“I said, ‘If you’re thinking of doing a new Modern Warfare game, I’m really interested,’” he says. Though he hadn’t heard any rumors or spoken to any Infinity Ward employees, Emslie had a weird feeling that the studio was planning on revisiting Modern Warfare. Parts of that engine were alive and well in Infinite Warfare, and you could see it.” “Once I got to that point in time, I guess it was like Christmas vacation 2016, I looked at Remastered and I looked at Infinite Warfare and I was like, ‘Man, the production value of this game… there’s so much potential and this new engine was five years in development. “Basically, I told him, ‘What if I finish out my current project and do my job to the best of my ability, and then we’ll talk?’” Emslie recalls. Stohl told Emslie that if he ever wanted to come back to Infinity Ward, the team had a spot waiting for him. I missed that.”Īt this same time, serendipitously, Infinity Ward studio director Dave Stohl reconnected with Emslie at a work function. I missed that setting, I missed that genre, I missed that type of gameplay, that immersive environment, because it looks real to me. I guess for me, I saw Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, and I started having these thoughts in my head. “The industry’s kind of moved that way there’s a lot of that going on. “I remember a point in time when I was just getting exhausted by all the wall-running and jetpacks and the palette and that stuff,” Emslie says. It began with former art lead Joel Emslie, who served as art lead on Titanfall and Titanfall 2, and continued with former designer Geoff Smith, lead animator Mark Grigsby, and a few others.Įmslie’s motivation was driven by his love for Counter-Strike, which made him want to come back to more grounded combat. However, over the last couple of years, an interesting trend has emerged: Several of those departing members are back at Infinity Ward. Several key members of the Infinity Ward team that worked on games like Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 followed Zampella and West to Respawn, leaving a vastly different team to work on Modern Warfare 3 and subsequent titles. The two went on to form Respawn Entertainment and created the Titanfall series. Following a dispute with Activision over Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 royalties, Infinity Ward co-founders and figureheads Vince Zampella and Jason West were unceremoniously removed from the studio.
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