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2016 video game

2016 video game

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Developer(due south)	Infinity Ward
Publisher(s)	Activision
Manager(due south)	Hashemite kingdom of jordan Hirsh
Producer(s)	Jack O'Hara
Designer(s)	Andrew Thompson Jacob Minkoff
Programmer(south)	Daniel Nelson
Artist(south)	Brian Horton
Writer(southward)	Taylor Kurosaki Brian Bloom
Composer(s)	Sarah Schachner
Serial	Call of Duty
Engine	IW 7.0
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One
Release	November 4, 2016
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Manner(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a 2016 first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published past Activision. It is the thirteenth installment in the Call of Duty series and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation four, and Xbox Ane on Nov iv, 2016.

Development of Space Warfare began during 2014. It is the starting time championship by Infinity Ward under the new three-yr development cycle for the Phone call of Duty series. The game's campaign is centered around a battle for the Solar System, which the Settlement Defense Front (SDF), a hostile forcefulness who are the main antagonists, are attempting to take over. The player takes command of Lieutenant Nick Reyes of the Special Combat Air Recon (SCAR). They have their own transforming fighter, named "Jackal", that they tin customize every bit well as a cardinal hub ship named Retribution.

Infinite Warfare 'southward declaration trailer was noted for its strong negative reaction; information technology was the second-well-nigh-disliked video on YouTube at the fourth dimension. Commentators attributed this to Call of Duty fans expressing frustration at the management the serial had taken, specifically that the game and its predecessors had futuristic settings. Notwithstanding, the game received generally positive reviews upon release; information technology received praise for its gameplay, characters, and Zombies mode, just criticism for its multiplayer manner, while its single-role player campaign received mixed opinions. Information technology was named as Best Shooter at E3 by Game Informer and was nominated for several awards. Infinite Warfare underperformed in sales compared to previous Call of Duty titles, though it was the elevation-selling game in the Us in November 2016.

Special editions of Space Warfare were released with a remastered version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, entitled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered.

Gameplay [edit]

Campaign [edit]

Similar to the previous games in the serial, Infinite Warfare is a first-person shooter. Every bit the game introduces a new setting, outer space, new gameplay mechanics, such as aught-gravity environments, are included.^{[1] [2] [3]} Players are equipped with a heave pack, and a grappling hook, which let players to move in these cipher-gravity environments hands. As the game is set in space, players can visit different planets, satellites and asteroids in the Solar System.^[4]

Assuming control of Captain Nick Reyes, a Tier 1 Special Operations pilot, players engage in aerial gainsay with enemies using his transforming fighter, the Jackal.^[5] Aerial combat is non on-track, as players can freely command the Jackal with few limitations. According to Infinity Ward, both space gainsay, and the franchise'south signature "boots-on-the-ground" gameplay are the game'southward key focuses.^[6] Transition betwixt space combat and boots-on-the-footing combat is seamless with no loading screen.^[7]

Players gain access to Retribution, a central hub globe. In Retribution, players can view their progression, and start main campaign missions, and secondary quests called "Ship Assaults" which gives them cosmetic and customization items, upgrades to the Jackal, likewise as new story details.^{[viii] [9]} Reyes also has a wrist computer, which allows him to hack into enemies' gadgets and machines such as robots. It can besides be used to call in reinforcements at some campaign scenarios.^[four] The game also features ii new difficulty modes, Specialist and #YOLO, unlockable after initial completion of the entrada. In the onetime mode, health regeneration does not occur without Nano Shots, and weapons can be shot out from players' hands. Reyes' motion would exist hindered if his legs are shot by enemies. In the latter way, which also implements the aforementioned features from Specialist, when players die, they need to restart the game rather than restarting from checkpoints.^[ten]

Multiplayer [edit]

