Respawn Entertainment (comprised of ex-Infinity Ward devs) had, in many respects, created the next logical iteration of the Call of Duty gameplay formula in Titanfall. Sledgehammer Games’ Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare felt derivative at launch because Titanfall had released earlier in the year with similar (and, arguably, better) advanced movement mechanics. But it’s not like Infinite Warfare is the first time that fans have raised issues with the futuristic thrust of the franchise. Shooter fans are well versed in the visual and gameplay differences between SMGs, shotguns, assault rifles, and LMGs. ![]() The problem with lasers, phasers, and other non-ballistic guns is they tend to bleed into one another. Moving the franchise into the future meant that the familiarity of ballistic armaments was disintegrated in favour of fictional sci-fi arms that had little identifiable meaning at first glance. What was established in the original Call of Duty games set in World War II, and solidified in the contemporary era of the Modern Warfare series, was an arsenal grounded in reality. ![]() Regardless, aside from conspiracy theories about militant Battlefield fans deliberately downvoting the trailer, the more practical reality seems to be that a number of CoD fans didn’t react kindly to the franchise continuing to blaze further and further into the future. In fairness, I actually don’t think it’s a bad trailer. ![]() At the time of writing, it had 571,860 thumbs up and a staggering 3,491,692 thumbs down. I firmly believe that Call of Duty 2017 will jump back to where the series began, in the trenches of World War II.Īside from having the questionable taste of using a David Bowie cover song a few months after his death, the reveal trailer for Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is infamous because of its epic collection of YouTube thumbs down.
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