Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Reviews

David Scammell

Videogamer

June 5, 2021

9/10

Infinite Warfare's multiplayer may lack new ideas, but it's still first-rate, and its stunning sci-fi campaign is Call of Duty's best in years.

Timothy Nunes

Playstation Universe

December 6, 2016

6.5/10

Those looking to jump right back into a tight, predictable multiplayer experience will find exactly that with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. A lack of focus overall puts this year’s outing in the driver’s seat over the shark, but Zombies and some saving graces in the campaign keep this from being a total loss.

Nathan Carter

Gaming Nexus

November 22, 2016

7/10

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a mess. There is fun to be had but there it really feels like Infinity Ward really had no idea what direction they wanted to take the series in. Space battles are fun, the campaign missions are fun and the new Zombies mode is a blast, but everything else is just so mediocre that it really brings down the experience.

Dave Aubrey

WCCFtech

November 17, 2016

8/10

What an incredible year for first-person shooters. DOOM kicked off 2016 with style, and games like Shadow Warrior 2, Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 have continued a trend of shockingly great singleplayer campaigns. In the midst of this old school return to form, Call of Duty’s Infinity Ward, the studio that changed online multiplayer have brought us Infinite Warfare, a spacefaring sci-fi shooter that gets more things right than it does wrong.

Giuseppe Nelva

DualShockers

November 15, 2016

8/10

Yet, it's still awesome, and I personally hope to see a sequel in the future. We never got a Wing Commander VI, but I'd be very glad to play an Infinite Warfare 2.

Samuel Guglielmo

TechRaptor

November 11, 2016

9/10

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is easily the best entry into the series in a long time. While I'm not a huge fan of zombies, the campaign is easily my favorite Call of Duty has had to offer while the multiplayer is still a blast. If you want a lot of bang for your buck, Infinite Warfare has a ton to offer

Tyler Wilde

PC Gamer

November 9, 2016

48/100

A stifling campaign and under-populated multiplayer fail to reinvigorate CoD.

Brittany Vincent

ShackNews

November 8, 2016

8/10

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is the first product of Activision’s new three-year production cycle on Call of Duty titles, and the extra time taken on it shows. While Infinity Ward might have played it a little too safe when it came to the competitive multiplayer mode, the improvements in the single-player campaign and Call of Duty: Zombies are substantial. The single-player campaign, in particular, hooked me, and I hope that future campaigns in the Call of Duty universe get the same care.

Joab Gilroy

IGN

November 7, 2016

7.7/10

There's a massive amount of content in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, though especially if you played Black Ops 3 last year there’s little of it that’s particularly impressive. The campaign is ignorable and the multiplayer needs a little technical work to be as good as last year’s, but the overly silly Zombies mode keeps me coming back. It may not stand out in a year that’s been crowded with great shooters, but it still produces that familiar Call of Duty action.

Dalton Cooper

Game Rant

November 7, 2016

7/10

Even though Zombies in Spaceland and multiplayer are just more of the same, as a whole, it's hard to find an FPS on the market as fully-featured as Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The campaign is the surprise highlight, with heart-pounding action, jaw-dropping graphics, and fresh ideas for the series, making it worth checking out even for those disappointed by its sci-fi themes.

GameCentral

Metro GameCentral

November 7, 2016

7/10

An awkward mishmash of the innovative and the overly familiar, that in the end represents no clear step forward for the franchise.

Brendan Caldwell

Rock Paper Shotgun

November 6, 2016

Unscored

As for Infinite Warfare. Its sin is the same sin that the series has always committed: that of being uninventive. Like I say, we’ll have more detailed thoughts on the multiplayer later - I’ve only played a bit. As far as the campaign is concerned, an incredible amount of hard work and money has gone into it, creating explosive spectacles and heavy gunfights. But that doesn’t stop it from being a hollow chassis, a tin man of a game – shiny, impressive, with absolutely no heart.

Chandler Wood

Playstation Lifestyle

November 4, 2016

7/10

It’s not easy to judge a Call of Duty game. Some of you might think so. Some of you already have your opinions of Infinite Warfare without even reading this review or playing it yourself. That opinion might be based on the series name alone. It might be based on Infinite Warfare’s futuristic setting. It may even be based on the multiplayer beta or comparisons to other shooters recently on the market. Some of you may be right, and some of you may be way off the mark, but Call of Duty should be looked at as a sum of...

Leon Hurley

GamesRadar

November 4, 2016

It's not quite a complete reinvention for the series but Infinite Warfare makes some refreshing changes to deliver a confident and exciting shooter.

Adam Cook

Stuff

November 4, 2016

If you only played the opening mission of Activision’s latest blockbuster first-person shooter, you’d be forgiven for walking away thinking that it was just another Call of Duty.

Stefan L

TheSixthAxis

November 4, 2016

7/10

Sadly, despite setting off to explore new settings and backdrops for its blockbusting action, Infinite Warfare finds itself treading in the footsteps of others. The campaign is a good and refreshing twist of putting you in command and having you dogfighting in space, and Zombies is the most accessible rendition of the mode yet, but turn to the multiplayer, the beating heart of any COD game and we’ve been here before.

Trevor Houston

COGConnected

November 3, 2016

86/100

Any idea what 3,332,441 represents? That is the amount of dislikes (at the time of writing) the Infinite Warfare reveal trailer received when it dropped 5-months ago. Think about that for a second. That is more than the entire population of Vancouver, where the bulk of our writers live. It’s a massive number and one that speaks to the amount of internet anger directed towards the franchise on a yearly basis. You just need to look at our YouTube page and, as you would guess, CoD vids have the most dislikes. I have my theories why that is but I...

Chris Carter

Destructoid

November 3, 2016

7/10

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare does just enough to stay above the curve and somewhat make up for the appropriately soulless Ghosts. The zombies team did an incredible job with Spaceland, and the multiplayer still ticks all of the right boxes with an ample locomotion system that has since been surpassed by Titanfall. But if you were expecting anything totally new, including the non-inventive space campaign, look elsewhere. Or, look directly to the inside of your slipcase and enter the code for Modern Warfare Remastered.

Daniel Tack

Game Informer

November 3, 2016

9/10

Campaigns in the Call of Duty series can often be distilled down to a series of setpieces, clichéd villains, telegraphed twists, and ridiculous monologues punctuated with excessive explosions. In Infinite Warfare, you still get some of all that, but if you’re not careful you might also find yourself shedding a solitary tear for the brave soldiers and their sacrifices in the brutal war against the Settlement Defense Front. While the characters are cut right from archetypal cloth, real empathetic weight seeps through the story from beginning to end. Nothing is lost in terms of gunplay or the big moments, either...