Why Was Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare SO AWESOME?! And... BAD?!
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is probably the most notorious game in the franchise. But does it deserve the hate and notoriety? What about the campaign? Is Zombies any good? And was the multiplayer THAT BAD?? Only one way to find out...
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___TIME STAMPS___
Introduction - 0:00
Bridging The Gap - 3:44
Campaign - 7:01
Mechanics & Gameplay - 14:14
Level Design - 17:37
Campaign Finished - 21:18
Multiplayer - 25:24
Map Design - 29:06
Zombies - 33:22
Conclusion - 35:19
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WHY WAS THIS GAME MADE?! AND...INFINITE
Infite Warfare was bland...
Now we need cod4
Its time to have some fun.....
*Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for The Act Man to do a "Why Fallout New Vegas Was So Awesome*
Keep going
You got this. One day, good sir, one day.
"We won't go quietly the legion can count on that ."
You men so BAD
Go away
That little Left 4 Dead 2 joke has me really wanting a “Why was Left 4 Dead 2 So AWESOME”
Exactly, that's litterally the best idea
He also had Left 4 Dead 2 music in the end of his Among Us video
I think it will be the best choice for the next video review, because l4d2 got an update after so many years
Just do LFD1 first and we’re golden.
@@ThunderNecros L4D2 comes with both games so he can just put the first and second game into one video
Here's a fun fact; Brian Bloom, the actor for Nick Reyes, is credited as a main writer on the campaign. He is also credited writing for Modern Warfare (2019). A true gigachad.
He also plays as Blaskowicz in Wolfenstein.
gigachad
Now that I think about it, MW 2019 and IW do feel kinda similar in story.
@@tarheelpro87 gigachad
@@darkxseries7 gigachad
After I played the campaign. I genuinely felt so bad for hating on it during when it was in development. The characters, adventure and story was insane for a call of duty production. Ethan was a true homie. When he died in the reactor I almost wanted to cry.
When Ethan died I cried because he was in my opinion he was maybe the best character or one of the best character in the campaign
It was sad to see Ethan die
-almost- *did *
@@swalke6861 Reyes was the best but Ethan is probably the second best. Either him or Salter
And that part where he's holding you in space. I did cry during both parts. Immersive storytelling that was truly emotional. I loved it.
I feel like if “Call of Duty” wasn’t in the title, it would be a much more positive reviewed game
Then it wouldn't sell, and you know how much Activision loves their money.
@@dragonbornexpress5650 Infinity ward created the game.
@@Blue-Apple-fc9eo and activision owns infinity ward
@@giogio3739 And what difference does it make? They also created one of the best call of duty game 2019 in my opinion.
@@Blue-Apple-fc9eo the difference is that they can't make their game since they are still under activision, also they get to decide partially if just not at all the games they are doing, it's all activision's game in every sense of the word
lets be honest here the reason why infinite warfare is hated because it was released in the era of cod where multiplayer is the biggest factor for the players
I can't argue with your assessment
Hi
With better maps and improved movement it could've been the best cod in recent years. I actually liked the multiplayer in IW. It played a bit like Quake or UT, but it fell short on so many things. All it needed was a bit more depth and less restricting map design. The p2w was shit and it has to go, but I didn't rlly care about it when I played IW.
@@hileutewie nahh Im pretty sure the multiplayer sucks because of too much microtransactions and p2w aspects and lack of content
But the campaign is super underrated
As someone who cares only about the campaign in every game, I didn't understand why it was badly ranked among it's competitors, the story is very dramatic and mostly realistic, where no one is safe, even the hero, I got immediately immersed into the plot and felt what soldiers go through when they lose friends especially when Ethan died, superb story.
Oi the same thing buddy
@averageguy1234 Nah just different execution
Because ppl mostly play cod for multiplayer, which in this game was trash. But I agree the campaign was one of the most well-written in the entire series.
@@vingasoline5068 If that was true, why hasn't every CoD title been MP only like Black Ops 4 then? They could save a lot of money if they left all the campaign stuff out, so if it was just that redundant, then it would have been gone a long time ago.
@@shiroamakusa8075 No one really knows; Hell, we're now back to campaigns taking nosedives just like it was after Black Ops 2, yet it's clear that they don't wanna pull another Black Ops 4 anytime soon if ever again. It's a messy situation.
The campaign was honestly one of the best ive played. The future setting, amazing story and characters all worked well.
I know right same, the campaign for cod Infinite warfare was awesome and itasca shame this game got so much hate when it launched in 2016. Hopefully people will give this game a chance now in 2022.
Facts
@@relentless41 facts
I'd say infinite warfare's campaign is amazing and zombies in spaceland is top 5 for me
@@chow_mein facts
I feel like Infinite Warfare would be such a great game if it was its OWN game instead of using the COD title
Yep, i fully agree on this part.
Same with advanced warfare
Maybe good bcuz of the mp
@@navax1468 the mp was meh at best but this is your opinion I can't argue with that
@@y2hy2h45 yeah ik its trash. Thats why he said it'd be great but I say good at best
*shoots his own guy, wasting a bullet, damaging his suit, and injuring a valuable asset* "save the bullets"
That probably could be applied to game development as well in a way.
