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Everyone a few years later “perhaps I treated you too harshly”

The campaign was incredibly good looking, the story was alright I like how you could make your loadouts and how there were side missions you could do it made it feel a little less linear

This is a perfect example of a good game releasing at the worst time possible

I feel like one thing which doesn't get enough recognition from this CoD-game is the art direction or to be more precise: The design of the spaceships, colonies and general futuristic design. It hits the right spot for me at least when you look at the Retribution for example you can really think, "Yeah...yeah I can see humanity building a ship like this in 200 years or so." Or the fighters being essentially space F-22/35s. It's recognizable and you can easily immerse yourself into the world.

The campaign does not get enough credit. One of the best that CoD has to offer IMO

Honestly I feel like the zombies added so much and it was a fun fresh take on the mode

Didn’t care much for the online and the zombies, but I will say… playing that campaign, building a real connection with Ethan through Reyes’ point of view, and tearing up at the end (it’s very rare that media makes me emotional… make fun of me) I can say that the campaign deserves praise. I can’t even listen to the theme song without getting some feelings.

"Peace to the fallen" and "Mars eternum" are both dark mirrors of each other. They're both a sort of last rights that the soldiers invoke and they both sort of absolve the survivors of any guilt and allow them to continue on their path... This is a really a good game.

I’m glad that the campaign is getting the recognition it deserves. The campaign with it’s “pick your mission” aspect was very reminiscent of Battlefront 2’s galactic conquest and I loved that.

Bruh this game is so underrated and overhated 😔

There’s 3 things I want to be revisited upon from this game. 1. Space: the aesthetic for this game was a nice balance between trying to be real and sci 2. Campaign: similar to CW, where it’s not solely linear, and that should be expanded upon more 3. The hybrid guns: the future setting allowed for all these really cool gun ideas, like sniper to shotgun etc. If all packaged in a great game, would be a lot of fun

The marine who says "is that rain sir?" before dying is the same marine who hits on Salter throughout the game...

If Infinity Ward can branch off from Activision and do their own games that focus on Single Player, I believe that Infinity Ward would succeed immensely.

11:15 Ethan isn’t actually sentient. He’s programmed to appear sentient. That says something about how likeable he is that we believed in him as a person

As a person who is currently playing the campaign for this game for the first time, i've honestly got to say it's probably the best written campaign of the series BY FAR. And that blows me away. It's literally a masterpiece when it comes to characters, emotion and writing. I'm not 100% finished with the game but closing in on it. If the game sticks the landing, it will be hard for me to not put it in the top.. No other cod game is close to this kind of quality in regards to the campaign. Nostalgia for earlier cod games for me is a HUGE factor for me, but that still doesn't beat out the fact that they still aren't close to beating this campaign in almost every regard. It makes me both happy and sad honestly.

The thing I loved most about IW was the weapons. Infinity Ward really pulled out all the stops and created a wacky and varied arsenal to play around with. You've got hybrid weapons like the sniper rifle that turns into a shotgun, you've got a plasma AK-47 and a Vector with 2 magazines. They even bring back iconic weapons from COD history like the M1 Garand and the Intervention.

Criminally-underrated. A blast to play in all modes (campaign, multiplayer, zombies) with a compelling narrative - and it was made in the bygone era when they actually spent money on performance talent. Brian Bloom is amazing (especially given that he helped write and starred in the game).

“The maps are the most generic CoD maps Infinity Ward has ever produced” *Map on spaceship getting sucked into a black hole *Map on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa *Map on Halo-ring-like structure What more did you want as far as map creativity?? 😂

The campaign is a masterpiece. I love this Space Avove and Beyond vibe this game carries. Top 3 all time in the CoD franchise.

If this had released after Vanguard, people would have loved this game.

I’m glad infinite warfare is finally getting the recognition it deserves.

"I think I'm scared sir." That line got to me. Love the writing.

This game made me FEEL things. I was secretly mad at my dad for buying me the game, but when i played the campaign after a few days it was freaking amazing. Infinite warfare's campaign is my favorite cod campaign ever.

