While each side mission does a great job at world building, giving a great scope of the war and the efforts it takes to rebuild against SetDef, they did very little character building. These engagements come across as far more Top Gun than Star Wars. Each jackal mission left me smiling when I was done blowing up whatever SDF could throw at me. There shouldn’t be any concern about space dogfights detracting from the grounded feeling of the campaign either. It’s unexpected to see that Call of Duty now effectively holds a place as one of the best flight combat games on the current generation. The controls mimic those of the standard gameplay, so what at first had me a little nervous was quickly mastered and I found myself deftly cutting through waves of enemy fighters. Part of the reason everything flows so well together is that flying the Jackal feels just as intuitive as ground combat. Jackal fights feel like they have just as much a place here as the visceral ground war does. The combat flows evenly from standard boots on the ground warfare to ship battles without making one or the other feel like an underplayed gimmick or an overstated fixture (we all know how it felt to have way too much Batmobile in Akrham Knight). Balance of each gameplay segment is perfect so that any one mechanic never finds itself becoming dull or trying. It would have been easy to copy and paste the side missions, but there’s a fun variety here that ranges from stealth missions - both on an enemy ship and through an asteroid field in zero-g - to space dogfights in jackals (the space fighter jet). These all have different gameplay styles and each one rewards upgrades specific to that side mission, making it feel like you are really working at building back up your power against SDF.
#Space warfare infinite series#
Once Reyes takes control of the Retribution a series of side missions open up around the solar system. It is space, and the infinite blackness allowed Infinity Ward to explore one of the most terrifying environments and do some pretty cool things with the combat mechanics. Replace planets with continents and spacecraft with boats or planes and you could tell the same story in any war setting, be it older wars, modern wars, or future warfare. There were a few faces from Naughty Dog that had part in telling this story and it shows in the strong characters that lead the charge.
It’s indisputably a battle of good versus evil, a story told about a few good men and women, and their part in the war. As one of the last two warships defending Earth, it is up to him to lead troops on critical missions against the radical insurgents that would see Earth fall.
Nick Reyes is thrust into command of a carrier - the Retribution - when an attack by the Settlement Defense Front cripples Earth’s military power. Space is the backdrop, not the crutch on which the story leans. This is a far more gritty and grounded story than most other sleek sci-fi shooters, it just so happens that some of the settings take place on other planets or in a vacuum.
#Space warfare infinite windows#
Windows into the bonds between a group of soldiers just looking to do what they need to in order to win the war and save their fellow fighters. Let’s call them war stories then, windows into moments that turned the tides. And yet, it is also one of the most grounded campaigns, clearly having been inspired by the likes of war films such as Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, which, yes, I know is technically not a film. There may not be Kevin Spacey, but Infinite Warfare is more spacey than any Call of Duty before.
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