Back in May, we shared a comparison between COD2 and COD: WWII. For Call of Duty: WWII, we used a pre-release screenshot that some users thought to be a pre-rendered image. Well, and since we have Call of Duty: WWII on our hands, we can say that the final build comes really close to those visuals.
As we can see, the only thing that has been changed is the lighting system (and the TOD). Truth be told, the lighting seems to have taken a small hit. However, and contrary to other titles, the differences are not that big.
For the most part, Sledgehammer Games has managed to retain the same level of detail. Below we can see a scene from the Normandy mission that looks almost exactly the same on both PC (max settings) and the reveal trailer. Again, the only difference here is the lighting system.
In other levels, the lighting has been changed. As we can see below, the reveal had a better and ‘cleaner’ lighting system. Now while this can be described as an artistic change, we can’t help but also notice the piss filter that was used in the final build.
There are also some artistic differences between the reveal trailer and the final build. For instance, soldiers look too clean at the end of the first mission compared the reveal trailer. However, this does not mean that there is no dirt on soldiers in the entire campaign. For some reason, Sledgehammer decided to make them look clean, which makes no sense. Here is a comparison from YouTube’s ‘Cycu1’. Cycu1 used the PS4Pro, however this artistic change is also present on the PC version.
All in all, it appears that the lighting system of Call of Duty: WWII took a hit. Still, and to Sledgehammer’s credits, the character models and environments remain as detailed as those shown in the reveal trailer. So while the lighting differences are obvious, the game still looks absolutely gorgeous, and came really close to what Sledgehammer showcased back in April.
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It’s a a gorgeous game no doubt. The problem doesn’t rely in it’s graphics i think.
if i had to fix only one thing in this franchise it’d be gun sounds then running animation, guns feel and sound like a plastic toy, also running animation makes me think i’m playing a game designed for people with extremely low iq.
It was obvious from the start that new CoD won’t bring that kind of visuals. because game would be very illegible as far as gameplay goes. Lots of volumetric effect is either removed or reduced. Either way it’s quite good looking game, but that moody colour palette was imho more climatic.
what the f**k are you saying John? you got payed to promote this POS game??
Actually Activision told us that they’d send us a review code next week. Since we don’t want to miss the weekend, we went ahead and purchased it. So not only we were not paid… we also paid for it, lol 😛
jeez, is hating call of duty still as cool as hating justin bieber? thought people would let go eventually, yall need to go outside more often.
No one actually hates bieber now. Most are “haters” are actually listening to his music lol.
>Most are “haters” are actually listening to his music lol.
Yeah, I doubt that. lol
Elaborate billions of views??? And decent like/dislike ratio compared to his older songs?
i don’t hate him, i dislike him because he’s a low iq wigger.
yes, 140, it was mandatory in our college. i’ve done it in high school and it was 130, this is why i keep telling everyone that you’re all beneath me.
what you believe is completely irrelevant to all aspects of existence. my highly capable brain is unbeatable by 99 percent of human beings, if there was a god i’d say it’s me and multiple copies of my exact self.
I don’t hate him either, I just puke in my mouth at the mention of him.
Why, just because you think the game is a POS and anyone who says otherwise has been paid? You have an opinion but don’t make claims you can’t back up.
Engine optimization is very good – game use all available video memory
Its very rare to see game which can use all available resources. This game can use not only all CPU cores or GPU but also whole video memory (high quality textures)
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Its nice to see game using up to 10 GB of video memory after some games like Assassin which can’t use more than 3 GB of video memory. Every game should have high quality textures for 8 GB GPU
Tell that to the people who don’t have that much video memory.
Notice how Sp4ctr0 is changing topic from his usual Xbone X fanboying since Digital Foundry recently exposed said console for being the weak sauce piece of junk that anyone with sense knew it would be!
Weak? Its faster and quieter than any other console
Power of liquid cooling via vapor chamber – 4dB less noise than PS4
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One week ago I don’t know that this new liquid cooling will be so quiet. Its funny that slower PS4 Pro are more noisy. I was really happy after that review 🙂
Weak indeed. It’s been hilarious viewing Digital Foundry exposing Xbone X’s mediocrity. Keep on telling yourself it’s so great just because it’s better than the awful PS4 Pro despite it having next to no genuine exclusives like Sony’s consoles do. Another fail from Microsoft!
Xbox X vs PS4 Pro
– 50 % faster GPU (6 TFLOPS instead 4.2 TFLOPS)
– 80 % more memory for games (9 GB instead 5 GB)
– 50% faster memory
– better cooling (vapor chamber liquid cooling)
– more quiet
– backward compatibility (so much more games than PS4)
– EA Access
– Blu-Ray 4K UHD
Its funny that PS4 Pro is slower… and Xbox One X is still 4dB quieter
No one cares here, you act like we’re PS4 users, we just don’t care about your plastic wars.
I only respond to Bob$Bob
We know and we don’t care, so stop acting like a salesman and or fanboy.
“I only respond to Bob$Bob” (sic)
Your undying love for me is not reciprocated!
“They just want to play the best games”
And every game always work better on faster hardware
The xbox one x only value for me is the great emulation of the original xbox and 360 games but as a current gen console as a pc and ps4 pro owner it offer me nothing else the sony and nintendo exclusives are far more interesting and as for multiplatform games my does better.
I rather buy the switch than an xbox one x both mario odyssey and zelda breath of the wild destroy any exclusive the xbox one had untill now.
