Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare

CoD Infinite Warfare is an odd one. Often hailed as an underrated campaign, for me this is kind of just CoD in Spaaace!

The story isn't that great, the bad guy played by Jon Snow kind of forgetabble (his story arc ends in such an anti-climax, and he has so incredibly few lines for being the "antagonist"), but there are some good things.

Ethan the robot is a true highlight and reminds me a lot of K2SO from Rogue One that came out the very same year, and he and our protagonist share the only truly memorable scenes in the entire game.

The ship to ship battles are kind of cool and reminded me a ton of Wing Commander Prophecy from 1997. The missions are a bit too simple, but it helps with the padding, making CoD Infinite Warfare the longest of all CoD campaigns that I have played, clocking in at around 8 hours (I did all side missions).

It was a fun go, but I probably won't be playing it again. There are better CoD games out there, and for me... no... the campaign is not "underrated" it just kind of is.

6/10.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is one of the most underrated entries in the franchise.
The campaign hits hard with emotional moments, epic space battles, and memorable characters.
Zombies in Spaceland is pure fun — a colorful, chaotic, and creative take on the Zombies mode.
Multiplayer is fast, energetic, and ahead of its time.
If you gave up on this game because of the hate back then, you're missing out.
IW deserves respect. It's better than most people remember.

10/10 — Don't sleep on this one.

Best Campaign in Call of Duty History
I bought this game mainly for Zombies, but I decided to try the campaign and it absolutely blew me away. You play as a captain who's constantly taking huge risks, and the whole time, you never really feel like you're winning, even at the end. The characters, the gameplay, the combat everything in this campaign is just perfect.
And if you love Zombies, it's a win win.

Great Campaign and Zombies, Multiplayer still sucks balls though.

First off- Disable optimized for windows games across the board under graphic settings. Itll stop the crashes.
Second- Grab the HD mod from nexus along with remove hud mod
Story- Absolutely fantastic. It was well done, great mix of different aspects from ground fighting/ship to ship/spacecraft fighter vs enemy. Story was...fantastic. I sat on this and had it in my library but refused to play at the time because "future sucks". Man I was wrong. Absolutely fantastic single player campaign and story.

The most underrated and mistreated Call of Duty. The campaign is surprisingly good and I recommend everyone to play it or revisit it (as always, on discount. Do not spend 60 euros on a 9 year old game), the zombies are really fun and the multiplayer, well it was already dead when I got the game, oops.

This game comes from an era where people were fed up of the futuristic theme, but if it came out before Black Ops 3 or Advance Warfare I'm sure history would be very different.

Great futuristic space combat game, it is nice to see military near-future sci-fi (like The Expanse) as opposed to fantasy-tier stuff like Star Wars or Warhammer 40K. The zero-g combat and tech is really interesting, and the art design is excellent. The fighter combat is not my thing; it feels like that one space mission in Halo Reach. The story is a mixed bag -- there are some cool characters like Ethan and Omar but the villain is pretty stupid and cartoonishly evil without good motivation. I think Killzone did the whole "colonists vs. Earth" conflict in a more nuanced way, where the Helghast actually have valid reasons for hating the ISA. Also, whenever your companions die, it is in a stupid way which was easily avoided but is still in the game to force an emotional response. I can see why COD fans wouldn't like this game, but then they complained about this and got the most boring game in the franchise (WW2), so that's something. At least now you can assassinate your enemies with a farting unicorn wearing a Nicki Minaj skin in le heckin realistic boots-on-the-ground modern COD.

one of the best games ever made, and also better than treyarch zombies in a few ways. (i'm not hating, i am just saying... it is true sorry.)

infinite warfare has an amazing zombies mode, with tons of things to do on each map, easter eggs that are fun to do, it has 5 cool celebrity characters that you can unlock, it was made with a vision in mind, and with love too.

it has a couple of really good weapons thanks to the variants.(you can earn keys and salvage just by playing, no need to spend money.)

and a really good reward for beating every easter egg for the first time, with added Replay value on top of that by doing all that again with directors cut on.

the fate and fortune cards system is better than the gobblecums 100%, it's not even close.

plus all of the maps are good, yes even beast from beyond (tho it could have been more, just imagine if they were given more time.)

my only 2 small nitpicks are: i wish the characters had way more voicelines, and i wish the fov was done better cause it doesn't feel that high. (also for anyone wondering, the fps is capped/locked at 85, which is displayed as 91 or something like that.) but that is all.


so overall, 9.9 out of ten, however it sucks that the mp on pc is unplayable due to a bug or something, that was never fixed.

didn't review the campaign cause i personally don't buy cod games for that alone, but still, it was nice. definitely give it a try if you want.

