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Quick Look: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

We may need infinite space on our PS4's hard drive into which to cram all this Call of Duty.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Nov. 4 2016

Cast: Jeff, Dan

Posted by: Drew

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Call o' Duty

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how do i quikscope?

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I'm a couple hours into the IW campaign and so far I'm really digging it. The way they break the old structure plus the simplistic AAA explode-a-thon the series is known for is really all I wanted out of it.

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Huh. Maybe TitanFall 2 coming out before CoD was actually a stroke of genius.

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The new Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare coverage starts at about 20mins in if you want to skip ahead.

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looks like they raised the FOV to a decent size, I can see the whole rifle now!

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You can't even shoot down the UAVs in CoD Remastered. What's the point!

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I need to know.

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Oh man! I loved modern warfare and it definitely was an insurgence for me to play video games on the internet again. At the time I was living with cool dudes who liked to play games like that and I played the rest of my nerdy stuff on my computer in my room. We played a lot of Call of duty though. I had a friend who I considered the most tattooed person I knew covered head to toe in tattoos and he would get prestige 10 or whatever was the highest. This guy played a LOT of call of duty (basically all of the modern warfares until black ops).

I didn't play it much beyond the 3rd one but I still think advanced warfare was one of the best single player campaigns of any game I've ever played. Call of Duty modern warfare on PC was a joy to blast through the campaign in one sitting on PC on ultra at the time. I loved the way that story ebbed and flowed. It is a good game and it is kind of frustrating to see how people look at Call of Duty with malice instead of reverie.

I just don't understand "zombies" though and call of duty. It seems like a real dumb thing to have and it continues to be dumb. I can't say I think it is a good piece of the game and would be the only part of call of duty that I find shameful. I watched some of the gamespot stream where they did zombies mode and all I could think was "why?" why this and not killing stuff in space or doing something cool. Zombies are not fun to shoot at compared to people in video games, there I said it.

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Edited By steveurkel

holy crap lol at the machine gun shotgun

edit:all the talk about titanfall 2 made me buy it from GOG ... thanks giant bomb this isnt the first time this has happened. $48 bucks atm go buy it while its hot

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I like that he went from CoD 4 to the new game because I see little difference in the gameplay and after coming off of Titanfall 2 this game seems stupid slow. Glad I cancelled the preorder

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I wonder if the weirdly irrational hate towards Call of Duty will end one day or will this be the FPS whipping boy for all time going forward.

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Somehow this seems even slower than BO3. While I didn't like Advanced Warfare compared to others,I still might give this a Redbox rent just for the Campaign and try out Zombies.

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Normally COD will pull me in somehow but this is doing absolutely nothing for me.

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ah i love Louis Hastleman! my fave race car man

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That may have been one of the most boring quicklooks I have ever seen.

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Might have missed it but little disappointed no mention of the RNG box micro transaction "box exclusive" weapon crap going on this time around.

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@humanity said:

I wonder if the weirdly irrational hate towards Call of Duty will end one day or will this be the FPS whipping boy for all time going forward.

I bet the hate will even outlast the franchise at the rate that the sales have been going for the past several games.

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This just seems slow. From the movement to the design. Guess Titanfall 2 has really did a number on me.

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@colourful_hippie: as far as I know they've dropped slightly but are still well above the sales of most other games.

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I hope the absurd level of bloom in the remaster is addressed at some point.

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@charliejz: i wanted to scream at Dan when he said that!

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It's kinda crazy that most of the big shooters this year (BF1, Doom, Titanfall 2, and Infinite Warfare) have competent and well regarded campaigns. Who woulda thought?

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Man, I really want to play some COD 4.

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Yeah, I also switched from Grapple to Stim in Titanfall 2 just this evening, and hot damn it is fun to go that fast. Stim + Mastiff is an excellent setup.

But to keep things on-topic, I really want to play MW remastered, but I don't care at all about Infinite Warfare. I'll gladly wait till they sell MW separately to pick that up.