YES. I got clowned on for loving this game. It’s a good game. Glad it’s getting the recognition it deserves

The fact that the first zombies map had everything it did… a rollercoaster with guns and targets, a full arcade that rewarded the player a powerful gun or parts, unique map sections, and a nice but hard Easter egg… it got my attention heavily when I started playing. Zombies was a fun time. I think the best part of the maps has to be their atmospheres, where every map (except the last) had a personality. Spaceland, Rave stuff, and attack of the radioactive thing were perfect sceneries. The campaign was well worth it to play through. It had a complete story, good characters (albeit the main antagonist didn’t have his motives fleshed out as much as they should’ve been), and a fun way of progressing the story. My number one compliment that I can give the campaign is that it provides an amazing illusion of choice up until the end. You can have a Reyes who did little, or one that conquered the galaxy. Multiplayer… ima be honest, I didn’t play the main multiplayer too much cause I recall it making me lose my marbles more than once. Party modes though… infection was amazing. MW3, Ghosts and then Infinite warfare had perfect infection games.

Ima just go ahead n say I more or less always liked this game and kind of miss it in terms of its story and what they did with the setting, multiplayer was fine for me for what it was, the NV4 was a beam, RIP Ethan and Reyes

I actually invested a lot of time into IW during its prime. I personally enjoyed the multi-player and how it played, zombies was was definitely different, but fun and the campaign I absolutely love. The campaign is visually beautiful, the sound quality is fantastic, and the characters are enjoyable. The campaign is one of my favorites of all time in the cod franchise.

The most unique COD game I've ever played, I really felt like I was in a war and I'm, ex BAF three combat tours, I loved it, only COD I've played more than twice, best most innovative campaign COD has ever had.

For me the best thing in IW single-player is SPECIALIST difficulty. It makes you use every tactical device you have, plan your mission. It makes gameplay much deeper. Also the damage model, that gives you certain debuffs, when you got some body part injured. It’s almost like a single-player EFT in future.

The campaign is one of the best I’ve played, and the story was just so beautiful. It made up for the empty and hollowness of black Ops 3’s campaign. Zombies started off great but beast from beyond, just bad. Multiplayer I didn’t really play often but during my time I was pretty bored. So while not a masterpiece as a whole, it’s still a very good call of duty game. The main reason for the backlash was that it came out at the wrong time, and not really because of the game itself.

Always had a feeling COD and Halo were slowly shifting places with story and gameplay. This story is what made COD like Halo. And Halo 5 gameplay made it very similar to COD. Not a bad thing in any sense just surprised how much each series has evolved over the years. Especially with introducing armor plates making it like the shield bar just no auto regen.

I think Infinite Warfare is easily top 3 COD campaigns of all time. The farewell messages for the crew you can listen to during the credits never fail to make me tear up.

This is my favorite COD game and I enjoyed the hell out of it. It's a shame it was not recognized for what it was.

From a creator standpoint, job well done with these long-form videos. They've been some of the more interesting and enjoyable content to me recently, and you're doing a fantastic job with it. Keep it up man, I know it takes a lot of work.

Definitely one of the most unique CoD single player experiences. There's actually enough room and world building for a whole different experience. The pieces are there. Given a different development studio, there's solid groundwork for an ass kicking fps rpg hybrid here.

We treated Infinity War harshly because of it being a jet pack game

This was honestly one of the best CoDs imo. Gameplay was super smooth and had the best movement mechanics for advanced movement. People were just over the advanced movement at the time. The info they gave to the player in game on this was well done too. Campaign actually sucked you into the story as well although some plot points just make no sense and the character development just isn’t there for the enemy faction.

IW zombies is definitely my favorite zombies experience, and my favorite map is always changing between Shaolin and Attack, they're so close in my mind. All the boss fights are so unbelievably good, every single one. Well, an argument could be made against the cryptid fight but even still it's fine. IW zombies has everything I love in zombies and I think that's because it's so EE focused. Each map is SO replayable imo. The maps are so diverse and I just love it so much.

People hated on this game because god forbid cod goes a different direction. Now COD games are so stale it’s sad

I bought this game the day it released at my local store, I didn't have many socials at the time, and didn't know people hated the game, I always thought it was a masterpiece of a COD (the multiplayer was the only bad thing but as a zombies fan I didn't really play it, the season pass was worth it, I did all easter eggs, and the story mode? well written, made me cry at the end, that robot is more human than many other humans.

