An Actual Review of Call of Duty Infinite Warfare

Call of Duty Infinity Warfare is the fifth modern Call of Duty game developed by Infinity Ward, the company that created a game that everyone loved, a game that everyone but me loved and have been spending their time trying ever since. to see how quickly they can destroy all the good will. They were built up to this point. I remember when Treyarch was considered the bad Call of Duty developer, but lately it seemed like they've reached the top of the old milk bottle that is Call of Duty in 2016, granted, not necessarily. I think the drop in quality was entirely the developers' fault, as recent games were more or less from the beginning.

I think there are a lot of extremely talented people working at Infinity Ward and I don't think all the problems with their games rest solely on their shoulders. I mean they are clearly very clever given that they seem to have used their three most recent games to feel the dumpster fire of a story shown here and yes I'm going to talk about the story and I'm going to spoil it because even if the plot If Venn of the people who watch my videos and the people who care about Call of Duty history had enough people in each circle to exist in the first place, I can't imagine there was enough overlap to be so concerned and for anyone to say who does care about the story of Call of Duty 29.

I just want to say I'm sorry and stick with it because things get better in high school Call of Duty. Duty Infinity War Infinity, you know, the more I say that subtitle out loud, the more I realize how fast-paced it is, what the hell is Infinity Warfare supposed to mean if you counted the number of people who had to participate in this game to be able to create it? in the first place, or they had the executives just do a Toy Story movie marathon and feel an inspiration that lasted long enough to remember the taglines, but stopped short of including all the good writing or like

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war that was supposed to be a reference to the fact that some of the game takes place in space and space is

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, if that's the case then I hope there's a fountain in your roundabout because I think my head is about to catch on fire.

The Call of Duty snake in my boots paves the way for every Call of Duty. The game seems like nowadays, the game leaves you as a side character that you play to learn the basic mechanics and who was invariably killed by The Big Bad in order to settle the stakes and this mission immediately reminded me why I've hated it. Every Call of Duty campaign since World at War is absurdly predictable and completely sad, like a certain game critic I know and you know, that whole joyless thing would be totally fine if they treated war with a basic level of

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respect, but instead From that, they give us a tone that is as consistent as the hysteria of the song performed by the real Def Leppard.

The phrase "have your cake and eat it too" comes to mind, but I'm in the mindset of a

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. Right now, Duty player metaphors scare me, so for now I'll just say that in future Call of Duty games I'd appreciate it if the writers picked a tone and stuck with it, I mean, if they're going to let us. fly and shoot robots with a gun

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ed r3kt, you should probably write a story that doesn't seem terribly fake, but no, no, no, Activision wants us all to know that this game is serious, it's very serious, it's serious Halo Reach machinima . and as a result, you can only take that seriously, in addition to introducing the gameplay in The Big Bad, this first mission is also tasked with explaining the central conflict of the plot, which is in the distant future of some year on Earth . has established settlements throughout the solar system that appear to live under military jurisdiction upset by the lack of representation in the government the settlements defend the settlements front and rebel against the United Nations Space Alliance oh is this what I think they are villains with an empathetic cause?

Are they giving the player some shit? No, they made Jon Snow make room. Hitler doesn't mind the false alarm. Everyone smells your gasoline again. Why would you give your game's villains a sympathetic cause if you didn't want the player to sympathize with them? It almost seems like there were two writers working together on the story here. I'll call them Activision and Infinity Ward. One of the writers had the idea of ​​giving the opposition a cause that the player could identify with so the story could evolve. the problem players and all the very real moral implications of waging war against people you used to associate with and the other one is afraid of accents and loud noises and on a tangentially related note if you're going to turn the villain into evil irredeemable. intimidating force why would you choose John Snow to play the role?

Do not misunderstand. I like Kit Harington as much as the next girl, but if I had to make a list of the most intimidating actors in Hollywood, he falls somewhere between Jesse Eisenberg and the Beverly Hills Chihuahua the man seems to constantly be on the verge of exploding. in tears it doesn't seem like he wants to overthrow the earth's government it seems like he wants a hug it's at this point the story at this point is the beginning of the real story in which we are introduced to all of our main characters. There's the player character, Ray, as a man so generic that you could place him in anything from NCIS to Alien 14, and he'd fit perfectly into Omar, a black man whose robot is racist until he's not even a robot with an accent. southerner in a frankly worrying amount of anti-robot technology and a girl who's a girl, now there are a few other minor characters popping up around. time, but frankly none of them matter because clearly all the work went into making the player care about a soulless piece of metal with a southern accent, which of those would be a bigger reason not to care? and you know what I did care about, but that's only because the game cheated and I'm a huge AI that says anything like I think I'm scared, it's a cheap but effective way to make me care.