Infinite Warfare introduces a major overhaul to the form system called the "Gainsay Rigs". Similar to the Specialist system in Blackness Ops 3, there are six rigs in total, beingness Warfighter, Merc, FTL, Stryker, Phantom and Synaptic. All of which have dissimilar payloads, weapons, abilities and playstyles. For example, the Synaptic rig is designed for players who prefer to run and gun, while the Phantom rig is suited for players who want to play stealthily. Players can also gain access to several persistent perks, known as "Traits", which give players advantages in certain combat situations. Additionally, the game retains the chain-based momentum motility system of Blackness Ops Iii, allowing players to perform thrust jumps, sliding, and wallrunning.^[11]

The game features hundreds of both primary and secondary weapons. Players can gain access to several types of weapons, including traditional ballistic weapons and melee weapons, futuristic energy weapons, and different kinds of grenades, such every bit the Seeker Grenade and the Blackness Pigsty Grenade. Players tin add attachments on them to raise their efficiency. The game also introduces a new weapon crafting organisation. In a multiplayer friction match, players earn "Salvage" points, which can be consumed to buy Prototype Weapons, variants of existing in-game weapons. For each gun, at that place are four types of prototypes, classified into four groups, namely Common, Rare, Legendary and Epic. All of which grant players gameplay advantages known as the "Gun Perks".^[12] Scorestreaks return in Space Warfare for players who have earned sufficient points in a match. Scoresteaks offering players perks such as the ability to deploy UAV and counter-UAV, and the ability to summon a R-C8 robot, an armored robot designed to defend the role player and impale other opponents.^[13]

Zombies [edit]

The game too features a cooperative multiplayer Zombies mode, which has its own gameplay mechanics and story, divide from the campaign.^[6] The mode is designed to exist more attainable to new players, with new features such every bit sharing points and teambuy doors, likewise as keeping the core gameplay of the mode intact, such every bit perks and power-ups. A new feature, Fate and Fortune Cards, is introduced similarly to the Gobblegums in Call of Duty: Black Ops III; the cards offer temporary boosts in-game to the players, merely unlike Gobblegums they are activated through signal earning, and players can select any of the five cards they have equipped at any time, not one at a time like the Gobblegum machine. After initial use of five cards, players can refill their card deck for a toll up to 2 times in a friction match. Unlike the campaign and multiplayer modes, Zombies is not themed in space gainsay, and retains the normal movement organization.

Campaign [edit]

Characters and settings [edit]

Kit Harington plays the story'due south main adversary, Rear Admiral Salen Kotch.

Infinite Warfare is set in the distant futurity, after Earth has been stripped of its natural resources equally a consequence of population growth and industrial expansion, prompting the nations of the earth to unite and form the United Nations Space Alliance (UNSA), a political organization that handles matters of trade, travel, land claims and all efforts relating to human space colonization. The residents of Earth rely on colonies established elsewhere in the Solar Arrangement in gild to mine planets and asteroids for resources. The value of these outposts, notwithstanding, attracts militant radicals who seek to control them, which could place the countries of Earth in a difficult position. In response, the UNSA is defended by the Solar Associated Treaty Organisation (SATO), a coordinated military machine structure that defends Globe and the UNSA'south holdings.^[9] Prior to the events of the game, a new hostile faction emerges on Mars, calling themselves the Settlement Defense Front (SDF), a totalitarian government consisting of onetime UNSA colonies that bankrupt away during a previous war of secession. Following years of a troubled stalemate with the Forepart, relations take deteriorated to a betoken where the entire Solar System is poised on the brink of war.

As the newly appointed captain of the UNSA Warship Retribution, Commander Nick Reyes (Brian Bloom), a Tier 1 Special Operations pilot of the Special Combat Air Recon (SCAR), is tasked to pb a crew to defeat the Settlement Defense Forepart on Earth, every bit well as journey to outer space and across other planets in the system using space-based fighter craft, referred to every bit Jackals, to finish the Front end from taking over the unabridged Solar System.^[9] Assisting Reyes in the fight confronting the SDF are his mentor Admiral Fredrick Raines (John Marshall Jones), Reyes' wingman and all-time friend Lieutenant Nora Salter (Jamie Gray Hyder), his robot sidekick E3N "Ethan" (Jeffrey Nordling), and the SATO Marines including Staff Sergeant Usef Omar (David Harewood), Corporal Sean Brooks (Jason Barry) and Private Todd Kashima (Eric Ladin). Other notable allies include Retribution Navigator Victor "Gator" Diallo (Omid Abtahi), Tigris warship captain Maureen Ferran (Claudia Christian), and Retribution Chief Engineer Audrey "Mac" MaCallum (Claudia Black). Facing Reyes and his allies in battle is the commander of the starship Olympus Mons, and leader of the SDF, Rear Admiral Salen Kotch (Kit Harington), and his senior commander Akeel Min Riah (Jim Pirri).^[14] UFC fighter Conor McGregor makes a cameo advent as SDF Captain Bradley Fillion, while Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton appears as Retribution Electro-technical Officer Carl Hamilton.