The best in this game is the campaign. The ending was so emotional for me. The Zombies was not bad, they could add more maps. The multiplayer is fine.

Something i never see people mention is that the multiplayer was a very refined version of bo3. Bo3 was satisfying and not bland like IW, but Hit detection in IW is still the most spot on call of duty hit detection to this day. The games ran smooth, dont think i ever had a host interrupted screen, and ran at a stable 60 fps

Infinite Warfare has one of the greatest campaigns in CoD history.

I was not expecting to enjoy IW as much as I did. I was tired of the futuristic settings and advanced movement, and while I do love scifi games, I was ready for a boots on the ground experience. I was looking forward to the campaign but was ready to drop IW right after to go play MWR which was 95% of the reason I got IW with that bundle. Ended up playing through the campaign three times in the first year on Regular, Veteran, and the first secret mode in Specialists which is the greatest difficulty mode of all time in CoD. Ended up grinding multiplayer earning Black Sky for weapons and rigs. Even ended up spending a ton of time grinding Zombies which surprised me the most because I was not into the theme at all from the trailer. Turned out to be my most played CoD probably and among my favorite in the series. I went from not sure if I should board the hate train or not when it was revealed to being a game I'll defend on any social media or forum. To me, IW's MP was so much more polished than BO3's. BO3 despite introducing the chainlink movement, was extremely clunky with the weapon bop and sway when utilizing the movement, and BO3's maps as a whole were very restrictive in its wallrunning outside of a few wallruns on the flanks of the maps. IW's maps felt like they were made for the movement, and the maps had so much more detail. You could just about go around every single map without touching the ground once, and the smoothed out movement made boosting and wallrunning much more practical in a gunfight. But, the maps still served well as a boots on the ground. They introduced a Tactical mode with no boosting, and they still played great. To me it really added a lot of variety to the playstyles because both being super aggressive flying around the map and playing it slower in more of a support role were both valid options. I liked the Combat Rigs far more than the Specialist in BO3. BO3's Specialist to me were just free killstreaks. It was more about picking which Specialist weapon you enjoyed getting kills with more. Rigs with their Payloads and Traits added so much more making you pick them for their abilities rather than their weapons. I would say most of the Combat Rig weapons are far more powerful than the Specialist weapons, but you saw a lot less of them due to more enticing non lethal Payloads or even their Trait perks. If I wanted to run an LMG or sniper and be aggressive, I'd run Merc for its Man-At-Arms Trait allowing me to still move at normal speed. If I wanted to support my team, I'd run FTL for its Supercharge Trait to help teammates get their Payloads faster. On maps with a lot of choke points, I'd run Stryker's Centurion Payloads to keep my teammates clear of explosives and streaks. I felt Combat Rigs were far more focused on how you wanted to run your class or support your team rather than what will get me the most kills twice a match. I would always pay attention to what teammates were running and what map we were on to give my team the best shot at winning. I actually got every single variant in the game only spending like $10 in its second year. Early on, the Salvage grind was very bad. Would say most of my Salvage I got from grinding Mission Teams and their Commander(?) levels. The early game for Salvage was miserable, but it was a case of the more you played, the faster the Salvage would come. Supply Drops gave you a good bit of Salvage with dupes, but early on when you still have very little unlocked, you're not getting much from it. Definitely could have been handled better, but I overall enjoyed the variant system. I wouldn't even call it pay to win because to me the best variants were Commons and Rares, and the Epic variants were either too gimmicky to use, were straight downgrades of other base weapons, or just a worst version of themselves. For me, variants were about how you wanted build your classes rather than gain a statistical advantage, and I found that to be a great dynamic between the variants and Combat Rigs. A few Epics were fun to use not because they were statistically good but because they were extremely unique and did add a lot of variety. Loved the Volk Goliath turning the weapon into a semi auto battle rifle. Wasn't as good as the DMR-1 or M1, but it was still fun. Or the HVR Gemini that turned it into a dual wield SMG. Statistically the Type-2 in Akimbo mode was far better, but the Gemini not being able to turn back into a regular weapon made it more fun and difficult to use. I did hate that nukes were tied to the Nuclear variants and the Classic weapons once you got to a specific Master Prestige level. Amount of times I went on 25+ gun only killstreaks