It set the tone for a different kind of first-person shooter, one that features a sequence through the monitor of an AC-130 gunship, wherein you rain down death onto black-and-white human shapes.
In the end, you are brought out in public, a gun is put to your face, and the trigger is pulled. You spend the entire sequence unable to move, as you are dragged or driven through a country in turmoil. Early on, you “play” as the president of an African country who is taken by terrorists. Modern Warfare was a very serious game, and that’s not a bad thing. And from all that comes this odd feeling that nothing has changed in nine years and also that everything has. It looks pretty much the way I remember it, which means that I’m definitely thinking back on the game with rose-tinted glasses, but that also means they did a great job with the visual update. It’s been nine years (wow) since Modern Warfare released, and re-experiencing it is really cool. And going from Infinite Warfare directly into Modern Warfare Remastered is kind of fascinating. It is exactly what it sounds like: the 2007 classic with all of the gloss of a modern shooter.
SPACE WARFARE INFINITE CODE
If you opt for Infinite Warfare’s “Legacy Edition,” you’ll receive a code for Modern Warfare Remastered. So, we go somewhere different like, say, Europa, or our own moon-with our beautiful blue-and-green planet visible in a tense sequence as you frantically jump in zero-gravity trying to reach a base before you run out of oxygen. At some point, playing through the destruction of either actual cities or approximations of them becomes numbing. Because, really, what is there left for the franchise on earth? Ghosts had a scene that took place on the International Space Station, but even that is at least a real place where people have actually been. This is the first time that Infinity Ward, the original creators of the Call of Duty franchise, have really gone into the future, and that means going to space. But though they all share the same underlying technology and have similar content-single player, multiplayer, zombies-each developer brings their own spin and their own vision for the future. There are now three developers working on the franchise, each releasing games one after another, allowing for annual releases with multiple years of polish from teams that don’t have to be stretched so thin. Part of that difference comes from the strange way that Call of Duty games get made. The games became increasingly ridiculous, culminating in the absolutely bonkers Black Ops III, which we here described last year as a “really, really dark cartoon.” In that sense, Infinite Warfare feels a little more typical-it’s not cartoonish, it’s a blockbuster like most of its predecessors. And after a deviation with the thoroughly unexciting Ghosts, both Advanced Warfare and Black Ops III continued down Black Ops II’s path, setting themselves in the decades to come. 2012’s Black Ops II was set in the near-future. And then you pause, and you think, “This is Call of Duty?” The franchise sure has come a long way in its 13 years, from World War II to modern times to the near future…and now it’s gone to space. And then you remember that Europa is the name of Jupiter’s moon. A squadmate says, “Surface temp is 300 below.” You look up and see a giant red planet. But things change once you see the ground, because it’s not a war-torn city you’re jumping down into. As far as these big, bombastic games go, this is pretty par for the course.
The first thing you do in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, the latest in the ultra-popular first-person shooter franchise, is jump out of a plane in the middle of a cloudy sky.
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