Everything you need to know about Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, including latest news, trailers, release date, and more!
Activision and Infinity Ward revealed the latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise this morning: Infinite Warfare, the game that's finally taking the series to space. Call of Duty's ultimate turn to pure military science fiction has been long rumored and gestating. Over the years, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer have all introduced more sci-fi concepts to their games, increasingly departing from the franchise's World War II roots. With Infinite Warfare, the sci-fi seems to have finally made its way to the forefront.
Here is everything we know about Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare:
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Release Date
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will arrive on November 4, 2016, sticking to the series' traditional Fall release date. The game will be available on PS4, XBO, and PC.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Trailer
The first trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is full of mechs, futuristic weapons, exoskeletons, and space battles. Oh, and there's a nod to David Bowie's "Space Oddity," too.
Check out the trailer:
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Images
Here are the very first screenshots from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare:
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Campaign
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will feature a linear campaign mode, but the game will also have non-linear missions that you can choose to complete for better loot.
"As the captain of the UNSA Retribution, which is the carrier that you command, you can order it to go and engage in different missions in a non-linear order," Infinity Ward design director Jacob Minkoff told IGN.
"We are telling a linear story, but along the way you can choose to attack targets of opportunity, and attacking those targets of opportunity will reward you with various items and progression and loot elements that will help you to accomplish the next main mission that you accept from command." These missions "will also reveal optional elements of the story."
One of the new gameplay elements featured in the debut trailer that attracted the most buzz was the fighter plane that players could pilot into space. These fighter planes are known as Jackal.
Minkoff told IGN that "It's kind of the Top Gunfantasy. It's your fighter that you get to upgrade and customize. You get to walk along the flight deck and have the flight crew preparing it for you and saluting you and you get into it and you fly out into these crazy missions that you chose to go to."
He also said that the switch between battles on-foot and in the cockpit would be seamless. "You can be boots on ground, fighting through the streets of a city on earth, call down your Jackal, get into it, fly up through the atmosphere, engage in a dogfight over the orbit of earth, finish that dogfight, land on the deck of the carrier, get into the carrier, go up to the bridge, and order your ship to go to the next mission and all of it happens seamlessly with no loading screens."
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Multiplayer
No details have been revealed about Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's multiplayer mode at this time, but you can expect a multiplayer mode to be present. Classics like Deathmatch and Domination will undoubtedly return.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Zombies
Infinity Ward is developing a new Zombie mode for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. This is the first time this particular studio has created a Zombie mode for their Call of Duty entries, a mode that was originally exclusive to the Treyarch entries before Sledgehammer followed suit in Advanced Warfare.
"We’re excited that we’re finally able to do our own take on zombies," Infinity Ward said in a livestream on the day the game was announced. The new Zombie mode will not crossover with Treyarch's Zombie universe nor will it have anything to do with what's going on in Infinite Warfare's campaign.
Infinity Ward promised new gameplay features and mechanics for their mode, but didn't go into details.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Bundles
There will be several editions sold for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, all of which will include the remastered edition of Modern Warfare. Here's the breakdown:
The following editions of the game include the remaster:
Legacy Edition and Digital Legacy Edition — Includes both Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, suggested retail price $79.99.
Digital Deluxe Edition — Includes Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and Season Pass, SRP $99.99.
Legacy Pro Edition — Includes Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Season Pass, collectible Steelbook, official game soundtrack and additional digital items, SRP $119.99.
Modern Warfare Remastered will come with that game's campaign and 10 multiplayer maps. It will not be available as a standalone release, so you'll have to purchase one of the above editions in order to download the game.
