Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Overview

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a 2016 first-person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the thirteenth installment in the Call of Duty series and was released worldwide for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One on November 4, 2016.

The campaign is a war for the Solar System, where the Settlement Defense Front, a hostile force of former colonies, is trying to take over. The player is Nick Reyes of the Special Combat Air Recon, who has a transforming fighter called the Jackal that can be customized, and a hub ship named Retribution. Players can move between space combat and boots-on-the-ground combat with no loading screen, and use zero-gravity movement, a boost pack and a grappling hook.

Multiplayer replaces classes with six Combat Rigs (Warfighter, Merc, FTL, Stryker, Phantom and Synaptic), keeps the chain-based movement of Black Ops III, and adds weapon crafting with Prototype Weapons. Zombies in Spaceland is a separate cooperative mode with its own story, set in an 80s theme park, with Fate and Fortune Cards as temporary boosts.

Development began in 2014. It is the first game by Infinity Ward under the three-year development cycle, and the first from the studio since Call of Duty: Ghosts. The announcement trailer drew a strong negative reaction at the time, which commentators put down to fans being tired of futuristic settings. Special editions shipped with a remastered Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, titled Modern Warfare Remastered.

Reviews were generally positive for the console versions. Critics liked the gameplay, the characters and Zombies, but multiplayer was criticised and the campaign split opinion. Retrospective reviewers have praised the campaign as one of the series' finest. Sales were below earlier entries in the series, but it was the top-selling game in the US and UK in November 2016, and the PS4 version sold 105,764 copies in its first week in Japan, the best of that week.

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Game details

Genres

First-person shooter

Developer

Infinity Ward

Publisher

Activision

Series

Call of Duty (thirteenth main entry)

