{"id":4413,"date":"2009-09-09T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"infinity-ward-bethesda-are-redefining-single-player-fps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4413-infinity-ward-bethesda-are-redefining-single-player-fps","title":{"rendered":"Infinity Ward: Bethesda are redefining single player fps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2&rsquo;s release date inching ever closer developer Infinity Ward has given more details regarding the game and what they think of the FPS genre in general.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Infinity Ward&rsquo;s community manager Robert Bowling told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowgamer.com\/news\/1253\/infinity-wardbethesda-is-redefinig-fps-experience\">Now Gamer<\/a> that he is &ldquo;most excited by games taking the genre and breaking preconceptions of what FPSs are and prominently redefining the experience around their style. We&rsquo;re all about fast-paced team-based infantry gameplay, whereas Valve is doing an amazing job with Left 4 Dead of forging their own style of FPS that is all about co-operative and dynamic gameplay that you can play endlessly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bowling cited Bethesda, responsible for the likes of Fallout 3 as a good example of a development team that can construct an interesting single player campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just as much as I think a lot of people are innovating multiplayer, I think a lot of developers like Bethesda are really redefining the single-player first-person experience. Fallout 3 was a renaissance for single-player mentality and proved that multiplayer isn&rsquo;t the end of great single-player experiences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bowling also revealed that both the multiplayer and single player versions of Modern Warfare 2 has separate teams working on them from the beginning. If recently released game trailers are anything to go by the formula will arguably be a success which builds upon that which Call of Duty: Modern Warfare achieved.<\/p>\n<p>The included co-operative gameplay, a mode which Bowling said has been in high demand amongst Call of Duty fans, will was a possibility which Infinity Ward took very seriously during development.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The multiplayer always has mass appeal and the most vocal community. While single-player is as, if not more, popular in terms of unique users and casual gamers, they&rsquo;re just much harder to track since they never get online and thus probably don&rsquo;t participate in online communities. The co-op audience is a great hybrid of both audiences.&rdquo; Said Bowling.<\/p>\n<p>To date Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has sold over 13 million copies worldwide across all platforms. Publishers Activision and developers Infinity Ward will undoubtedly be hoping to better this when Modern Warfare 2 is released on November 10.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=2578\">Infinity Ward&#8217;s opinions<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developers comment on the FPS genre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}