Since the trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare came out, FPS fans from all over the world lamented about the trailer's seeming lack of quality and its cliched futuristic setting. In fact, the negative reaction to the video was so strong, Infinite Warfare's trailer just became the fourth most hated video on YouTube as of Tuesday, with more than 1.5 million dislikes.

That's right. Unlike the other videos in YouTube's infamous list, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare managed to get into the Top 5 after just one week of being released. Other videos in the list, such as K-Pop singer Psy's "Gangnam Style" and Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda," managed to make the list after a fairly longer period of time.

In the comments section of the trailer, numerous fans bashed the trailer for being generally uninspired. Indeed, if the elements of the trailer were to be critiqued, various aspects of what was shown were indeed cliches, such as the futuristic setting and the highly-advanced weaponry.

Adding to the aggravation of FPS fans was last Friday's Battlefield 1 reveal, which confirmed that the upcoming title would be focusing on notable battles during World War 1. Contrary to Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Battlefield 1 promised to take players into the center of the world's most important battles in the most realistic and grittiest manner possible. As of writing, Battlefield 1's trailer only has a measly 19,000 dislikes.

Despite the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the upcoming game's trailer, however, publisher Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg assured investors that Call of Duty's massive fanbase is unfazed with the reception, focusing on strong pre-orders for the game.

"The fact is, while it's very early, pre-orders are off to a very strong start. Views of the reveal trailer that you referred to are up and, in fact, the number of likes per view on the Infinite Warfare reveal trailer are also the highest we've ever seen," he said.

The CEO further stated that the same trend happened during the reveal of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which was also bashed in YouTube, but which proved to be a success in the long run.

"We've seen this in the franchise before. The reveal trailer for Black Ops II, which took the franchise into the future for the first time, had the most dislikes of any reveal trailer we had ever made at that time. And that, of course, went on to become our most successful game ever," he added.

Call of Duty is regarded as one of the world's premiere FPS franchises, with millions of copies sold every year.

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