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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a 2024 first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward 📈 and published by Activision. It is the thirteenth installment in the Call of Duty series and was released worldwide for 📈 PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One on November 4, 2024.

Development of Infinite Warfare began during 2014. It is the first 📈 title by Infinity Ward under the new three-year development cycle for the 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 force who are the 📈 main antagonists, are attempting to take over. The player takes control of Lieutenant Nick Reyes of the Special Combat Air 📈 Recon (SCAR). They have their own transforming fighter, named "Jackal", that they can customize as well as a central hub 📈 ship named Retribution.

Infinite Warfare's announcement trailer was noted for its strong negative reaction; it was the second-most-disliked video on YouTube 📈 at the time. Commentators attributed this to Call of Duty fans expressing frustration at the direction the series had taken, 📈 specifically that the game and its predecessors had futuristic settings. Nevertheless, the game received generally positive reviews upon release; it 📈 received praise for its gameplay, characters, and Zombies mode, but criticism for its multiplayer mode, while its single-player campaign received 📈 mixed opinions. It 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 both the top-selling game in the 📈 US and UK in November 2024.

Special editions of Infinite Warfare were released with a remastered version of Call of Duty 📈 4: Modern Warfare, titled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered.

Gameplay [ edit ]

Campaign [ edit ]

In zero-gravity environments, players can 📈 use a grappling hook to quickly navigate the environment.

Similar to the previous games in the series, Infinite Warfare is a 📈 first-person shooter. As the game introduces a new setting, outer space, new gameplay mechanics, such as zero-gravity environments, are included.[1][2][3] 📈 Players are equipped with a boost pack, and a grappling hook, which allow players to move in these zero-gravity environments 📈 easily. 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 combat with enemies using his 📈 transforming fighter, the Jackal.[5] Aerial combat is not on-rail, as players can freely control the Jackal with few limitations. According 📈 to Infinity Ward, both space combat, and the franchise's signature "boots-on-the-ground" gameplay are the game's key focuses.[6] Transition between space 📈 combat and boots-on-the-ground combat is seamless with no loading screen.[7]

Players gain access to Retribution, a central hub world. 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, as well as new story details.[8][9] Reyes also has a wrist computer, which 📈 allows him to hack into enemies' gadgets and machines such as robots. It can also be used to call in 📈 reinforcements at some campaign scenarios.[4] The game also features two new difficulty modes, Specialist and #YOLO, unlockable after initial completion 📈 of the campaign. In the former mode, health regeneration does not occur without Nano Shots, and weapons can be shot 📈 out from players' hands. Reyes' movement will be hindered if his legs are shot by enemies. In the latter mode, 📈 which also implements the same features from Specialist, when players die, they need to restart the game rather than restarting 📈 from checkpoints.[10]

Multiplayer [ edit ]

Infinite Warfare introduces a major overhaul to the class system called the "Combat Rigs". Similar to 📈 the Specialist system in Black Ops III, there are six rigs in total, being Warfighter, Merc, FTL, Stryker, Phantom and 📈 Synaptic. All of which have different 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 movement system of Black 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 as the Seeker Grenade and 📈 the Black Hole Grenade. Players can add attachments on them to enhance their efficiency. The game also introduces a new 📈 weapon crafting system. In a multiplayer match, players earn "Salvage" points, which can be consumed to purchase Prototype Weapons, variants 📈 of existing in-game weapons. For each gun, there 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 Infinite Warfare 📈 for players who have earned sufficient points in a match. Scoresteaks offer 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 player and 📈 kill other opponents.[13]

Zombies [ edit ]

The game also features a cooperative multiplayer Zombies mode, which has its own gameplay mechanics 📈 and story, separate from the campaign.[6] The mode is designed to be more accessible to new players, with new features 📈 such as sharing points and teambuy doors, as well as keeping the core gameplay of the mode intact, such as 📈 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, but unlike Gobblegums they are activated through point 📈 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 price 📈 up to two times in a match. Unlike the campaign and multiplayer modes, Zombies is not themed in space combat, 📈 and retains the normal movement system.

