Call of Duty Infinite Warfare

[Girth Certificate]

it's not a particularly good game but I've got a massive soft spot for SPACE NAVY settings. I loved how their Battlestar Galactica jumps to lightspeed felt like a dangerous thing. A lot of the characters were actually quite good, first time since Soap and the old boy from the modern warfare trilogy.

[Alex W.]

Yeah, it was a bit of wish fulfilment. I never got tired of revving up the space fighter and doing the BSG launch thing.

[bradigor]

Quick question. 

 

Seen this in CEX on XB1 for about £25 as the legacy edition and £15 for the normal edition. Is the MW Remaster a code for this on XB1 or is it on the disc? I ask as the Legacy Edition on PS4 is only £15.
 

[Down by Law]

It's disc on XB1, code on PS4 (which is why it's cheap, as 99% likely to have been redeemed)

[bradigor]

Excellent, might pick it up at that price then. 

[K]

Is it just me, or did anyone else have difficulty suspending their disbelief over the setup of this game, whereby you're the captain of the ship, and you're a fighter pilot, and you're a marine? I realise that the Call of Duty games are not particularly realistic, particularly one set in the future where you have a sarcastic robot butler as your sidekick, but they always had a kind of verisimilitude about them, so that the military setting felt solid and realistic, and you didn't have General Patton landing with the troops at D-Day, killing his way up the beach, then hopping into a spitfire for a quick dogfight.

 

It's particularly annoying - for nitpickers like me - given that the previous CoD games made a point of shifting your viewpoint around, so that if they wanted to have an interlude on an AC-130 or an orbital space station, they just had you play as a different character. It's a small thing, but I think I'd prefer the game if they'd had three protagonists, rather than have one character with three very unlikely jobs.

 

Still, it's fun. My robot butler is a solid bro, and I like the space breaching and general use of military SF imagery, like explosive decompression.

[Girth Certificate]

1 hour ago, K said:

Is it just me, or did anyone else have difficulty suspending their disbelief over the setup of this game, whereby you're the captain of the ship, and you're a fighter pilot, and you're a marine?

 

Yeah, at least in Space: Above and Beyond you had the guy with the white hair and Commodore Ross giving orders from the ship.

[p1nseeker]

2 hours ago, Captain LeChuck said:

Robot dude aside (who really was excellent), I thought this was all utter pants. Entirely forgettable, with a pathetic villain. It all felt like something written by a teenage COD fanboy. 

 

This. Can't believe the praise it got, I couldn't even be arsed finishing it. 

[Tezcatlipoca]

2 hours ago, Captain LeChuck said:

Robot dude aside (who really was excellent), I thought this was all utter pants. Entirely forgettable, with a pathetic villain. It all felt like something written by a teenage COD fanboy. 

 

You should have played Titanfall 2 instead

 

[Nathan Wind]

Well the campaign in this is surprisingly great.  The CoDs have left me cold since Modern Warfare but the Steam version was only £25 with Modern Warfare Remastered on CDKeys so I took a punt.  It's amazing how much just being able to select missions in any order spices up the CoD formula.  The ship-boarding ones where you start out dogfighting, then do a little bit of zero-G, before heading into a capital ship are superb.  Kind of like a single player version of Titan mode in Battlefield 2142.

[K]

I liked this quite a bit, but didn't really dig the dogfighting. It felt more like you were controlling a free cam in photo mode than flying a spaceship. 

[Nathan Wind]

Oh for sure, it's nothing like you'd find in a dedicated space combat game but I'm finding it a nice diversion from the constant CoD barrage. The controls being the same as on-foot make it feel like a floaty version of what you're doing in the rest of the game but just that little change of setting helps.

 

What I really want is a Starlancer remaster.

[Smitty]

15 minutes ago, Nathan Wind said:

Oh for sure, it's nothing like you'd find in a dedicated space combat game but I'm finding it a nice diversion from the constant CoD barrage.

 

Sounds like that great, deep, satisfying gameplay we know and love.

[K]

1 hour ago, Nathan Wind said:

Oh for sure, it's nothing like you'd find in a dedicated space combat game but I'm finding it a nice diversion from the constant CoD barrage. The controls being the same as on-foot make it feel like a floaty version of what you're doing in the rest of the game but just that little change of setting helps.

 

What I really want is a Starlancer remaster.

 

The campaign was surprisingly good. It feels a little bit underdeveloped. There are loads of game mechanics in there that don't really feel like they're being used to their fullest effect, like the zero-G combat or the space-rappelling or the hacking of androids or rodeoing titans or the wallrunning - they're all in there, but you never really feel like they're an integral game mechanic. Plus, it was stymied a bit I thought by coming out in the same year as Titanfall 2, which took similar mechanics and pushed them to the absolute limit.