Can't afford to waste bullets unless of course I want to prove a point to somebody I'm about to kill
Its not about the resources its about sending a message
I liked how in the campaign we could choose to do side quest and hunt down the most wanted people I just wish it made a difference like different endings when we do
That would be a really good idea. Considering the SDF completely destroyed Earth's navy and defense systems save for around three ships, it would make sense to have an ending where the SDF wins if you don't do any of the side missions because they still have an infrastructure to fight back with. If you do complete all the side missions then the UNSA wins because you evened the playing field and now the SDF's entire fleet was completely devastated from the strike operations you took part in. It would make for a more dynamic campaign and give people a reason to try 100%ing it.
This game's campaign is excellent. The pacing and variety is perfect. So many jaw dropping moments. How this game did poorly or was received poorly is rediculous and mind boggling. Story and characters are very competent, albeit too safe to be interesting.
It's because nobody thinks abt the campaign when looking at it a cod was good or not, if mp isn't good then the whole game is bad in the eyes of many cod fans.
I'd say it's due to series fatigue. Doesn't matter how good or bad something is everyone is tired of something. You need to change it up.
Act Man: “Why; do so many CoD campaigns start the same way, I swear, it’s always just some dude talking about war!” Fallout: *sweating profusely*
War... war never changes
Never has
@@arguechefs2998 been
@@TheActMan The more things change, the more they stay the same. Boundaries shift, new players step in; but power always finds a place to rest its head. We fought and bled alongside the Russians; we should've known they'd hate us for it. History is written by the victor, and here I am, thinking we'd won.
@@TheActMan and so does COD
Bruh the part where you were running out of oxygen in Jupiter’s atmosphere (I think it was Jupiter) made me deadass cry. Ethan was being a bro till the end
That is what im saying, those messages at the end of the campaign, had me man. That means the campaign did its job, and this is the most underrated COD, even more than Ghosts. It was popular to hate, which is why it got hate.
"You're my commanding officer, captain. My mission is you." Feels man, always the feels.
yea i nearly cried too but the next scene ruins it when the main guy's just alive again with no good explanation. i literally uninstalled the game and for half a year didn't finish it i was so upset at the death bait and switch
Oh yeah that was heartbreaking
I think it was Europa
My biggest complaint with the setting is that the whole war apparently takes place over the course of about a day. Honestly, the warp stuff is just too fast for an intersolar war. They should have portrayed the war as taking years to finish, with weeks between missions
Yeah. Like 3/4 of the way through the game they just offhandedly mention the opening attack that happened "earlier today". I'm like wtf, I've been across the solar system 15 times. I've supposedly conducted like a dozen separate missions in the last 12 hours? Definitely feels like they wrote that line of dialog before they realized how big the game was going to get.
While I agree that it felt weird how the entire campaign supposedly happens in a about a single day or two, it has to be mentioned that we did not finish the war and it was never our mission to win this war. We were supposed to buy Earth time to rebuild the fleet. In the very last mission before the final sacrifice this is repeated. Our deaths won't give us victory, our deaths make the people of earth not lose. By taking out most of the SDF fleet and destroying the Spaceport we achieve the goal to buy time. As far as I can tell the war has just begun in that moment.
@@RandomPerson-yq1qkthat’s actually a really good take. We weren’t waging a one ship war, we were the delaying action
@@RandomPerson-yq1qkagreed and the ending scene doesn’t really tell you how much time has passed either, so maybe 1 month has passed or 10 years.
I did all the secondary missions the second they were available and I could swear there was a big time from when Earth is attacked, and when I finally went back to the main story, everybody is like "they attacked us on Earth one hour ago". Like, man, I just spent one month or so doing some side quests, how's it yet the same day?? Also, it's actually fun that everyone is like "we need to save our friends from SDF right fucking now", and then I, as the capitan, say "nah, I wanna blow up some skelters in a random space junkyard near Pluto".
I feel like Spec Ops would have been really cool for this game. You could have co op Jackal strikes, MW3 style missions, zero G, survival, and it could’ve been awesome. Also zombies, I respect what it does and I see the passion behind it but I feel like it’s not very tonally consistent. I feel like they could’ve gone for a World at War or Dead Space vibe with a desolate space ship where the zombie virus was a chemical weapon from another planet the SDF was planning to use on Earth but it spread throughout the rest of the ship.
Yeah, the zombies was TOO GOOFY. Like even the mechanics of shooting zombies and the way they die when you shoot them feels so artificial and flat. It always bothered me and it got hard to get used to it. It felt like you were shooting cartoon characters with no weight to them. I think part of that was the hit marker sound too. I played it a good amount but it always felt off. That being said, i forgot how fun, fast paced and satisfying the multiplayer is. I think this is the most underappreciated COD ever. Underneath the Sci fi setting, the game just looks and feels so satisfying, it's hard to describe. And yet It STILL feels like a COD game at its core. Even more so than the new ones. The overall art design and concepts behind all of its content is kind of remarkable tbh. This game has a lot more heart and soul to it than people realize.
