New Bond game Quantum of Solace runs on COD4 engine, launching with movie

The upcoming 007 game just got an ammo clip of good news.* Quantum of Solace, currently in development at Treyarch, is running on the Call of Duty 4 game engine and due out this Fall alongside the movie. "We look forward to launching Bond: Quantum of Solace in Q3 concurrent with movie. This game uses the Call of Duty 4 engine and technology to bring Bond games to a new level," said Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith in a conference call yesterday (36:20 mark).

Why does this excite us? Simply put: COD4 is one of the best multiplayer experiences currently available on consoles, and it gives us hope that this version will be able recapture the magic we felt when we first tried split-screen Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64. It also gives us an idea as to what platforms we can expect to see the game on -- likely Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and perhaps PC. Quantum of Solace, the film, is releasing October 31 in the UK, November 7 in North America.

* Note: Fear not, the writer of this joke has indeed been eliminated.

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bring back the laptop gun and proximity mines to multiplayer and im in.

Hellz yeah!

Uhm... Laptop gun is from Perfect Dark...

my entire childhood is a blur....

@ Lynk
Its also in nightfire.

Yay?

Yup.

W00T

The persons in charge of sacking the writer, have also now been sacked.

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti.

And do try to bring the engine back in one piece, Treyarch...

There have been far worse jokes that should have resulted in firings.

what joke?can somebody tells whats going on?

Look where an * is in the article. Then read the * at the bottom.

If you don't know this fundamental reading skill, you must be pretty confused when it comes to disclaimers...

I'm pretty sure that if they keep the game play similar to COD4 then I'm all over this, it's like COD4 Ver.2

Yeah, James Bond is known for his frontline infantry combat with infinitely respawning squadmates ^^

It's not like he was a secret agent or anything.

M-u-l-t-i-p-l-a-y-e-r, duh.

My name is Bond, James Bond, and like to have sex with my teammates*

*hot ones only

Sounds good; CoD4's engine was pretty robust. If you squinted your eyes, some of the maps looked photorealistic (e.g. heli drop in Unspecifiedistan, Chernobyl sniper mission).

Anything looks photorealistic if you squint your eyes hard enough: you should try it with the Wii.

Now if only Treyarch could turn themselves into the same Rare team from 1997 I would feel confident in the games success.

This game may just turn out alright.

It's a magazine, not a clip.

Well if you look at the picture, he is holding a pistol. So a clip is infact correct.
Fail.

No, you fail. It's still a magazine. Ask anyone who knows anything about firearms and they'll tell you the same thing.

I stopped read after "currently in development at Treyarch".

Brought to you by the devs of the horrendous COD3, COD: Big Red One. They will find a way to mess this game even with the tools Infinity Ward used to do COD4.

I'm not sure how Treyarch + COD 4 engine = Golden Eye gameplay.

That's quite a leap of 'logic' and sounds more like wishful thinking.

actually i think its good news that treyarch is developing this...it means there is a good chance they are touching COD 5.

Cross your fingers and toes....

Duhnuh nuh nuh....nuh nuh nuh, duhnanuh nuh nuh nuh

Good ol James Bond theme tune ^^

Shaken and not stirred ;)

ITS BOND!

Who do we get to sleep with this time? And will the sex scene be anything like the ones in God of war games?

Better yet, when the bar tender asks us if we want our drink shaken or stirred, can we reply:

"Do I look like I give a toss?"

It is done by Treyarch...which means this game is going to blow. This saddens me. Yet another Bond game won't live up to Goldeneye.

So by the Call of Duty 4 engine, they mean the Unreal 3 engine, right?

You know, since that's what it really is.

What the hell are you on about? Call of Duty used the Quake 3 engine and since Call of Duty 2 have been using a proprietary engine which is, essentially, a heavily modified Quake 3 engine. Take a look at one of the .iwd files in Call of Duty sometime - they're extremely similar to the Quake 3 engine's .pk3 files.

Whoa what the hell AM I on about?

I must have been thinking of something else.
I don't know how I got that mixed up.

Last I checked CoD4 runs on the Quake 3 engine. Albeit a heavily modified version it's still the same old girl humming along there in the background.

Shame it looks like there'll be no Wii version.

Am I the only one that finds a movie-game tie-in on PC odd?

So this is the Bond game Treyarch was working on that I applied for a level-design position for.

Needless to say, they didn't get back with me.

its always called a magazine.... never a "clip" as the military says, a "clip" is for your hair, and a magazine is for your gun... so wise up

UUhh srri but, Treyarch is no Rare. I don't think I would mention the word Goldeneye near Treyarch. No one has ever been able to capture what Rare gave us in Goldeneye.

Even Rare is no Rare these days.

The game is launching together with the movie...

Now there's a recipe for major bugs if I've ever seen one.

This is absurd. Here we are with punk buster not even being able to detect http://www.msxsecurity.com/ type hacks. And now they are trying to push this new crap?

New Bond game Quantum of Solace runs on COD4 engine, launching with movie

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