Plot [edit]

In the far futurity, a UNSA special forces team is sent to a underground UNSA weapons enquiry facility on Europa where a epitome weapon is being developed, resulting in the SDF seizing the installation. The UNSA team recover the prototype and initiate the facility's self-destruct, only are captured by the SDF and after executed past ane of the SDF's main commanders, Admiral Kotch.

On Globe, Reyes expresses his stance to Admiral Raines that the SDF attack is tantamount to a proclamation of state of war and that the UNSA should be preparing a counterattack. All the same, Admiral Raines explains that the UNSA'southward leaders exercise not want to escalate the state of affairs, peculiarly during the Fleet Week celebrations where the unabridged UNSA armada gathers at Geneva. Invited to enjoy the festivities, Reyes links upwardly with his wingman Salter and is assigned the experimental E3N for evaluation. Suddenly, the UNSA's AATIS defense cannons, hijacked by the SDF, open up fire on the assembled fleet; simultaneously, an SDF assault forcefulness invades Geneva. Reyes manages to fight his mode to the AATIS command tower, where he shuts down the AATIS cannons and apprehend Riah, the SDF spy responsible for sabotaging them. Reyes so accompanies the surviving UNSA ships into orbit to oppose the attacking SDF armada. The SDF's flagship, the Olympus Mons, of a sudden arrives and destroys more than UNSA ships before it is forced to retreat. The battle is a disaster for the UNSA, every bit only 2 ships survive the battle: the carrier Retribution, to which Reyes is assigned, and the destroyer Tigris.

Upon landing on the Retribution, Reyes learns that both the ship's captain and the executive officeholder were killed in battle, leaving him as the highest-ranking officer of the send and its de facto helm. Admiral Raines promotes Reyes to commander and orders him to retake the cargo port on the Moon from the SDF. After successfully liberating the Moon, Reyes is tasked with delaying the SDF for as long as possible until the UNSA tin can rebuild its fleet. At this point, Reyes can embark on a number of optional missions to assail primal SDF targets, every bit well as a strategic refueling belfry on Titan, crippling the SDF'south fuel supply. Later, he is sent to investigate a disturbance at an asteroid mining station near Mercury, only to find it was a diversion while the SDF destroys the Tigris, leaving the Retribution as the sole remaining UNSA ship.

Learning that Riah is conveying a beacon meant to signal the main SDF fleet to invade Earth, Reyes devises a programme to utilise the beacon to lure the SDF armada right into the yet-operational AATIS guns. The plan goes awry when Riah escapes, destroys the AATIS guns, and kills himself to trigger the beacon. The SDF arrives and the Olympus Mons destroys UNSA headquarters, killing Admiral Raines.

With no other options, Reyes uses the opportunity to board and commandeer the Olympus Mons. He manages to fight his way to the span and kill Admiral Kotch. He then takes the Olympus Mons and Retribution to Mars, where he intends to use the transport to destroy the SDF's orbital shipyard and cripple their fleet in render. While the attack is successful, the Mons is damaged to the indicate its weapons are inoperable, and with few other options, Reyes orders it to ram the shipyard. As a result, the Ret also suffers harm and drifts into the Mons'southward flight path. Both warships crash onto the surface of Mars with the shipyard still intact.