without Nuclear variant was frustrating. I also thought Scorestreaks in the game were a lot of fun, and this was the first CoD since MW2 for me where I was running high end lethal streaks to have fun rather than running UAV-Counter UAV-Advanced UAV. Scorestreaks variants were a bit unnecessary, most were just weaker or not worth using, but a few did add some extra variety to the streaks. The AP-3X drone was a lot of fun already, but the Reactor variant with the laser cannons was insanely fun and downright terrifying to come across. Agree with the remade maps as they didn't flow well at all. Lots of better maps and underrated maps from Infinity Ward would have played better and meshed better with the movement, but they went the safe route picking the fan favorite maps, and it didn't work. Terminal and the Dome/Strikezone remake were the only ones I felt had any solid flow. But I disagree about the map designs and themes as a whole. Felt there was a wide variety in how you played them, and it really did make each MP mode play really well on them. Maybe it's because I love scifi so fighting next to a black hole, star, or planet as well as fighting on a ring world were amazing set pieces for the maps. And already mentioned there was so much variety in how you played the maps whether zooming using the movement or playing it boots on the ground. Sort of added a dynamic where you needed a good combination of BOTG and flyboys to do well. The BOTG players provided map control in the middle to allow the Synaptics and FTLs to push hard and provide spawn control. If your team was all Synaptics rushing around, the spawns would be flipping too often with enemies spawning everywhere, and it would lead to confusion. Meanwhile a full team of Merc's and Phantoms would be sitting ducks to the Synaptics with the other team's Mercs and Phantoms keeping them from securing any type of map control. The TTK in IW is actually just slightly slower than BO3's TTK. Reason why BO3 and Treyarch's games as a whole always feel so much slower is because of their poor netcode. IW's netcode was and still is buttery smooth, and every shot counts. Same thing for Ghosts which actually has a slower TTK than BO1, CoD4, MW2, and MW3. I think the only CoDs with slower slower TTK than IW is WaW, BO3, and BO4. BO1 actually has the fastest TTK in CoD, but the netcode caused 1 out of 3 bullets to not register on average. The in-game announcers depended on which Mission Team you had selected. Mission Teams also determined which multiplayer theme was playing, and I loved that. They were sort of like the factions in Titanfall 2 although I wish they could have each had their own intros like in Tf2 outside of voicelines. IR-15 of Wraith probably my favorite, " It is my primary objective to maximize survivability of my operatives, who in turn minimize survivability of our enemies." Commander Krushkin of Blood Anvil was also great and reminded me of the Bf3 Russian announcer, "You have to prove yourself with blood and fire! Then we'll see if you are truly Blood Anvil!" Wasn't as nearly as iconic as MW2 or WaW's announcers, but they were still great imo. There was also the DLC announcer packs including the free UK Special Forces announcer voiced by the one and only Craig Fairbrass who voiced Ghost and half the other characters from the original MW series so if you did want that classic MW2 announcer you could have it. There's definitely some variants in IWZ that are absolutely broken. The Type-2 Butcher in akimbo shotgun mode one shots zombies till round 27 I think, and it's a wall weapon on a couple of the maps. The Mauler Sentinel is also broken in IWZ. With the VMC site zoomed in, the Sentinel bugs where instead of having that vertical row of bullets, they all go right on the crosshair so you get 7 bullets all hitting the same shot. Of course, this was a bug. They patched it in MP after a day or two, but they left it in MP. It's mainly broken against the Easter Egg bosses though where it can kill the Rhinos in 7 shots. I've done the Boss Battle with it, and completed it in under 8 minutes easily and kill the final boss Rhinos before they even leave their spawn crate. I definitely wouldn't call IW a masterpiece either despite my huge ass commen. I can definitely understand why people who did give IW an honest try didn't enjoy. I wouldn't say it started to fall a part though. Outside of the remakes in MP, the DLC was great, and the implementation of DLC weapons was executed perfectly where Season Pass holders got immediate access to new weapons and where those that didn't have the SP just needed to complete a challenge to unlock them. The DLC maps had an amazing variety in design and layouts. The game got so many great quality of life improvements like weekly challenges for both MP and IWZ. MP also got a ton of new modes and playlist including Gesture Warfare where you had to use the gestures to get kills, and each gesture had its own way of killing players. Overall, it was a great year imo to stick around during its DLC seasons because despite all the hate, each update you saw the passion from the devs to make the game a better experience. Great work and really enjoyed your video!