Infinite still has the best zombies experience overall out of all the CoD games. It's just the shit. The attention paid to what 3arc zombies fans had been asking for for years and mix it with a story that's not serious at all in contrast to all the super serious stories with goofy premises from 3arc. (blow up the moon) not to mention the QoL stuff like being able to replay the levels with everything unlocked when you finish Easter eggs as a "directors cut" mode among other things. Could've been more serious, but I doubt it would've succeeded anymore in that era where everyone wasn't ffing with CoD games not released out of 3arc studios (and the enormous amount of negative reception coming from all the mtx stuff being announced)
@@krustykrabpizza4328 replace the release time frames for infinite and BO3, and bo3 would be hated for what it is An actually overmonitized MTX system. While bo3 just had the loot boxes straight out in the beginning, there isn't any solid way to earn a good amount of keys unlike IW Zombies which lets you gain a good chunk of keys and had a well made map. I liked bo3 campaign, but the multiplayer loot crate system was Never rewarding to me (and I played bo3 for a year and a half I got 1 gun (a crap one) and 7 melees weapons unlike IW despite it's map problems
Agreed IW zombies was just to cartoonish for my liking, plus I never really understood why they went with a movie style, goofy version of zombies it never made any sense, I’d say for spec ops they should’ve gone with something like extinction from ghost, make it so you play as a SDF soldier on a broken down space ship at the edge of the solar system, then waves of aliens could come, at first they could be bio weapon like aliens, coming in wave after wave but after some time actual aliens with guns come in As for zombies I do agree a dead space like zombies would’ve been so cool
Kinda like Project Blackwing in Star Wars Legends
CoD fans be like: We want innovation. CoD: "Innovates" CoD fans: Ewww, disgusting.
Truer words have never been spoken.
More like COD fans:we want innovation COD:we have invocation at home Innovation at home:
Beyond true. IW had my favorite campaign in the whole series, too.
Diego Humala G more like when we ask for good innovation but cod gives us shit that adds nothing to the game or makes it worse
Cod IW "innovating"?
I'm glad I'm not the only living being who enjoyed this campaign
we can finally come out of the shadows
Yeah, it was probably the best campaign of the future CoD era besides Black Ops 2.
@@michaelramon2411 true
I’m being so real, it is to this day my favorite COD campaign EVER.
THIS GAME WAS WACK FROM START TO FINISH ONLY PEOPLE WITH BRAIN DAMAGE LIKE THIS BULL
I skipped all CODs after mw3, then I picked this game up for a fiver and LOVED it. One of best campaigns to date! It was like watching a movie
Why did you skip Black Ops 2?
As I write this I have just finished the campaign a few minutes ago. Jesus. This is the first time in a long time where a call of duty campaign has really touched me. During the final credits of the game different characters who have died leave audio recordings for the families. Ethan's is left to you. It made me feel like I was 12 and had just watched everyone die on the bridge in cod4 all over again. I haven't seen a cod game handle the "price of war" this well in a long time every soldier who died did so a hero. Each death left an impact on me. Peace to the Fallen.
This dude waited till 2020 to talk about infinite warfare lmfao to the max lvl
Ikr
@@vegeta9585 the only time you and Goku agree with eachother
muhammad altaf never late is better but u rite
But this review was amazing
He cant get over the fact it wasnt so bad game that was boldly claimed before.
After playing IW campaign: “Perhaps I treated you too harshly”
“I’m sorry little one”
Yeah the campaign was awesome, wasn't it?
Shouldn't have been a sheep and enjoyed it at launch like the rest of us 🥱
It's awesome how the bad guy just gets beaten with no climax and we never actually know why we're even fighting them
@@kin-3877 we are fighting them to save our friends and families. We don't know, why they are fighting us. That's an somehow unimportant info
You don’t know how much I enjoyed Zombies. I felt like a little kid at an arcade 🤣 also when I found out you could ride the roller coaster! I even told myself “damn imagine if you ride the roller coaster.” Also, I nearly died of a heart attack when the big chungus zombie types (brutes) came out lol What i also liked about it was that in order to activivate the pack and punch all you had to do was turn the power and go through all the portals. Unlike other recent zombies where you gotta do all this shit in order to activate it
I skipped the game played MWR but when I came back zombies in spaceland was amazing and that farm map was not to bad, MWII could learn alot
amusement park zombies is the only one i like besides the WAW
IW Campaign was actually fun and I loved the characters, especially the robot.
That scene of the bad guy shooting his own men is just a metaphor, it was infinity ward telling us what Activision has been doing. If only we would have seen the signs.
what
@@hyperhinhitter he's saying that entire scene signified that Activision didn't care about the game a dev team
@@r3ktfox146 scene**
@@Jackraiden500 oof that's my bad💀
@@Jackraiden500 10:56
Act Man: "Lets talk about the Call of Duty campaign" Halo soundtrack ensues
Call of Duty: Halo 13:48
Bless Your Soul
It felt right
@@TheActMan rip Captain Keyes
@@TheActMan always does
Never played the multiplayer, but I remember playing the single player campaign and I remember not understanding even remotely why this game had so much hate on it. The secondary missions were absolute blasts, the story was nice, the gameplay was pretty cool. One of the best CoD I've tried so far. A shame people killed it basically just for the MP.
