This fall, Activision and Infinity Ward will be reimagining the vision of the Call of Duty franchise with its upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare reboot. While the popular shooter has been around since the early 2000s, much as changed internally at Infinity Ward since the franchise's inception, and one of the studio's co-founders has voiced his thoughts on the upcoming reboot.

Upfront, Vince Zampella has said he's happy to see something he was a part of be worthy of a reboot in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and he is confident that the new Infinity Ward team is rebooting the franchise "for the right reasons." Some of Zameplla's biggest concerns, however, center around the reception of the return of Captain Price, and how the response to the game, as a whole, will impact the legacy of the franchise. The reboot also sees the return of another series favorite, Soap, which will surely be judged with a critical eye, given how his story evolved over the course of the original Modern Warfare trilogy.

Zampella helped co-found Infinity Ward back in 2002, alongside Jason West and Grant Collier, and, a year later, the company released the first Call of Duty game on PC. The series has since undergone many changes, from futuristic fights in space, to modern day combat, and even to a brief return to its original World War II setting. However, with the upcoming game being a reimagining of 2007's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Zampella admits to having mixed feelings about the return to the Modern Warfare series.

Since the studio was founded, Infinity Ward has been responsible for releasing eight new Call of Duty games and one re-release of the original game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Back in 2010, Activision fired both Zampella and West for "breach of contract and insubordination." This led to roughly half of the team at Infinity Ward leaving to join the two and their then-independent studio, Respawn Entertainment, which was later acquired by EA, and it is best known now for the Titanfall series and the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

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Given it's been nine years since Zampella's firing from Infinity Ward, the team has had time to regroup and bring its own new vision to the Call of Duty franchise. This new vision does appear to present a much darker tone for the series, as players reportedly won't fail missions by killing civilians, and real world environments have been scanned to give a more authentic setting to campaign and multiplayer maps.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare releases on October 25th for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Source: GameSpot (Via YouTube)