Why Was Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare SO AWESOME?! And... BAD?! 

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*Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for The Act Man to do a "Why Fallout New Vegas Was So Awesome*

I feel like if “Call of Duty” wasn’t in the title, it would be a much more positive reviewed game

Here's a fun fact; Brian Bloom, the actor for Nick Reyes, is credited as a main writer on the campaign. He is also credited writing for Modern Warfare (2019). A true gigachad.

After I played the campaign. I genuinely felt so bad for hating on it during when it was in development. The characters, adventure and story was insane for a call of duty production. Ethan was a true homie. When he died in the reactor I almost wanted to cry.

That little Left 4 Dead 2 joke has me really wanting a “Why was Left 4 Dead 2 So AWESOME”

Bruh the part where you were running out of oxygen in Jupiter’s atmosphere (I think it was Jupiter) made me deadass cry. Ethan was being a bro till the end

As someone who cares only about the campaign in every game, I didn't understand why it was badly ranked among it's competitors, the story is very dramatic and mostly realistic, where no one is safe, even the hero, I got immediately immersed into the plot and felt what soldiers go through when they lose friends especially when Ethan died, superb story.

The campaign was honestly one of the best ive played. The future setting, amazing story and characters all worked well.

I feel like Infinite Warfare would be such a great game if it was its OWN game instead of using the COD title

I'm glad I'm not the only living being who enjoyed this campaign

I liked how in the campaign we could choose to do side quest and hunt down the most wanted people I just wish it made a difference like different endings when we do

My biggest complaint with the setting is that the whole war apparently takes place over the course of about a day. Honestly, the warp stuff is just too fast for an intersolar war. They should have portrayed the war as taking years to finish, with weeks between missions

*shoots his own guy, wasting a bullet, damaging his suit, and injuring a valuable asset* "save the bullets"

After playing IW campaign: “Perhaps I treated you too harshly”

This game's campaign is excellent. The pacing and variety is perfect. So many jaw dropping moments. How this game did poorly or was received poorly is rediculous and mind boggling. Story and characters are very competent, albeit too safe to be interesting.

I feel like Spec Ops would have been really cool for this game. You could have co op Jackal strikes, MW3 style missions, zero G, survival, and it could’ve been awesome. Also zombies, I respect what it does and I see the passion behind it but I feel like it’s not very tonally consistent. I feel like they could’ve gone for a World at War or Dead Space vibe with a desolate space ship where the zombie virus was a chemical weapon from another planet the SDF was planning to use on Earth but it spread throughout the rest of the ship.

This dude waited till 2020 to talk about infinite warfare lmfao to the max lvl

lets be honest here the reason why infinite warfare is hated because it was released in the era of cod where multiplayer is the biggest factor for the players

I skipped all CODs after mw3, then I picked this game up for a fiver and LOVED it. One of best campaigns to date! It was like watching a movie

As I write this I have just finished the campaign a few minutes ago. Jesus. This is the first time in a long time where a call of duty campaign has really touched me. During the final credits of the game different characters who have died leave audio recordings for the families. Ethan's is left to you. It made me feel like I was 12 and had just watched everyone die on the bridge in cod4 all over again. I haven't seen a cod game handle the "price of war" this well in a long time every soldier who died did so a hero. Each death left an impact on me. Peace to the Fallen.

Act Man: “Why; do so many CoD campaigns start the same way, I swear, it’s always just some dude talking about war!” Fallout: *sweating profusely*

Act Man: "Lets talk about the Call of Duty campaign" Halo soundtrack ensues

IW Campaign was actually fun and I loved the characters, especially the robot.

You don’t know how much I enjoyed Zombies. I felt like a little kid at an arcade 🤣 also when I found out you could ride the roller coaster! I even told myself “damn imagine if you ride the roller coaster.” Also, I nearly died of a heart attack when the big chungus zombie types (brutes) came out lol What i also liked about it was that in order to activivate the pack and punch all you had to do was turn the power and go through all the portals. Unlike other recent zombies where you gotta do all this shit in order to activate it

Okay Act Man, I’ll give the campaign a shot!

I honestly feel bad for the guy at the start. He probably put his heart and soul into the game.

Never played the multiplayer, but I remember playing the single player campaign and I remember not understanding even remotely why this game had so much hate on it. The secondary missions were absolute blasts, the story was nice, the gameplay was pretty cool. One of the best CoD I've tried so far. A shame people killed it basically just for the MP.

I have a confession, I LOVED all of infinite warfare yes even the multiplayer. Every time I’d come back to cod I’d go to this one and enjoyed every minute of it (Side note): am I the only one who thinks Reyes looks like a genetic fusion of Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe

That scene of the bad guy shooting his own men is just a metaphor, it was infinity ward telling us what Activision has been doing. If only we would have seen the signs.

