By this time, everybody knows who Jon Snow is in the HBO-hit TV series “Game of Thrones” based on George R.R. Martin’s fantasy novel series “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
Everybody knows also that the actor who plays Jon Snow is Brit Kit Harrington, whose stock and popularity rose so high in the past three seasons of “Game of Thrones.”
Game developer Infinity Ward seemed to have joined the bandwagon in capitalizing on the popularity of Jon Snow / Kit Harrington that it has actually made him or his likeness the main villain in the latest iteration of its “Call of Duty” game officially titled “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.”
The game is set to officially roll out on the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, and the PC on November 4 and it has a future setting, with the Settlement Defense Front (SDF) as the main antagonists.
This was already made clear very early in the game when Settlement Defense Front attacks UNSA forces in Geneva. This unprovoked and unexpected attack takes place during Fleet Week. Nick Reyes and his soldiers must fight back and take the fight to SetDef, details Gotta Be Mobile.
“Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare” follows the tradition of “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare” by placing a high-profile actor and his likeness in the role of villain.
The SDF is led by Kit Harrington, who can normally be found guarding the Wall in “Game of Thrones.” In June, the gaming community got a sneak peek at Harrington’s motion-capture work, although it wasn’t until September that critics and gamers finally got their first look at him in the game’s official story trailer.
Fighting a war in space
“Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare” is not a continuation of Infinity Ward’s Ghosts series. It’s set in a future where the earth has been stripped of most of its natural resources, forcing the planet’s nations to form a coalition to mine energy and materials from distant asteroids, details IGN.
That’s where the SDF come in to stick a fighter jet-sized fly in the ointment. As a group of militant extremists that are vying for control of various intergalactic outposts, they don’t take too kindly to the United Nations Space Alliance coming in and upsetting the balance.
War is declared, and it’s the player’s job to take them down as a Captain called Nick Reyes. The single-player campaign of “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare” draws inspiration from classic war movies like “Saving Private Ryan,” rather than sci-fi.
But unlike last year’s game, there is no co-op campaign mode in “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.”
Flying a spaceship for the first time
For the first time in the “Call of Duty” video game series, players can fly a spaceship in intergalactic dogfights.
Infinity Ward’s design director Jacob Minkoff disclosed that the craft will be called a Jackal, and it can transform between atmospheric flight mode and zero-G flight mode when the player has to dogfight in the vacuum of space.
He explained that it is not just a vehicle that a player hops in and out of either. Minkoff added that the fighter can be upgraded and customized, with players able to walk along the flight deck as non-playable character crew members prepare it for the battle for the gamer.
More importantly, the Jackal seems to make the whole “Call of Duty” experience less funneled than in previous games.
Minkoff detailed that the player can boot on ground, fight through the streets of a city on earth, call down the 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 the ship to go to the next mission. Best of all, all of it happens seamlessly with no loading screens.
While most gamers are looking forward to the release of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” Remastered version, some of them have overlooked the fact that the latest offering from developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision is the first-person shooter video game “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.”
“Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare” shall be hitting the Xbox One, the PlayStation 4, and the PC on November 4 and the “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” Remastered officially called as “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered” shall also be bundled and released with it on the same day.