STACK #180 Oct 2019

GAMES FEATURE

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It was the game that set the franchise on a record-breaking trajectory. Now, Call of Duty: ModernWarfare has been rebooted for 2019. Words Paul Jones

T here’s a level in the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare title that we were privy to a few months back, involving four soldiers adorned with night vision goggles clearing a building that they suspect is a base for a terrorist cell. While it

drops on October 25, it’s been a long time since I can remember sitting through a more tense hands-off demo in any game, let alone a Call of Duty title. It's a great first impression. The Call of Duty franchise has experienced something of an identity crisis since the ominous Ghosts kicked off the

will undoubtedly raise some eyebrows when the game

new generation of consoles back in 2013. Over the last seven years we’ve been to Nam, the near-future and even a foray into

players will be put in these intense situations where they’re forced to make these

space with Infinite Warfare, which felt

more like a Moonraker game than Call of Duty. Some ideas have worked,

really quick, split- second decisions

some haven’t, but when Sledgehammer Games hit the reset button by taking the series back to boots-on-the-ground combat with World War II , the ship’s course was corrected. Even Black Ops 4 , sans campaign, struck true with its Battle Royale mode, Blackout. This year, Infinity Ward, the studio behind 2007's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – which would help shape the phenomenal commercial success of the series – is rebooting the

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