{"id":155218,"date":"2019-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/?guid=017bc6dd155098860945dc6249c4e9bc"},"modified":"2019-08-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:00:00","slug":"everything-we-know-about-call-of-duty-modern-warfares-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/10\/everything-we-know-about-call-of-duty-modern-warfares-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything We Know About Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare\u2019s Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is already showing promise with its multiplayer. However, for many, the single-player campaign is\u00a0an important part of the equation. After Treyarch opted to not include a full story mode with Black Ops 4 last year, Infinity Ward is bringing it back in a big way. While at Infinity Ward for this month\u2019s cover story<\/a>, we got the lowdown on what players can expect from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare\u2019s ambitious campaign.<\/p>\n

When Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare launched in 2007, it told a contemporary story about two sides fighting a more traditional war. However, in 2019, warfare is different. In the world of insurgents, terrorists, and freedom fighters, sides aren\u2019t as clearly defined as they\u2019re depicted in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. With that in mind, the campaign team at Infinity Ward, led by a group of Naughty Dog alumni, set out to create something unique, intense, and unprecedented in the first-person shooter space.<\/p>\n

The studio says that the definition of \u201cmodern warfare\u201d has changed, and with that, the team\u2019s approach to creating a Modern Warfare game also has to change. \u201cThematically, in this world, enemies don\u2019t necessarily wear uniforms,\u201d campaign gameplay director Jacob Minkoff says. \u201cThe world is not as clear. War is much more messy these days. We\u2019re representing that mechanically.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the campaign, you must identify threats as you move through the mission. In one of the two missions we saw, a squad is methodically working through a townhouse serving as a terrorist safehouse. The player is in control of Sergeant Kyle Garrick, who believes the rules of war need to adapt in order to fight an enemy that doesn\u2019t play fair. Garrick wants to cross the line in his fight against the enemy, and he seeks out Captain John Price in hopes he\u2019ll see things his way. In the Townhouse mission, Infinity Ward shows what that means.<\/p>\n

The team of soldiers breach the townhouse at different points \u2013 the front door, a second-story window, the basement \u2013 and immediately begin securing or neutralizing every inhabitant. Kyle enters the kitchen as his squadmate subdues a woman who obliviously wandered in. A quick walk down the hallway reveals a meeting room with a few members talking loudly. Kyle equips night-vision goggles and shoots out the light, and the team picks them off one by one. You can approach scenarios like this one differently; if you don’t shoot out the lights before engaging, the enemies have a better chance of seeing you coming. The squad continues up the stairs, encountering different scenarios along the way. One room has a woman who runs to grab a crying baby, while another has a man take a woman as a human shield. Kyle neutralizes the hostage-taker, only for the woman to grab a gun and come at the squad.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you shoot the guy as we did in that demo, she goes and grabs a gun,\u201d Minkoff says. \u201cWe train the player early on that you really need to be identifying threats. And this all came from us talking to our military consultants. They don\u2019t talk about civilians and non-combatants; there are unknowns and threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Situations like that require players to identify hostile actions and hostile intents. Warfare isn\u2019t always black and white, and likewise, threats can also be more ambiguous in games. \u201cHostile action is a really simple thing,\u201d studio narrative director Taylor Kurosaki says. \u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018Someone\u2019s shooting at me.\u2019 Hostile intent is a whole other ballgame. Those are the metrics they have to deal with and navigate.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the team continues up the stairs, some more obvious threats present themselves: one room has a man grab a gun and hide under the bed to ambush you \u2013 nothing a few shots through the mattress can\u2019t handle. As the team approaches the attic, a shotgun blast erupts through the door, downing one of your squadmates. Every single surface features appropriate penetrative properties, meaning that drywall and wooden doors are easier to shoot through than metal doors and concrete. Similarly, a 9mm pistol will have trouble shooting through plate armor.<\/p>\n

The squad finally reaches the attic. Price remarks that the primary target is in there and that Kyle should try and take her alive if possible. Kyle peeks in to spot a woman standing in the shadowy loft. Kyle downs her with a shot to the lower body, but she lunges for something on the table. Kyle takes one shot to her head, killing her. So much for taking her alive. However, as Price and Kyle approach the table, they see what she was reaching for: a detonator. Minkoff and Kurosaki tell me that if she grabbed the detonator in time, it would blow up the townhouse, killing the squad and giving the player a game-over screen. Price tells Kyle he made the right call.<\/p>\n

Players need to make tough calls like that on the fly, and while dying obviously leads to a critical mission failure, it\u2019s not the only way. \u201cThe game sort of has its own version of, \u2018You just got court marshaled and arrested,\u2019\u201d Kurosaki says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you cause too much collateral damage, which is the official term for killing people who should not have been killed, the game will fail you,\u201d Minkoff adds.\u00a0\u201cWe have pretty complex heuristics where we\u2019re basically trying to determine, are you, the player, acting like a proper soldier? Or are you kind of being a psychopath and not playing by the rules?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite this emphasis of wanting players to identify threats, Modern Warfare\u2019s campaign will not rely on random elements to keep you guessing or branching narratives based on your choices for the sake of replayability. \u201cWe want you to have the highest quality cinematic experience we can possibly create; that\u2019s what we did at Naughty Dog, that\u2019s what we do here,\u201d Minkoff says. \u201cBy necessity, branching and randomization diminish\u00a0narrative quality. And there\u2019s a place for that in video games; I\u2019m a huge fan of big, open-world games that have lots of randomization. But no one has ever said that those games have great stories. We\u2019re in the business of making the best possible cinematic story experience. That\u2019s why it\u2019s linear.\u201d<\/p>\n