These involve fighting on asteroids and outposts, or attacking enemy destroyers and stealing intel, technologies and weapons – apparently, there are certain weapons that will only be available if you take on these supplementary tasks, and these will make subsequent story missions easier to complete.ĭuring the Sony press conference, Activision revealed one of these ship attack sequences, which involves rocking up in Jackal, popping the canopy, fighting along the outer hull (using a handy grapple hook to grasp and drag in enemy solders, before sending them spiralling into space) and then boarding the craft. Some are mandatory story missions sent down from Strategy Command, but there are also optional missions, shown on the solar system ops map. This is effectively the game’s hub world, from where the player can decide which missions to take on, in which order. You then land aboard the Retribution spacecraft, where Reyes discovers that the captain has been killed and he’s now in command. Later in the mission, we’re told, there will be dogfighting sequences, which seem to involve open-space environments rather than on-rails attack sequences. Targeting and firing missiles uses the same left and right trigger combo as shooting guns. According to Mintoff, flight handling has been designed to resemble ground controls, so the ship has RCS thrusters so that you can strafe, while hitting sprint operates boost, the jump button is up and crouch is down. It certainly looks fast-paced, exciting and visually accomplished, but with no hands-on available, it’s difficult to gauge the feel of the fighting. So then you’re dodging missiles and taking out enemy fighters Reyes needs to get in close to a vast enemy destroyer and start pounding its gun turrets with 50mm cannon fire.
“Wherever there is war over resources,” says Call of Duty design director, Jacob Minkoff, “there is extremism”. However, a fanatical organisation known as the Settlement Defence Front (SetDef) has formed out in space, looking to place a stranglehold on resources by taking over outposts throughout the system.
To keep these in check, a new agency, UNSA, has been formed, uniting the armed forces of all the major countries involved. It’s the near future and humankind has expanded out into space, operating mining colonies throughout the solar system. It’s going to happen.Īnd its this prospect that provides the background to Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, 2016’s instalment in the long-running shooter series. There are already companies such as Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries developing technologies to facilitate the industry. These celestial rocks are loaded with the sort of rare metals essential for the manufacturing of computers and smartphones – metals that are becoming increasingly scarce on Earth. I n 2015, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gave an interview in which he argued that the world’s first trillionaire will be somebody who successfully mines asteroids.
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