Campaign [ edit ]

Characters and settings [ edit ]

Kit Harington plays the story's main antagonist, 📈 Rear Admiral Salen Kotch.

Infinite Warfare is set in the distant future, after Earth has been stripped of its natural resources 📈 as a result of population growth and industrial expansion, prompting the nations of the world 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 System in order to 📈 mine planets and asteroids for resources. The value of these outposts, however, 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 Organization (SATO), a coordinated military structure that defends Earth and the UNSA's 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 former UNSA colonies that broke away during a previous war of secession. Following years of a troubled stalemate with 📈 the Front, relations have deteriorated to a point 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 lead a crew to defeat the Settlement Defense Front on 📈 Earth, as well as journey to outer space and across other planets in the system using space-based fighter craft, referred 📈 to as Jackals, to stop the Front from taking over the entire Solar System.[9] Assisting Reyes in the fight against 📈 the SDF are his mentor Admiral Fredrick Raines (John Marshall Jones), Reyes' wingman and best 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 📈 appearance as SDF Captain Bradley Fillion, while Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton appears as Retribution Electro-technical Officer Carl Hamilton.

Plot [ 📈 edit ]

In 2187, a UNSA space forces team is sent to a secret UNSA weapons research facility on Europa where 📈 a prototype weapon is being developed, resulting in the SDF seizing the installation. The UNSA team recover the prototype and 📈 initiate the facility's self-destruct, but are captured by the SDF and subsequently executed by one of the SDF's main commanders, 📈 Admiral Kotch.

On Earth, Reyes expresses his opinion to Admiral Raines that the SDF attack is tantamount to a declaration of 📈 war and that the UNSA should be preparing a counterattack. However, Admiral Raines explains that the UNSA's leaders do not 📈 want to escalate the situation, especially during the Fleet Week celebrations where the entire UNSA fleet gathers at Geneva. Invited 📈 to enjoy the festivities, Reyes links up with his wingman Salter and is assigned the experimental E3N for evaluation. Suddenly, 📈 the UNSA's AATIS defense cannons, hijacked by the SDF, open fire on the assembled fleet; simultaneously, an SDF assault force 📈 invades Geneva. Reyes manages to fight his way to the AATIS control tower, where he shuts down the AATIS cannons 📈 and apprehends Riah, the SDF spy responsible for sabotaging them. Reyes then accompanies the surviving UNSA ships into orbit to 📈 oppose the attacking SDF fleet. The SDF's flagship, the Olympus Mons, suddenly arrives and destroys more UNSA ships before it 📈 is forced to retreat. The battle is a disaster for the UNSA, as only two 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 officer were killed in battle, leaving him as the highest-ranking officer of the ship and 📈 its de facto captain. 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 can rebuild its fleet. At this point, Reyes can embark on a number of optional missions 📈 to attack key SDF targets, as well as a strategic refueling tower on Titan, crippling the SDF's 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 carrying 📈 a beacon meant to signal the main SDF fleet to invade Earth, Reyes devises a plan to use the beacon 📈 to lure the SDF fleet right into the still-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. Enraged, Kotch then sets 📈 his own ship to self-destruct by overloading the ship’s nuclear reactor to destroy Geneva to cripple SATO leadership. Reyes manages 📈 to fight his way to the bridge and kill Admiral Kotch, stopping the self-destruct sequence. He then takes the Olympus 📈 Mons and Retribution to Mars, where he intends to use the ship to destroy the SDF's orbital shipyard and cripple 📈 their fleet in return. While the attack is successful, the Olympus Mons is damaged to the point its weapons are 📈 inoperable, and with few other options, Reyes orders it to ram the shipyard. As a result, the Retribution also suffers 📈 damage and drifts into the Olympus Mons' flight path. Both warships crash onto the surface of Mars with the shipyard 📈 still intact.