The only games i would like to play on the xbox one are:halo collection,halo reach,gears of war 2 and 3…and thats it!
Halo is dead halo 5 was bad and gears of war is also on pc.
The xbox one x only value is for someone who dont own a pc and dont want to bother with pc and somehow dont like nintendo and sony exclusives for some insane reason.
Its sad that the best thing in my opinion about xbox one x is the emulation of older games with better resolution and framerate than its “4k” capabilities
Two weak sauce consoles with the zero surprise of the newest one being less mediocre than the older one even though it lacks the genuine exclusives that Sony has. Another fail from Microsoft!
P.S. I note that you were too embarrassed to include the console’s abysmal mobile-oriented low-power CPU on that silly list.
Yea if they wanted to play the best games they wouldn’t be on console.
Click on the About Us link top right. I will copy paste it for you
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Evidently you saw another video or weren’t paying attention.
Ah, so you’re changing your story as you go along and thus directly contradicting yourself. Amusing.
Your ongoing issues with reading comprehension aren’t my problem.
You failed to prove anything, are deluding yourself to the contrary, have directly contradicted yourself and your reading comprehension continually fails you.
Exactly what happened.
Once more your reading comprehension skills have failed you. Good day to you and your issues.
Yup and MS suddenly dropped their much touted PC love that they wouldn’t shut up about (just like GoWL) and released patches that nerfed PC visuals while upgrading XboneX on Xbox specific games like Gears.
Then the MS Greenberg marketing machine rushed corporate sponsored gaming sites to post meticulously prepped XboneX vs PC 4k TEXTURE comparisons of Gears and AC Origins, something they hardly do these days (like IGN and Gamespot which are sites filled with Activision, EA, and MS ads). Also, AC Origins – another MS partner game – cannot hit 4k/60fps on PC because it is oh so too awesome for every rig to handle (DRM or not)?
Typical Greenberg behind the scenes propaganda to get fanboy fools on board with the weak XboneX, ditch PCs, and rake in more Xbox Live subs. And if it starts to fail they MS will come crawling back to PC as usual.
“propaganda to get fanboy fools on board with the weak XboneX”
They sure duped Sp4ctr0, that’s for sure. Then again, like any dimwitted fanboy he pre-ordered long ago. Phil Spencer could sell Xbox branded turds in a shiny box and the fanboys would still be pre-ordering.
DF said the same weakness as the PS4 Pro is the CPU, basically, the same problems, no locked 60fps, it’s ‘upto 60fps’ from what they tested. If you have a Freesync Monitor then that’s not an issue but most console users have a TV, console users are not all of a sudden going to be buying Freesync monitors for XB1X.
You’re still being wilfully blind and cherry-picking information. Amusing.
That literally doesn’t make it a good game or a well optimized game. There’s absolutely no reason for this game to be using 10 gb of VRAM for as crappy as it looks. None. None whatsoever.
In a few years once people tire of WW2 again, I wonder what they’ll do? Go back to futuristic?
Thats a statement, though I would rather say it looks great now and not gorgeous..
Too bad its looks doesn’t save it.
slightly downgraded??? loldd way to much. Lighting and shadows is what makes the graphic awesome
Call of Looty.
Its has the highest
metacritic average since MW3.
Love it so far. I actually haven’t beaten a COD campaign since MW2 but this is bringing me back.
You must be smoking something pretty strong.
What are you on?
Seriously I want some of that sh*t
what?
I don’t recognize many of the sites in the aggregate score on Metacritic. Most sites that I looked at rated it highly. The lowest score that I saw was a 70 from PCgamer.
But at the end of the day if you are enjoying it then that’s all that should matter to you. People love to sling mud at Call of Duty games but millions buy them.
Lol the downgrade is real lol, guess consoles couldnt take it , and why did they made soldier clean as he just came out from the shower ??
“slightly”
This is a PC site, we don’t care for consoles.
A gamer dont limit itself to one platform
And sadly many great games are not released on pc its too bad to pass on some of them
Because it’s a choice and we choose to. Myself, I left console gaming about 13 years ago.
Still doesn’t change the fact that this site is PC focused.
PC focused site, no console reviews benchmarks or console only games.
Discussion of multiple platforms would make more sense on a site like IGN. This site is dedicated to PC gaming. If Sp4ctr0 only did it every once in a while then no big deal but he brings in console comments regularly and I agree it’s too much off topic for this site.
No, their footage what they showed is much better than retail, I mean look at the faces ,they’re not even in the same league as the in the retail. Basically what they showed was target footage, just like the bullsh*t Watch Dogs and Division E3 game footage.
you probably have 80 or something, i have 140, i am a genius, i have 2 gold medals in mathematics olympiad, one is when i was 14 and one was in high school, i didn’t participate other than two years btw and as i said you are irrelevant, i’m humanity’s best hope, if einstein was alive, i would beat him to anything related to math and physics and i’m young, i can do the impossible if i want, if i was to dedicate my life to future of humanity i’d change the world in few years, i’m basically a god and anyone that knows me can confirm it, i put those rich over confident kids of harvard to permanent shame. i’m everything and anything you want to be but never get to be, i’m your dream and everyone else’s dream
They may hate the person but probably not his music LMAO.
Looks like standard AAA, post-processing drenched garbage to me.
ahhahahahahahaha massive downgrade.