MikeMcD

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The competition between DICE and fellow first-person shooter developers -- presumably Call of Duty devs Infinity Ward and Treyarch in particular -- is heating up. Karl-Magnus Troedsson, the general manager of DICE, which is working on Battlefield 3, has claimed that the way other FPS developers are operating is "lazy" and issued a warning.
"Our competitors are getting lazy," he told Official PlayStation Magazine UK. "They're using the same engine, the same recipe for building a game. At some point you need to take that leap. I haven't seen them take that leap since a long time ago."
No names were named, but the Call of Duty games have been running on the same base game engine for years now -- Modern Warfare and its sequel, World at War, and Black Ops all use the IW Engine first seen in Call of Duty 2. As for the next CoD game, thought to be Modern Warfare 3, there's been no indication that Infinity Ward will make a departure from the norm.

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Platy

True.

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pantstofry

True, but I don't like Battlefield any more...

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dhoop17

Well, imo, if you make a game using the same exact shit and if every new game is the "highest selling fps of all time" then maybe that is being "smart" instead of "lazy". I mean, WaW had more people playing it that BF2 when BF2 was 3 weeks old. '
Thats like the Cubs general manager critisizing the Yankees recipe for success.

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TheHunter360

FPS developers are too lazy to innovate.

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