Realizing that there is no mode for them to get back to Earth live, Reyes rallies the survivors of the Retribution crew and leads them on one final assault on the shipyard. Most of the surviving crew are killed, merely Reyes, Salter, Ethan and a few others make it to the shipyard, where they commandeer a destroyer. Yet, its weapons are disabled and the mooring clamps are locked. Ethan sacrifices himself to destroy the moorings while Reyes unlocks the destroyer's weapons and orders Salter to destroy the shipyard, despite him nevertheless remaining on it. Salter reluctantly opens fire, ejecting Reyes into infinite. He is able to watch the SDF shipyard explode before shrapnel from its devastation punctures his suit, causing him to suffocate.

Some fourth dimension subsequently, the UNSA honors Reyes and the Retribution coiffure's heroic sacrifice, stating that their destruction of the SDF shipyard was a decisive victory and that the SDF has been all but destroyed as a event. Salter, who is ane of merely four survivors from the Retribution, salutes a war memorial in Geneva list the names of all of the UNSA soldiers who died in the disharmonize, including Reyes.

During the credits, the recorded messages of some of the deceased Retribution crew may exist heard.

Zombies [edit]

Characters [edit]

Space Warfare Zombies stars Ike Barinholtz, Jay Pharoah, Seth Green and Sasheer Zamata as the main protagonists of the story: Aaron "A.J." Jordaniels, Andre Wright, Poindexter Zittermann and Emerge Simpson. They initially announced as aspiring actors, who are trapped inside a serial of horror films by manager Willard Wyler (Paul Reubens), where they play out the function of the films' archetype characters. Throughout the season, the actors encounter various glory actors who are also trapped in each motion picture, including: David Hasselhoff, Kevin Smith, Pam Grier, and Cassandra Peterson who reprises her part as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Jason Mewes has a minor voiceover role every bit himself, while Fred Tatasciore provides the phonation of the demon Mephistopheles.

Plot [edit]

Some time before the events of the game, horror film director Willard Wyler lost his wife Alexandra to leukemia, causing a rift betwixt him and his daughter Winona. At some point, Wyler made a bargain with the demonic Mephistopheles, and unwillingly became a slave to him, forced to collect souls by sending them into alternate dimensions formed from his films, leading them to their deaths by the monsters of his creation. Over time, Wyler felt guilt for condemning countless victims, including Winona, to their doom, and secretly formed a plan to recruit actors who could enter his films and fight back, freeing Wyler from his prison and defeating Mephistopheles.

After decades of elusive retirement, Wyler prepares for his comeback into the motion-picture show business. He invites four aspiring actors: A.J., Andre, Poindexter and Sally, to his theater for an audition, merely unbeknownst to them, he intends to trap the four inside one of his own movies, "Zombies in Spaceland". The four actors find themselves in an 80's theme park, dressed as the archetypes of the era. As the four try to survive the oncoming zombie horde, they find unexpected assist from famous actor David Hasselhoff, who has also been trapped in this film for an unknown amount of time as his Knight Rider character Michael Knight. With Hasselhoff's assist, the four actors manage to fend off the undead, much to Wyler's chagrin, and find a piece of an artifact known as the Soul Fundamental. As the actors effort to escape, they instead discover themselves in another one of Wyler'due south films, "Rave in the Redwoods", fix in a '90s campsite in the Redwood National and Country Parks, where they become upward confronting hordes of undead raver teenagers and sasquatches. Every bit the actors traverse across the campsite, they encounter director Kevin Smith, who has besides been trapped hither for an amount of time with his friend Jason Mewes. Kevin reveals that Jason died prior to the actors' arrival in the film at the hands of the chainsaw-wielding Slasher, who lurks the campsite. The actors help Kevin recover his retentiveness, and convince him to assist them escape the flick. Notwithstanding, the group soon uncovers through the memories that Jason, forth with diverse other victims associated with Wyler, was killed by Kevin who was unknowingly the Slasher all along. Kevin, as he fully recovers his memories, is forced to transform into the Slasher to kill the actors, only is defeated.