It certainly doesn't hurt that he got the largest chunk of the loner's personality that seemingly all of the characters are forced to share, meaning that the robot is the least robotic character of the entire cast, and I honestly don't know if that It is good or not. The bad writing, on the one hand, means that the writers managed to make me care about a faceless character who wasn't even alive, strictly speaking, but on the other hand, the rest of the cast was so wooden that I'm honestly surprised that They weren't set on fire when their circuit shorted, in any case it doesn't really matter given the fact that any point the game wins for Ethan is immediately deducted for the sheer amount of dough in this story, you know how I mentioned line I I think I'm scared a minute ago, well that's something Ethan tells Rhea is that the two of them are floating freely in space while Ray, while his suit loses the last of its oxygen with no help in sight, all of this. a bit of dialogue follows where Ethan explains that it's just expendable hardware, so when he said I think I'm scared and the screen went blurry despite myself, I felt really affected by it, I mean, I felt really affected by it. until the game faded back into the light with Rhea waking up in a medical bay with the only explanation being that Ethan is a robot and if you listen closely during this scene, you can hear the last minuscule narrative tension fade into nothingness because apparently the unsa is composed exclusively of time-traveling wizards.

In addition to completely destroying any kind of personal risk the game had established up to that point, it also neutralizes the impact of

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character deaths later on. I imagine having to manually self-destruct Ethan to complete the final mission would have been pretty shocking if he still gave me a Baker at the time not to mention the fact that in the final mission the vacuum of space suddenly remembers that being fatal is his thing. , at least when the plot requires it to be so. Your story is internally inconsistent. Infinity Ward, this is The Same Thing That Got Me Out Of Twilight In The Bible.

Actually, you know? What if you had to use one word to describe the experience of playing Infinity Warfare as a whole? It would probably be a mistake, but inconsistent would be very close to the scene change. between being rendered on the fly first and incredibly compressed pre-rendered cinematix, its control settings don't carry over from campaign to zombies to multiplayer and the game can't seem to decide if it wants to run perfectly fine or stutter like a

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er. games when I'm faced with a social situation and yes, I've used that joke in the

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before, but if the game with a near infinite budget manages to recycle Beatson's emotional story, then you on the robotic horse you rode on, so do I.

I do, it's a little side note. To avoid making the FOV funny if immersion is in any way important to you, there are so many inherent errors in the way the story was written that I don't even know how to structure my thoughts on it without making the review longer than the campaign itself, so instead I'll just talk about the actual missions, by which of course I mean talking about the two missions that were different enough that I remember them for reasons other than the color of his box while wildly waving the noisy vaguely patriotic one. blurry, that's the rest of the campaign, you know, really hard-hitting analysis, the first mission takes place when Adolf Snow attacks Earth and starts actively committing war crimes in Geneva in case you say compassion is a weakness and shoot one of his own men for no reason.

The reason was too subtle for you during this mission. Every time you pick up a new weapon, you get a brief explanation of what the weapon does, as well as a list of special features like alternate firing modes, and oh, this mission is split into two sections, one where you run around the city ​​shooting guns at bad guys and robots and another where you fly in a spaceship shooting even bigger guns at bad guys and robots, and credit is due. I was actually quite surprised by the amount of depth to the spaceship combat, sure it overstays its welcome a bit, but it's clear that a lot of thought and care was put into creating these mechanics for this section.

There's no denying that the switch between booted combat on the ground and space flight is giving the player quite a bit of variety in the game from the start, Infinity Ward won me a lot of bonus points for this or at least they won a lot bonus points for that before I realized that I was going to spend about a third of my playtime on these spaceships and during that hour and a half I slowly started to realize that I had so much involvement in what was happening in the game like a United States citizen has in a presidential election and now that has effectively sabotaged the rating.

From this video I can finally talk about the one mission that I really liked because, believe it or not, there is one of those Dark Quarry operations that is by far the best mission in the entire game and while that endorsement may seem so significant like Calling someone the best mathematician on the 124 bus right now. I actually mean it, as a generation, congratulations. The biggest thing that sets this mission apart for me is the fact that the settings have a real impact on the gameplay. Dark Quarry takes place in a mining facility on an asteroid on its mercury that is spinning out of control and this is good for four reasons: the first reason is that this means there is no spaceship combat section to lift it above from most of the other campaign missions from the beginning.