Super late but binge watching your CoD vids cause the way you deliver subject manner is awesome. Keep it up! I've played CoD ever since Finest Hour on the Original Xbox. It's been a wild ride seeing the series spring up from a former Medal of Honor Dev (Infinity Ward) to what it is now. I've always made sure to play the campaign first, since I feel like every game needs something to set the tone and backdrop of the matches you play in (immersion reasons I guess you could say). Only three campaigns out of the series really had me seriously engaged. MW (old not new), Black Ops, and Infinite Warfare. Infinite Warfare was a passion project made under a corporate thumb, and you can see all the love in it's missions, characters, and background. The target files, Ethan (best bro bot ever), Salter, the Marines, your crew, they didn't have the most depth but for CoD? It was impressive. Their deaths had impact, your character Reyes had emotional response. On top of fun missions, stunning art design, how you can tackle missions in any order, it was a breath of fresh air for a story. I adored Infinite's campaign. Multiplayer though? Still felt like Ghosts unfortunately, with BO3's advanced movement tacked on. Zombies was pretty decent too! I personally wouldn't mind seeing a sequel to it. It didn't deserve the avalanche of animosity at launch but I can understand why fans were so adamant towards it. But I agree with you. It's a misjudged game with a very stark shining campaign. I fear it won't get a sequel but there is hope. Edit**** the soundtrack was freaking awesome too
The golden rule to writing a good story: show, don’t tell. Youd think a multi billion dollar business with 15+ games in the franchise would understand that
Its activision tho, infinity ward was probably too underpayed and overworked
Actually, I _wouldn’t_ think that. In fact, I don’t believe that most, if not all multi-billion dollar corporations understand a single solitary goddamn thing about anything, aside from how to stifle competition to the point where they might as well be a monopoly, and how to f#%k over both consumers, and their own workers. But hey, that’s just me lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@revolverswitch you just said “you can’t buy good writing” and go on to suggest that they buy good writing.
The "show don't tell" rule doesn't always work. Exposition have its place in narrative, as long as it doesn't feel forced. Besides, if this was mandatory rule, we would never get a scene when terrified Viggo describes John Wick as a force of nature. And I recall John Wick to be one damn good movie.
@@revolverswitch Lmao what? You said in the first half of the sentence that you can’t buy great storytelling and then said that they should buy great storytelling. Like, think about what you’re writing dude But seriously, the truth is kind of in the middle, obviously the writers need to be talented and willing but also need the financial backup to afford doing this
I honestly feel bad for the guy at the start. He probably put his heart and soul into the game.
Yeah I mean it’s not really there fault they were given a crappy game to make. I’m sure if they did a modern call of duty then it prob would’ve went over better
@@MichaelMyers-pj2uk everyone literally shit on ghosts, a boots on the ground game that tried to keep CoD fresh. Smh. Cant ever do anything without everyone thinking activision forced them.
@@dillondodson6275 well and Activision was pressuring them to make a game to compete with BF4 at the time
@@MichaelMyers-pj2uk how do you know that. Entire gaming genres can follow trends, not jusy bf4.
@@dillondodson6275 lol dude it’s a well known fact they did. Why do you think the maps on ghosts where so big ? They wanted to be like BF4 activison made them make ghosts if infinity ward had there own choice they would’ve made a better game more like modern warfare 2019 which is a great COD
I have a confession, I LOVED all of infinite warfare yes even the multiplayer. Every time I’d come back to cod I’d go to this one and enjoyed every minute of it (Side note): am I the only one who thinks Reyes looks like a genetic fusion of Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe
I loved the aesthetic and the weapons of this game, the ships in the space missions, all of that was dope. The europa opening mission had a shitty villain but it was cool to play through
Infinite Warfare has the single coolest depiction of realistic sci-fi I've ever seen in any game or movie. To see Taylor Kurosaki say that they "weren't even close to exhausting" it's world depresses me to absolutely no end. I'd literally kill for a Battlefield style large-scale FPS set in Infinite Warfare's universe.
Have you seen Titanfall’s style?
@@professorsquid1104 havnt played titanfall but apex has got me loving futuristic style shooters so i might have to get into it
2048
@@bigstinker710 Halo?
@SURROUNDED BY GIANTS Idk about that, to me, Titanfall’s style seems more plausible.
Tbh this game was released at a bad time, I jumped on the hate train for this when I didn’t even play it, put it like this. If this game didn’t have COD in the title, I reckon the bad ass campaign and the allright multiplayer and the cool zombies, the game would have done a lot better
It was held back by the fact that it's a "cod" game. I bet you they had some cool ass ideas but didn't put it in the final game because of the fact that they already changed too much.
i feel like people criticize modern games micro transactions as a bad thing, because "mW2 dIdN't HaVe mIcRo TRaNsAcTiOns" when they could've had it. videogames then was a smaller market back then, and with growth so does the product, and thus dlc expansions and the modern day micro transaction was born. IF iw didn't have micro transactions we would've treated it as a golden age cod because it essentially is. all of the "golden age cods" did very little to improve the formula of cod aside from bo2.
Well that and the copied assets from Halo Reach
@@cybek22 i can't remember that being a big deal.
@@JSA-Studios well yeah, but if you remove micro transactions from the game entirely, and have the variants be unlockable all of a sudden people will say that's innovative.
i gotta say i’ve been watching all these “why is” videos and it really makes me appreciate this man’s channel again the countless thoughts of how cod should work and dedication to really breakdown how people feel about the games is much needed cause not everyone can just explain their reasoning like that so hearing it makes it sooo much better
The moment infinity ward CONNECTED their zombies mode to EXTINCTION (From Ghosts) my jaw dropped. It was such a fucking experience that last zombies map where it all came together! I wish more ppl experienced it. It was phenomenal!
