Gamescom 2016: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is An Almost Irresistible Package

Gamescom 2016: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is An Almost Irresistible Package

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Lee Abrahams

It takes a pretty strong bit of PR spin to try and take positives out of your launch trailer being one of THE most disliked in YouTube history and it’s going to take probably a lot more than just goodwill to sway all of the fans back into viewing Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare with a lot more positivity. In a way it’s hard to read too much into the initial feedback from the general public as, frankly, they have historically rushed out to buy the latest Call of Duty on launch day come hell or high water. So it might just be idle histrionics with no real weight behind it, which is good in a way as the overall package here has a lot to recommend it.

Assuming you splash the cash that is.

If you lay down some money for the Legacy Edition of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare then you’ll get Infinite Warfare, the remastered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare plus 10 of its best maps for multiplayer, as well as the Zombies in Spaceland mode. Not a bad deal, if you’re prepared to pay a decent amount for a remastered game that is. We got to see all three aspects of the bundle in action so let’s take it from the top.

First of all we have the maligned campaign. In truth it seems like a massive leap forward from the last sci-fi flavoured entries, Advanced Warfare and Black Ops III, as while those games introduced cybernetics and robotic drones it was still grounded in a real world setting, a realistic story arc (sort of) and some very good performances. Infinite Warfare puts paid to all of that and sees you zipping through space, landing on a rock with your team and then bouncing around in spacesuits and jetpacks to explore an asteroid that has been blasted out of orbit. Then, when it all kicks off, you find yourself blowing apart hordes of angry droids.

It looks and feel more like a Halo game than a traditional Call of Duty title, which is maybe why so many fans have yet to take to it. Combat though certainly looks and plays out like a traditional COD, plus the game is predictably full of over the top set pieces and wall to wall action. The graphics look impressive, and the team around you interacts and behaves in a believable manner, so it will no doubt be easy to get swept up in the story. It might not look like the COD you're used to, but hopefully it should still be a fun diversion.

For us though the real excitement is the additional game. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered looks superb. The graphical leap is noticeable and we got to see a playthrough of the entire Shock and Awe level, which was certainly one that will stick in players' minds. It’s still the same great game, but a lot of time and care seems to have gone into making it look and sound the absolute best it can be. Considering it's still regarded as the best COD ever made by most fans, then it’s almost worth picking up the Legacy Edition for this game alone and considering Infinite Warfare as the back up. Sure you may have played it all before, but we’re champing at the bit to go back and give the remaster another go.

Finally we got to see a taste of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's Zombies in Spaceland mode. Zombies has rapidly become a firm Call of Duty favourite and most people spend more time uncovering all of the Easter Eggs in each new entry than they do in the campaign or even online (well, maybe not ALL people – someone has to kill all those noobs). This time around you have the usual cast of four characters: Andre, Sally, A.J. and Poindexter, each voiced by some notable names, each with their own line in banter.

Trapped in an amusement park by a sadistic horror film director who promised to make them all stars the gang have to find a way to escape, with the help of an enigmatic DJ voiced by none other than David 'The Hoff' Hasselhoff himself. It looks as ridiculous and neon-soaked as you’d expect, with weapons ranging from an exploding Boom-Box to lasers and rollerskates to zip around on. If it’s an 80s stereotype then it’s probably in here to be honest.

As a package, with a host of multiplayer maps we didn’t get to see and a bunch from the remastered Call of Duty 4 if you choose to buy that version, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a package that seems to cover a lot of bases. Then again the new campaign could prove to be a step too far into sci-fi territory for long time fans, and has taken a lot of the series' grounded realism with it. That’s probably fine if you just want a bombastic shooter, which we have no doubt Infinity Ward can deliver. However, it’s kind of telling that we’re more excited by an old remastered game and a parody filled zombies mode than the main event. You can expect Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare to sell bucketloads, regardless of what anyone says about it, when it launches this year.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare launches on 4th November.

Comments
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  • It's completely resistable if you don't believe me just monitor my GT and you'll never see this shit stain of a game appear on it.
  • I just want the modern warfare remastered game. But I'm not paying £69.99 just for that and then having a game I know I don't want! I was thinking of going all in on battlefield 1, but after playing the beta today, im not sure that's going to last very long with the campers moving from cod to that...
  • I'll wait for Modern Warfare Remastered to be sold separately. It'll happen not long after launch, I'm sure of it.
  • @3 definitely, I give it a month before Activision sells it on its own for $30. Should be $20, but we all know that's not gonna happen.
  • @4 Knowing Activison, I'm picturing a $40 tag for it. Maybe even $50. It IS Activision, afterall. Look atbtheir track record with overpriced "remasters". Yeah, sure, the game is irresistible if you're a wee little sheep.
  • #5 If you get the Ultra Digital 'Murica Kill Em All Edition for $99, you get the game, season pass, and MW Remastered, basically getting MWR for free since the SP is normally $50. I hope they don't think it's worth more than $30. But then again, they had the nerve to charge $50 for Fall Of Cybertron when it was a straight up port of the 360 version. So who knows.
  • @6 And the $50 Deadpool port, and the $50 Prototype 2 port. Even so, that requires you to spend $100 on one game that looks like a colossal piece of shit, a season pass for said game, and one good game that has less content than when it originally released 9 years ago.
  • activision you got me you greedy bastards. you knew people would pay anything for cod4 so you charged me 70 quid for it knowing full well id pay over 100 quid for cod 4. to me that's just how good that game is. fuck infinite warfare im paying 70 quid solely for cod4 and I bet alot of other people are doing the same.
  • Night Shadow don't do that shit bro. Go to ebay and buy a code off a third party, I'm positive there will be a ton of sellers the day its released.
  • @5 it's sad how correct you are, honestly it's sickening. I'm sure they put a lot of time and effort into remastering cod 4 and everything, but at the end of the day it's still a very old game that should be worth $25 at the most! They couldn't even be bothered to put all the maps in the multi-player! Which i bet they're holding on to sell as DLC. I'll just search on ebay or Amazon for codes that people will surely sell once the game is out
  • @8 You are part of the problem here. This is why they do their greedy shit tactics. CoD4 will sell on it's own in a couple month.
  • Well i for one actually am looking forward to infinite warfare
  • @9 I think ebay will be awash with copies of infinite warfare not the cod 4 codes. :) @10 I agree, I think that they will release the rest of the maps as dlc ,I just hope if they do, they bunch them together rather than putting them in with infinite warfares dlc.(which they probably will). :(
  • Nope, I've been bent over and had things done to me by Activision too many times. Not this time motherfuckers.
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