CoD fans be like: We want innovation. CoD: "Innovates" CoD fans: Ewww, disgusting.

I loved the aesthetic and the weapons of this game, the ships in the space missions, all of that was dope. The europa opening mission had a shitty villain but it was cool to play through

The moment infinity ward CONNECTED their zombies mode to EXTINCTION (From Ghosts) my jaw dropped. It was such a fucking experience that last zombies map where it all came together! I wish more ppl experienced it. It was phenomenal!

Anyone else still salty that we haven't got Call of Duty: World At War Remastered? That would be cool.

Act Man must’ve got an A++ on all his essays

Having recently completed Infinite Warfare's campaign I genuinely cried my heart out listening to the audio logs in the credits.

I felt actual frustration at all the invisible walls just watching you run into them

"Why was Left 4 Dead 2 so AWESOME!?!?" sounds good right now.

I thought this was a reupload for a second, because I could have sworn he already did one of these about Infinite Warfare. Turns out, im confusing it with Advanced Warfare and BO3, because they are all so damn similar.

I would’ve actually preferred for them to make Salen Kotch a morally gray villain whose motivation is simply a revolution against Earther authority. Make it like a less nuanced version of the Expanse.

Super late but binge watching your CoD vids cause the way you deliver subject manner is awesome. Keep it up! I've played CoD ever since Finest Hour on the Original Xbox. It's been a wild ride seeing the series spring up from a former Medal of Honor Dev (Infinity Ward) to what it is now. I've always made sure to play the campaign first, since I feel like every game needs something to set the tone and backdrop of the matches you play in (immersion reasons I guess you could say). Only three campaigns out of the series really had me seriously engaged. MW (old not new), Black Ops, and Infinite Warfare. Infinite Warfare was a passion project made under a corporate thumb, and you can see all the love in it's missions, characters, and background. The target files, Ethan (best bro bot ever), Salter, the Marines, your crew, they didn't have the most depth but for CoD? It was impressive. Their deaths had impact, your character Reyes had emotional response. On top of fun missions, stunning art design, how you can tackle missions in any order, it was a breath of fresh air for a story. I adored Infinite's campaign. Multiplayer though? Still felt like Ghosts unfortunately, with BO3's advanced movement tacked on. Zombies was pretty decent too! I personally wouldn't mind seeing a sequel to it. It didn't deserve the avalanche of animosity at launch but I can understand why fans were so adamant towards it. But I agree with you. It's a misjudged game with a very stark shining campaign. I fear it won't get a sequel but there is hope. Edit**** the soundtrack was freaking awesome too

The golden rule to writing a good story: show, don’t tell. Youd think a multi billion dollar business with 15+ games in the franchise would understand that

Infinity Ward: Alright, everyone hated our last 2 COD games that tried to change things up. Let's just make Modern Warfare again.

i gotta say i’ve been watching all these “why is” videos and it really makes me appreciate this man’s channel again the countless thoughts of how cod should work and dedication to really breakdown how people feel about the games is much needed cause not everyone can just explain their reasoning like that so hearing it makes it sooo much better

I honestly really like this game. Story was decent and i loved the zombie mode. So creative and so much fun it’s definitely up there in the top 5 zombies maps.

If infinite warfare wasn’t released as another cod it would have a massive success

Lets have a moment of respect for Mason for staying so committed

Fun fact about the advanced movement; 90% of the time on veteran or specialist doing a wallrun or jetpacking leads to insta death. I had forgotten you could even do any of that in my playthrough

I know it's not Act Man's thing to buy DLC, but it's a shame cause you really missed out on some of the coolest Zombies map in the series! Rave in the Redwoods is a rave party in the woods where the boss enemy is a serial killer and its inspired by 90's early 2000's slasher films. You can trip out and the whole map becomes neon colored and Kevin Smith is a guest star. Shaolin Shuffle is a 70's style king fu movie homage with funky music and aesthetics, afros and zombie girls on roller skates, and Pam Grier. Attack of the Radioactive Thing is my favorite and is a 1950's B movie with a giant monster, radioactive mutants, and freaking Elvira, Mistress of the Dark! And The Beast From Beyond is based on sci fi horror like Alien and Event Horizon. Did I mention all those guest stars are playable characters like The Hoff in ZiS? You can even unlock and play as Willard Wyler, who's voiced by Paul Reubens. Paul Reubens is also the match announcer! Seriously Infinite Warfare Zombies is awesome.

