The Most Misunderstood Call of Duty

[@gono4806]

It was probably because I was so young at the time but when I completed this game I almost cried. I really enjoyed the character interactions, but Mars could have used more development. I think The Expanse did a good job of showing off what a realistic Mars in opposition to Earth could look like where yes they are an equal and even have better ships than Earth but this comes at the cost of being outnumbered like 3 to 1 and lots of money needing to be diverted to the military which has stalled the proper colonisation of mars for a century or so.

[@kamilr4145]

Yes Expanse is probably the best portray of potential Earth Mars rivalry. I also think that a big part of what made it better in Expanse than in Call of Duty is that they didn't made Mars in to a one dimensional villain. P.S. Sorry for my bad English

[@ericheaton642]

I honestly think this was one of the best COD Campaigns of all time. The Multiplayer wasn’t its strong suit, but the story and vibes were fantastic. I honestly think this standalone story is better than any of the current games stories.

[@Chonkems]

Infinite Warfare is such a masterpiece. Brian Bloom is not only a great voice actor, but a phenomenal story writer.

[@jarvy251]

The SDF was always nonsensical. The player being a member of an underfunded martian militia facing off against an earth under the bootheel of a fascist government would have been way more interesting. You could be rescuing governments in exile from the world's beseiged democracies, and putting together a ragtag group of multinational soldiers eager to liberate their homelands. That said Infinite warfare had the most compelling campaign a CoD game had seen in a long time, I don't see how anyone who played it could hate.

[@DecidedlyNinja]

But that would prevent the one-and-only player character from being American or British! I'm not sure CoD is capable of moving the spotlight that far off of NATO countries.

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

@@DecidedlyNinja you wanna know something else? There isn't a single Russian in the Earth forces. Hell, at geneva there isn't even a Russian flag! it's like they exiled all the Russians to space! Give SDF one hell of a motivation.

[@srinivarma1320]

​@@themanformerlyknownascomme777If I remembered correctly this takes place in the same canon as the og modern warfare trilogy, where the world was pissed off at Russia invading Europe and th e United States

[@RDGamer321]

It seems that at the time, no one wanted to give this game a chance because AW and BO3 had burned them out on futuristic experiences and they wanted to go back to the days of WaW, the original MW trilogy, and the first two BO games. They had no idea what they had back then, since games that have come out since like BO4, Vanguard, or the new MW3 had campaigns that were absolute garbage or none at all.

[@ShadowDreamer100]

The multiplayer is what sunk it. I played it's beta and was turned off so much by it. But I gave the campaign a chance, told myself I'd only play the first hour. 4 hours later I bought the game and completed the rest of the campaign the next day. It was very well written in my opinion, I kind of wish Kit wasn't in the game to give back some budget to make the campaign a bit longer and more time with the Mars conflict ON Mars. I think not giving the SDF much explanation was kind of the point, gameplay elements notwithstanding. I'd imagine a smaller nation who had complete isolation from Earth for decades would have developed very differently to the point that they would seem almost alien. Answering the call of duty may not always have a clear or 'good' reason either. Sacrifice and coming when called regardless of reason I would say is a central theme of the whole franchise. I also wonder if Olympus Mons was supposed to be the crown jewel and only big play Mars had since it seemed to be involved with everything Reyes and crew investigated. The writer of the campaign also played Reyes, fun fact. Also plays Varric in Dragon Age. And has writing credits for Cod games since Ghosts, and as recently as Blops 6.

[@callsigncoyote7931]

Infinite Warfare had one of the better campaigns, but the worst multiplayers.

[@SkullObsessed69]

I feel the opposite

[@redhill3248]

E3n was my boy

[@jediahramos2968]

I’m glad it might be getting some even today, favorite COD campaign (besides black ops 2, CW, and BO6)

[@avery4149]

When I saw the multiple side missions in IW, I thought it will be like BO2 where your effort and decisions will transform the ending of the story into variations that reflects what you choose. But nope, killing all the HVT and blowing up the ships means nothing really other than an upgrade. It feels like the dev got told that they can do whatever they want, only to find out when the management look at the work at 70% completion, force the devs to wrap it up and ship it. As it was "good enough" and campaign doesn't make that much money anyway. I love IW and still replays it to these days, but I would die for a sequel where they can make the perfect game they want.

[@DanielV42]

Reminds me of "The East Wind" and "Old man" from Arma.

[@waspoptic]

I've been saying this since the game came out, thank you for making this awesome video on one of my favourite CoDs of all time

[@eclipseRz]

Imagine trying to make a CoD game with a compelling campaign with deep character relations, only for the lasting legacy to be good day fleshy mammals

[@sladetuner8661]

i just replayed this 2016 video game for the 5th time and I still enjoyed it yet again #CallOfDuty #Activision

[@blackandbluex]

Cod players just love to hate anything new atp 😂

[@L.J.Kommer]

"Is that rain, sir?"

[@Turbo_Noises]

Red rising is fucking amazing

[@Skully_14]

Play this game when I was 16 and ugly I cried when the robot guy died idk why

[@StuartLegomanLittle]

The story of the game is enjoyable and focused on sacrifice. The world building is terrible and it is not even remotely close to anything resembling a real universe.

[@DapperJev]

Dubs in the chat

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

Yeah... That's a no

[@justletmelistthese]

Game would have improved infinitely if dialouge and ""characters"" did not exist. It is like level/gameplay designers made a great game and then lead designer and writers made a blood vow to ruin it.