Realizing that there is no way for them to get back to Earth alive, 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, 📈 but Reyes, Salter, Ethan and a few others make it to the shipyard, where they commandeer a destroyer. However, 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 still remaining on it. Salter reluctantly opens fire, ejecting 📈 Reyes into space. He is able to watch the SDF shipyard explode before shrapnel from its destruction punctures his suit, 📈 causing him to suffocate.

Some time later, the UNSA honors Reyes and the Retribution crew's sacrifice, stating that their destruction of 📈 the SDF shipyard was a decisive victory and that the SDF has been all but destroyed as a result. Salter, 📈 who is one of only four survivors from the Retribution, salutes a war memorial in Geneva listing the names of 📈 all of the UNSA soldiers who died in the conflict, including Reyes.

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

Zombies [ edit ]

Characters [ edit ]

Infinite 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 📈 Sally Simpson. They initially appear as aspiring actors, who are trapped inside a series of horror films by director Willard 📈 Wyler (Paul Reubens), where they play out the role of the films' archetype characters. Throughout the season, the actors encounter 📈 various celebrity actors who are also trapped in each film, including: David Hasselhoff, Kevin Smith, Pam Grier, and Cassandra Peterson 📈 who reprises her role as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Jason Mewes has a minor voiceover role as himself, while 📈 Fred Tatasciore provides the voice 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 between him and his daughter Winona. At 📈 some point, Wyler made a deal 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 movie business. He invites four aspiring actors: A.J., Andre, 📈 Poindexter and Sally, to his theater for an audition, but 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 help from 📈 famous actor David Hasselhoff, who has also been trapped in this movie for an unknown amount of time as his 📈 Knight Rider character Michael Knight. With Hasselhoff's aid, the four actors manage to fend off the undead, much to Wyler's 📈 chagrin, and discover a piece of an artifact known as the Soul Key. As the actors attempt to escape, they 📈 instead find themselves in another one of Wyler's films, "Rave in the Redwoods", set in a '90s campsite in the 📈 Redwood National and State Parks, where they go up against hordes of undead raver teenagers and sasquatches. As the actors 📈 traverse across the campsite, they encounter director Kevin Smith, who has also been trapped here 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 memory, and convince him to 📈 help them escape the film. However, the group soon uncovers through the memories that Jason, along with various 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, but is defeated.

The actors retrieve the second piece 📈 of the Soul Key, and are immediately warped into Wyler's third film, "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 training. The group encounter Arthur McIntosh, a failed businessman who after consuming a mysterious chemical became the 📈 Rat King, 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 four actors are then teleported into Wyler's fourth film, 📈 "Attack of the Radioactive Thing", set in a 1950s beach area affected by a radioactive experiment. The actors encounter horror 📈 film hostess Elvira, who is also trapped inside this film, and proceed to assist her in her plan to foil 📈 Wyler's scheme. Together, they battle against a combined force of zombies as well as mutant crab-frog fusions and a giant 📈 radioactive beast dubbed Crogzilla. The crew assemble a nuclear bomb and detonate it inside the Crogzilla's belly, blowing it to 📈 bits. They then retrieve the fourth piece of the Soul Key inside the Crogzilla's eye.

The four actors are then teleported 📈 into the final film, "The Beast from Beyond", as they arrive at a futuristic military station on an ice planet, 📈 where they battle against the Cryptid aliens from the Extinction series, as well as a mixture of zombies from the 📈 previous four films. After fighting against a herd of Cryptids, the four retrieve the final piece 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 own method, but ultimately realize they have become slaves 📈 to the demon Mephistopheles in Wyler's place. Mephistopheles himself appears in front of the four actors, and threatens to consume 📈 their souls; the four then arm themselves for a final battle against 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 as each of 📈 Wyler's films. Meanwhile, Wyler enlists Hasselhoff's help in Spaceland once more in an attempt to escape the movie. He reunites 📈 with the four actors and reconciles with them as all five begin to plot their next move.

