of lobbies full of new technology and ecosystems. it was A GOLDEN AGE. It was the time of our lives.
0:31 "Foap! Help me! These muppets are taking pictures all over me! FOAP!"- 💀
You can appreciate the aesthetics of MWII all day, no doubt it has its awesomeness of how they worked on those details, but the game lacks in many other places that people seem to forget or deny and just focus too much on the aesthetics.
Modern gamers dont know what a "good game" is
@Extant Fellow Appreciate something good for once? Okay. Why would I praise something that I dislike in the first place? Despite the fact that I've already praised the aesthetics if you haven't noticed, there's no reason for me to praise the rest of what comes with it, thus what makes my point of people getting falsely hyped by things like this just because it looks cool.
@@JADEK111 my point still stands
modern gamers have no idea what a "good game" is.
@@cpK054L Modern gamers wouldn't survive OG game lobbies either.
@Extant Fellow That's what you don't get. It's easy to praise the same beauty each game provides (or not). Everything might look nice but it doesn't mean it works in practicality.
0:44 nah that’s just a straight up flash bang right there😭😭💀
I just love how the characters have the bodies of their actors. That was amazing. They should make some live action series with them.
some of the cutscenes just looked like actual movie scenes
thats because cutscenes are rendered like movie scenes AKA their not realtime. their renderd on a gpu farm. it taks hours to render them out,. into a video formate that then is played. not at all similar to realtime rendering. totally diffrent tools, and process.
@@voyageproper if those cutscene were real-time, I doubt it would stay capped at 100gb of storage
People still don't understand how cutscenes work years later... these cutscenes are pre rendered, they aren't using the game's graphics... even Ubisoft have been making realistic looking pre rendered trailers back in early 2000's, the reason these type of cutscenes aren't featured much in modern games is because most people prefer in game cutscenes due to the fact it's interactive and all your customized gear is visible in the cutscenes. Also pre renders take a lot of budget and isn't really that worth it in the long run.
@@BienerSchnitzelCheekoroni ha ya also ingame graphics have come alongggg way.
but ya i work in non-realtime 3d stuff. tis willd. arists work on stuff on multi dccs. before it endup on a farm often multi rounds over weeks and takes hours and hours too cook at full rez. you thought 24fps was bad try 1 frame per 1or 5 min HAHA.
Love the amount of detail they've put into both this game and Modern Warfare 2019! Really makes the game enjoyable and the amount of detail they've put into the characters is fantastic. Can't wait to see MW3!
Who’s gunna tell him ?
@@Emmanuel-px9lk No one, that's the people Activision caters to. The dumbasses.
Does he know?
No one tell them...
They add so much detail that the game is impossible to play
"It can appear convincingly worn and weathered."
All except for that you can tell they didn't even put plates in them. Which is a common mistake in video games and Hollywood. They always build this well detailed and worn out looking plate carrier for the camera, but don't realize you need to put actual plates in them for it to look real. Now obviously you don't have to use real plates, but stores like Evike, and even Amazon sell both front, back, and side plates in multiple sizes, made entirely of foam for Airsoft/Paintball use. So you can keep the rigidness of the real thing, and the lightweight for actors to preform well.
I was about to say, it seemed a bit goofy to scan a miniature like that one into the game, so it didn't look terribly realistic. But doing that to use it as a menu item is a pretty clever idea, it lends it a sorta diorama look. I like it!
The interesting thing is people will say every AAA game does this, but the difference is COD MW took it to the next level. Like, look how much they do. From costume to set pieces to everything. No AAA till now did this level of detail
I wish their campaign mode more longer because I've enjoyed it so much!
It makes me upset all this work and care is put into making the game, and then there's little community interaction to make the game something everyone can enjoy :(
Because the game is trash(I still play tho lvl 750)
Mw2022 is probably one of the most graphically impressive games I've ever played next to the dead space remake.
Try RDR2 and TLOU 2
A plege tale requiem as well.
@@tomas2818 RDR2, especially now considerding how it’s held up and when it was released - its quality is insane
If you like fps, try battlefield 1 or 5. It will make COD look like a ps2 game.
modern warfare 2019 is so much better graphics wise, like the lighting and grittyness
Aa a 52 yr old fps gamer. I can appreciate all this work. Fascinating to see the work that goes inti it. 1:52
4:49 "Overall we're shooting for hyper-realism, we want the game to be 100% realistic"
Actual game: *full of Nicki Minaj skins with pink tracers, Homelander skins running around lasering people, and literal cats as military soldiers*
Insane. I think Avatar (2009) made a huge jump with capturing actors and their performance, and pave the way to the future
9:00 damn I miss the OG Ghost at the back.
It will come out as a bundle in season 3
Animator, Designers: We're gonna make this game looks awesome!