The Good: The single player is great even by today's standards, it accomplished what EA DICE Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2 failed to do. The Bad : It came out at the wrong time because people want new WW2 FPS back in 2016.
Nah, WW2 came out of nowhere. It felt like they were over compensating for the hate they got for the futuristic direction they were taking. People wanted modern boots on the ground. They tipped toed around that for awhile
@@CGBalla1014 battalion 1944 was in development, Days of war too war thunder was doing well etc, it didn't come from nowhere people want that and they got a shitty game that doesn't have nothing similar to past masterpiece such as cod 1, united offensive and cod 2.
@@matteoclementi I’ve never taken a survey that asked me which war should they make a game on. They just make the games, and I buy them as an addicted consumer. I could see backlash from the community turning the tide on what their working on. However, I’m pretty sure when you’re the most popular game in the industry, you already know that your game will sell. They have a winning formula of making a “new” game every year with a different skin. McDonald’s also doesn’t feel the need to up their quality for obvious reasons.
@@CGBalla1014 ww2 was on the air I was answering to that.
it also didn't feel like a cod game at all it wasn't a necessarily a bad game but it felt weird for a cod game.
Infinity Ward: Alright, everyone hated our last 2 COD games that tried to change things up. Let's just make Modern Warfare again.
*ArE YoU A GoBlin*
cod 4 please
@@xxcaptninjaxx4301 that will never happen lmfao
@@trapmaster8458 dude act man said cod 4 was masterpiece like halo ce.
@Freesmart Modern Warfare 2019 got features and Animations from IW.
Having recently completed Infinite Warfare's campaign I genuinely cried my heart out listening to the audio logs in the credits.
I felt actual frustration at all the invisible walls just watching you run into them
I thought this was a reupload for a second, because I could have sworn he already did one of these about Infinite Warfare. Turns out, im confusing it with Advanced Warfare and BO3, because they are all so damn similar.
Lol same
Lmao
Advanced warfare looks and feels a lot different to bo3 and iw
All those games were too similar
I thought it was just me
Okay Act Man, I’ll give the campaign a shot!
The boy is here. Welcome
Ayeeeee never thought I'd see you here!! Love your videos man!!
Its actually pretty good.
We need more troopers like you!
@@TheActMan ayy
I strongly agree with your takes on the multiplayer experience. If they kept the maps and removed those invisible barriers, it’d be vastly improved. Otherwise, the delays and bullet reg has gotten better. Love watching your vids
I would’ve actually preferred for them to make Salen Kotch a morally gray villain whose motivation is simply a revolution against Earther authority. Make it like a less nuanced version of the Expanse.
"Why was Left 4 Dead 2 so AWESOME!?!?" sounds good right now.
It was awesome because it was
Yes he needs to do this
It was shit
AGREED
@@MikeMike-dv7iv I'm guessing you are a fortnite addict if you somehow hate left 4 dead 2
Lets have a moment of respect for Mason for staying so committed
But what about the numbers?
Do you know what they mean?
Thanks my guy
The numbers Mason! What do they mean?
Who
theres 4 more maps in zombies with multiple creative easter eggs, with a cool reward for completing all of the five maps! I recommend trying it out as it is amazing 🤩
I know it's not Act Man's thing to buy DLC, but it's a shame cause you really missed out on some of the coolest Zombies map in the series! Rave in the Redwoods is a rave party in the woods where the boss enemy is a serial killer and its inspired by 90's early 2000's slasher films. You can trip out and the whole map becomes neon colored and Kevin Smith is a guest star. Shaolin Shuffle is a 70's style king fu movie homage with funky music and aesthetics, afros and zombie girls on roller skates, and Pam Grier. Attack of the Radioactive Thing is my favorite and is a 1950's B movie with a giant monster, radioactive mutants, and freaking Elvira, Mistress of the Dark! And The Beast From Beyond is based on sci fi horror like Alien and Event Horizon. Did I mention all those guest stars are playable characters like The Hoff in ZiS? You can even unlock and play as Willard Wyler, who's voiced by Paul Reubens. Paul Reubens is also the match announcer! Seriously Infinite Warfare Zombies is awesome.
I played those due to account sharing with my friend and I enjoyed it so I'm buy the Digital Deluxe Edition on Christmas and Christmas is taking to damn long
TLDR campaign - pretty damn good multiplayer - pretend it doesn't exist please zombies - 1 good map
Zombies correction - 1 great map, 3 decent maps, 1 shit map but has the greatest boss fight in zombies history
Bruh Spaceland is one of the best maps, but Rave, Shaolin and Radioactive Thing are also good. The Easter Eggs on these maps are awesome and this game does some things better than even BO3. The last maps was shitty but I guess they mainly focused on the best boss battle you will ever see in Zombies. The fact that there's super Easter Egg which unlocks extra boss fight, playable characters and Director's Cut mode makes this game replayable as hell and worth buying Season Pass just for Zombies.
It’s more like 1 fantastic map, 1 good map, 2 mediocre maps, and 1 genuinely garbage map
@Freesmart I know a lot of people disagree with this but bo3 zombies > IW zombies
@@glctcthnkr8059 I think he means in terms of simplicity and accessibility but in my opinion black ops 3 is more fun for me
Act Man must’ve got an A++ on all his essays
No becuase school makes you write about bullshit
@@MC-1177 I want to know why you want to take this class that you need in order to graduate. Make sure to answer in at least 2 pages.
