2014 First-person shooter video game
2014 video game
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a 2014 first-person shooter video game published by 🌞 Activision. The eleventh major installment in the Call of Duty series, the game was developed by Sledgehammer Games for PlayStation 🌞 4, Windows and Xbox One, while High Moon Studios developed the versions released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and 🌞 Raven Software developed the game's multiplayer and the Exo-Zombies mode.
Advanced Warfare was the first Call of Duty title to be 🌞 developed primarily by Sledgehammer, following the supporting work the studio did on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 alongside Infinity 🌞 Ward in 2011. Though the game was released on November 4, 2014, a special edition entitled the Day Zero Edition, 🌞 which came with bonus in-game content, was released on November 3 for people who pre-ordered the game.
Before the development of 🌞 Advanced Warfare, Sledgehammer were originally working on a game set during the events of the Vietnam War. Development for Advanced 🌞 Warfare began in late 2011, shortly before the release of Modern Warfare 3. The game became the first entry in 🌞 the Call of Duty series since Call of Duty 2 to feature a game engine that has had its majority 🌞 re-written and built from scratch. For the game's single-player campaign mode, Sledgehammer employed veteran actors Troy Baker and Kevin Spacey 🌞 in lead roles. The game's story features a futuristic setting, set between 2054 and 2061, and follows Jack Mitchell of 🌞 the United States Marine Corps and his involvement with Atlas, a private military corporation that sells its services to the 🌞 highest bidder.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was released to a positive critical reception and was declared an improvement over its 🌞 predecessor, Call of Duty: Ghosts. Many critics praised the visuals, voice acting, single-player campaign, and the fast-paced gameplay, but some 🌞 criticized the predictable plot in the single player campaign. The game won several awards and was considered a commercial success.
Gameplay 🌞 [ edit ]
Advanced Warfare, like the other Call of Duty titles, is presented in a first-person shooter perspective. The game 🌞 features several significant changes; unlike other installments, Advanced Warfare does not use a traditional heads-up display (HUD); instead, all information 🌞 is relayed to the player via holographic projections from the weapon equipped.[4] The general gunplay remains unchanged, apart from new 🌞 mechanics, such as 'Exo' movements. These Exo movements are performed from the Exoskeleton, which allow the player to boost, dash, 🌞 and sky jump.[5] The game is the first in the Call of Duty series that allows the player to choose 🌞 differing types of conventional weaponry; for example, the game features regular conventional firearms, but the player can choose to use 🌞 laser or directed energy weaponry, both of which have differing attributes.[6] In addition to Exo movements, the game features different 🌞 Exo abilities, such as Exo Cloak, which allows players to turn transparent for stealth for a period of time.[7]
Campaign [ 🌞 edit ]
The single-player campaign features one playable character, Jack Mitchell, as opposed to multiple characters in most previous Call of 🌞 Duty games.[8] It uses pre-rendered cinematic cut scenes, similar to Call of Duty: Black Ops II, to assist in the 🌞 story aspect of the campaign.[4] After each mission, the player is given a certain number of upgrade points that can 🌞 be used to upgrade the Exo suit or weapons. The player can upgrade detection, armor, resistance, tactical, lethal grenade, sprint, 🌞 recoil, flinch, reload, quick aim, and battery. The number of points that are given is determined by the players performance 🌞 in the missions. The player may earn additional points by completing specific side objectives, one of which is collecting the 🌞 game's collectable 'Intel'.[9] The player can switch between different grenades, all of which possess distinctly different abilities.[10]
Multiplayer [ edit ]
