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Call of Duty XP 2016



              Call of Duty is one of the biggest and well known franchises in the industry. On September 2nd they held a fan event called,” The Call of Duty Experience” (CoD XP) showing the game’s multi-player features. This year’s CoD XP was a little different. In addition of showing multi-player for their upcoming game Infinite Warfare, they also showed multi-player for two other games. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remaster will be packaged with Infinite Warfare; that won’t be sold on its own. Also a new DLC is out for Black Ops 3 called, “Salvation”. This DLC will be focused on new multi-player maps and zombies.

                Infinity Ward’s new Call of Duty game, Infinite Warfare is a new take for the franchise. Call of Duty have always been in the World War II setting. The past two games have focused more on the futuristic setting with wall running and jetpacks. With a new setting, Infinity Ward can create new and interesting features that captures the world of futuristic warfare. The focus for the multi-player was customizing your gameplay. Keeping the same feel and pace of Black Ops 3, with new mechanics to customize your playstyle called,” combat rigs”. The game will come with six rigs. The “War Fighter” is for completing objectives quickly, “Merc” is a heavy rig with defense, and” FTL” will allow the player more mobility. The other three rigs “Stryker” a support, “Phantom” a more stealth rig, and “Synaptic” a mix of stealth and speed. This way there are more options to play now than ever.


             
FTL
Warfighter


Merc
 For the first time Call of Duty is introducing a crafting system. In Infinite Warfare, players will have the ability to craft base weapons into proto-type weapons. Every proto-type weapon will have its own perks. Each proto-type weapon will be given a rarity, the higher the rarity the rarer the perks you get with the proto-type weapon. Playing more will earn you more proto-type weapons.

                The release of Infinite Warfare is also going to include Modern Warfare Remaster; one of the most well criticized Call of Duty game. The remaster will contain all 16 maps from the original game. 10 maps will be available on release. The other six will be added in later for free. I just missed the Modern Warfare window when I got into Call of Duty. This gives me more reason to play one of the greatest first-person shooters of all time.

                 The latest Call of Duty will be receiving their final DLC pack called, “Salvation”. The DLC will include four maps Citadel, Micro, Outlaw, and Rapture. Also it will come with a new zombie’s map called, “Revelations Zombies”. The DLC is available for PS4 now. The Xbox One and PC will be released later.




                The event was to celebrate the community. Everything that was shown was all for the fans. It got me interested in the franchise again even though I’m not a really big fan of the franchise. 

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