You can see the appeal: the name is associated with the commercial and cultural high point of the series, when Infinity Ward comfortably steered the direction of the FPS genre and everyone else played catch-up.īut the studio as it is now - transformed by the firing of its leadership and gutting of its staff to form Titanfall’s Respawn in 2010 - doesn’t have the luxury of nostalgia. This year’s Call of Duty will be a soft reboot simply named Modern Warfare. Which will have made the task of rebooting it all the harder. No matter how crisply rendered everything is, there’s no getting around it: where once Modern Warfare was a representation of cutting-edge military conflict, it’s now a period piece. And they’re all over the SAS base where ‘Soap’ MacTavish gets his training, glued to the ears of servicemen tuning FM radios.Įven the patter belongs to another decade: you can imagine remaster dev Raven debating whether or not to keep the officer who chastises “Miss Soap” for turning up late is it better to remove all traces of sexism from the game, or reflect the backwards culture of an army that only last year opened all of its roles to women? There’s one in the hand of the snarling revolutionary who leads President Al-Fulani to his execution. It’s a fact that becomes starkly apparent when playing 2016’s remaster.įor all the fancy new animations and contemporary lighting, the game is forever dated by the Nokia-like phones brandished by its characters.
The iPhone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare came out in the same year.
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