Advanced Warfare is one of many, many games to be released annually in the CoD series, this time developed by Sledgehammer Games, their first in the series.
Advanced Warfare is its own series, and set in 2054 and expands to 2061. It stars Kevin Spacey as Jonathan Irons, head of Atlas, a private military contractor. You play as Jack Mitchell, a private. Mitchell and his best friend, Will Irons, the son of Jonathan Irons, our on a mission in Korea with their squad. The mission goes south, and Will is killed. While attending Will's funeral, Jonathan Irons recruits Mitchell into Atlas.
Atlas is filled to the brim with new weapon technology, most notably, the EXO suit. The EXO suit gives the soldier who wears it all sorts of abilities; scaling walls, double jumps, air dash and a bunch more. Not every suit can do each ability, some can do a few and others do something different. Gideon and Ilona accompany you on most of your missions, both characters are some of Atlas' best soldiers. You're also reunited with your old sergeant, Cormack, who is now a member of the Sentinel Task Force, who has their own technology, allowing them to go invisible. One of Cormack's best men, Knox, accompanies you on most missions after meeting.
The EXO suits are great to use, they give off so much variety because they can do so much, and they change up most missions. There's different grenade types too, smart, threat. One highlights enemies in red and the other will lock on to a target, and blow up what's in its path. Another cool thing is mute mines. You don't get to use them yourself, but they're so cool, the blast is silent and no one can here it, the game even goes quiet too. Some guns highlight enemies in red when you aim your reticle at them, whatever gun had this, I was using, they were incredibly useful. Later on you can wear a tank-like suit, you can just rush at the enemies and go guns blazing.
One thing CoD games have always got right is gameplay, that's no different here. The shooting mechanics are second to none, the running, jumping and dashing all flows together well, grenade throwing, vehicle driving it's all good. Veteran difficulty is far too easy though, it wasn't even a challenge throughout. The AI are useless and are just there to block your path, all the characters are good, well acted and you care about the ones you're supposed to, Gideon and Cormack being the strongest. Here's the strangest thing about this game; you're voiced and modelled by Troy Baker (the famous voice actor in video games) and yet he practically never says a word, occasionally in the cutscenes, but nothing in gameplay. Why on Earth would you cast one of the best voice actors as a lead character to not speak? The checkpoints were a little glitchy at times too, I died and was put back a lot further than expected, I carried on playing and counted the checkpoints until my death, six! I was put back six checkpoints when it should only be one.
I felt like I outgrew the CoD series. My last in the series I got when it was brand new was Modern Warfare 3. I have most of them and just not gotten round to them. I wasn't expecting much and had already written of Advanced Warfare. I was definitely surprised, and enjoyed the story. I was always against the future plotlines, but after playing through one, I have to give them credit for doing something different, as most are set in the past or present. I'm not sure whether there'll be more Advanced Warfare, there's definitely room for more and they did end with sequel in mind. I guess in my eyes, CoD is sort of back.
7.5/10
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