Here, they sneak through the yellow-tinted canyons of Saturn's largest moon while methane rain patters on their helmets and the vast ringed planet looms over the horizon. After Operation Port Armour, Reyes and his crew travel to Titan to sabotage an SDF fuelling station. The solar system's broader canvas allows Infinity Ward's imagination to run wild. They are fundamental elements central to the campaign's multifaceted missions.Īnd what missions those are. Crucially, these are not throwaway gimmicks, which came to dominate the games that followed Modern Warfare.
#NEW CALL OF DUTY SPACE WARFARE ZIP#
Space duels let you battle enemy spaceships in your Jackal, blasting fighters and destroyers with missiles and heavy cannons, while the Zero-G combat sees you floating through asteroid fields and along spaceship exteriors, using jet boosters and a grappling hook to zip around environments, seeking scraps of detritus to use as cover in the perilously exposed void of space. For the first time in almost ten years, Infinite Warfare introduces entirely new combat systems to Call of Duty. It already feels more unusual and adventurous, but these are mere tasters of what's to come. Even in an entirely different genre, Jon Snow can't escape the cold. The level also introduces a bunch of new gadgets and mechanics, like seeker drones that attach themselves to enemies before exploding, hacking devices that let you take control of enemy robots and use them to attack your foes from behind.
Black Sky is considerably longer than your average Call of Duty mission, letting Infinity Ward build out Geneva as a space, and giving you time to comprehend the game's vision of the future. But even at this early stage, Infinite Warfare strives to set itself apart from earlier games in the series. In terms of spectacle and linearity, Black Sky is a familiar Call of Duty affair. Your character, Captain Reyes, is on the ground when the attack takes place, and must fight through the bombarded city to regain control of its defence systems. After Earth's military botches a recon mission to a research facility on Europa gone dark, the SDF's leader Salen Kotch launches a full-scale attack on a Naval Fleet Parada in Geneva. The campaign kicks off when those tensions boil over into outright war. The spread of humanity has given rise to new political factions and tensions beyond Earth's atmosphere, culminating in the formation of the Settlement Defence Force, or SDF. Humanity has reached beyond Earth but not the sun, colonising Mars and establishing frontier-like outposts on distant moons such as Europa and Titan.
Infinite Warfare takes place in 2187, presenting players with an Expanse-like vision of the future.
#NEW CALL OF DUTY SPACE WARFARE SERIES#
In Infinite Warfare, Infinity Ward delivered a bold and imaginative sci-fi adventure that innovated in ways the series hadn't seen before, and thanks to the surprisingly negative response to those innovations, also hasn't seen since. Call of Duty spent years struggling to escape the shadow of 2007's landmark FPS, with results ranging from the madness of Black Ops to the misery of Ghosts. Operation Port Armour is probably the best individual Call of Duty mission since Modern Warfare's 'All Ghillied Up', and one of several reasons why Infinite Warfare is my favourite Call of Duty of the last decade. All this is delivered in one seamless sequence, from leaving the vehicle bay of the capital ship Retribution to blowing the final SDF soldiers out of the Destroyer's airlock. Once the enemy fighters are down (or up - it is space after all), you disembark your Jackal for a Zero-G assault on the Destroyer itself, floating along its hull before blasting a hole in the bridge and clearing out the remaining crew from the inside. After clearing the Lunar Gateway of SDF soldiers (which you can do by blowing out the spaceport's windows, sucking your foes out into space), you then board your Jackal fighter craft and jump into lunar orbit for an extended dogfight with SDF fighters launching from a nearby Destroyer.īut the mission doesn't end there. But in Operation Port Armour, assaulting the moon is merely the start. Most shooters would think assaulting the moon a grandiose enough premise for 30 minutes of popping virtual heads. There's a mission early in Infinite Warfare's campaign in which you assault the moon.
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