De færreste vil si seg uenige i at Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare revolusjonerte multiplayerdelen av spill med perks-systemet, banedesignet og mer. Samtidig er spillet kjent for en intens og engasjerende historie, så da er det kanskje ikke så rart at Infinity Ward ønsker å gi oss mer av det samme i rebooten.
Vi fikk nemlig slå av en prat med Taylor Kurosaki, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sin "narrative director", på E3-messen, og han kunne fortelle at de ønsker å gi oss de samme følelsene i den nye utgaven. Kanskje til og med gjøre det mer intenst med å fokusere mer på figurene rundt oss:
"The format is going to be very familiar to people who loved let's say the original Call of Duty [4]: Modern Warfare, so there's going to be a lot of things where you're like 'oh that is reminiscent of the thing but it's better and more exciting, it's higher production value', but this time, we're also not afraid to really get to know these characters, and it's not just cutscenes - you're going to get to know these characters by fighting alongside them.
"What we're always looking for is a sense of emotional parity between our characters and the characters that they're playing as, and if we want to develop an affinity for a character, well then that character [had] better help you in a material way on the battlefield, so to speak. So you're going to love playing alongside Price, alongside Farah, and Hadir, and all these other characters because they're frankly really valuable, they're great squadmates, you know, and 'no-one fights alone' has been the saying of Call of Duty from back in the day, and it's never been more true than now."
Det virker altså som om vi ikke vil ha mange stunder alene, så det skal bli spennende å se hvordan dette påvirker historien og stemningen generelt. Samtidig er det verdt å nevne at den tidligere Naughty Dog-forfatteren har høye tanker om multiplayeren også:
"We're all lucky that some of the original team who worked on the first Modern Warfare multiplayer have come back to the studio, and so those guys don't want to rest on their laurels. They really revolutionised first-person, multiplayer mode when Modern Warfare came out, and they don't want to give you just more of that, they want to revolutionise it again as they did back with that original game."
Grafisk sett har vi jo allerede sett indikasjoner på at studioet i alle fall vil revolusjonere serien. Nå får bare de neste månedene vise om gameplayet blir like banebrytende også.