Development and release [ 📈 edit ]

I want people to play our new game and say, 'Wow, I haven't seen [Call of Duty] change that 📈 much since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. —Jacob Minkoff, a design director at Infinity Ward

In 2014, Activision announced a 📈 three-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 as to extend each game's development time.[15] Infinite Warfare 📈 is the third and the last game in the first cycle, and it is the first video game developed by 📈 Infinity Ward since 2013's Call of Duty: Ghosts.[6] Development 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 📈 team chose space as the game's setting as they believed that it can introduce new environments to players. To make 📈 the game more realistic, Infinity Ward had consulted several military experts.[7][18] The team also wants to start an Infinite Warfare 📈 sub-series.[19]

Reveal [ edit ]

In February 2024, Activision announced that Infinity Ward would be the lead developer of 2024's Call of 📈 Duty game.[20] Infinite Warfare was officially confirmed by Activision when they announced that the company would not have a booth 📈 at E3 2024, and that their products would be shown through their partner, Sony Interactive Entertainment.[21] Activision teased the game 📈 with a video, titled "Know Your Enemy", and a new ending for Black Ops III's "Nuk3town" map, which shows a 📈 giant airship on top of the map.[22][23] The game was leaked via PlayStation Store on April 26, and the first 📈 trailer was revealed unofficially via Hulu prior to the game's official announcement.[24][25]

In May 2024, Activision released the official announcement trailer 📈 for the game, a week after they trademarked the name of the game.[6][26] The trailer of the game was officially 📈 revealed through a live-stream on Twitch.[27] As part of the reveal, Activision ran a social media game using a Facebook 📈 chat bot, which tasks the player to decode a message.[28] A remastered version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, 📈 entitled Modern Warfare Remastered, was released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC alongside Infinite Warfare, only available with the 📈 purchase of either the Legacy, Digital Deluxe or Legacy Pro edition of Infinite Warfare.[29] The first public piece of gameplay 📈 for the Infinite Warfare campaign was revealed as a trailer during the Sony press conference at E3 2024.[30][31] A gameplay 📈 video of the "Black Sky" campaign mission was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2024. Also revealed was 📈 the "Terminal" map pre-order bonus for customers who pre-ordered Infinite Warfare.[32]

In August 2024, Activision sent mysterious metal packages to YouTubers 📈 in the Call of Duty community. 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 1 minute.[33] Each box contained a variety of 80's-themed 📈 apparel, plus a cassette player and a VHS tape, which contained the reveal trailer for Zombies in Spaceland.[34] An HD 📈 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 animated player card, as well as a 📈 "Fate and Fortune Card Pack" for use in the Zombies mode.[35] The official reveal of Infinite Warfare's multiplayer mode took 📈 place during the Call of Duty XP 2024 convention, which was held in early September 2024.[36][37]

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 October 21, and the PC version did not have a beta.[38] The beta concluded on October 24.[38]

Downloadable 📈 content [ edit ]

Players who purchased the season pass, whether it be separately or with certain special editions of the 📈 game, were to receive all four DLC packs for Infinite Warfare, released in four different waves during 2024, for a 📈 slightly discounted price (compared to that of all DLC packs purchased separately). Season pass holders were to also receive 1,000 📈 Salvage credits, the game's in-game currency, and 10 rare quality supply drops at the game's launch.[39] The first DLC pack, 📈 named Sabotage, was available to PS4 players on January 31, 2024, and to Xbox One and PC players on March 📈 2, 2024.[40] The pack includes the new Zombies map Rave in the Redwoods, as well as four new multiplayer maps: 📈 Noir, Renaissance, Neon, and Dominion (remade from the MW2 map Afghan).[40] The second map pack, Continuum, was released on PS4 📈 on April 18, 2024, and on Xbox One and PC on May 18, 2024; the map pack includes four MP 📈 maps: Turista, Scrap, Archive, Excess (a remake of the MW2 map Rust), and one Zombies map, Shaolin Shuffle. The third 📈 map pack, Absolution, was released on PS4 on July 6, 2024, and on Xbox One and PC on August 8, 📈 2024; the map pack features the Zombies map Attack of the Radioactive Thing and four MP maps: Permafrost, Fore, Bermuda 📈 and Ember (a remake of the MW3 map Resistance). The final map pack, Retribution, will be released on PS4 on 📈 September 12, 2024, and features the final Zombies episode The Beast 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 voice of actor Craig Fairbrass (also known for his role as 📈 Gaz in Modern Warfare, Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, Wallcroft in Modern Warfare 3, and Tee in Infinite Warfare). Other 📈 voice packs feature various celebrities, including rapper Method Man, YouTuber Ozzy Man Reviews, and comedian Ken Jeong.