Apart 🌞 from the Exo movement, Advanced Warfare's multiplayer retains certain similarities to previous Call of Duty titles. The Pick 10 system 🌞 in Black Ops II returns as Pick 13, allowing players to pick weapons, attachments, perks and score-streaks within a total 🌞 of 13 allocation points.[11] Score-streaks are also upgradable with different modules, allowing for additional abilities/effects, at an extra score cost.[12] 🌞 Advanced Warfare introduces weapon variants, which contain various different stats compared to the base weapons. This allows the game to 🌞 contain over 350 weapons, both variants and base versions.[13] Supply drops allow players to earn new gears through playing the 🌞 game. The content of each supply drop is randomized, and can range from weapon variants to player customization items, as 🌞 well as bonus experience points (XPs) time.[14] Players can complete daily challenges to earn supply drops.[15]
Exo Survival [ edit ]
Exo 🌞 Survival was first introduced as Advanced Warfare's cooperative game mode.[16] Considered to be a new version of the Survival Mode 🌞 from Modern Warfare 3,[17] Exo Survival allows up to four players to engage in a wave-based match against A.I.-controlled enemies.[18] 🌞 Players can choose from four different classes of Exo, which grant different abilities and score-streaks. Weapons and score-streaks can be 🌞 upgraded throughout each match. After a certain number of rounds, players are given objectives to perform, such as defending a 🌞 location, or collecting intel from fallen enemies. Completing the objectives grant players bonus upgrade points; not completing them result in 🌞 the players being punished, such as having their Exo suits temporarily disabled or activating hostile security turrets.[19] Exo Survival is 🌞 played on the game's multiplayer maps, with a total of 13 maps divived into four tiers. Each tier can be 🌞 unlocked by playing the previous tier and survive a specific number of rounds.[19]
Exo Zombies [ edit ]
Exo Zombies was first 🌞 teased at the end of the Exo Survival map "Riot", and was officially announced with the Havoc downloadable content (DLC) 🌞 pack.[20] The game features zombies that utilize exo suits, giving them more maneuverability. The game mode stars five brand new 🌞 characters.[21]
Exo Zombies plays similarly to the original Zombies game mode that has been featured in Treyarch's Call of Duty games 🌞 since Call of Duty: World at War: up to four players must survive against endless waves of undead enemies, with 🌞 an optional story quest that can be completed at any time during a match. Players earn points by injuring and/or 🌞 killing zombies, and use those points to open doors/clear obstacles, or buy new weapons and perks to strengthen their chance 🌞 of survival. Players can also acquire exo suits in the game mode, allowing them to utilize new movements. Different types 🌞 of zombies are present in the game, including Charger zombies that have increased movement speed, and Electro-magnetic zombies (EMZs) that 🌞 can disable the players' Exo suit in close proximity.[22]
The first Exo Zombies map, "Outbreak", was released as part of the 🌞 Havoc DLC map pack.[20] The second map, "Infection", was released as part of the Ascendance DLC pack.[23] The third map, 🌞 "Carrier", was released as part of the Supremacy DLC pack.[24] The final map, "Descent", was released as part of the 🌞 Reckoning DLC pack.[25]
Plot [ edit ]
Single-player campaign [ edit ]
In 2054, United States Marines Private First Class Jack Mitchell (Troy 🌞 Baker) and Private Will Irons (Paul Telfer) help repel a North Korean invasion of Seoul, under the command of Sergeant 🌞 Cormack (Russell Richardson). During the fight, Will is mortally wounded and Mitchell loses his arm, resulting in him being medically 🌞 discharged. Following Will's funeral, Mitchell accepts a position at the Atlas Corporation, a private military corporation, by its CEO Jonathan 🌞 Irons (Kevin Spacey), Will's father, and is given a prosthetic arm.
A terrorist group called the KVA, composed of former Chechen 🌞 separatists led by Joseph "Hades" Chkheidze (Sharif Ibrahim), begins staging attacks. Mitchell, Gideon (Gideon Emery), and other Atlas operatives rescue 🌞 the Nigerian Prime Minister and capture a KVA technologist in Lagos during an international summit. By 2055, Mitchell and his 🌞 team fail to prevent a more sophisticated KVA from forcing a nuclear reactor meltdown on Bainbridge Island, Washington, near Seattle. 🌞 The KVA launch simultaneous attacks against nuclear power plants worldwide, irradiating numerous cities and killing 50,000 people. Atlas emerges as 🌞 the world's dominant military force by aiding displaced civilians and repelling the KVA.