Game worked fine for 9 hours....then stopped. Nothing changed on my PC, but keeps saying that it's now running in safe mode. checked my settings, nothings changed. Either Steam sucks or the game does. Requested refund since i cant play the game....sad.

haters gonna hate but fr just give it a try u weirdos
ps. zombies

I got this game near release on console and I've enjoyed it from the start. the monetisation on the special weapons is terrible but I honestly don't expect better on activision. the campaign is story I actually really enjoy being a sucker for space and ship battles. the multiplayer is COD, pretty much the same from black ops onwards, definitely nothing ground breaking. zombies is also good, giving a new slightly different look and feel to how it plays but still great. I wouldn't buy this for full price especially for this being almost 10 years old, but if it goes on sale and you like zombies and want to try the campaign I would say give it a shot

game crashes after any settings change

Don't care what others say, this game is a masterpiece!!

On discount for $20, this game is definitely worth it for the campaign and zombies (somewhat) alone. I can't believe I fell for the hate. Yeah, the multiplayer is dead and does suck in general, but the campaign is definitely a Top 5 of all time and Spaceland is one of the best maps ever made for zombies. Wouldn't really recommend the other maps as they get worse after each release. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME AT FULL PRICE.

I love the story, but the cutscene replay after I play a another mission like Titan it replayed after every 4 missions.

Story is cool. That's all I care for. I'm glad I decided to buy it.

FYI BEFORE PURCHASE:
After downloading the game, to actually play it you need to *turn off optimizations for windowed games* in windows graphics settings for the game to work.

Go to display settings>system>graphics and turn off optimization for infinite warfare and then you can play!

(also, if you want to play zombies, you need to have the Multiplayer content DLC enabled)

great zombies and campaign!

The game chrashes the moment gameplay is abt o begin

it is so fun and i beat this game like 5 times there are hard parts

Couldn’t find junes but I did find a amusement park with zombies

Wow i have to say this is absolutely one of the most underrated Call of Duty titles period. Not only is its zombies mode endless fun and a real challenge, the campaign is stunning.

They called it Operation Black Sky Below—a shadow mission buried so deep it didn’t officially exist. No records, no medals, no rescue protocol. Just a dead-drop order handed to a fireteam of ghosts. If they failed, no one would even know to care.

Lieutenant Lex Navarro, callsign Specter-1, was the team lead. A former Jovian mining enforcer turned SATO spec-ops, Navarro had been forged in low-G riots and hardened through a decade of dirty war. He didn't care about medals or ranks—just finishing the job.

When the Settlement Defense Front burned Geneva from orbit, Navarro was already in enemy territory—buried beneath the surface of an SDF-controlled asteroid near Europa, deep inside a converted mining facility that had become a weapons test site.

Their mission was surgical: infiltrate, locate a new prototype kinetic weapon, and destroy it before it could be launched.

They inserted during a solar flare blackout, using the magnetic shadows of the asteroid's rotation to slip past orbital scans. No eyes on them. No backup. Just boots, breath, and silence.

Inside the base, something felt wrong. Not quiet—hollow. Lights flickered. Power systems were in standby. The air was cold and thick with the scent of ozone and synthetic oil. The SDF weren’t patrolling. They didn’t need to.

Motion pings started to flutter across their HUDs. Navarro raised a fist, halting the squad. Harris, his recon tech, tapped into the local spectrum. “No drones. These aren’t bots,” he whispered.

Then the wall behind him opened.

They weren’t drones—they were sentries. SDF had built AI-integrated exo-suits—machine-hybrids with humanoid forms and infrared camouflage. Silent. Adaptive. Built to kill.

Harris died fast. His scream never even fully formed.

Navarro dropped one with a short burst to the processor core. Monroe took down another with a thermite spike. The rest of the squad set a fast retreat into the deeper levels.

The mission had changed.

Time was bleeding out.

They fought through gravity shifts, server vaults, and an abandoned crew sector that had been sealed and scrubbed—too clean. Every hallway echoed with static. By the time they reached the weapon chamber, only Navarro and Monroe were still breathing.

The Helios Lance looked like something out of nightmare theory: a railgun the size of a freight train, magnetically stabilized, tied into a crude launch cradle on a tethered orbital loop. It was set to fire in 22 minutes.

Navarro assessed the situation. The control AI was locked. The core was sealed. Too many failsafes.

“We can’t disable it,” he muttered. “We ride it.”

Monroe blinked. “You serious?”

“I’ve never been more.”

They climbed onto the exterior chassis of the Lance, wired a backdoor into the manual ignition, and preprogrammed a magnetic destabilization. If they triggered it just right, the weapon would fire with no payload, burn out its core mid-flight, and tear itself apart in the vacuum.

As the countdown hit thirty seconds, SDF sentries breached the chamber. Monroe laid down suppressing fire and got hit—bad. Navarro dragged him up onto the structure, slammed the last command in, and they launched.

The Lance screamed through the void. Twenty seconds in, the coil fried. It began to tear itself apart. Monroe lost his grip and spiraled off into blackness. Navarro clamped down, silent, as the whole weapon cracked apart around him.

Later, a SATO patrol drone picked up a faint beacon—barely more than a whisper, wrapped in static and ice. Navarro was floating in the wreckage, suit shredded, left hand gone, visor webbed with cracks. Still breathing.

They never asked what happened.

