14 DAY TRIAL // The most recent single-player trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts shows an orbital strike launched from a satellite using a kinetic weapon, but the development team working on the first-person shooter insists that the overall story is still plausible and based on real-world national defense theory.
Dan Amrich, the community manager at the company, writes on his own blog that the developers at Infinity Ward are standing by their promise to create a grounded narrative that focuses more on the emotions of the protagonists than on military spectacle.
He states, “The concept of kinetic bombardment – nicknamed in the science and defense communities as ‘Rods from God‘ – has been used in sci-fi stories for years by authors including Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, and Neal Stephenson, but it’s also been seriously considered by the United States Air Force as a military strike that could create mass devastation without nuclear fallout.”
The single-player trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts shows the ODIN satellite firing on the United States, destroying the Golden Gate bridge and opening up the country to an invasion from forces coming from the Southern Hemisphere.
Amrich adds, “long after Infinity Ward had committed to the concept for Ghosts, a thread about the USAF’s Project Thor showed up on Reddit in May of this year, which simultaneously made people involved in CoD feel good about their game’s fiction and a bit worried that the ‘catastrophic event’ might leak.”
More details about the single-player story of Ghosts will be revealed in the coming weeks and will deliver the promised emotional content.
Much of the success of the coming shooter will be linked to the multiplayer game modes that Infinity Ward is creating.
Call of Duty: Ghosts will be launched on November 5 on the PC, the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, the Wii U and it will also be later available on the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One.