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Space warfare infinite4/10/2023 ![]() He’s got to change or he’ll kill his crew. This is a guy unfit to lead in a time when the navy doesn’t have anyone else. What seems like a contrivance to get players to feel powerful is actually a comment on Reyes’ character. Choices such as micromanaging missions and refusing missions with even a one percent chance of casualties. Reyes is so burdened by his new command that he makes terrible choices that put the lives of his soldiers at risk. ![]() But Infinite Warfare is doing this to make a point. Which sounds like a ridiculous thing that would never happen in a real military, and it is. So, of course, he decides to either personally lead or support every single mission the Retribution takes on. Reyes is a hotshot Jackal pilot unused to leading troops from the comfort of the command center. He doesn’t want it, but he takes it.īehold the second most hated trailer in YouTube history. As the flight crew leader, Reyes is next in line for the job. Reyes survives and makes it back to the USNA Retribution only to discover the captain and XO died during the assault. Mars assaults Earth’s fleet when it’s gathered in one place and destroys all but two if its carriers. If you’ve ever read any military fiction ever, you know what comes next. Don’t ask too many questions.ĭuring Fleet Week, the might of the Earth’s space navy gathers in one place to parade above the planet. The Jackal is a weird mashup of an F-35, F-18 and F-22 that can fly both through the vacuum of space and planetary atmospheres. The player controls Nick Reyes, a Jackal fighter pilot visiting Geneva for Fleet Week - a yearly celebration of the USNA’s victory over Mars. The two sides carved up the system after the war and Mars’ military - the Settlement Defense Force - patrols its borders and shoots at anyone who gets too close. The Earth colonized Mars decades before and the Red Planet fought - and lost - a war of secession the previous generation. The United Nations Space Alliance has outposts from Geneva to Pluto and maintains an uneasy peace with its Martian neighbors. Despite the space nonsense, it’s more grounded, focused and cogent than the series has been in years.Ĭall of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes place in a far future where Earth has conquered the solar system. ![]() It uses a by-the-numbers plot about an interplanetary civil war to tell a story about the struggles of command. Infinite Warfare’ s single player campaign is among the best in the franchise. I had trouble finding a multiplayer game, sales have slipped dramatically from previous titles and the trailer premiere was infamously one of the most disliked in YouTube’s history. The rust is showing in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Call of Duty has been running on fumes for a few years now and it’s hard to believe it took this long to set a game in the far flung future where humans are a space-faring species. When a franchise makes an interstellar leap, it often means that the franchise is creatively bankrupt. Jason Voorhees hacked his way through holographic campers in Jason X, the cenobites took painful pleasure intergalactic in Hellraiser: Bloodline and the plucky Lubdan protected his pot-o-gold in Leprechaun 4: In Space. This is an affliction normally reserved for horror films. It’s a cliche that when a popular media empire has run out of ideas, it simply ships the whole thing to space to see what happens. What a difference low expectations makes.Īfter more than 13 years and 14 games, mega-hit video game franchise Call of Duty has finally made the desperate leap from the Earth to the stars. A franchise out of ideas seeks solace in the stars
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