Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the 2014 release of the Call of Duty Series and someone’s sick-ass Science fiction dime novel turned into a video game.
Play as Jack Mitchell, a US Marine during the North Korean invasion of Seoul. No a different invasion of Seoul, newer this time. During the battle, Mitchell’s best friend Will Irons is killed and he loses his arm attempting to save him. After pressing F to pay respects, Mitchell is offered a job by Johnathan Irons, Will’s father and CEO of ATLAS, a totally not evil PMC/technology corp/weapons manufacture/pharmacy/I’m pretty sure they make video game consoles. Receiving a cool robot arm, Mitchell does battle with an anti-technology Terrorist group known as the KVA as he finds himself in a conspiracy that involves ATLAS and the world at large.
I don’t know what “KVA” stands for, I don’t think they ever say, if they did I missed it.
Advanced Warfare takes place in the year 2055, and because of its in the FUTURE, you get some nifty gadgets to play with. Its not related to Call of Duty: Ghosts, unfortunately, so that cliffhanger really doesn’t mean anything.
I actually don’t know how the “COD universe” thing works, I don’t think Activision knows either. As far as I can tell, Advanced Warfare has nothing to do with Call of Duty at large, and instead is in it’s own thing. Maybe I need to read the wiki or there’s just lore I missed, but for the most part you’re going in naked.
The big focus this time around is the Exo-suit, a harness that lets you do stuff like double jump, inject Pervitin directly into your blood stream, use car doors as cover once and then never again, have a shield you forget about that collapses out of your arm, I already said double jump.
Basically you use it to double jump. Its cool, though, and it comes into play in the setting as a whole. Mitchell is capable of doing things you wouldn’t see a COD character usually do, like rip open tank hatches or just boot a guy a few feet through the air.
More than once a dude is just flung out of his vehicle and smacked into something, which is probably the funniest thing you can use an Exo-suit for.
Gunplay actually feels different this time around, compared to going from MW3 to Ghosts. Guns aren’t as loud or mean as they were in the older games, but they are just as punchy, it doesn’t take much to kill what you’re shooting at, so you’re not spending a lot of time with bullet sponges.
There ARE bullet sponges in the game, but even then they don’t take all that long to kill and they’re not as frequent as you would fear. The tougher enemies are spread out nicely and they’re never frustrating to fight.
Keep in mind, I play these games on Normal. I can play Halo on heroic and Doom on Ultra-violence, but anything over Regular for Call of Duty just exists to torsion my nuts unwillingly, so I don’t bother.
Also, you have an upgrade system this time around, getting points for milestones like killing a certain amount of enemies, using a certain number of grenades, finding intel, stuff like that. Its easy to get at least a little over powered by just playing the game regularly.
At max rank for reload, Mitchell reloads his gun in less than half a second, which is fun to look at, and you’re never stuck in a situation where a guy is just mulching you because you need to snail mail more ammo to your gun.
The guns are interesting. Most of them are conventional low-sci fi guns as well as some familiar faces. The Ak-12 can be found every now and then. There’s an assault rifle called the IMR, I’m not sure how it reloads, at first I thought it was some kind of heat-based energy weapons, but apparently it prints its own ammo, which I guess is neat.
I didn’t touch the multiplayer. The game is dead and I hear whoever you do find still playing just kind of plays to hack and put ♥♥♥♥ on your computer, so this is just a review of the single player.
Between the three “”Classic”” CODs I played, Advanced Warfare I feel like has one of the stronger campaigns. Its not overly obsessed with the Spec Ops Task-Force 141 gameplay like Ghosts was, but it doesn’t have as many crazy big-number battles as Modern Warfare 3 did, but it hits a good in between. The story is fun, and I remembered all of the characters by name.
You’re hit again with a character vanishing from the story and one character I thought DID vanish but she reappears for the last few levels. I guess they just didn’t know what to do with the guy so he’s just gone from halfway through the game and onward, which always sucks but whatever.
Its a good time, but its another COD I can’t recommend unless its on a sale. For a singleplayer campaign its a solid 6-7 hours, so the $20 is the place you want to be at when you get the game.
For some reason, these games aren’t just standard $20, which is something I don’t understand. Or refuse to understand, I guess.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare gets 7.5 dude’s punched in the face by robot fists out of 10.
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