Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Studio

Sledgehammer Games Raven Software (Multiplayer only) High Moon Studios (PS3 / X360)

Publisher

Activision

composer

Harry Gregson-Williams
audio machine

Erstveröffent-
lichung

4th November 2014

platform

Windows , Xbox One , PlayStation 4 , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3

Game engine

IW Engine 6.0

genre

Ego shooter

Game mode

Single player , multiplayer

control

Keyboard and mouse , gamepad

system advantages
preconditions

OS : Windows 7 64-bit, 8, 8.1 64-bit
CPU : AMD Phenom II X4 810 2.60 GHz or Intel Core i3-530 2.93 GHz or better
RAM : 8 GB
Graphics card : ATI Radeon HD 5870 1 GB or NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1 GB or better
Hard disk space: 55 GB

Age rating

USK

PEGI

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a first-person shooter that was published by the US publisher Activision . The game was released worldwide on November 4th, 2014 (one day earlier for pre-orders) for Xbox One , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 and Windows . It is the eleventh part of the Call-of-Duty series and at the same time the first series title that was developed by the US developer studio Sledgehammer Games . The port to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 was done by High Moon Studios .

action

In 2054, the world's greatest military power is not a country but a company. Jonathan Irons ( Kevin Spacey ) is the leader and founder of Atlas, the largest private military company in the world. Irons goes to war with the US on the belief that the US has failed to establish democracies around the world. The player takes on the role of Jack Mitchell as a soldier in the US Marines. Similar to Call of Duty: Black Ops II , he mostly takes over the storytelling in the pre-rendered cutscenes.

At the beginning of the game you are in the role of Pvt. Jack Mitchell on duty for the US Marines in South Korea, at the end of which he loses his left arm and his best friend Will Irons. At the funeral, Mitchell meets Will's father, Jonathan Irons, who offers him a new start at Atlas. Equipped with a prosthesis, he soon finds himself fighting the terrorist organization KVA. This succeeds in causing a core meltdown in several nuclear power plants around the world. Since Atlas did the reconstruction almost alone, four years later it is the largest company in the world. Mitchell and his colleagues manage to kill the head of the KVA, Hades. But now Irons real face is revealed: He knew about the attacks and let them happen in order to benefit from them. Mitchell manages to escape from Atlas headquarters and join Sentinel, an underground US organization. There was a series of heavy fighting with Atlas, during which the Golden Gate Bridge collapsed. Sentinel also finds out that Atlas has developed a bio-warfare agent. The virus is released during fighting in New Baghdad, killing almost all US forces in the city. Mitchell, who was vaccinated against the virus while at Atlas, is captured. However, he is able to escape, after heavy fighting, finally preventing the launch of a rocket armed with the virus and killing Irons by separating from the prosthetic arm, causing Irons to fall from the roof of the Atlas building.

Gameplay

Like the other Call of Duty titles, Advanced Warfare is presented in first person view . The game offers several changes: Unlike many other first-person shooters, Advanced Warfare does not have a conventional head-up display (HUD). Instead, all information is relayed to the player via holographic projections displayed on the weapon itself. After each mission, the player receives a certain number of improvement points that can be used to improve the exo suit or weapons. The number of points depends on the player's performance in the missions. The player can still earn further improvement points by completing optional tasks. One of them is to find the secret data that is hidden in the missions.

Multiplayer

Apart from the new type of movement of the exoskeleton, Advanced Warfare has certain similarities to earlier Call-of-Duty titles. The “Take 10” system from Black Ops 2 returns as “Take 13”, with which the player can equip any 13 objects in a class. These include weapons, attachments, extras, exo skills, grenades and series of points. Furthermore, series of points can be expanded with various modules, but this requires more points to reach the series of points.

Each basic weapon contains different variants with different statistics and camouflages; thus Advanced Warfare has almost 350 weapon variants.

Stock deliveries ( Supply Drops ) allow the player to make various objects. The contents of the supply shipments are random and range from weapon variants to enhancements for its appearance and bonus experience points. Supply deliveries are received randomly while playing or when completing the Daily Challenge. In addition, there are the improved supply deliveries, which you can either buy for real money or get when you reach levels 20, 30 and 40 and when you reach the next prestige level. In contrast to the normal supply deliveries, these include better chances of obtaining rarer weapons and customizations. In addition, the weapons obtained through the improved supply shipments do not take up space in the armory.

Exo struggle for survival

Exo survival makes it possible to take on up to three other players turn-based against AI-controlled opponents. Players can choose between three Exo types with different weapons and skills. Weapons and series of points can be improved with improvement points that are obtained after each round. After a certain number of rounds, the players are given tasks that they have to complete, such as defending a position or collecting secret data from fallen opponents. If the tasks are successfully completed, the players receive improvement points; otherwise, the players receive a penalty in which, for example, the exo suit is deactivated for a certain period of time. Exo survival is played on 13 different multiplayer maps, divided into four different levels. Each stage can be unlocked by surviving a certain number of rounds in the previous stage.

Exo zombies

Exo-Zombies was first teased as an Easter Egg at the end of the Exo survival card "Riot" and was officially announced with the downloadable content (DLC) "Havoc". Here you can fight with up to three other players against zombies equipped with exosuits. The game mode includes four new characters: Oz, Lilith, Decker, and Kahn. These are embodied by the actors Bill Paxton , Rose McGowan , Jon Bernthal and John Malkovich .

Exo-Zombies plays similarly to Treyarch's zombie mode developed since Call of Duty: World at War ; you can fight endless waves of zombies with up to three other players. The players get points (credits) by shooting or killing zombies. With the points you can either activate traps or buy weapons and improvements to increase your chances of survival. In addition to the normal zombies with exoskeletons, there are also the Charger Zombies , which can run faster and use their exoskeleton more often, and the Electro-Magnetic-Zombies (EMZs), which deactivate the player's exoskeleton for a certain time when touched can. There are also other zombies that only appear after a certain number of rounds. For example, the infected zombies, which can infect the player with one blow, with 60 seconds after an infection to disinfect yourself in the decontamination zone; otherwise you die and the player's character also turns into a zombie. The first Exo-Zombies map, Outbreak, was released on Xbox Live on January 27, 2015, on PlayStation Network on February 26, 2015, and on Steam on March 3, 2015, as part of the Havoc DLC Map Pack . The second map, Infection, was released on Xbox Live on March 31, 2015 and on PlayStation Network and Steam on April 30, 2015 as part of the Ascendance DLC Pack . The third card, Carrier, was released on Xbox Live on June 2nd and on PlayStation Network on July 2nd as part of the Supremacy DLC Pack .

development

According to an interview with Michael Condrey in the June 2014 issue of Game Informer , Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was built on a new engine .

Pre-order bonus

The “Advanced Arsenal” pre-order bonus included a special exo-skeleton and the EM1 Quantum energy weapon. Later the pre-order bonus became the Day Zero Edition. In addition to the normal pre-order bonus, this gave buyers access to the game one day earlier, double experience points on November 3, 2014 and the AK-12G and Crossbow-B2 weapons.

Web links

Official website
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare at MobyGames (English)

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