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The JTF Wolverines announcer sounds like James Morrison/Bill Buchanan from 24.

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That's what's put me off the most recent CoDs. It's clear that Activision care more about dat sweet microtrasaction money rather than a balanced/fair multiplayer experience. They have already have with the supply drops in Black Ops 3.

@kordesh said:

Might have missed it but little disappointed no mention of the RNG box micro transaction "box exclusive" weapon crap going on this time around.

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So Infinity Ward did an alien wave based mode in their last game, Call of Duty Ghosts, but now in their follow game that actually takes place in space they don't do aliens - they do 80's zombie movie?

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"This game is sooooo slow". That's fine but man I guess every shooter needs to be jetpacks/wallruns etc forever now for you.

Anyways, if I wanted a FPS like this I'd play Titanfall but I'll stick with BF1 instead.

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There's some pretty bad audio tearing going on in this video (specifically during the campaign cutscenes in space; it sounds like really bad static when things get loud), at least in the HTML5 HD stream I'm watching. Not sure if it's just me or if it's what you guys were hearing while playing too.

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All those robots remind me of Binary Domain.

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Is the movement speed actually slower in Infinite Warfare than Modern Warfare?

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Being "that guy" who mostly only cares about the single-player stories of Call of Duty games, I'm interested in picking Infinite Warfare up for its campaign when I find the time.

@humanity said:

I wonder if the weirdly irrational hate towards Call of Duty will end one day or will this be the FPS whipping boy for all time going forward.

I bet the hate will even outlast the franchise at the rate that the sales have been going for the past several games.

All that needs to happen is for Advanced Warfare 2 to arrive well next year for the series to get back in (at least Jeff's) good graces.

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I was also interested in Infinite Warfare for its single-player, after having skipped the last couple (I think?) of CoD titles, so I Redbox'ed it for $3 to blast through the campaign. I'm about 5 hours in (and I don't seem very close to a finale, with lots of side-missions left and only four-ish main missions completed). It's really fun. The core loop feels like Battlestar Galactica's tone meets Mass Effect ship interactions. Every mission so far, both mainline and side-missions, has not felt like filler. There has been a good mix of stealth, sniping, dogfights, all-out firefights, and neat future weapons like drone hack kits.

Without having an interest in multiplayer or zombies mode, this has been a very satisfying rental.

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COD 4 sucked, it was the start of the shooter where you had no control, just ultra linear, NPCs opened doors for you or you couldn't progress and endless spawning of enemies. The online sucked as well, just all about cheap kills and a dumb lobby system which killed online FPS gaming for years to come. Lobbies are THE WORST, only now with games like CS:GO and Overwatch are games getting it right, no lobbies, you're in and you're out, it's very fast and you don't spend half the time sitting doing nothing as you wait for people to ready up.

It was a really bad game that is only loved by console shooter people who knew no better. So many of my PC gaming friends from the time hate it and it's where all this online hate comes from this series, mainly PC people who think it dumbed down a genre and ruined it.

For instance it killed the genre off so bad that people now think mediocre campaigns like Titanfall 2, Doom and Wolfenstein are amazing... like no, they're ok, but they just seem so much better because all we had was COD for years.

Oh yes and it was also the start of just running into each other and one shot hitting with animation melee kills with massive range. It sucks, Jeff says as it should be...... no, it shouldn't be, melee used to be good like in CS where it took skill and was a humiliation thing.

I fucking hate everything about this game, Counter Strike was SO MUCH BETTER as it took actual skill.

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It's a damn shame Raven Software is downgraded to pooping out DLC and stuff like CoD4 remastered and CoD Online. Prime Raven Software made some killer shooters and would probably make a super solid CoD if they had full control over the project.

Also CoD4 multiplayer was bad then and is definitely bad now and Infinite Warfare is just a mess. Even if 2016 wasn't a superb year for FPS games, I would still have 0.0 interest of playing this package.