Producers: haha P2W bundles goes brrrrrrrrrrrr
it still looks amazing, p2w bundles don't make it look worse lmao
@@Winterstarf gameplay does
@@Winterstarf The stupid anime multiplayer skins make it look worse, that's for sure
@@sartorialdriver6528 gamers just have to complain about everything huh? How tf does a skin that someone uses affect the gameplay at all?
@@K1ngHardaway 1: The darker skins are paid DLCs, which gives a pay-to-win advantage because the players is harder to see.
2: It ruins the atmosphere. That's not a gameplay thing, but if people want a grounded experience, they'll leave after so many waifu skins.
remember all those times when bf fans used to say cod looked awful lmao
and people still call cod lazy lol
I would say they are still lazy BUT in story writing and developing the game alone. But graphics is undeniably good and definitely the best since seeing the efforts that they do here. Gameplay and storyline is one of the biggest problems of the game that's pretty much it :>
@@elskiiee5008 Yeah the new mwIII graphics look good despite beimg made in 16 months
@@rajeshgajbhiye1048because all the bulk of the job is already done, still looking pretty much like the game from 2 years ago.
The campaign for the last game was lazy indeed.
Still amaze me even after 8 years seeing them on UE4 and CryEngine, mostly the foliages scans
Now if they were allowed this much passion or slack in multiplayer we’d have a masterful game
Such great info and great detail! Well done to the team 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The sound in this game deserves an award 🥇
That is absolutely incredible!😯😲
Damn now I understand why it's very hard to produce updated games and why they need very good graphics cards
Realism aside, I'm more astonished at how the devs took the time to add in cinematography, how every camera angle is dramatic and cinematic. It's such a pleasant surprise.
If they can, they could probably make a COD movie already.
It's exactly like every other cod campaign it's not special its a cash grab for 70$
So realistic bunnyhoppin around corners with pink tracer guns in a bunny costume, its so realistic!!!
@@Vsprivate Thats true i need to agree but its a 2 hour exp.
@@Vsprivate Sicario campaign ? MW 2019 have so much better campaign.
@@tomas2818 I agree, I enjoyed MW19 more than MW2 it was more immersive and had real world tensions.
Sweaties gonna sweat
@@sartorialdriver6528 Nah thats a lie🤡
They're basically making a movie for the players to be starring in.
Unpopular opinion: MWII was one of the strongest entries in the entire COD franchise.
It's so easy to forget how hard people are working behind the scenes
In-Game: Skull
Real: Mr. Incredible maximum uncanny skull face with baby music.
Thank you for the update, Insider..!! MWII rocks..!! 😄
We are talking about campaign only, right? RIGHT?
Cuz there is no way the multiplayer deserves praise in any way.
@@sonsofliberty9630 depends if you love a challenge
@@1upproductions423 its only a challenge if its legit. Gunfights are literally being rigged(Activision Patents confirm this).
The game plays the player.
@@sonsofliberty9630 source?
@@1upproductions423 are you high
This is amazing. They should have this level of immersion and attention to detail in the multiplayer as well, like CoD used to be back in the day
If only they put this much effort into the multiplayer experience
I think it's kind of funny that all this effort can't be noticed or criticized if we don't know what real war is like or what any of those "realistic" add ins are like, yet they keep people in front of screens for hours so they can't see what it's like in real life how can we appreciate it then?
Still however because of their effort and work I think they're doing an excellent job to be clear.
Its not realistic as a war game ( because basically you're a one man army in the story) but its realistic because of how they made the guns, props, and characters
im by no means a soldier or a veteran but if you ever look up real combat footage just on youtube or google , 90 percent of the time you wont see the enemy and its actual very quite for the most other than bullets flying and the occasional explosions from air support. Obviously when it come to gaming and entertainment its not as exciting to portray so typically games make it more dramatic in that sense.
This video is only claiming realism in visuals. Anything else is not handled by the art team
@@smileyr You forgot about CQB footage.
This was awesome, especially as a every-now-and-again COD player. Thanks for putting this together. :)
If only they’d used more of this budget for writing and quality control.
Extremely interesting to watch behind the scenes footage, this answered a lot of my questions.
The amount of work and dedication for the look of the Battlepass is hilarious.
Major respect to these guys
0:50 Now my question is answered on wether or not it was EDP in the game💀
I think we're finally seeing the benefits of technology advancing enough to speed up the process of developing a game (in some aspects). Eventually coding, programming, concept work (already starting), scanning, etc will be done so quickly. Save so much time!
great more lame games just flooding the market.
@@amandaburleson2035we need to start making our own games. If I had the skills I’d do it myself. I have a bunch of ideas I just need to collaborate with a developer.
