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Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare \u2013 should there be another one? (pic: Activision)A reader argues that the next Call Of Duty, after this year, should be Infinite Warfare 2 and that the original was sorely underrated.
\nAccording to the rumours, this year\u2019s Call Of Duty is called Vanguard and it\u2019s going to be set during the Second World War. I don\u2019t like to judge a book by it\u2019s title but I\u2019m already not interested. Call Of Duty\u2019s roots are in the Second World War but between it and its army of clones I don\u2019t feel there\u2019s anything new that can be said or done with the period, or at least not as a straight action game. If Sledgehammer can prove me wrong, then great but as far as I\u2019m concerned Call Of Duty should be looking to the future not the past.
\nModern day settings obviously work very well for the franchise but that can quickly get old too, especially if, as rumoured, Battlefield 6 is going to have basically the same setting. If the setting is modern day you know pretty much what all the weapons and vehicles are going to be before you start and for me that really limits the excitement of a new game. That means the other obvious thing to do is set your game in the future, but Infinite Warfare seems to have put Activision off that for life.
\nActivision has three developers working on Call Of Duty, so the obvious thing to do is to have the games rotating through the historical settings each year to keep things fresh: past, present, and future. For whatever reason though they\u2019ve done that, perhaps because, especially nowadays, they don\u2019t want things to change too much year to year or that will interfere with the esports side of things \u2013 where people probably don\u2019t want everything changing completely every year. But\u2026 I do. I want variety and experimentation, not the same old thing from now until the end of time.
\nThe problem people had with Infinite Warfare, I think, is not the game itself, which I feel was very good, but because it was an even more sci-fi game after a series of games set in the near future. People had had enough of the same thing so many times in a row, just as I would if we had a Second World War game for three straight years. I think there was also a lack of understanding at that time (2016) that all the robots and drones weren\u2019t just made-up nonsense but a very accurate prediction of the future.
\nSure, nobody\u2019s going to be jumping around with jetpacks anytime soon but the rest of it was pretty grounded science fiction, as has already become obvious in the intervening five years. When the New York police already have a robot dog, and Space Force is a real thing that actually exists, you get the idea of how quickly things are changing and it\u2019s absolutely right that Call Of Duty reflects that.
\nNow, admittedly Infinite Warfare went a lot further than that, jumping in and out of spaceships and using a grappling hook, but it was purposefully further in the future and I believe it\u2019s largely the preceding games like Advanced Warfare and Black Ops 4 that had started to put people off the sci-fi stuff. Infinite Warfare just ended up walking into that already laid minefield and people were angry that it was going too far.
\nAfter all, it was the initial trailer that got everyone upset about and the game itself still sold well. I believe that if it had been preceded by a normal present day or historical entry it would\u2019ve been warmly welcomed as a breath of fresh air and some welcome innovation. So now that it\u2019s been a few years I think they should try again. We\u2019re talking 2022 here, tops, so that\u2019s been plenty of time.
\nWe still haven\u2019t had a proper, grounded space marine game that doesn\u2019t feature aliens and is just about what it would be like fighting in the future. The colony breaking away plot in Infinite Warfare had lots of potential but was carried out in the most uninteresting way possible but there\u2019s plenty of stories that could be told.
\nWhat will it be like when nations are fighting in zero-G spacestations or on planets with low gravity and poisonous atmospheres? Volcanoes the size of countries, lakes of methane, and surfaces that never see the light of the sun. All these things are real and could be the basis of a great military action game.
\nMaybe I\u2019m overestimating Call Of Duty\u2019s sense of ambition but Infinite Warfare really fired my imagination and I\u2019m already disappointed by what Rainbow Six Quarantine seems to be. If Activision won\u2019t make a serious space marine simulator I hope someone else does!
\nBy reader Tim Rogers<\/p>\n
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