New Download: Trinsic for Call of Duty 4
The author of this map for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare wanted to do a tribute to one of his favourite childhood games, and opted to re-create the area where Ultima 7 starts: Trinsic. Based on the screenshot, the map is largely faithful to the layout of the city in the game, although the author did add a sewer system and a couple of other little extras to improve the map’s playability in a first person shooter context.
I don’t know how many of you were/are CoD4 players, and I have no idea whether this map is portable to later entries in the series, but if you have a spare copy of the original Modern Warfare game laying around, fire it up and give it a try!
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Haven’t played CoD4/MW, but it looks like a good game except the orientation changes are a little jerky and need some mouse smoothing or other form of interpolation. The review was informative and entertaining, but the narrator failed to mention the Intellivision, Fairchild Channel F and several other gaming microcomputers. For shame! j/k
The Trinsic screenshot makes it hard to tell how much it looks like Ultima VII’s Trinsic due to the camera position and orientation. An overhead shot encompassing the relevant geometry would have been nice for those who can’t play the game (like me).
Slightly off topic, but pick up ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US by Harold Goldberg. I’m at page 56 and it’s getting me super stoked (and sad). It’s pretty humorous at times, where you actually start smiling and laughing while reading. The author seems to construct from the statements of everyone who would talk to him cohesive narrative prose that belies the identities of the witnesses interviewed unless footnoted with an asterisk. The dirt and the technology are seamlessly blended without blame or immediate attribution. Anyway, good read for a proper history of video games if you have technical, artistic, business, and/or political inclinations.
The screen from the download you mean? I guess that’s a nice way of saying ‘you did it wrong.” I mean, right off the bat you know the city of Trinsic was completely walled off with the dock outside the walls.
Not to say this isn’t completely awesome! If ithis was for counter strike i’d have played the shit out of it.
Yeah, the download pic. I wasn’t thinking it was done wrong necessarily, just that an overhead shot of the whole level would be nice for comparison. It’s hard to tell the layout from the pic.
I see. I think from the ss it’s more along the lines of u6, atleast the port was a part of the town in u6.
As wtf mentioned, anyone know if the map is convertible to the new modern warfares?