10 Bad Video Games With ONE Great Level
4. Operation Port Armor - Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare
After pushing sci-fi boundaries in Advanced Warfare and Black Ops, Activision's cash cow franchise finally jumped the shark with Infinite Warfare. From bland levels mostly consisting of grey spaceship hallways and a super forgettable villain, Infinite Warfare never justified its extraterrestrial setting.
Except in the mission Port Armor, an all-out assault on Earth's moon. You start off with an air drop onto the lunar surface and proceed to charge the enemy base Normandy-style (if everyone fighting in the Normandy landings were driving dune buggies and dodging orbital bombardments.) You then proceed to assault the enemy in their occupied commercial spaceport, before making your way to a fighter and engaging in some Star Wars-style dogfights.
But that's not all! After navigating a debris field you board an enemy capital ship and do some Gundam-like zero-g gunfighting.
The amount of variety is simply awesome and sets a high bar that the game never again even approaches. The action actually feels like Call Of Duty with a ton of sci-fi spectacle and new ways of fighting. With more stuff like this and a more lighthearted tone, Infinite Warfare could have been a high point in the series, albeit an incongruous one.