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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
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Developer: Sledgehammer Games
Content Rating: Mature
Summary
Academy Award winning actor Kevin Spacey stars as Jonathan Irons -- one of the most powerful men in the world -- shaping this chilling vision of the future of war. The game takes place in a plausible future in which technological progress and today's military practices have converged with powerful consequences. In this carefully researched and crafted vision of the future, Private Military Corporations (PMCs) have become the dominant armed forces for countless nations outsourcing their military needs, redrawing borders and rewriting the rules of war. And Jonathan Irons, the founder and president of the world's largest PMC, Atlas Corporation, is at the center of it all.
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32 Reviews8.17
At the heart of Advanced Warfare is the exoskeleton and all of the possibilities it opens up, transforming the way that you get around amidst the futuristic setting. Yet it delivers on many more levels too, from a compelling story and cast of characters to the graphics and the vast array of options for multiplayer character and loadout customisation. Sledgehammer have shown that there’s life in the long-running series yet, and thrown down the gauntlet to Treyarch and Infinity Ward.
In conclusion, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is one of the largest evolutionary steps the franchise has taken since CoD 4. Similar gameplay, and pulling the best things from previous titles, and coupling them with a new movement system and graphics system was a smart decision, and Sledgehammer Games really gave the franchise a nice spin. The sound design is strange for the weapons, the story is cliche, and there is a learning curve compared to the standard point and shoot of other games in the franchise.
Still, these are small problems in a superb overall package, one that has me interested in Call of Duty again. For a future warfare title with drones and jetpacks, Sledgehammer's success is partly to be found by looking to the series' past, and by combining its own ideas with COD's natural appeal it has reinvigorated the franchise.