{"id":59995,"date":"2013-11-07T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T10:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=59995"},"modified":"2013-11-07T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T10:49:13","slug":"did-infinity-ward-ripoff-its-own-ending-for-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/59995-did-infinity-ward-ripoff-its-own-ending-for-ghosts","title":{"rendered":"Did Infinity Ward rip off its own ending for Ghosts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one eagle-eyed CoD gamer has noticed a striking similarity between the ending of Modern Warfare 2 and a Call of Duty: Ghosts cut-scene.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is in this side-by-side comparison below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5E82ZkHTiVU\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the temptation is to fly into a CoD-bashing outrage over this, it&#8217;s not an uncommon practice for gaming studios (and animation studios in general) to recycle animations to streamline their production process.<\/p>\n<p>Still, now that it&#8217;s been noticed, and with the ugly reputation that CoD has for being a yearly hack job with very little innovation and barely any iterative design worthy of discussion, this sort of thing is bound to sting.<\/p>\n<p>One can&#8217;t help feel that Activision&#8217;s flagship title &#8211; which is being touted as the great leap forward into next-gen console FPS gaming &#8211; could have done with its own set of unique cut-scene animations.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think &#8211; is this a big deal, or does CoD Ghosts carry itself for simply being a fun-filled, action-packed romp with one of the most popular multiplayer modes?<\/p>\n<h6><em>Thanks to Dohc-WP for spotting this one<\/em><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Call of Duty news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59976-call-of-duty-ghosts-yet-another-financial-success-for-activision.html\">Call of Duty: Ghosts yet another financial success for Activision<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/59912-call-of-duty-ghosts-par-for-the-course.html\">Call of Duty Ghosts: par for the course<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59800-720p-call-of-duty-ghosts-for-xbox-one-confirmed.html\">720p Call of Duty: Ghosts for Xbox One confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation-4-news\/59625-call-of-duty-ghosts-runs-at-1080p-on-ps4-sony-confirms.html\">Call of Duty: Ghosts runs at 1080p on PS4: Sony confirms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamers have noticed the same animations from Modern Warfare 2 being used in Ghosts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":53433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[587,9736,11659,21,231,2219],"class_list":["post-59995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-activision","tag-call-of-duty-ghosts","tag-call-of-duty-ghosts-review","tag-headline","tag-infinity-ward","tag-megarom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}