@@MC-1177 No it doesn’t.
@@willtheprodigy3819 it definitely does. Have you not been up public school?
@@willtheprodigy3819 yes it does did you ever go to school lol
Honestly they should've put this as its own trilogy rather than a cod game. Its basically titanfall without the titans.
I honestly really like this game. Story was decent and i loved the zombie mode. So creative and so much fun it’s definitely up there in the top 5 zombies maps.
reading some of these comments it's like a, I liked Infinite warfare anonymous meeting and I'm a proud member of that meeting
I like it too
Uh, good morning, um my name is Cheeze and I'm an Inifite Warfareholic (in unison: Hi Cheeze)
Me too
same
@@pacificblue5461 hi cheeze
Hearing act man talk about map design is like a religion to me
It's my own cultivated religion
@@TheActMan I think you forgot talking about zombies in advance warfare. Just wanted to point that out. But anyways I hope you continue to succeed.
This is the way
@@TheActMan Can you watch my Infinite Warfare vs Black Ops 3 video when I release it this week?
that man doesn't know what he's talking about
I love this game because the week it came out was the week our science class started our astronomy unit. I could go to class, walked home, and compare and contrast what I learned with what I saw in the game.
I made a ton of memories playing IW's multiplayer when I went to a friend's house. I hadn't got to experience many multiplayer shooters at the time so IW was the coolest thing to me. I remember thinking I was the smartest kid in the world because I got a 1-Hit kill Prototype for an SMG which is a starter gun in Zombies, meaning if you used Prototypes in Zombies you got the best gun in the whole game at the start
Anyone else still salty that we haven't got Call of Duty: World At War Remastered? That would be cool.
bUt wHAt woUlD thE bRuTAliTy Do TO tHe cHiLdrEn? - Activision CEO
Ya
Yeah but a full complete game not like mw2
And bo1 bo2 and mw3
@@kevincho742 When bitches don't even know that the M rating exists
The story was the best part. ironically, that's the problem since cod is a multiplayer franchise. the story was incredible and so well put together for any sort of videogame story.
I mean, campaign was also very important, even back in the PS2 era. BO2 was regarded as one of the best.
You only consider it that because we haven't had an amazing campaign since BO2. I usually play for the campaign, multiplayer is just the little extra afterwards. But I would consider COD to be a franchise that needs the support of it all in order to achieve its peak success.
spaceship just designed
The originals were mainly focused about the campaign
Zombies was good to
Fun fact about the advanced movement; 90% of the time on veteran or specialist doing a wallrun or jetpacking leads to insta death. I had forgotten you could even do any of that in my playthrough
Never would I thought that William Joseph Blazkowicz would be flying a Fighter Ship in Space
The fact that i was emotional over a robot, just shows how well crafted these characters are
Hey robots can be people to!
I remember thinking that none of the characters are real anyways since it’s just a game so there actually was no difference between the robot (Ethan) and the human character
I liked how calm they both seemed at the end
Why do robots have more personality than actual people?
@@Vukan.Kos. Cause robots ARE people smh my head
If infinite warfare wasn’t released as another cod it would have a massive success
The best thing they did was that E3 gameplay trailer where they didn't reveal the game until the end. I absolutely adore the campaign of this game, it oozes passion and dedication. But man, that MP...
Exactly, thats what I say
Absolutely.
@Owen5560 Typing bo3 was successful. Its mp was amazing
I personally think they should do a prequel to this game where it shows more of the back story of the SDF. But I don't think that will happen coz this game got too much unnecessary hate
Nice vid and all. How ya gonna play cod ww2 music in the background
This video aged so well, because modes like, warzone, ground war, fireteam, Show that they indeed could have done it if they would have just opened up the maps and stopped adhering to the linear style. It was advanced movement, we had 2 arcade style versions with AW and BO3 they really could have done more with this that they did with mw its sad. I personally hope we get 1 more space cod like iw, but with more innovations and modern engine implementations
*sees notification* "This is where the fun begins."
Heh... I understood that reference
@@Retro_Zilla HADES
Honestly the best part of Infinite Warfare is the zombies imo
You forgot to mention the difficulties in the Campaign! There is a difficulty where you have stims and helmets. If you get shot in the arm, you break your arm and can't aim in (if the other arm is shot you have crappy aim). If you get shot in the leg, you fall to the the floor but you can get back up, but you cannot sprint. The stims heal your broken bones and the helmet is used as head protection (duh) but if it gets shot off, you are a 1-shot headshot. You have to run around the map and loot for stims and helmets to get through the level. It was so awesome!
Dude that difficulty had me stressed 😂 it was badass
That is amazing. Makes me want to pop in the disk and play the campaign again for old times sake.
@@alejandrotobias710 which difficulty was this? I've been playing all the COD campaigns on veteran.
@@spikyowl107 it was called specialist I think
@@alejandrotobias710 Thank you, I'll make sure to play it after MWR and MW2
Lol, I went to school with Mason. He’s a good guy, I ran track with him. I remember seeing his tweets every day for half a year, then when you finally responded to him I checked your channel out. Happy I did.
As an ex-cod fanboy, the reason why my friends and I disliked it was the jet packing. A lot of the community would agree, we never really asked for this "advanced movement". People always complained that cod was the same every year, but adding jetpacks was not the move.
