After Lucas announced news about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Right away, many media outlets in China started reporting on it.
After all, for lots of game designers and media people in the industry, they know full well.
What Call of Duty: Modern Warfare stands for.
Clearly, Nebula Games is acting as the lead game developer for the Universe VR side this time.
And Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is this time's main flagship title.
Even though what they announced publicly only included the name and theme.
But you can't ignore Nebula Games' strong reputation.
From their first game until now, you could say Nebula Games built their fame through one solid hit after another.
Especially the one that took over the whole RTS market before, Warcraft, and the totally unique Rainbow Six: Siege.
So even without much content yet.
Just the tags of produced by Lucas and developed by Nebula Games.
Were already enough to get players in China and abroad eagerly waiting.
But in this situation, it also gave atari and the channel alliance a real headache.
Whether it's movies, promotion, or making games.
Why are you so good at these hype and teaser tricks?
But unhappy or not, they had no real way to fight back.
After all, they couldn't rewrite players' brains to make them ignore Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
And on the players' side, they were all chatting about what content and gameplay Call of Duty: Modern Warfare might have, which was fun for many of them.
If you guess right, great job; if not, no big deal.
Over on the Storm Action side, it got players excited, but honestly, there wasn't much to guess about.
After all, it's a game based on a movie.
While with Nebula Games, besides the modern warfare theme, players knew nothing else.
That added a sense of mystery.
'Logical thinking, this is probably an FPS game! And it's in the modern warfare theme!'
'Bro upstairs is awesome! Like Zhuge Liang reborn! Your words hit like... well, words!'
'Damn, you two idiots, I hope the next reply this dumb is next time!'
"Warning! No nested replies!"
Online players were chatting excitedly about related topics.
Atari and the channel alliance also made an urgent response.
Free viewing of Storm Action, to push the IP even more.
Behind-the-scenes clips from the lead actors recording their game parts.
They pulled out all the stops.
At the same time, Storm Action struck while the iron was hot.
And released the first promo video.
The video recreated a classic scene from the movie.
The male lead in the game sneaks into the armed group's building base and rescues his trapped teammate.
Finally taking down the evil forces.
Especially the building exploding at the end, matched with Zack's tense, thrilling music, it was really exciting.
In the original movie, this part was already near the end.
But clearly, the game won't follow the movie's plot exactly, since a two-hour story can't support a main storyline of ten or twenty hours.
In the video, after this crisis, the screen suddenly cuts to a dark basement.
Then the video ends abruptly.
The whole promo video caused a big reaction in the player and fan community.
Because the visuals in the promo were outstanding.
And atari specially noted that these were real gameplay footage, meaning this is what players will experience later.
It was very detailed and polished, ending with a classic but overused mystery hook.
Who shocked the male lead so much? Who is the real villain behind it all!?
For casual players, it might not hit hard.
But for fans, it was pretty appealing.
They all started discussing who the so-called villain really was.
And right after atari released the first promo video.
Lucas's official blog made a move too.
No pictures, no text.
At 2 p.m., Lucas and Nebula Games' official blogs just quietly posted a video link.
In an instant, many players got a bit excited.
'As expected, I knew Boss Lucas wouldn't just sit there!'
'Atari just dropped their promo, and Boss Lucas follows right up, so is the game really coming soon?'
Even without clicking to watch yet, players were already talking.
Mainly because the timing of this post was just too perfect.
Atari just went live.
And Lucas pulls out the video right after.
............
In a certain internet cafe in Beijing, Zack was lying in a VR game pod playing Rainbow Six: Siege.
"Holy crap, that scared me! Damn! How can someone be so twisted! Why pick the trap operator!" Zack felt his pounding heart and took a deep breath.
"Yeah, this game is great in every way, but sometimes you die without even seeing the enemy." Ben's voice came through the voice channel.
For Zack and his friends, the game felt fun, but a bit like a horror game.
You walk along and suddenly die, go through a door, and hit either a claymore or a trap.
Especially the newly updated operator called Evil Eye, with its laser cameras shooting biubiubiu, it scared the hell out of you.
"You guys still playing? Quick, check Lucas's official blog, the promo video for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is out! And there's a VR version!" Hannah's voice suddenly popped into the voice channel, full of excitement.
"What! They released the promo already?" Zack's voice was full of surprise.
You see, back in the day, Lucas would always just tease with promises, and when players asked, it was always "working on it, working on it."
Two months ago, they made a new folder, then dropped a promo video, waited two more months for new game news.
"No idea what this new game will be like!?" Ben sounded a bit eager too.
"Who cares what it's like, I'm buying it anyway." Zack said.
Of course, that was also because he'd already ordered two Universe VR game pods.
"Enough talk, quit the game and check the promo, see if there's any exciting stuff." Ben said while exiting.
Anyway, this round was the final one, and the other team was crushing them 2-0.
With a bit of regret, Zack quit too, opened Lucas's official blog, and the first thing he saw was a video option.
He chose to load the VR version and clicked with anticipation.
(End of The Chapter)
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