The second reason, and possibly the most important, is the fact that this is the only mission in the entire game where the setting actually matters because the asteroid is so close to the Sun that you take damage when hit by direct sunlight, so that you have to time your movements. the outdoor areas on the right and run while the asteroid shadows your path and yes, it's not exactly a challenge, but the simple change of this works wonders and makes you feel like you're really in the Quartermaster's environment and not just like a lunatic running around in the mountains somewhere with a lighting gel stuck to your face.

The third reason why this setup is so good is because this mission is not set in a war zone, so instead From fighting countless soldiers, you are fighting security BOTS and workers who were hacked by the SDF and Trying to reach the last surviving miners who are hiding, trying to hide from them, many robots do not have weapons, so they move and fight differently than everything else in the game, making fighting large groups ofthem to be very frenetic and exciting because they are constantly approaching instead of hiding behind cover and appearing up and down every few seconds, it is exciting and fun in a way that any other mission cannot be and that is due to the fact that it offers real variety in its gameplay, the fourth and final reason why this mission is so good is because it is frankly beautiful and visually thematic and speaking of thematic things, let's get back to the topic that is wildly inconsistent, let's talk briefly about the zombies mode that inexplicably takes place in the 1980s in a theme park and follows horror movie stereotypes and if that doesn't just scream futuristic space shooter, then frankly I don't know what it means now, as someone who was born in the 90s and It is absolute.

I have a lot of second-hand nostalgia for the '80s. So, regardless of the fact that everything in this game mode contrasts so dramatically with the rest of the game, I actually enjoyed it. I should probably mention that my favorite Call of Duty zombie map of all time is the original due to its simplicity, but I can definitely understand why a lot of people would prefer these larger, more complicated levels, however, I don't really have much else to say. about it due to the fact that during all the time I spent playing I could only find two games that lasted about 15 minutes each and, while I'm sure I'd enjoy identifying three friends who are just as bad with their money as I am, I can't I exactly recommend buying the full game based on what little I know.

I've played a bit and with that it's time to talk about the multiplayer and I'm having a hard time finding fun or interesting things to say about it so I'll try to work through most of the map. names in this part of the review as possible so I don't get a concussion when I fall asleep and then hit my head on the desk. Now it's not really a secret that Call of Duty isn't exactly on the frontier of pioneering game design for first-person shooters. I actually can't think of a time since the first modern war where Call of Duty hosted the genesis of an important innovation even though everyone who plays this game sounds like they are located somewhere in the Bible Belt.

In fact, I'm told that many of the mechanics in this game are lifted directly from Black Ops 3, something that could be described as a throwback or lazy design, depending on who you ask. Don't know. I do not play. every Call of Duty game that comes out, since I'm the type of person who can drive a car but can't afford one, that being said, from the Blobs 3 game I've seen, they look pretty similar, although most of the Maps in Infinity War seemed to be designed more around the movement abilities they give you, but hey, some of the maps seemed to have been designed by a series of half-retarded leopard seals, so I guess that's neither here nor there. there and at the end of the day, I can't exactly fault the series for drawing inspiration from itself, so I'll boil it down to one simple question: the fun of multiplayer and, you know, yeah, it's kind of fun.

There's something inherently joyous to me about running up walls in the jetpack and shooting people in the face, I guess I find it strangely cathartic, sure it's not as ingrained in some of the older Call of Duty games and although I can understand why diehard fans of the series wouldn't be so excited about it, it's not really a problem for me, it also seems like the ttk was raised slightly so in most cases there is more chance of retaliation, even if you're the first to shoot, which is something I have the situational awareness of someone starting out in politics.

The arguments in the porn comments section can definitely be left behind, however, as much as I enjoyed the game, it still has its fair share of flaws, such as the fact that the weapon balance is a joke that exposes anything you can write about it. It's an absolute shame, I always thought it was a bit inferior to Z to give players who have higher levels and therefore logically better at the game access to better weapons, but infinite war and its always pasty wisdom decided that it was a great idea to double down and give higher level players objectively better versions of every weapon in the game.

Now this wouldn't be a big deal, the matchmaking wasn't still one of the worst in all of video games, putting the third and fourth prestige players. on my third and fourth playthrough and this isn't really the game vault, but I feel like it's worth mentioning how toxic everyone who plays this game seems to be, don't get me wrong, I enjoy listening to grown men and pubescent teens shout profanities. We look at each other over double bacon cheeseburgers and sprouts as much as anyone else, but I can't help but feel like I'm getting dumber every time someone decides to use their microphone and even given all the things I like.

I can't even recommend this game for multiplayer because the population is dying at an alarming rate and at this point it could be terminal. Oh.