Reception [ edit ]

Upon 📈 release of the initial trailer, the game was heavily criticized by the community for being too futuristic. The consensus held 📈 was that this had stemmed from frustration with the current direction of the franchise, as consecutive installments released in the 📈 past few years had been set in future settings and narratives.[55][56] 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' ... [but] 📈 ... we also have millions of people in our community who want to have new innovative experiences in the game 📈 each year and Infinite Warfare is going to deliver that." He also stated that Call of Duty: Black Ops II, 📈 whose trailer also received its fair share of dislikes, would go on to become the best-selling Call of Duty game 📈 at the time.[57] As of June 30, 2024 , the trailer has received more than 3.95 million dislikes and is 📈 the 25th-most-disliked video on YouTube.[58][59][60]

Despite its pre-release criticism, Infinite Warfare was named Best Shooter at E3 by Game Informer.[61] At 📈 the 2024 Game Critics Awards for the best of E3, the game was nominated for Best Action Game,[62] but lost 📈 to rival game Battlefield 1.[63]

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare received "generally favorable" reviews for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, 📈 while the PC version received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[41][42][43]

IGN gave the game a 7.7 out 📈 of 10 stating; "Despite its shift to interplanetary combat, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a generally fun but inessential 📈 shooter."[51] Trusted Reviews awarded Infinite Warfare 4 and a half out of 5 stars, reasoning; "A solid campaign and the 📈 excellent "Zombies" mode will see people stick around for a good while".[64]

The single-player campaign 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 thin".[64] GamesRadar+ 📈 praised the dark and realistic tone, and thought the game was a departure from the typical sense of heroism in 📈 the series.[49] Game Informer thought that Infinite Warfare still included some of the series' usual elements but carried greater emotional 📈 weight than its predecessors.[46] 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.[47][53] IGN appreciated the dialogue and cast performances.[51] GameSpot also praised the characters and compared the game's structure to a 📈 film, in contrast to past installments that felt like an episodic series.[48]

EGM, however, panned the narrative as one of the 📈 worst they'd experienced in some time; they criticized the characterization of Kotch and Kit Harrington's "lifeless acting", as well as 📈 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 by the next mission.[45][51] IGN wrote 📈 the campaign was "slow and plodding" and only marginally better than Call of Duty: Ghosts, which they saw as a 📈 low point of the franchise.[51] Destructoid called the campaign "average", thinking only fans of Mass Effect and sci-fi would be 📈 swayed by it.[44]

Game Informer was pleased from a perception that the "frenetic" movement of gameplay in recent Call of Duty 📈 installments had been toned down for Infinite Warfare and harkened back to the series' older style.[46] While EGM enjoyed the 📈 variety 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.[45] Destructoid felt that some of the gadgets used in the game were more 📈 entertaining in multiplayer.[44] The game's multiplayer was criticized by Trusted Reviews, writing they were saddened that it was not on 📈 par with previous entries.[64]

Sales [ edit ]

Infinite Warfare sold 1.8 million copies in its first week in US.[65] However, overall 📈 sales were down 50% compared to 2024's Call of Duty: Black Ops III.[66][67][68] 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 name carried brand weight with it.[69][70] Despite slow initial sales, Infinite Warfare was the top-selling game in the 📈 US in November 2024.[71][72] Activision reported in February 2024 that the game missed their sales expectations with one of the 📈 reasons cited being that the game "didn't resonate with fans".[73]

The PlayStation 4 version sold 105,764 copies within its first week 📈 on sale in Japan, making it the bestselling game of the week in the country.[74]

Accolades [ edit ]

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