They never mentioned Helios Lance in any official report.

But it never fired.

And the planet never felt its wrath.

Somewhere in the shadows of space, a silent mission had saved millions. And only one man remembered.

Good game for the zombies mode alone, worth it if you can grab it on seasonal sale for 40$ with all dlc. multiplayer is fun if you can find a lobby but there's alot of sweat and you will die A LOT. Different feel and engine from modern COD games but not as bad as people thought it was.

Great game, great story made with hard work and love. If you want to play a great story I recommend it but I couldn't find a single multiplayer match due to lack of players. The zombies was neat too.

This game currently has a major Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting. When playing you bare the risk of getting a RAT (Remote Access Trojans) — meaning they can take over your PC just from being in a public match.

yes but there's a issue that crashing the game a bunch if you don't turn it off to fix that go to settings > system > display > graphics > find the game application "call of duty game" press it and turn off optimizations for windowed games (that's what worked for me)

COD : Infinite Warfare
This game is truely something awesome in the COD series , the campaign the zombies mode are both awesome , and some of the best in the series - in my personal opinon!

- Campaign is super good , the characters are well voiced acted the lip syncing is also really good most of the missions are pretty fun , sometimes a little basic , but going from planets to planets and then to earth , and also the gameplay change is hella fun/good , overall the ending as well was really done SUPER WELL. I had a blast playing through the campaign!

- Zombies , yeah zombies in spaceland is the best zombies mode of any COD game TO DATE , the style the charm the secret boss fight/easter egg is also done super well , the weapons are fun the tokens are used for extra things , the sticker book is fun to make , everything in this zombies mode will suck you in for hours and hours , and i'll play zombies even more then i have already.

The Negatives - the multiplayer is pretty dead , and i encountered a couple of bugs in all modes but even then this game is super good ,
- BUY ON SALE , its AWESOME!

the game is good realistic and doesnt need super strong nasa pc but it doesnt get much updates and i played it for a long time this game is good very good soo buy it

CoD in space was a great idea and I don't understand why people bashed this game back in the day.

Even though it had designs ripped from Halo, the campaign is pretty fun!

fun but you need the IW7 mod if you dont want to get hacked

very good game, love raving in the redwoods, Thank you Lee Ross and all the team that worked on this game!

In less than 3.5 hours of playtime through the campaign, the game also crashed multiple times and I experienced a corrupted save that required modifying windows settings for the game to load. The game-play that I was able to experience wasn't really good or bad, just average. Not impressed.

One of the best Call of Duty campaigns and zombies. BTW, the Quartermaster cyphyer is PAUL-OF-DUTY

Great story and graphics do more then holding up

Fucking game crash for fucking 10 times, fuck u Activision !

Mar 3rd 2025, still unplayable. stuck on loading page and crashes after ~3 minutes. Using 40 series gpu

one of the best and most creative call of duty campaigns ever.

played the first two missions of the campaign. wish i could see more but it keeps crashing. Rating: the shrek movie, but it doesn't have the i need a hero song featuring the fairy godmother. Still good, but leaves you feeling unsatisfied.

As a COD Zombies speedrunner and content creator this game has surprised me when I downloaded it on Steam. When I played on PS4 I wasnt a huge fan of it but now in 2025 its in my Top 4 zombies games.

This game is great i love the zombies. My only complaint is that all the zombie maps have made me schizo some maps more then others.

Underrated CoD series but good game for zombies.

First COD that has playable jet fighters.

Wish this game maybe filled with multiplayer. :/

fuck atvi permitting gen ai content in bo6. keep your money to yourselves yall

my stance on this aside:

iw definitely has one of my favourite campaigns for both story and gameplay. a good chunk of the game takes place in vehicular space combat which is real fun, i remember most of the characters names which is *really* good for a game that isnt part of one of the main subseries. presentation is also top notch across the board, even if i kept having the same issue with repeated cutscenes over and over.
i couldnt play multiplayer or zombies, i just got "unable to access online services", so fuck me i guess

good campaign story and game play. I wish they'd make another like this one with the mission hub and upgradeable air/spacecraft.

6/10
Because; good gameplay, good visuals, average story, good main character, great robot mate (Ethan o7), above average cinematics, entertaining side missions, good finale
but; shitty bugs, shitty cutscene-gameplay shifts, ridiculous veteran difficulty and potential wasted antagonist.
It's an average Call Of Duty game and trust me it didn't deserve ALL that hate. It's not THAT bad.

great campaign. But dead multiplayer. Which is why I bought it on steam. I wanted to play online again. But there's no way to get online matches unless you plan a coordinated match with other people.

Love this Game One of of is Not the best zombies! Multiplayer was fun Just hard to find lobbys

My favorite zombie maps of all time. It is 2025 and I still love this game.

very fun game if you look back on it compared too todays cods, altho wish it had more players, everything is free to get in this game and the guns are very awesome, cool 3 lane design maps with fast pace action.

The story and the visual are the one who sold this game. For me, this is better than call of duty ghost.