A lot of gamers love space stuff, and this is a great opportunity for them to get a mainstream FPS set not in some distant galaxy, but in near-space.A dazed Soap manages to climb to his feet, equipped with only his knife and heads for the fallen Pavelow. And if they're planning on remastering Black Ops I, I hope they're watching the fan reaction closely and taking notes.įinally, I just have to say this: A lot of people are actually excited about a Call of Duty set in space. I do think Activision should either release it as a more expensive stand-alone ($20 as part of the bundle, $40 stand-alone) or next year. But honestly, offering it as an add-on for $20 is hardly the end of the world, and hardly justifies the sheer level of anger and upset we're seeing right now. That might have staved off some of the anger. Anyone who bought it could have gotten some sort of bonus, or access to a beta, for that release. They could have sold it as a stand-alone for $39.99 a couple months before the release of Infinite Warfare. Activision certainly could have done it differently. It's $20 for the remaster, but you can only get it if you buy Infinite Warfare. Of course, the hate directed at Infinite Warfare right now is also largely a product of the fact that the Modern Warfare remaster is available as a bundled game only. And quite frankly, a FPS in space sounds pretty cool. They were probably excited to try their hands at a full-blown space game. As I just noted, Infinity Ward had no way to really know that there would be such a strong desire for non-space-age games a couple years ago. Still, the hate we're seeing over Infinite Warfare is a bit extreme. Surely not all of them need to go back to the future." But here we are, in outer space. Hell, I was arguing this pretty recently, before we learned of Infinite Warfare or Battlefield 1. As I said at the time, " After all, there are three studios making these games. No doubt the hype over Battlefield 1's WWI setting illustrates just how much the market is craving alternatives to sci-fi. But Activision still probably should have anticipated this, and had at least one of its three development teams working on a modern or past warfare game. The same fatigue gamers felt with "modern warfare" is now being felt toward "future warfare." Activision has three teams developing Call of Duty games, and Infinity Ward started work on Infinite Warfare over two years ago at this point, before real "future war" fatigue had set in. And it just wasn't as good as the Modern Warfare trilogy, which left a lot of gamers with a bad taste in their mouth, and maybe a mix of concern and high hopes for whatever developer Infinity Ward would come up with next.
So even though it lacked the future tech of the other games, it still didn't feel very modern. Ghosts was pretty modern, but had a far-fetched story of America's downfall at the hands of a South American Federation, and a whole segment in space. So by the time Infinite Warfare was announced, Call of Duty fans had played Black Ops II, Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, and Black Ops III and each game took place either in the near future or somewhat more distant future.
I was hoping Black Ops III would take place in the future-maybe 2050 or so-and the present, blending both futuristic and modern warfare. In Black Ops II, for instance, we had a modern (or very, very near future of 2025) as one of the main stories, while the past story took place in the late 80's. On some level, it did.īut Activision probably made a mistake also having Black Ops III set so far into the future, rather than have it mirror the first two games' narrative approach. Maybe giving them what they were asking for would stem some of the complaints. Finally, with Sledgehammer's release of Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty fully embraced near-future-war with gusto.Īfter all, gamers wanted something new and something different. Then, with Ghosts they hopped just a bit further into the future still.
With Black Ops III Activision and Treyarch tiptoed out of the "modern" warfare and into the near future. We got Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops, Modern Warfare 3 and people wanted to see something new, something different. Then, over the next few years people started to complain that every year's Call of Duty release was the same rehashed, over-hyped garbage.
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