Engine

IW 7.0

Composers

Sarah Schachner

Designers

Andrew Thompson, Jacob Minkoff

Writers

Taylor Kurosaki, Brian Bloom

Producers

Jack Hara

Directors

Jordan Hirsh

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

Yes

Release dates

Editions

Buy this game

Trophies

Trophies89

Platinum possibleYes

Platinum

1

Gold

1

Silver

25

Bronze

62

Total

89

Points

2070

Platinum time

20 to 40 hours

Difficulty

6 out of 10

Playthroughs for platinum

1

Online trophies

2

Missable trophies

0

• Platinum Awarded when all other trophies have been unlocked. Platinum 1.17% of players
• Rising Threat Complete Rising Threat. Bronze 51.65% of players
• Black Sky Complete Black Sky. Bronze 43.34% of players
• Operation Port Armor Complete Operation Port Armor. Bronze 37.02% of players
• Operation Burn Water Complete Operation Burn Water. Bronze 30.14% of players
• Operation Dark Quarry Complete Operation Dark Quarry. Bronze 27.64% of players
• Operation Black Flag Complete Operation Black Flag. Bronze 26.2% of players
• Operation Blood Storm Complete Operation Blood Storm. Bronze 24.93% of players
• The Longest Day Complete all Single Player missions on Veteran. Gold 4.12% of players
• Operation Taken Dagger Complete Operation Taken Dagger. Bronze 21.53% of players
• Operation Phoenix Complete Operation Phoenix. Bronze 23.54% of players
• Operation D-Con Complete Operation D-Con. Bronze 26.22% of players
• Operation Deep Execute Complete Operation Deep Execute. Bronze 24.27% of players
• Targets of Opportunity Complete all ship boarding side missions. Silver 17.54% of players
• Operation Safe Harbor Complete Operation Safe Harbor. Bronze 21.72% of players
• Operation Pure Threat Complete Operation Pure Threat. Bronze 18.78% of players
• Operation Grave Robber Complete Operation Grave Robber. Bronze 19.16% of players
• Operation Sudden Death Complete Operation Sudden Death. Bronze 17.81% of players
• Operation Trace Kill Complete Operation Trace Kill. Bronze 14.41% of players
• Top Gun Complete all Jackal-only side missions. Silver 14.33% of players
• New Gun Collector Scan your first weapon! Bronze 50.31% of players
• Serious Gun Collector Scan 10 weapons. Bronze 34.33% of players
• Gun Nut All weapons scanned. Silver 3.09% of players
• Peace to the Fallen Listened to all of the death letters of the fallen. Silver 19.08% of players
• Make it Personal Load out with a custom weapon. Bronze 38.04% of players
• Gear Up Find your first equipment upgrade. Bronze 38.96% of players
• Fully Equipped Earn all equipment upgrades. Silver 2.91% of players
• Fangs Out Earn your first Jackal item (weapon or upgrade). Bronze 27.13% of players
• Jackal Ace Earn all Jackal weapons and upgrades. Silver 16.54% of players
• Ante Up Get your first kill on the most-wanted board. Bronze 37.18% of players
• Aces High Clear half of the most-wanted board. Bronze 20.42% of players
• Royal Flush All SDF Aces and Captains killed. Silver 14.03% of players
• Danger Close Kill 15 enemies with a zero G grappling hook. Silver 9.71% of players
• You Know Nothing Kill Kotch before his speech ends. Silver 7.04% of players
• Captain's Log Use the computer in the Captain's office. Bronze 41.84% of players
• Reality TV Watch a news cast. Bronze 32.72% of players
• Boots on the Ground Go 2 minutes without double jumping or wall running in a mission where these abilities are available. Bronze 43.93% of players
• Peek-a-boo! Kick open a door, peek open a door, and throw a grenade while peeking a door. Bronze 12.83% of players
• Gravity Kills Kill an enemy while floating in your own anti-gravity grenade. Bronze 15.37% of players
• C12 Kill a C12 by doing a right rodeo, a left rodeo and by blowing off multiple limbs. Bronze 10.77% of players
• Sticker Collector In Spaceland, find all of the quest items and complete the sticker pack. Silver 3.99% of players
• Sooooul Key In Spaceland, recover the piece of the Soul Key. Silver 3.52% of players
• The Bigger They Are In Spaceland, defeat 5 Brutes in one game without dying. Bronze 10.85% of players
• Hoff The Charts! In Spaceland, unlock David Hasselhoff. Bronze 3.09% of players
• Rock On! In Spaceland, craft a Weapon of Rock. Bronze 9.86% of players
• Get Packed In Spaceland, Pack-A-Punch a weapon. Bronze 25.23% of players
• Batteries Not Included In Spaceland, create an Exquisite Core. Bronze 4.37% of players
• I Love the 80's In Spaceland, find the MW1 and MW2 songs. Bronze 2.1% of players
• Insert Coin In Spaceland, play every arcade game at least once. Bronze 1.99% of players
• Brain Dead In Spaceland, play 30 games and get to scene 10 or higher. Silver 10.53% of players
• Dominion Win 5 online matches in Multiplayer. Bronze Needs online 29.17% of players
• Locksmith In Rave in the Redwoods, recover the piece of Soul Key. Bronze 10.67% of players
• Super Slacker In Rave in the Redwoods, unlock Kevin Smith. Bronze 8.72% of players
• Stick 'em In Rave in the Redwoods, earn 100 kills with an upgraded crossbow. Bronze 14.16% of players
• Hallucination Nation In Rave in the Redwoods, stay in Rave Vision for 5 minutes after scene 10. Bronze 8.35% of players
• Tables Turned In Rave in the Redwoods, kill the Slasher with his weapon. Silver 6.53% of players
• Rave On In Rave in the Redwoods, find the hidden song. Bronze 6.16% of players
• Ride For Your Life In Rave in the Redwoods, ride every zipline. Bronze 17.01% of players
• Scrapbooking In Rave in the Redwoods, complete your photo collection and mementos. Silver 4.28% of players
• Pump It Up In Rave in the Redwoods, Pack-a-Punch a weapon. Bronze 22.21% of players
• Top Camper In Rave in the Redwoods, earn all camp badges. Bronze 5.95% of players
• Book Worm In Shaolin Shuffle, find and collect all bios for AJ, Andre, Poindexter and Sally. Silver 4.18% of players
• Coin-Op In Shaolin Shuffle, complete Skullbuster. Silver 6.68% of players
• Beat of the Drum In Shaolin Shuffle, find the hidden song. Bronze 6.77% of players
• Sliced and Diced In Shaolin Shuffle, Pack-A-Punch the final Weapon. Bronze 10.25% of players
• Pest Control In Shaolin Shuffle, recover one piece of the Soul Key. Silver 11.86% of players
• Exterminator In Shaolin Shuffle, defeat the final boss with the special guest. Bronze 6.76% of players
• Shaolin Skills In Shaolin Shuffle, max all Chi abilities in a single game. Bronze 5.91% of players
• Message Received The end of the longest journey is a single step. Bronze 14.51% of players
• Soul Brother In Shaolin Shuffle, collect all the newspaper clippings. Bronze 11.55% of players
• Some Assembly Required In Shaolin Shuffle, build all the craftable items in a game. Bronze 6.28% of players
• Soul-Less In Attack of the Radioactive Thing, recover the piece of the Soul Key. Silver 9.99% of players
• Unpleasant Dreams In Attack of the Radioactive Thing, collect the piece of Soul Key as Elvira. Silver 6.38% of players
• Mistress of the Dark In Attack of the Radioactive Thing, unlock Elvira. Silver 8.49% of players
• Quarter Muncher In Attack of the Radioactive Thing, complete Skullhop. Bronze 3.72% of players
• Bait and Switch In Attack of the Radioactive Thing, restore and use all traps. Bronze 5.17% of players
• Belly of the Beast In Attack of the Radioactive Thing, enter the bomb codes correctly on first try. Silver 6.65% of players
• MAD Proto In Attack of the Radioactive Thing, assemble the M.A.D. (Modular Atomic Disintegrator). Silver 12.41% of players
• Dear Diary In Attack of the Radioactive Thing, listen to all of Willard’s personal recordings. Bronze 4.07% of players
• Broken Record In The Beast From Beyond, unlock the hidden song. Bronze 6.19% of players
• Cracking Skulls In The Beast From Beyond, complete Skullbreaker. Silver 4.05% of players
• Double Feature In The Beast From Beyond, return to the theater. Bronze 15.94% of players
• Egg Slayer In The Beast From Beyond, equip the Venom-X. Bronze 3.83% of players
• Encryption Decryption In The Beast From Beyond, Pack-a-Punch the Venom-X twice. Silver 6.99% of players
• Failed Maintenance In The Beast From Beyond, kill zombies with every trap. Bronze 4.28% of players
• Friends Forever In The Beast From Beyond, fully restore N31L. Bronze 9.88% of players
• Message Sent In The Beast From Beyond, send the Turnstile back to the past. Bronze 5.67% of players
• Super Duper Combo When playing Skullbreaker, build a combo of size 10 or larger. Bronze 5.12% of players
• The End? In The Beast From Beyond, collect the final piece of the Soul Key. Silver 8% of players