Star Wars Battlefront: *doesn’t have space combat* Infinite Warfare: Fine, I’ll do it myself.
I don't have any friends because they are ashamed of the videos I upload. Are they really that bad, dear bsj
@AxxL yes
Ik it’s a joke but it does have space combar
@@AxxLAfriku Creative Self Promo but that doesn’t let you off the hook. GTFO we don’t want your kind here
@@AxxLAfriku Degenerate
I feel like they were trying to go for a “Titanfall 2” kind of style, but halfway through it somehow fell apart, and they tried to go for a sci-fi Advanced Warfare vibe
Yeah, that change nuked the game. Yet it was a lot more popular than TF2 :/
@@csbr75 both iw and tf2 are damn good games though
@@csbr75 sequels to games people loved overtook tf2 hype and no one really saw how great of a game tf2 was.
I can see were you’re coming from but they both came out the same week so nobody copied anything, but I will admit BT-7274 was better than E3N but I think Ethan made this game better and might be one of cods best written character
Damn your sound tracks are great. The osrs , banjo kazooie, and that blops 2 music at the end hit me like a brick.
This is the best video I’ve ever seen on KZhead. The way you said stuff was concise and I really grasped onto what you were saying.
I'm glad you did this, it proves a few things: 1 - I'm not delusional (seriously, I was getting worried). It proves there's some REAL talent within CoD franchises, aside from most writers' ideas. 2 - STOP OVERLOOKING CAMPAIGNS PEOPLE. Yes, some are bland, but any time I've gotten a CoD game that's what I play first. The campaigns aren't always great, but they are usually fun, for different reasons (Ghosts was funny just to laugh at its absurdity). 3 - CoD fans are toxic by nature. "It's great, I died, it's the game's fault, this game sucks" Rinse and repeat on everything 4 - Innovation NEEDS TO BE PRAISED. Innovation is what made some Devs leave to make Titanfall 2 ~ Later on Apex Legends ~
The fans are scared of change and the lack of innovation is the reason why mw3 sucks
@@staringcorgi6475 ......and? ....is this attempt to defend CoD players? That's a dead road if you are
@@Yoder023 You couldn't be more wrong.
@@blueberrimuffin6682 Chocolate chip muffins are better
Read his comment again bro@@Yoder023
“Faster than you can say ‘NeW dOg MOdeL’” I busted out laughing
UNSC No I mean UNSA Comedy being one of the reasons I love your content man.
How could Act Man not talk about this games soundtrack? I personally think it is one of the best in the franchise. How could you forget a track like Anthropic Universe?
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Sarah Schachner is a godess
This
Zombie tracks are great as well
Just listen to it and all my god is it good
“Banned for racism!” Lmao I laugh too hard at that!
I was ready for him to say, LET ME MOVE AROUND OR I WILL RECITE XBOX 360 GAME CHAT
@@ygobe2 *demonitised*
at 33:21 the parts you where tying to get up to are accessible somehow maybe they patched it out but i remember being sniped from them when i spawned every time
Ah yes infinite warfare, the last cod my dad bought, the only way he would play was to just play the campaign, finnish it, maybe replay his favorite missions once and then just move on from it. Remember when that part would always be simple and fun in cod games?
"Does this game have a redeeming quality?" The damn THEME. I will be brave and say it is one of the best theme song for a OD game. And then the campaign, also one of the best COD campaign story. And then try to listen to the main theme after finishing the campaign, makes me cry so much.
I relate 101% to your last sentence
Correct
Yup
jetpacks and pea shooters, what a lame game
You know why Infinty Ward didn't tried something else in the Multiplayer and were afraid to change things right? *COD community.* Thats the answer. Look, people hated MW because "It doesn't felt like Call of Duty" and at the same time they hated MW3 because it was similar to MW2, one of the best CODs of the history. So imagine what would happend if they just bring something like the zero gravity to Infinite Warfare. People was going to be like *"NOOOO THIS IS NOT COD, I WANT COD NOT BATTLEFRONT!!1!1 😭"*
Mw2019 is better than modern warfare 2 in my opinion
@@sebastiangarcia555 Aside from the lack of decent maps and a few changes from the traditional minimap and ghost, MW2019 is pretty much a solid cod game.
@@gunswinger3110 Im waiting for BO2's stans to come here and say funny funny jokes of Campingwarfare! Or MW is garbage and BO2 is God
@@dybixs1400 I mean BO2 was really good, same as MW1 to 3 and BO1. Then literally just straight meh releases for a few years in a row until MW2019 came out and revived the series. Then all the "cod vets" call it "modern campfare" or some shit as if it wasn't like this in MW2 with shitters camping for their harriers and gunships.
People hate MW2019 bc its incentivised campy and boring gameplay lol
I hope you make a new one after getting a better hang on the trickery characters because it’ll be very interesting to see if it’s a knowledge thing or if you just don’t like some of the play styles
The artstyle is so cool, shame that no cod since has had such epic visuals
Facts
Right?! IW has such beautiful maps and backgrounds, one map even has a black hole in the background
@@Vkiller711 it reminds me of that map in Ghosts where it was set on a part of tower which was gradually falling as the match progressed
I absolutely adore the fact that the UNSA capital ships are basically just "aircraft carriers in space". The interiors look like a US Navy carrier and thier uniforms are that blue gray camo the Navy uses. The Jackal fighters are basically just space F-35s as space fighters too. I think it's really neat .