The actors retrieve the second piece of the Soul Cardinal, and are immediately warped into Wyler's third motion-picture show, "Shaolin Shuffle", set in the backdrop of a '70s New York City. The group, now dressed in 70s apparel, find help from actress Pam Grier, who operates a martial arts dojo in the film. Pam assists the actors in fighting Wyler's zombie horde, by giving them special martial arts skills and preparation. The group come across Arthur McIntosh, a failed businessman who after consuming a mysterious chemic became the Rat Male monarch, capable of controlling sewer rats at his will. The actors and Pam battle McIntosh and manage to kill him, while also retrieving the third piece of the Soul Key.

The 4 actors are and so teleported into Wyler'due south fourth pic, "Attack of the Radioactive Thing", set in a 1950s beach expanse affected by a radioactive experiment. The actors encounter horror flick hostess Elvira, who is also trapped inside this film, and keep to help her in her plan to foil Wyler's scheme. Together, they battle confronting a combined strength of zombies as well as mutant crab-frog fusions and a giant radioactive beast dubbed Crogzilla. The crew assemble a nuclear flop and detonate it within the Crogzilla's abdomen, blowing it to bits. They so retrieve the quaternary piece of the Soul Key inside the Crogzilla's eye.

The 4 actors are then teleported into the terminal moving picture, "The Beast from Beyond", as they get in at a futuristic military station on an water ice planet, where they boxing against the Cryptid aliens from the Extinction series, too as a mixture of zombies from the previous iv films. After fighting against a herd of Cryptids, the four recollect the terminal slice of the Soul Key, and are seemingly teleported back to Wyler's theater, where he joyfully greets them. Without letting him explain himself, the four actors furiously send Wyler back into the Spaceland movie using his ain method, but ultimately realize they have become slaves to the demon Mephistopheles in Wyler's place. Mephistopheles himself appears in front of the 4 actors, and threatens to consume their souls; the iv and then arm themselves for a final battle confronting the demon. After seemingly winning against him, the four are teleported back to the theater, but still find themselves unable to escape. In reality, it is revealed that they are already trapped inside the Soul Jar, which contains pocket universes representing the theater as well every bit each of Wyler's films. Meanwhile, Wyler enlists Hasselhoff's help in Spaceland once again in an attempt to escape the movie. He reunites with the 4 actors and reconciles with them as all five brainstorm to plot their next motility.

Development and release [edit]

In 2014, Activision announced a iii-year development cycle for the Call of Duty series, in which Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Treyarch would take turns in releasing a Call of Duty video game every year so every bit to extend each game's evolution time.^[fifteen] Infinite Warfare is the tertiary and the last game in the first cycle, and it is the outset video game adult past Infinity Ward since 2013'southward Telephone call of Duty: Ghosts.^[6] Evolution for the game dates as far back as 2014.^[16] According to Infinity Ward, the development team added many new ideas to the game, and put emphasis on the game's storytelling.^[17] The squad chose space as the game's setting every bit they believed that it can introduce new environments to players. To make the game more realistic, Infinity Ward had consulted several military machine experts.^[7] The team besides wants to starting time an Infinite Warfare sub-serial.^[18]

Reveal [edit]

In February 2016, Activision announced that Infinity Ward would be the lead developer of 2016's Telephone call of Duty game.^[xix] Infinite Warfare was officially confirmed by Activision when they appear that the company would non have a booth at E3 2016, and that their products would exist shown through their partner, Sony Interactive Entertainment.^[twenty] Activision teased the game with a video, titled "Know Your Enemy", and a new catastrophe for Black Ops Three's "Nuk3town" map, which shows a behemothic airship on top of the map.^{[21] [22]} The game was leaked via PlayStation Shop on April 26, and the kickoff trailer was revealed unofficially via Hulu prior to the game'south official announcement.^{[23] [24]}

In May 2016, Activision released the official annunciation trailer for the game, a calendar week later they trademarked the name of the game.^{[6] [25]} The trailer of the game was officially revealed through a live-stream on Twitch.^[26] Every bit part of the reveal, Activision ran a social media game using a Facebook chat bot, which tasks the player to decode a message.^[27] A remastered version of Telephone call of Duty four: Modern Warfare, entitled Mod Warfare Remastered, was released on PlayStation 4, Xbox I and PC alongside Infinite Warfare, only available with the purchase of either the Legacy, Digital Deluxe or Legacy Pro edition of Space Warfare.^[28] The showtime public slice of gameplay for the Space Warfare campaign was revealed as a trailer during the Sony press conference at E3 2016.^{[29] [30]} A gameplay video of the "Blackness Sky" campaign mission was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2016. Besides revealed was the "Terminal" map pre-order bonus for customers who pre-ordered Infinite Warfare.^[31]