DLC

Four DLC map packs came out in 2017, each with four multiplayer maps and one Zombies episode. The season pass added 1,000 Salvage credits and 10 rare supply drops.

Items

Name	Date	Adds
Sabotage	2017-01-31	Four multiplayer maps (Noir, Renaissance, Neon, Dominion) and the Zombies episode Rave in the Redwoods
Continuum	2017-04-18	Four multiplayer maps (Turista, Scrap, Archive, Excess) and the Zombies episode Shaolin Shuffle
Absolution	2017-07-06	Four multiplayer maps (Permafrost, Fore, Bermuda, Ember) and the Zombies episode Attack of the Radioactive Thing
Retribution	2017-09-12	Four multiplayer maps (Carnage, Altitude, Depot 22, Heartland) and the Zombies episode The Beast from Beyond

Playable today

Online

Multiplayer and Zombies are online modes. The campaign plays offline. No shutdown of the PS4 online services has been announced.

Reception

Aggregates

Outlet	Platform	Score	Scale
Metacritic	PS4	77	100

Critics

Outlet	Score	Scale
IGN	7.7	10
Game Informer	9	10
GameSpot	8	10
Destructoid	7	10
Polygon	8.5	10
EGM	3	5
GamesRadar	4	5
GameRevolution	4	5
VideoGamer	9	10

Staff and cast

Staff

Role	Name
Director	Jordan Hirsh
Producer	Jack Hara
Designer	Andrew Thompson
Designer	Jacob Minkoff
Writer	Taylor Kurosaki
Writer	Brian Bloom
Artist	Brian Horton
Artist	Riccard Linde
Programmer	Daniel Nelson
Composer	Sarah Schachner

Cast

Character	Actor
Nick Reyes	Brian Bloom
Salen Kotch	Kit Harington
Nora Salter	Jamie Gray Hyder
Admiral Fredrick Raines	John Marshall Jones
E3N (Ethan)	Jeffrey Nordling
Usef Omar	David Harewood
Audrey MacCallum	Claudia Black
Maureen Ferran	Claudia Christian
Victor Diallo	Omid Abtahi
Willard Wyler (Zombies)	Paul Reubens
Mephistopheles (Zombies)	Fred Tatasciore

Notes for collectors

• The announcement trailer was the second most disliked video on YouTube at the time, with more than 3.96 million dislikes before the count was removed in December 2021.
• Modern Warfare Remastered only came with the Legacy, Legacy Pro and Digital Deluxe editions, not the standard one.
• The Zombies in Spaceland cast includes David Hasselhoff as himself, and the later episodes feature Kevin Smith, Pam Grier and Elvira.
• Conor McGregor and Lewis Hamilton both have small cameo roles in the campaign.
• The campaign has two extra difficulty modes, Specialist and #YOLO, that unlock after finishing it. In #YOLO a death means restarting the game.
• The Platinum needs every Zombies episode trophy from the four DLC packs, so the packs are required for 100 percent.

Credits

Region

US

Time to beat

about 7.5 hours