This game is indeed a masterpiece for me as far as newer COD games go. The campaign was well written, the gameplay was fun as hell, and the space part of the game is pretty realistic as to what you'd see in real life. Definitely one of my favorites.

“That’s real admirable of you, but you’re fathers not there anymore” *reveals that he’s their dad* “Dad, thiswholetimeyouwereoneofthemyoureaghost”

One of the hardest hits in the story is that every single person under your command dies by the end

This was the last cod I played that gave me a similar feeling to how I felt as a kid playing MW2 Can’t put my finger on it but always enjoyed this game

Bro I loved this game. Some of the best gun play came from this game. Guns felt so smooth and the boost jumping was perfect.

The campaign was one of the best for me after CoD and COD 2. The ending was emotional.

The theme of reyes’ arch coming to terms with the fact that his job isnt to bring his people home rather to complete the mission is beautifully done and actually a compelling internal issue.

I love the dedication to the joke that you in fact are Admiral Kotch. Now, it hurts my soul a little bit more every time I have to tell someone this, but the *real* campaign is secretly locked behind your first playthrough. The fifth difficulty setting down the list, Specialist, is where it actually begins. This changes so many things that, until you play through on this setting, *you didn't play the game.* Despite being listed below Veteran, it's actually based on Regular with a litany of new mechanics: Locational damage that affects your handling, stim packs, the only way to regenerate health, ballistic visors, the only way to survive a headshot, oxygen management during 0g sections, the list goes on. If you're playing this your first time, I actually recommend you just speedrun the main missions on Recruit so you can unlock Specialist as soon as possible and make that your main campaign. It adds so much depth that it makes initially forgettable systems like your choice of lethal and tactical equipment have serious impact on how the mission is going to go. *Please* play it

I will be honest I never got the chance to play IW and was one of those guys who hated the game but never played it. After many years, last month I bought the game and played the campaign and I was really into it and sat the whole day to play and eager to finish it in one day because it was really good. IW campaign and zombies was a great concept over all

Love this game, just got done playing through the campaign and love everything about it, really enjoyed the naval aspect of it and it’s heavy use of vehicles and ship invasion missions.

The campaign is probably my favorite FPS campaign of all time. I’ve played through it probably 30 times and it never gets old. It has a mix of old fashioned COD boots on ground combat with new space stuff, great missions, awesome characters, and decent story. Also being a military guy myself, I LOVE the accurate military lingo and customs, they nailed it in this game better than anything I’ve seen. My ONLY gripe is the campaign takes place all in a single day which I didn’t like, not sure why they decided to do that.

It was an absolutely 💯 a masterpiece but people were sick of futuristic cod

iw was a masterpiece ever since launch. the movement? gameplay? graphics for the hardware it was on at the time? perfect. infinite warfare has and will always have a special place in my heart and i wish this game was still active.

Pro tip for Crog-zilla first phase: After passing under the large bridge and getting bombarded, if you make sure there is always at least one player on the bomb, you will never be barraged again. Once the bomb passes the smaller bridge you can get on and off the bomb freely without getting barraged again.

They could have made the sdf sort of second class citizens where they harvest all the resources and send them to earth but are never allowed there, resulting in a growing hatred

Took you guys long enough to START ENJOYING A GOOD GAME

The best part about this game for me is the realistic mode in the campaign. Things like suffocating in space because your spacesuit helmet got shot or losing ability to aim after getting shot in the arm elevates the feel of the missions significantly

Thanks for the in-depth explanation man! I missed out on IW, but always had a suspicion that there might be more to it. I’d love to see more vids like this! God bless you :)

You're on the money aboout what makes a CoD kill satisfying. This aspect of user experience is a significant part of what I study and your analysis sounds a lot like my user experience textbooks.