I've been watching you since I was 11 years old (5 years of watching your videos) and honestly I am always excited for your new upload, and all of your videos get better everytime, that's why I love insider
homelander and his Lazer eyes is definitely realistic
This is pretty dope and the gun sounds in the game does sound really authentic. MW 2 is a dope game 👊🏿
0:36 “Foap”
I promise you 2019 still LOOKS better than 22 and 23
Yes
no it doesnt modern warfare 2019 is nowhere near MWII
mw2019 isnt realistic, its overdone, what i mean is that they add more scratches, dents, bumps, holes to their textures than what real life looks like
MWII is just what real life looks like no extra unrealistic detail just what it would look like in real life
" THE INFAMOUS GHOST JAWBONE" 🔥
their expressions are so heavy, gen z started to imitate their digital copies with the same amount in real life
Realistic world + Imaginary Story + Immersive Technology = Next Level Experience 🔥
+celebrity bundles
The is magnificent looking ! I spent a lot of time looking at the props in houses.
So the 'Foap' Ghost mask is real?
I'm not saying MW2 didn't feel realistic but credit is due to Red dead redemption 2 which i think had the most details
it's so realistic bc niki minaj can shoot me with a glowing sniper rifle in a place with shipping container surrounded by water
If the gameplay was as good as this
this is magnificent. such incredible work was put into this amazing game. we can see the amount of love that was poured here🖤
Uve never played the game before, be honest
The Warzone and Rebirth aspect (Ashika Island) is pretty blah.. but the story mode was just simply AMAZING it was like the just finished watching the movie Sicario and mixed it with Call of Duty it really felt like it was Sicario the video game. That's one thing since the very first COD was they've always had great campaign modes. This was hands down one of my favorite campaigns to say the least even though I played it on veteran so it got frustrating at times when I couldn't get past a certain part LOL but it made it that much more satisfying when I did beat the game.
COD has become an emotion now, and Captain Price has become one of the best character in video game history.
The 24h le mans track on the wall !! ❤❤
4:20 ps4 dev kit spotted
2:49 - excuse me, "fake dirt"? what kind of "rare" substance is that needs to be faked?
Different places have different dirt. Its easier to fake a special dirt, than to import it
Imagine if this effort was put into other milsims like Arma, Ready or Not, DCS etc
They're not as bloated if that's what you mean
@@Analog-to-digital-cotinual cope
I don’t think any system would be Abel to handle ARMA if they put in better graphics. It balances out because there’s no other game that has the creativity, and depth of ARMA
@@dylonbronson4542 to be fair
@@roderickclerk5904 k
Truly a work of art! Kudos to the artists who worked so hard to bring this game this far.
While i was watching a gameplay with no commentary of modern warfare it literally seemed like a movie
You realize we're all gonna laugh at this video in ten years
COD don't look photorealistic because of console hardware limitation.
@@astakonaaves8029 you right but still a lot can change in a decade, have you seen the "MetaHuman - Real-Time Facial Model Animation Demo | State of Unreal 2023" that was only 3 weeks ago?
true, but we look at cod from 10 years ago today and are still joyful it happened
@@waclac Agree. We only can achieve photorealistic in 2030 or beyond. Matrix Awaken looks good but still far from photorealistic.
Unrecord is looking pretty damn close already
I love graphics. Can't wait for my rtx 4090. It is coming in 3 days. 😁😀
Wow, Enjoy :)
@@pritamgaming7741 Are you from west bengal?
@@Pakhira148 yup
MW2019 is better.
MW19 should hold the title for most detailed cod. It still looks better than MW22 and MWIII
Man this explains so much. I did wonder why a lot of the models I ripped from the game files looked like they were 3d scans LOL
"the most realist looking video game ever made".... lets tone that down a notch 🤨
In their defense Amsterdam level did look really good.
@rundown132 yes it did
COD still look cartoony from graphical standpoint.
@@astakonaaves8029 not really...
I need Ghost mask
2:35 Ask real military for their old stuff.....
Nota bad idea
Sometimes during the campaign I couldn't tell if I was watching a live action film.
that 1to 1 scale ghost has some funny history
As a call of duty fan I know it's been on a little risky market currently because of COD cold war and such wasn't as good but still I hope they get better and this is incredibly amazing I never knew the new games is now made like this it's so awesome
Cold war was the best cod game from the last 7 cods which where just not fun to play
@@LordKurian what are you saying?! Black ops II was dam amazing. What are you talking about
@@LordKurian ummmm world at war, Black Ops 1 and 2 and Modern Warfare 2(2009) are some of the best call of duty games out there. Then again that is YOUR opinion just as this one is mine. Respectfully disagree with you.
Maybe they showed us ghost face in this video that guy where 1:03
01:22 foap
😂😂
I really love the realism of how a fire shotgun can kill faster than a .338 lapua to the face.
Much respect to the dev team