
Minkoff said that despite the sci-fi setting, the “believability is paramount to us.” That’s why it doesn’t have aliens and you fight within the solar system the whole time. “They can run around the space and take cover,” Kurosaki said.”That’s going to transport the player into the space.” The voice overs will be done in the motion-capture studio, not in an isolated audio booth. Kurosaki said the actors are all onboard for the long term and the scenes are being shot onsite at Infinity Ward. “Of course we have the boots on ground fighting you are familiar with on Earth, but we also have the experience of fighting in zero g.” “Space allows us to take players to a place they have never been in Call of Duty before,” Minkoff said. The Settlement Defense Front is a “brutal, militaristic, fascist group” that wants to control all of the settlements in the solar system and hold Earth in a stranglehold by controlling the resources the people of Earth need to survive, Minkoff said. With that kind resources out there, you’re going to have war.” It is said the first trillionaire will be the person who mines the first asteroid. Now the resources we need are out there in space. Minkoff said, “Earth has been stripped of its natural resources. Take the familiar and put it into an authentic new setting.” “Take the military feel and take it into this new setting. “No one was going to tell us no, you can’t make this game,” he said. Kurosaki said the team wanted to make this game and put the setting in space. These announcements should go over well with the community of 40 million monthly active users excited about the next installments in the annual franchise, which has generated more than $15 billion over the past decade. That game will be included in the deluxe edition of Infinite Warfare when it debuts on Nov. On top of that, Activision is launching a remastered version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the Infinity Ward title that debuted back in 2007. But Activision is being careful in describing the game as a military shooter at heart, not a sci-fi game. The new installment will take Call of Duty fans into space battles as humanity expands into the solar system in the future. Register here.Ĭall of Duty developers at Activision’s Infinity Ward studio took to a Twitch livestream today to talk about the design choices they made in the newest installment in the modern combat shooter series: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23.