Hearing act man talk about map design is like a religion to me

Infinite Warfare has the single coolest depiction of realistic sci-fi I've ever seen in any game or movie. To see Taylor Kurosaki say that they "weren't even close to exhausting" it's world depresses me to absolutely no end. I'd literally kill for a Battlefield style large-scale FPS set in Infinite Warfare's universe.

theres 4 more maps in zombies with multiple creative easter eggs, with a cool reward for completing all of the five maps! I recommend trying it out as it is amazing 🤩

Never would I thought that William Joseph Blazkowicz would be flying a Fighter Ship in Space

Star Wars Battlefront: *doesn’t have space combat* Infinite Warfare: Fine, I’ll do it myself.

Tbh this game was released at a bad time, I jumped on the hate train for this when I didn’t even play it, put it like this. If this game didn’t have COD in the title, I reckon the bad ass campaign and the allright multiplayer and the cool zombies, the game would have done a lot better

Honestly they should've put this as its own trilogy rather than a cod game. Its basically titanfall without the titans.

Ah yes infinite warfare, the last cod my dad bought, the only way he would play was to just play the campaign, finnish it, maybe replay his favorite missions once and then just move on from it. Remember when that part would always be simple and fun in cod games?

The Good: The single player is great even by today's standards, it accomplished what EA DICE Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2 failed to do. The Bad : It came out at the wrong time because people want new WW2 FPS back in 2016.

reading some of these comments it's like a, I liked Infinite warfare anonymous meeting and I'm a proud member of that meeting

As an ex-cod fanboy, the reason why my friends and I disliked it was the jet packing. A lot of the community would agree, we never really asked for this "advanced movement". People always complained that cod was the same every year, but adding jetpacks was not the move.

I strongly agree with your takes on the multiplayer experience. If they kept the maps and removed those invisible barriers, it’d be vastly improved. Otherwise, the delays and bullet reg has gotten better. Love watching your vids

*sees notification* "This is where the fun begins."

TLDR campaign - pretty damn good multiplayer - pretend it doesn't exist please zombies - 1 good map

The artstyle is so cool, shame that no cod since has had such epic visuals

Nick Reyes = Captain Lasky (Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians) Norah Salter = Sarah Palmer (Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians) Captain Alder = Captain Del Rio (Halo 4) Sgt. Omar = Sgt. Johnson (Halo: CE Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3: Anniversary) Griff = Master Gunnery Sgt. (Halo 2: Anniversary) Olympus Mons = Covenant CAS-Class Assault Carrier (All Halo Games) Retribution = UNSC Infinity (Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians and Halo: Infinite) Tigris = UNSC Spirit Of Fire (Halo Wars: Definitive Edition and Halo Wars 2) AATIS Guns = Orbital MAC Platforms (Halo 2: Anniversary and Halo 5: Guardians) SATO Dropships = UNSC Pelican Dropships (All Halo Games) Jackals = UNSC Sabres (Halo: Reach) This game is basically a ripoff of the Halo franchise...

The fact that i was emotional over a robot, just shows how well crafted these characters are

The story was the best part. ironically, that's the problem since cod is a multiplayer franchise. the story was incredible and so well put together for any sort of videogame story.

After watching this, I just might buy this game, even just for the campaign!

I love this game because the week it came out was the week our science class started our astronomy unit. I could go to class, walked home, and compare and contrast what I learned with what I saw in the game.

You forgot to mention the difficulties in the Campaign! There is a difficulty where you have stims and helmets. If you get shot in the arm, you break your arm and can't aim in (if the other arm is shot you have crappy aim). If you get shot in the leg, you fall to the the floor but you can get back up, but you cannot sprint. The stims heal your broken bones and the helmet is used as head protection (duh) but if it gets shot off, you are a 1-shot headshot. You have to run around the map and loot for stims and helmets to get through the level. It was so awesome!

I feel like they were trying to go for a “Titanfall 2” kind of style, but halfway through it somehow fell apart, and they tried to go for a sci-fi Advanced Warfare vibe

Lol, I went to school with Mason. He’s a good guy, I ran track with him. I remember seeing his tweets every day for half a year, then when you finally responded to him I checked your channel out. Happy I did.

I made a ton of memories playing IW's multiplayer when I went to a friend's house. I hadn't got to experience many multiplayer shooters at the time so IW was the coolest thing to me. I remember thinking I was the smartest kid in the world because I got a 1-Hit kill Prototype for an SMG which is a starter gun in Zombies, meaning if you used Prototypes in Zombies you got the best gun in the whole game at the start

“Banned for racism!” Lmao I laugh too hard at that!

How could Act Man not talk about this games soundtrack? I personally think it is one of the best in the franchise. How could you forget a track like Anthropic Universe?

This video aged so well, because modes like, warzone, ground war, fireteam, Show that they indeed could have done it if they would have just opened up the maps and stopped adhering to the linear style. It was advanced movement, we had 2 arcade style versions with AW and BO3 they really could have done more with this that they did with mw its sad. I personally hope we get 1 more space cod like iw, but with more innovations and modern engine implementations

The act man reminded me here about one of the most beloved pieces of history on RU-vid, YT Rewind 2018. went to go check its dislikes (20.1 Million) but noticed the video is unavailable. A sad day.

