Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

What happened to the guy from the first teaser trailer (the dude from Robocop)? I haven't seen him since, and it looks like Jon Snow's taken a similar role.

Maybe that guy was just some random soldier.

I suppose. Guess we won't know until somebody gets their hands on the campaign.

Sieg Zeon! SDF!

Yeah, I'm with Garcon, this is Call of Duty: Universal Century. But damn I can kinda feel the tug again, the tug to play a COD game. The strongest tug I've felt since the last time I bought one....Black Ops II.

If they have proper boarding action, then maybe I'm considering playing it. Maybe.

Well we did see a ship being boarded in the E3 demo. Nothing like "fire boarding torpedoes" though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_RI3bZhU50

Can someone make a $200 million movie out of this? Lawd, PLEASE.

Heh, no longer do COD:IW vids get more dislikes than likes.

I guess they realized that hating on something doesn't make you cool.

In all seriousness, this does look like the best FPS Gundam game we're ever gonna get.

Some works do genuinely suck ass and deserves the hatred they get. This game does not appear to be one of those, so far.

Of course, who knows, the game might actually be that bad.

Hey, let's be frank. Gameplay-wise, it looks almost identical to previous iterations of the Call of Duty franchise. What's different this time is the story direction- which could very well be legitimately refreshing, I'm not too proud to admit.

Classes in Multiplayer is probably the single most significant addition, which would make it a bit more like your Team Fortress or what have you, but the core gameplay still looks like Co D, which means it'll be boring to most people who aren't already into Co D.

This is one of the COD games that make me really interested in the setting, like Ghosts, BO II, and Advanced Warfare.

So Kit is playing the Big Bad Rear Admiral Salen Kotch while Robocop is his ally Vice Admiral Caleb Thies.

Kit character is too young to be an Admiral unless it's a plot point or they handwave it the in the future thanks to medical treatment, 60 is the new 30.

Or he's basically our Garma. Basically, the Face of faction.

That's what I figure.

Yeah, Kotch is rear admiral, after all. He has to have a superior somewhere.

I'm expecting a massive reaction of Seinfeld Is Unfunny with regards to Modern Warfare Remastered. Ten years later, while a damn good game on its own merits, lacks all the recent bombast and shite the recent COD games had. (Though it lacked many of the things that made recent COD games suck like a lack of characterization, incoherent or stupid ass plots, horrid weapon balance and gimmicky weapon mechanics among other things.)

I dunno, I still remember lots of horrid weapon balance.

ACOG M40, the M16, etc.

Never underestimate the power of nostalgia.

I'll bet you $20 that a ton of Co D fans are gonna wax poetic about the remaster and blame its faults on supposed new gameplay changes and whatnot, instead of admitting that the original product potentially had faults.

I've seen it happen before with Command & Conquer 3: Tiberian Wars. Leading up to and after it's release, a ton of fans sang all sorts of praise regarding Tiberian Sun, claiming it to be a far superior game - despite the TON of issues it had, in almost every category, but especially sluggish pacing and balance.

"lacks all the recent bombast"

Not necessarily a bad thing mind you. I mean if anything I think Call of Duty 4 is, at the very least tonally the best game in the franchise. I mean, sure, it's kinda like second rate Paul Greengrass, but that's better than any rate Micheal Bay in my book.

Look, Call of Duty 4 definitely isn't a perfect game, but I really do think it's an important game because, frankly at the time, "game as blockbuster" really was a novel thing at the time. We can all bemoan how the industry has pretty much forgotten about cartoony platformers and that's totally a conversation worth talking, but you have to remember. When Call of Duty 4 came out, it WAS the breath of fresh air, at least to my demographic I guess (it came out when I was in, like, 5th or 6th grade)

Honestly thought, I really so think Activision has done a mistake by only allowing you to get the remaster with the bundle for the moment. It's just caused more resentment overall and has made a fair but of people refused to even touch Infinite Warfare pretty much out of spite/and or principle. Hell, even I'll admit I kind of fall I to that camp but that's probably mostly because I admittedly feel Only the Creator Does It Right, and I've actually gained a lot more hope for Titanfall 2 with the more recent PC gameplay.

It's actually a pretty good strategy from a business standpoint. Whether Infinite Warfare gets played is irrelevant. A sale of the MW Remastered is still an Infinite Warfare sale, and there's no way around it.

So, basically, Infinite Warfare is Zone Of Enders for MW Remast' MGS 2 Demo. Alright, got it.

I've also entertained the possibility that wistful gamers eager to relive the "good old days" of Call of Duty may well be in for a rude awakening when they discover that Call of Duty 4 lacks elements that they like or have come to like in subsequent entries.

That being said, don't be too surprised if lack of things is exactly what endears people to the game once more. Sometimes less really is more, and quality trumps quantity all the time. It's why a lot of the time, when gauging opinions on series that have undergone Sequel Escalation, people often declare that the First Installment Wins.

People still heap praise on a movie like the first Die Hard, which is relatively light on explosions and gunfights compared to more recent entries like Die Hard 4 & 5, precisely because it isn't bloated with monotonous action. It knows how to effectively use what action it does have to gloriously thrilling effect, never once overstaying its welcome or causing fatigue to set in for the audience.

So who knows? Maybe gamers will appreciate, for example, that famous moment when the nuke went off. No, I suppose in terms of sheer Holy Shit Quotient it doesn't quite compare to the Russian airport massacre or the plot of Red Dawn happening in Modern Warfare 2, but there's enough build up to that set piece and it isn't uncomfortably wedged in between other over-the-top, yet numbing, sequences so it might well have the intended effect it had 9 years ago.

At least it can't be as bad as the Johnson (AMERICAN!) Family vacation scene from MW 3.

For Gods sakes, just what horrible demographic data did Sledgehammer encounter to make them believe that having the victim of focus be an American family is necessary for maximum impact, rather than all of the other British families no doubt on the street at the same time???