One of the most fun CODs ever made. I had so much fun on this back in high school with my friends. Good times, wish I could relive that even for a day.

The best of the jet pack games, one of my favorite cods in general

I actually really love every bit of IW’s multiplayer, it’s more sleek and yes “watered down”, less OP, less annoying than bo3 movement, I find it’s just better

I've never played IW (ironic how it's initials are the same for Activision's support studio). So watching this made me realize that the hate was a little excessive and unfair

One of my favorite MP experiences! It was so “athletic” with all the movement and verticality.

Infinite warfare zombies is one of my favourites, especially zombies in spaceland and the boss fight with Mephistopheles has a lot of memories. I still play iw zombies sometimes.

the Zombies mode in this game is one of my favorites ever. Really appreciate the fact that it has theme(s) & character. I like the Soundtrack in them too. Especially the 80's map. I think of Neon, theme parks and Ministry whenever I play it.

I would say that IW's campaign is one of my favorite, it added so many cool features and gave us more freedom than before, even the graphics were wonderful at the time and still, a shame not many played the campaign, I loved it so much. The ending credit where we hear the "final messages" of our fallen friends is by far the best COD has ever did and with it return one day. Multiplayer experience was really fun for me (with bots), I never had these community issues so my opinion on each COD multiplayer is totally different because of playing with bots, so I really don't have much to say. As for zombies, I only played the 1st map "Zombies in SpaceLand" and it's by far my favorite zombie map yet I am not a zombie fan. I never hated IW, in fact I wished it was not this hated by this community, sure my reasons for loving it does not goes as the rest of everyone since I compare each title by it's campaign mode and still I managed to find fun in it Side Note: I am still surprised to this day with the fact that "Lt. Salter" from the campaign is actually from Lebanon, my own country. I t made me happy to have the main supporting character for us the player a Lebanese soldier.

I'm happy Aigis was included in the well-made robot characters Infinite Warfare was an amazing game that I wish more people would try nowadays. I don't play multiplayer in CoD games, I tend to stick to campaign and zombies, but those two were really good in this game. Especially zombies, that was such a unique experience that needs to return. It's not like it has to be in a futuristic game. As long as it's in a time when movies exist, IW zombies makes sense.

The campaign for this game makes me think how this game would have done if it wasn't a cod and had a more standard development cycle, I just imagine how good the story could be if they had like five years on the game or even like seven just to truly manage to make an amazing experience that could rival other giants

I truly believe it was advanced movement fatigue, that game played so well. MW2 hit detection, and my favourite advanced movement in any cod. Even had a mode that removed jet packs and balanced everything like MW2 with Stopping Power Played that game from bell to bell

I loved this game so much and still play it . We need a part 2

I feel that CoD developers always have to fight a losing battle. After a few game releases, CoD starts to feel the same, so they need to change, like from MW3 to AW and IW. But then the community doesn't like the change or thinks it's too drastic or the game is chasing dying trends, so it's another change back to "boots on the ground" style game and the process just repeats.

This game is a masterpiece, the maps are amazing like everything is in space. Its my 2nd favourite cod after Bo2.

Legitimately the best IW-produced COD entry so far. They peaked here and the MW revamp has really been the delivery package for IW9.0 becoming the only engine the four teams ever use, with IW servicing it for the others.

This game was a masterpiece . Fun maps with minimal camping , balance weapons, and great multiplayer. Only thing that I hate was that Synaptic was way too OP.

I've always loved this game, even back when it released. By far the best campaign in the series and the multiplayer took Bo3's movement system and made it a lot smoother. I get why it was hated so much but it was a genuinely good game and the best of the 3 futuristic games we got. I replay it's campaign almost as much as I replay Bo2's campaign.