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They should remaster CoD1. Got such nostaligia feeling when Drew played it on UPF.
That was such a classic LAN game back in the days. Me and my friend used to play 1v1 sniper battles on the snowy, big russian maps (we loved Enemy at the Gates) when everyone had gone to bed in the early morning.

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The original CoD 4 holds up totally due to a solid frame rate and great art direction, not to mention server browsers, mods, and downsampling from 4k on PC. Yes, the remaster looks better in side by sides but the improvements don't alter the aesthetic experience enough to warrant a remaster to be honest.

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The thumbnail for this reminds me of a certain album cover...

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Oh god why does this look so aggressively dull, the setting is everything I love presented through the most hollow, creatively bankrupt Hollywood lens, I feel like I'm watching a game aspiring to be a shit Roland Emmerich film.

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These sci-fi aesthetics are really bland.

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I redbox'd this last night, and i...really like it. I like Call of Duty, I like futurey spacey stuff, and I like infinity ward's years.

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Dan: It does the thing where this looks as good as I remember it. It's like, yeah, okay, sure, this is Call of Duty 4. But I bet if you went back and put in the original game, it wouldn't look anywhere near this good.

Jeff: Right.

Dan: I did the same thing with Wind Waker HD. I just thought, "Well, this is just what Wind Waker looks like." And then I put in the Gamecube one and was like, Oh GOD

As somebody who owns the digital version Wind Waker HD I can say that Dan is kind of wrong, here. The download for Wind Waker HD is 1.3gb, versus the original Gamecube disc being 1.1gb. Most of the assets are identical to the original version. I think a couple of character models were touched up, but most of the "enhancements" are thanks to an upscaling filter they use for textures (like retro game emulators use for pixel art).

The only significant graphical change made for Wind Waker HD was the new lighting engine, which in my opinion, sort of spoils the game's aesthetic, because it doesn't look cel shaded anymore.

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This is like a masterclass in making a really dull hectic game. But so is Titanfall 2 so I guess I'm just not in the target market anymore.

edit: also completely helpless "aces". Just lol.

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What ruined CoD for me was the switch to the "BLOPs 3" gameplay and setup. And, what is pushing the game's head under the water, is Infinite Warfare continuing with that rotten base. They must know they are killing their golden goose, and I think that is why they are putting out Modern Warfare side-by-side. Someone at EA must have played Infinite Warfare and said, "Man, this is so bad! We better put out the Modern Warefare commemorative-game for free."

What is worse, from their perspective alone (from purely a selfish business perspective) Infine Warfare is the WORST game to put up against the pressures of Titanfall 2 and Battlefield One. Activision is putting the worst game it could possibly make, up against competitors that have nailed their own look and feel. The very year Activision need to bring its best gameplay in a solid game, it brought its weakest CoD game ever. For gamers that not an issue, they have lots of choices, but for Activision they screwed up very badly.

Yet, this might be good for the industry, for CoD to get its ears pinned back, because now some fresh ideas can germinate.

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@blazehedgehog: Yes, when I saw the "HD" version I thought it just looked higher res and not actually better textures. I guess it would be hard to do an HD version of cel shaded game though.

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Jeff is usually better at his Call of Duties, wonder if he's just use to the new stuff or just having an off day or something.

Jeff loves, loves Call of Duty, so this must be a great year for him with a new Call of Duty, a remastered Call of Duty, a Call of Duty-like in Titanfall.

What a year to be a Jeff.

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All of these FPS games, Battlefield, Titanfall, Call of Duty are bringing it on the singleplayer front. No super-dramatic changes, but they're trying some new things more than they have in the past and that's good for the player. I hope this keeps happening, as long as there is this much competition in the shooter-space I think we'll keep seeing incremental improvements. When COD was the only game out there things got real shitty real fast after MW2. (Or maybe BLOPS)