After a stellar performance throughout this year's $US1.5 ($2) million prize pool tournament, OpTic Gaming can finally call themselves Call of Duty World League champions.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare didn't live up to Activision's expectations, the publisher said today, offering a surprisingly candid assessment of the most recent entry in their yearly shooter franchise.

The second instalment of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's Zombies mode arrived yesterday on PlayStation 4, trading the colourful '80s fun park of Zombies in Spaceland with the '90s vibe of Rave in the Redwoods. The Crystal Method makes some excellent undead-slaying music. I guess I didn't know.

There's been no shortage of quality first-person shooters in the last few months: Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2 and Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, to name three of the big ones. Honest Trailers has had to play a bit of catch-up, but it's now covered two out of three (though you might say two-and-a-half, since it did a video on the original Titanfall at the start of the month), with Infinite Warfare as the latest instalment.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare didn't impress me too much but there is one thing the game gets right: Reloading. With guns that feel like they were lifted from Perfect Dark, one little touch brings a lot of charm.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's "Press X To Pay Respects" is a infamous example of the series' use of button prompts as a narrative device. Infinite Warfare has a couple as well, including this scene, in which a character's life fades away as you hold the shoulder buttons.

There has never been anything wrong with playing Call of Duty on PC. Hell, the series got started there. But if you're looking at picking up or playing Infinite Warfare and the Call of Duty 4 remaster some time soon, you might like to know that it's really not worth playing through the Windows store.

With its relatively bright and cheery atmosphere, lowered difficulty and excellent '80s soundtrack, Infinite Warfare's Zombies in Spaceland mode was almost perfect. Then the clowns showed up. Their squeaky shoes haunt my dreams.

Infinite Warfare's single-player campaign opens with a stroll across Europa. The sun glints off of the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, the gas giant looming large in the sky. It's a fascinating backdrop over which Call of Duty characters do very Call of Duty things.

Spend enough time around the Australian indie development scene and you'll hear a story. It's one often told by Defiant Development's Morgan Jaffit, the studio responsible for Hand of Fate. It's a story about an idea, or rather, what happens when a developer gets to keep working on one.

Within the space of three weeks, gamers are going to be presented with three major franchises. If you pre-ordered and paid a small fortune, you'll be able to play Battlefield 1's campaign and multiplayer today. Titanfall 2 comes out the following week, and shortly after that players will have two Call of Duty games to pour over: Infinite Warfare and the Modern Warfare remaster.

That's a lot of heads to shoot. Question is: which game are you going to shoot more heads in?

Video: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare hasn't particularly had my interest but after playing a weekend of its multiplayer, I'm impressed. Running around as a machine gun armed robo-soldier was a damn good time.

You remember how it seemed staggering that Gears of War 4 was going to consume up to 80GB of hard drive space? Well it's time to move over, because Call of Duty wants a word with your hard drive.

A lot of Call of Duty fans are more excited over the remastered version of the original Modern Warfare than Infinite Warfare's future shenanigans, but they can't have one without the other. Either a full digital purchase of Infinite Warfare or the physical disc is required for the remaster to run.

There's a new Call of Duty coming out this year. Thing is, people are more excited for the remastered version of the old Call of Duty accompanying it.

If you're anything like me, motion blur is one of the first things you turn off whenever diving into the graphics options. And if you're anything like me, you're going to get real angry with the next Call of Duty.

If there's one thing that will live on in my memory for a long, long time, it's the many memories I have of late night LAN parties playing Call of Duty 4. Over, and over, and over, and over again.

People have been playing the multiplayer of the remastered Modern Warfare a go over the last couple of days. And the best possible thing happened: it looks and sounds like what I played at all those LANs many moons ago.

Part of the reason why I'm so excited for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is the space element. It's doing the thing that the best Call of Duty singleplayer campaigns do -- that is be Call of Duty, but with a bit of a twist.

This new Call of Duty mission? Not so much.

Call of Duty has dealt with plenty of boycotts and angry fans in the past. The Infinite Warfare reveal trailer was another thing entirely, however, with more downvotes than many trailers have views. It was so one-sided Activision even put out a response.

The latest Infinite Warfare footage from E3 looks miles better. But do you think that's stopped the internet downvote train? Course not.