I took my time with the campaign doing side quests and talking to the crew on the retribution. When Omar died I was expecting it but I really appreciated him coming around to accept Ethan. Now when final mission happened and all the cast sacrificed themselves for the mission and was really sad all the way to Reyes death but I was still hoping I would make it, then I didn’t. I sacrificed myself just like those before and I felt proud. Then I got sad again when I got to hear the crews messages to their family. Was such a good touch giving more depth to my fallen brothers in arms

the infinite warfare campaign has to be one of my favorites, even the multiplayer felt like a more polished BO3. i really enjoyed it

The campaign and half of the zombies maps are amazing, I quit this game after a week of multiplayer when it came out. I played the campaign and zombies last year and realized the error of my ways.

The game no one asked for or wanted but was secretly amazing

The camos in this game were actually fire. Even the common ones looked pretty good when compared to something like bo3 common camos.

i really really enjoyed this campaign. i really liked the aspect of getting to chose your missions and the variety of it were quite nice. from straight up "destroy this ship" mission to "infiltrate this ship/base and then destroy it from the inside" was a nice mix. i also felt that the mix from ground combat to the flight sections felt really organically and while set in space it did not feel too far off from a technological pow. i also liked the idea of settlers from mars forming their own faction and demanding independence. that had a nice Killzone vipe to it. the only I thing I never understood was if humanity is still bound to our solar system or if they already went to other stars, but that's nit picking. it was a good campaign just a bad COD. if it would have been only a standalone game called infinite warfare it would not have gotten that much of hate, bc the campaign was really solid. During my play through it felt more like a really early prequel to the halo series and not like a cod.

I played infinite just for the heck of it after getting the bundle with modern warfare remastered, and I remember being genuinely surprised at how fun the multiplayer was. Its a shame that there is no active player base on pc anymore.

Director: "Oh no our fans are a having a fatigue for ww2, modern and futuristic CoD titles! What should we do?" Employee: "We can try a steampunk fantasy, apocalyptic or even ww1 style CoD game" Director: "Even better: Let's make a watered down version of World at War! Other employees: "Oh yes!" "Great idea, sir!"

Infinite Warfare was my first COD, it set a precedent that could not surpassed by any COD games released since.

Call of Duty Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare are the games on which I enjoyed the most in the Zombies mode

I feel like a good motivation for the SDF could have been that they felt like Earth wasn’t sufficiently supporting them upon initial settlement of other planets. They were losing resources on their home rocks while Earth just got more. They felt abandoned and exploited

I actually loved this game when it first came out and still love it today, I think I liked it cause it was different from most shooters at the time plus the story mission where you had to fly the space jets actually worked and felt good. Even though i was crap at it on the hardest difficulty. This will always be on my top 4 list

Favorite part was when Ch0pper went into the first person talking about how he (the main antagonist) could do whatever he wants 😂 Ch0pper > Kit Harrington

The campaign design was great but the story was avarage. I loved being able to choose my loadouts as BO2 and everyone (despite the weak script) delivered their lines pretty good. That said, advanced movement was still an after thought in MP. The maps did not have wall running or jet jumping in mind. And zombies... Well, it had zombies.

A small fact that i have never seen acknowledged is that the weapon “Erad” in this game is based on a weapon from the original Time Splitters: Future Perfect game on ps2. I realized it playing the game on backwards compatibility on xbox one a few months ago, a section of the game takes you to a future setting where you get a gun that has the same design and reload animation as this games “Erad”. Could have been them just copying it for lack of creativity but i feel like its an homage to Time Splitters as it was a revolutionary fps back in its time.

IW hits for me like no other CoD really does. It has my favorite campaign and my favorite zombies, though I do agree the multiplayer is weak. I really liked the epic variants, especially the throwback ones like the Auger - Fury or RPR Evo - Ripper. The mission teams were also pointless, but cool from a story standpoint. Speaking of story, the campaign was phenomenal, and I'm not afraid to say I cried when Ethan (almost) died and Reyes did die. Honestly, one of my favorite CoDs, no matter what anyone says.

I mean. Everything aside the game looks beautiful, the backdrops are absolutely insane and some of the best I’ve seen in a sci-fi shooter.

It was such a good game, a shame it was hated by the community. the campaign was really good and immersive, the mp was excellent imo with the mvmt, the gunplay and maps. Zombies was also really good, one of the most underrated cods imo

It’s definitely underrated.