@@JillLulamoon facts
It's nice that Infinity Ward used actual locations in the solar system like Europa, Mars, and all that jazz. Also, I liked all the Star Fox references in the video, Act Man.
The graphics in the game WERE TOP TIER. God the game is amazing I’m really sad other people didn’t want to experience it
I agree entirely, I love the game. I think the reason people hated it wasn’t because people thought it was bad, but it was a great game that just came out at the wrong time
@@sameerpatel5092 it was because they hated jetpacks but that's a shitty opinion
It was pretty fun, but the argument, “It has barely innovated.” Is hard not to agree with.
Yeah cus graphics matter so much, fuck gameplay I guess
I didn’t even know it existed
I wish they did more campaign with this much effort
Idk if this has been said in comments already but during the endgame credits for the campaign during the bios there is a section of it where you can zoom in to see E3N's head just floating in space. I don't remeber if it was on or not.
Hot take: Infinity ward was so terrified because of the reaction to the IW trailer, that they were *going to* use space battles and moon levels with zero G, but they didn’t because people would have hated it. Now that’s probably not true but interesting theory
Probably true and it is sad i would have love the zero G multiplayer
@@thatoneguy6580 try out boundary. Looks cool.
Would make since since a lot of the maps seem to be boot on the ground while having all those mouvement mechanics
I would've loved space dogfights and zero-g gunfights. If they did that for multiplayer like they did in the campaign, I'd have bought it
i found out that cod iw was going to have different movement than bo3's, but due to the false gamers disliking the trailer, they changed it to bo3's
I genuinely felt bad for the developers when this game came out , the effort that went into the campaign was in my opinion really good. The developers went for a cool concept that reminds me of the TV show The Expanse. Without the typical foreigner bad, Murica and UK good. They got ridiculed so bad that they had to go back and rehash Modern Warfare 2019 to do the same type of "Russia bad" story
Maybe if the Multiplayer was half as good as the campaign the game would've been reviewed better.
@@JsphCrrll bro people started hating the game even before it came out. Nothing would've changed that.
Holy shit I love The Expanse! Maybe I should play this again
@@extranosense9553 does the serie still exist? never watched furtcher than s01 and forgot it, but it was cool.
@@martijn2246 not sure, but i think there is a season 2
I love your reviews! They make me see things from a different perspective. I respect your opinions and acknowledge all of your points. I do however, must say that I absolutely loved this game's campaign. Im a sucker for space stuff so I guess I am a bit biased. But I do agree with your opinions on the multiplayer.
26:01 weird I had almost all of these symptoms and I have never played or watched infinite warfare multiplayer
I don’t care what you say, infinite warfare had the most entertaining zombies mode. I now want heavy metal zombies with rob zombie
best zombies. even like it better than cold war
Yall clearly haven't played steam workshop zombies for black ops 3. Infinite warfare zombies was good, I played all the maps a ton, but steam workshop zombies is so fun.
Dragula in the soundtrack alone would've sold this game for me... Obviously not really; I just really love 90's nu metal.
Zombies was so fucking good in iw
I liked it alot
i fucking love how every time advanced movement is brought up clips from Titanfall 2 are displayed, such a masterpiece deserves the credit
28:36 Actually I think because it's an energy weapon it bounced off a wall and killed him
I love your videos. And some of them make me want to wish I could like FPSs. As a story driven RPG'er for life (Bioware was one of my favorite companies until Anthem), how does the campaign of Infinite Warfare compare to something like KOTOR or Mass Effect? Better? Worse? Comparing steak to pork chops - you actually can't really compare them, but both equally good? Although ME3 Citadel seems to disagree (slightly) with the protagonist, when David Anderson says something like a good leader knows that his men's lives are more important than the mission, but also knows that sometimes the mission is more important. Second, do you know how it plays on PC?
Infinite warfare could have genuinely been amazing if they made it its own franchise and committed to the advanced movement in the map design. Could have been a genuine competitor in the fps genre.
Isn't that just Titanfall?
@@UnchainedEruption yes and so are the half robots crawling and exploding. in tfl their called stalkers and are m mannoying cause shoot the head or they turn into suicide grunts from halo
But then it'd be too similar to CoD. It's not a totally different game, it's CoD with spaceships. That's it.
Really good game apart from the horrendous map design and the movement that they didn’t commit to
The multiplayer is trash tho, there’s kill barriers and invisible walls everyhere, and good sniping positions are non existent because everyone can fly and unlimited sprint
"So who are we fighting? Russians? The Chinese? Arabs? North Koreans? MARTIANS?" IW-"Yes."
“Okay so take all of those and smash them together”
Oh, but make it edgy
@@gsausse8_019 and throw a traitor in there for good measure
I’ve seen this video like 4 times and everytime I watch it it seem so new to me. It’s stuff like the first 8 second of the video that get me hooked: those little comedic meme-ish things are so funny and make the video so much more interesting, cus it shows how much act man put in work on his video to go find a meme to go with every point he make in his video
Things like 1:16 “you blew it, you absolutely blew it” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The act man reminded me here about one of the most beloved pieces of history on KZhead, YT Rewind 2018. went to go check its dislikes (20.1 Million) but noticed the video is unavailable. A sad day.