WAR WITHOUT END
Aug 03, 2020
4 minutes
Jeremy Peel
INFINITY WARD BALANCED THIS HELLISH GAME OF CHANCE WITH A SOMBRE TONE.
There have been two Infinity Wards. The first invented Call of Duty; the second saved it from diminishing returns. In the middle was a cataclysmic event in game development, one that played out in public and left a world-famous studio forever changed.
The origin point of Call of Duty, when you get down to it, was actually Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. While still under the auspices of a company named 2015 Games, the nascent Infinity Ward team established a new paradigm for first-person shooters.
Where FPS protagonists in Lt Mike Powell was unnervingly human – all too vulnerable to machine-gun nests and mortar fire, which seemed to rip the air in two.
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