Call Of Duty: 9 Biggest Mistakes Activision Want You To Forget

5. Infinite Warfare's Reveal Backlash

Infinite Warfare was dead before it even had a chance to live.

The game was actually a pretty solid entry into the series, boasting one of the better campaigns that actually dared to shake things up with space combat and side-missions. Sadly, most fans wrote it off right from its announcement.

That's partly because IW was a radical new take on the series, one set in space with zero-gravity combat and Jon Snow as the villain. Fans didn't vibe with this new vision, and the trailer was heavily disliked on YouTube, with a ratio of 604k upvotes to a staggering 3.8m downvotes. That's the kind of press you just can't recover from, even if you're Activision.

It was so bad that the next trailer, which showed up at E3 a month later, was purposefully designed to hide the fact that it was Call of Duty. That was better received, but fans were already worried that COD had lost its identity, and this sci-fi trend-chaser didn't help quell those fears.