Every year since 2003, a new "Call of Duty" game has been thrown out to the gaming public for a boat load of cash. Their latest entry to the series is called "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare" and the early reviews are less than stellar.
And while the early COD games are considered masterpieces in the field of first-person shooters. The 13th game of the storied franchise, "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare" represents how the series has miserably failed in improving this worn out genre.
While "Call of Duty" in outer space sounds like a bold move by the guys at Activision. The actual product is not exactly groundbreaking. Sure there are robot sidekicks, futuristic weaponry, and a lot of Science fiction landscapes but at the very core, the whole thing still reeks of Activision playing it safe. It still feels like the "Call of Duty" games of yesteryears. Or as the gaming site Glixel, so eloquently puts it:
"It only takes a couple of sluggish stop-and-pop gunfights through spaceship corridors to discover that the only discernible difference between Infinite Warfare and 2007's landmark Modern Warfare is that the AK-47 fires lasers instead of bullets."
While the graphics for the game is quite stunning, especially now that according to Jobs & Hire, the game will be optimized for the PS4 Pro. The entire campaign mode falls flat and will be but a memory that only manages a tiny whimper on gamer's minds.
And this might spell trouble for the franchise, who is facing mounting pressures from the likes of Titanfall, a reinvented Doom, and the Battlefield games. While the gameplay of "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare" is still a fluid and jolly good multiplayer affair, their competition is zooming past them with better storylines and much improved playing mechanics.
PC world recently said this about "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare" in their review, "We used to talk about "Call of Duty killers." Little did we know Call of Duty would kill itself." And if "Call of Duty: infinite Warfare" is any indication of future games, then it might be a good idea to say our farewells to the beloved franchise.
