When the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer was launched, it would seem that the majority of gamers weren’t exactly thrilled by what they saw, and we suppose it’s really only with the game’s release that we will have a better idea of whether or not the game was a success, but safe to say that right now it isn’t looking so good.However it seems that despite the initial negativity, its developer Infinity Ward believes that it has the potential to become a sub-series, meaning that it could follow in the footsteps of Modern Warfare or Black Ops, versus one-off titles like World at War or Ghosts. This is according to the game’s narrative director Taylor Kurosaki who spoke to Polygon in an interview.
According to Kurosaki, who came over to Infinity Ward after working with Naughty Dog on titles like The Last of Us, “We want to establish our own new subfranchise. Our own new branch of the Call of Duty tree. What we are developing here could certainly support multiple games. We’re trying to develop a very rich world that we’re not even close to exhausting.”
He also spoke about the game moving into a futuristic setting in which they had no history to rely on or military predictions about the future. “I’m sure that the Infinity Ward team felt the same kind of tremendous burden when they went from World War II to modern warfare. It’s an entire world with new weapons, vehicles, AI, under-the-hood stuff. We’re doing the exact same stuff here. This is as much of a sea change.”
In any case like we said, only time will tell if Infinity Ward’s gamble will pay off (which they seem to think it will). The game is set for a release on the 4th of November, 2016, so keep an eye out for its release if this is a title you’d be interested in playing.
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