In August 2016, Activision sent mysterious metal packages to YouTubers in the Call of Duty customs. Each came with a combination lock and a countdown timer. A code was sent to all recipients to open the boxes once the timer reached ane minute.^[32] Each box contained a variety of 80'south-themed wearing apparel, plus a cassette player and a VHS tape, which contained the reveal trailer for Zombies in Spaceland.^[33] An Hard disk version of the trailer was released hours after, along with a reveal of the game's new mechanics, as well as the "Zombies in Spaceland" bonus preorder pack, which contains a weapon camouflage, an blithe role player card, too equally a "Fate and Fortune Card Pack" for use in the Zombies mode.^[34] The official reveal of Infinite Warfare 'due south multiplayer way took identify during the Call of Duty XP 2016 convention, which was held in early September 2016.^{[35] [36]}

Multiplayer beta [edit]

A multiplayer beta for people who pre-ordered the PlayStation 4 version of the game began on October 14. An Xbox One beta began on Oct 21, and the PC version did not take a beta.^[37] The beta concluded on Oct 24.^[37]

Downloadable content [edit]

Players who purchased the flavor pass, whether it be separately or with certain special editions of the game, were to receive all iv DLC packs for Infinite Warfare, released in four different waves during 2017, for a slightly discounted cost (compared to that of all DLC packs purchased separately). Season pass holders were to also receive one,000 Salvage credits, the game'south in-game currency, and 10 rare quality supply drops at the game's launch.^[38] The start DLC pack, named Demolition, was available to PS4 players on January 31, 2017, and to Xbox 1 and PC players on March 2, 2017.^[39] The pack includes the new Zombies map Rave in the Redwoods, every bit well equally 4 new multiplayer maps: Noir, Renaissance, Neon, and Dominion (remade from the MW2 map Afghan).^[39] The 2d map pack, Continuum, was released on PS4 on Apr 18, 2017, and on Xbox One and PC on May xviii, 2017; the map pack includes four MP maps: Turista, Scrap, Archive, Backlog (a remake of the MW2 map Rust), and 1 Zombies map, Shaolin Shuffle. The third map pack, Absolution, was released on PS4 on July vi, 2017, and on Xbox One and PC on August eight, 2017; the map pack features the Zombies map Set on of the Radioactive Thing and four MP maps: Permafrost, Fore, Bermuda and Ember (a remake of the MW3 map Resistance). The terminal map pack, Retribution, will be released on PS4 on September 12, 2017, and features the final Zombies episode The Fauna from Beyond, as well as four MP maps: Carnage, Altitude, Depot 22 and Heartland (a remake of the Ghosts map Warhawk).

In addition to map packs, Infinite Warfare also feature announcer voice packs, replacing the regular voice over in multiplayer with other voices. A voice pack called "UK Special Forces" was released for free to all players, featuring the vocalisation of actor Craig Fairbrass (also known for his part every bit Gaz in Modernistic Warfare, Ghost in Modern Warfare ii, Wallcroft in Modern Warfare iii, and Tee in Infinite Warfare). Other voice packs feature various celebrities, including rapper Method Homo, YouTuber Ozzy Man Reviews, and comedian Ken Jeong.