“Faster than you can say ‘NeW dOg MOdeL’” I busted out laughing

Hot take: Infinity ward was so terrified because of the reaction to the IW trailer, that they were *going to* use space battles and moon levels with zero G, but they didn’t because people would have hated it. Now that’s probably not true but interesting theory

It's cool how they asked the "salter" voice actor to come back and play as "Rose" in Modern warfare 2019

UNSC No I mean UNSA Comedy being one of the reasons I love your content man.

"Does this game have a redeeming quality?" The damn THEME. I will be brave and say it is one of the best theme song for a OD game. And then the campaign, also one of the best COD campaign story. And then try to listen to the main theme after finishing the campaign, makes me cry so much.

I'm glad you did this, it proves a few things: 1 - I'm not delusional (seriously, I was getting worried). It proves there's some REAL talent within CoD franchises, aside from most writers' ideas. 2 - STOP OVERLOOKING CAMPAIGNS PEOPLE. Yes, some are bland, but any time I've gotten a CoD game that's what I play first. The campaigns aren't always great, but they are usually fun, for different reasons (Ghosts was funny just to laugh at its absurdity). 3 - CoD fans are toxic by nature. "It's great, I died, it's the game's fault, this game sucks" Rinse and repeat on everything 4 - Innovation NEEDS TO BE PRAISED. Innovation is what made some Devs leave to make Titanfall 2 ~ Later on Apex Legends ~

28:36 Actually I think because it's an energy weapon it bounced off a wall and killed him

This might be my favorite Call of Duty game, despite being different from Call of Duty in a lot of ways. The WWII games I liked, and the Black Ops games had their moments. And the Zombies mode should get its own game. But I don't care that much about the multiplayer when Timesplitters exists. Needless to say, I never played this game's multiplayer, but the campaign was surprisingly unique for the series. Allowing you to fly a spaceship, switching from conventional and EMP rounds to kill robots, or even using over the top future tech is part of what I really enjoy about sci-fi games. And of course it has some of my favorite aesthetics. Fighting in the ruins of Germany is more exciting than fighting in a desert, but I am more into huge hovering battleships and giant power cannons personally. The story is usually hit or miss in COD games and this is no exception. It might be just me, but the reasons for people fighting is only complimentary to the combat itself in most of these games. And I feel that's because we don't always need our bad guys shooting defenseless civilians to show they are evil. The story, in my view, is pretty cliched, but has good enough aesthetics to appeal.

I don’t care what you say, infinite warfare had the most entertaining zombies mode. I now want heavy metal zombies with rob zombie

It's nice that Infinity Ward used actual locations in the solar system like Europa, Mars, and all that jazz. Also, I liked all the Star Fox references in the video, Act Man.

I played infinite warfare campaign and zombies for 5 years from ages 8-13 and never understood why people didn't like it because I didn't like multiplayer

Nice vid and all. How ya gonna play cod ww2 music in the background

The graphics in the game WERE TOP TIER. God the game is amazing I’m really sad other people didn’t want to experience it

The zombies mode in IW was so much fun. Such a nice break from the seriousness of bo3. The maps are so unique and just plain fun. And the soundtrack in spaceland is straight fire

Damn your sound tracks are great. The osrs , banjo kazooie, and that blops 2 music at the end hit me like a brick.

I wish they did more campaign with this much effort

You know why Infinty Ward didn't tried something else in the Multiplayer and were afraid to change things right? *COD community.* Thats the answer. Look, people hated MW because "It doesn't felt like Call of Duty" and at the same time they hated MW3 because it was similar to MW2, one of the best CODs of the history. So imagine what would happend if they just bring something like the zero gravity to Infinite Warfare. People was going to be like *"NOOOO THIS IS NOT COD, I WANT COD NOT BATTLEFRONT!!1!1 😭"*

i fucking love how every time advanced movement is brought up clips from Titanfall 2 are displayed, such a masterpiece deserves the credit

Crap like 11:07 pisses me off. What's stopping that guy from defending himself? Is his buddy okay with this and will he put up no resistance if big bad boss man turns a gun on him? When you work for the bad guy do you sign a contract saying they can shoot you and your buddies at any time and your not allowed to do anything about it because what, you'll be fined or shot? You're being murdered, man! Defend yourself! Give me a god damn break! Haha

Aside from the fair critisim such as the length and occasional lol dialouge from Kotch, the campaign is a solid 9/10

Act man: -Increase weight -loss of appetite me: ahh yes dactuer

One of the few games to make me cry. Ethan's death and his audio log afterwards had me balling :(

Bro infinite warfare had MUCH better movement than Black Ops 3…