 

But yeah, the seamless movement between launching your ship, dogfighting, ejecting, and breaching and boarding a space cruiser is beautifully done. And the actual combat has that chunky, grimy feel of Call of Duty, except with futuristic weapons. I loved the sci-fi feel to it, where Titan feels realistically alien and dangerous, and air blows out of people's faceplates when you shoot them. I hope they haven't completely abandoned this setting, as if they tightened up some of the weaker bits, then a followup could be really special.

[DirkCrisis]

On 5/23/2017 at 23:10, Down by Law said:

It's disc on XB1, code on PS4 (which is why it's cheap, as 99% likely to have been redeemed)

Thanks for this. Amazing it hasn't gone down in price in 2 months but £25 is still decent for an enhanced MW4 plus a bonus space marine game.

[Nathan Wind]

4 hours ago, K said:

 

The campaign was surprisingly good. It feels a little bit underdeveloped. There are loads of game mechanics in there that don't really feel like they're being used to their fullest effect

I may well end up agreeing by the end of the campaign.  I'm only three or four hours in at the moment, and taking my time.  I wouldn't usually find myself in a CoD game thread but it has really taken me by surprise.  I just about managed a couple of hours of Advanced Warfare and didn't even bother with Ghosts but this feels like a real step forwards.  I'm enjoying it as much as I did Titanfall 2 at the mo.

[Capwn]

Ok, I am SO confused right now. In all the press conferences they were going on and on about all the space bits where you shoot space ships in space. Just finished the game, no mention of space at all never mind space ships. What on earth is going on?! 

[Andy XC]

1 hour ago, Capwn said:

Ok, I am SO confused right now. In all the press conferences they were going on and on about all the space bits where you shoot space ships in space. Just finished the game, no mention of space at all never mind space ships. What on earth is going on?! 

Just had a quick google as I've never played the game but apparently they are optional.

 

 

[Capwn]

Looking at that video I don't remember seeing anything like this. I have a feeling that I'm playing the wrong one or something? Because on the 'other clips' section of that video you see Kit from GOT and I remember seeing him in trailers but he wasn't in the game I just played. I'm playing the one with Kevin Spacey? Is that from 2 years ago or something? 

 

So confused.

[rafaqat]

11 minutes ago, Capwn said:

Looking at that video I don't remember seeing anything like this. I have a feeling that I'm playing the wrong one or something? Because on the 'other clips' section of that video you see Kit from GOT and I remember seeing him in trailers but he wasn't in the game I just played. I'm playing the one with Kevin Spacey? Is that from 2 years ago or something? 

 

So confused.

 

Are you on drugs?

Here's a tip.

Compare the title of the thread with the game title on the console you're playing it on.

 

 

[Capwn]

I really don't care much for COD. My sister was going through her library of games in a wallet to see if there were any games I would like to borrow and just saw this COD game. She said it was the latest one, set in space. Perhaps she got confused too? I'll have to ask her about it. I don't even have the box so can't remember what the game is called. I'll get back to you later, the CD is in a playstation in another room. 

[Capwn]

Yeah I was just super confused, figured it out now. I was playing Advanced Warfare convinced it was the latest one (infinite). Anyway, I quite enjoyed the campaign even though I've heard it's one of the poorest ones recently? If Infinite is even better I'll certainly be checking it out.

[Nespresso]

Top troll/beard. 

[DC Lemon]

A fitting final page for the IW thread.

[Girth Certificate]

a guy in the work is big into the multiplayer of this, plays it every night, still calls it Infinity Warfare :/

[Stejay]

I bought this on release just for the Modern Warfare remaster as my son was such a fan of the original, with little intention of ever playing Infinite Warfare itself, much preferring the earlier WW2 based Call of Duty games.  However, I somewhat unintentionally appeared to have gone through a bit of a Call of Duty campaign fad of over the last month, blasting through WW2 and the Modern Warfare remaster before thinking why not give Infinite Warfare a try, and wow, it is a seriously good game.  I've had possibly the most fun I recall having with a Call of Duty campaign in fact.  It is such a shame that it flopped and that there probably won't be any future games in that universe.  To me, Call of Duty games should be historical or contemporary, not futuristic, which is why I was so dismissive of it in the first place.  Perhaps others felt the same and it may have fared better had it been the launch of a brand new franchise instead.  Such a shame, Infinite Warfare  as it turns out, is something of an overlooked classic.

[rafaqat]

I loved this trailer.   The build up to 1.30 and then "God speed Captains".   Yessss.

 

 

[rafaqat]

Think I'll go play that initial space dogfight mission tonight.