Reception [edit]

Pre-release [edit]

Upon release of the initial trailer, the game was heavily criticized by the customs for being too futuristic. The consensus held was that this had stemmed from frustration with the electric current management of the franchise, as consecutive installments released in the past few years had been set in future settings and narratives.^{[54] [55]} In response to the criticism, Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg stated that he knew "that there are people in our community who are nostalgic for the 'boots-on-the-ground-style gameplay' ... [merely] ... we also have millions of people in our customs who want to have new innovative experiences in the game each year and Infinite Warfare is going to evangelize that." He besides stated that Phone call of Duty: Black Ops Two, whose trailer too received its fair share of dislikes, would go on to get the best-selling Call of Duty game at the fourth dimension.^[56] Equally of June 30, 2021^[ref], the trailer has received more than three.95 million dislikes and is the 25th-most-disliked video on YouTube.^{[57] [58] [59]}

Despite its pre-release criticism, Infinite Warfare was named Best Shooter at E3 past Game Informer.^[lx] At the 2016 Game Critics Awards for the all-time of E3, the game was nominated for All-time Activity Game,^[61] but lost to rival game Battleground ane.^[62]

Mail-release [edit]

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare received "more often than not favorable" reviews for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while the PC version received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.^{[40] [41] [42]}

IGN gave the game a 7.7 out of ten stating; "Despite its shift to interplanetary combat, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a mostly fun but inessential shooter."^[fifty] Trusted Reviews awarded Space Warfare 4 and a half out of five stars, reasoning; "A solid entrada and the splendid "Zombies" mode volition run into people stick around for a adept while".^[63]

The single-role player entrada received mixed reviews. Trusted Reviews praised it as the latest example of the improving quality of Call of Duty campaigns in recent years, complimenting the "immersive experience" thanks to an almost complete lack of loading screens, although they felt the narrative was "a bit sparse".^[63] GamesRadar+ praised the dark and realistic tone, and thought the game was a departure from the typical sense of heroism in the series.^[48] Game Informer thought that Space Warfare still included some of the series' usual elements but carried greater emotional weight than its predecessors.^[45] The story and characters received particular praise; Polygon and GameRevolution write the characters were the "strongest" and "most memorable" in the series, with Polygon feeling the writing for a Call of Duty campaign had never been bettered.^{[46] [52]} IGN appreciated the dialogue and cast performances.^[50] GameSpot also praised the characters and compared the game's structure to a picture show, in contrast to past installments that felt like an episodic series.^[47]

EGM, withal, panned the narrative equally one of the worst they'd experienced in some time; they criticized the characterization of Kotch and Kit Harrington'due south "lifeless acting", as well every bit the supporting characters' arcs that they felt were "rushed to an uncomfortable degree"; both EGM and IGN highlighted an example when Omar expresses his dislike of Ethan, but has bonded with him without explanation past the next mission.^{[44] [50]} IGN wrote the campaign was "dull and plodding" and just marginally ameliorate than Call of Duty: Ghosts, which they saw as a low point of the franchise.^[l] Destructoid called the campaign "boilerplate", thinking only fans of Mass Effect and sci-fi would be swayed by it.^[43]

Game Informer was pleased from a perception that the "corybantic" motility of gameplay in contempo Telephone call of Duty installments had been toned downwardly for Space Warfare and harkened dorsum to the serial' older style.^[45] While EGM enjoyed the diverseness of gameplay in space, they felt that at times it was unclear as to where the player was meant to go or what their objectives were.^[44] Destructoid felt that some of the gadgets used in the game were more than entertaining in multiplayer.^[43] The game's multiplayer was criticized past Trusted Reviews, writing they were saddened that it was not on par with previous entries.^[63]

Sales [edit]

Space Warfare sold 1.eight 1000000 copies in its first calendar week in US.^[64] Still, overall sales were downwardly 50% compared to 2015'southward Phone call of Duty: Black Ops III.^{[65] [66] [67]} Activision was reported to be expecting sales to be down due to the fact that Infinite Warfare was going to be a "new sub-series" and that the Black Ops proper name carried brand weight with it.^{[68] [69]} Despite slow initial sales, Infinite Warfare was the top-selling game in the US in November 2016.^{[lxx] [71]} Activision reported in Feb 2017 that the game missed their sales expectations with ane of the reasons cited being that the game "didn't resonate with fans".^[72]

The PlayStation 4 version sold 105,764 copies inside its start week on auction in Nihon, making information technology the bestselling game of the week in the country.^[73]

Accolades [edit]

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