Complex sentence: The game would have reportedly extended the franchise into the action-adventure genre, but then a legal battle between Infinity Ward, the studio behind the Modern Warfare franchise, and co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella resulted in the pair's departure.
Split into simpler sentences: The game would have reportedly extended the franchise into the action-adventure genre. But then a legal battle between Infinity Ward, the studio behind the Modern Warfare franchise, and co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella resulted in the pair's departure.