COD: Infinite Warfare Launches a New Sub-Series

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare narrative director Taylor Kurosaki revealed that the game could become its own sub-franchise of the Call of Duty series.

The Call of Duty original World War II setting went through many changes over the franchises' history. The sub-series of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare have brought the incredibly popular FPS franchise to the modern day, while Treyarch's Black Ops and Sledgehammer Games' Advanced Warfare have also taken Call of Duty on a different path. With the upcoming release of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, it looks like Infinity Ward is once more searching for ways to introduce a new story within the overall franchise.

At least, that's what narrative director Taylor Kurosaki expects out of the game. In an interview with Polygon, Kurosaki talked about the potential that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has to become another sub-series within the larger Call of Duty space. "We were looking to establish our own new sub-franchise," said Kurosaki. "Our own new branch of the Call of Duty tree."

It looks like the Infinity Ward team is focusing a lot of their work on building the world of Infinite Warfare, which takes players into zero-gravity firefights, and would like to see that landscape explored further by introducing more titles than just one. "What we're developing here could definitely support more games," Kurosaki continued. "We give our best to develop a very rich world that will offer a lot more than players can imagine."

It's obvious that there's an additional pressure on the developers of Call of Duty games, possibly due to the franchise's strict release structure. Even though the addition of Sledgehammer Games to the Call of Duty roster has weaken the ability to be creative, and gave the various studios freedom to fail, there is still a swift turnaround required that means creating an entire world from scratch may not be sustainable - especially when the game is adding new features like side missions and off-rails space battles.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will launch on November 4 for PC, PS4, and, Xbox One.