In 2059, Mitchell and Gideon are dispatched to 🌞 Detroit to find and capture Dr. Pierre Danois (Erik Passoja), the KVA's second-in-command. Danois reveals that Hades is at Santorini, 🌞 Greece, where the KVA is holding a conference. In Greece, Mitchell finds and kills Hades; before dying, Hades warns them 🌞 of Irons and gives Mitchell a data chip. Atlas operative Ilona (Angela Gots) analyzes the chip. It reveals that Irons 🌞 executed a defected KVA technologist after learning of the planned global attacks, and deliberately allowed them to happen to improve 🌞 Atlas' power and profit. Irons attempts to have Mitchell and Ilona arrested by Atlas military police, but they escape Atlas' 🌞 headquarters in New Baghdad, guided by an unidentified soldier, while Gideon stays with Irons for further investigation. The soldier reveals 🌞 himself to be Cormack, now a member of the Sentinel Task Force, a Tier One global US-led task force created 🌞 to investigate the KVA, but now re-purposed to prevent Atlas' rise to power.
In 2060, Mitchell, Cormack, Ilona, and Knox (Khary 🌞 Payton) infiltrate Irons' private residence in Bangkok. The team discovers that Danois is collaborating with Irons to produce a bio-weapon 🌞 called "Manticore". They track and intercept a plane carrying Manticore bound for Argentina, which crashes in Antarctica. Gideon helps the 🌞 Sentinels defeat the Atlas soldiers, allowing them to retrieve a sample of Manticore. They discover that the weapon is designed 🌞 to attack the specific DNA of an individual and kill them; the only exceptions are Atlas members. Sentinel and Gideon 🌞 infiltrate and destroy an Atlas bio-weapons laboratory in Bulgaria, destroying many Manticore samples. With his plan revealed, Irons declares war 🌞 on the United Nations General Assembly, believing that the world would be better off without wars if Atlas were in 🌞 control. The team discovers that, despite destroying the laboratory, Irons is planning a preemptive strike on the United States via 🌞 an Atlas attack in San Francisco. Atlas destroys the Golden Gate Bridge, trapping the United States Navy's Third Fleet in 🌞 the Bay Area in an attempt to destroy them, but are stopped by Sentinel forces. The United States and the 🌞 rest of the world declare war on Atlas, forcing Irons to retreat to his headquarters in New Baghdad.
In 2061, the 🌞 Sentinels and the United States Army attack New Baghdad to capture Irons. However, Atlas releases Manticore, killing Knox and most 🌞 of the troops. Being former Atlas soldiers, Mitchell, Ilona, and Gideon are spared. They and Cormack are captured and brought 🌞 to an Atlas prison camp, which runs Manticore experiments on its inmates. The team escape the facility, but not before 🌞 Irons shoots Cormack and severely damages Mitchell's prosthetic arm. After Cormack dies, the others discover that Irons is preparing to 🌞 launch intercontinental ballistic missiles loaded with Manticore against every military base in the world. Using armored battlesuits, Mitchell and Gideon 🌞 launch an assault on Atlas' headquarters and destroy the missiles. They find Irons as the other Sentinels prepare to bombard 🌞 the building, but Irons disables their exoskeletons. Mitchell chases and tackles Irons at the edge of the building; Irons hangs 🌞 onto Mitchell's prosthetic arm, but Mitchell severs it, sending Irons falling to his death. Gideon pulls Mitchell from the ledge, 🌞 and Mitchell notes that the war against Atlas is far from over.
Exo Zombies [ edit ]
Following a failed attempt to 🌞 contain a riot at a prison in New Baghdad, Atlas releases the Manticore bioweapon in order to quell the uprising. 🌞 However, instead of killing the rioters, the Manticore bomb reanimates them as zombies. 3 Atlas platoons are sent in to 🌞 cage the undead forces, but only one survives, and the others are brought back to an Atlas research facility for 🌞 further studies. The research is carried out in secret, without the knowledge of the employees, in a hidden area known 🌞 as Sublevel 6. One night, the captured zombies break out of their containment and overrun the facility. Amidst the chaos, 🌞 four Atlas employees - ex-Sentinel Task Force operative and Atlas janitor Oz (John Malkovich), Atlas IT specialist Lilith (Rose McGowan), 🌞 Atlas security officer Decker (Jon Bernthal), and Atlas executive Kahn (Bill Paxton) - attempt to evacuate, but both of their 🌞 rescue helicopters are destroyed. The four survivors mount a last stand against the zombie horde, but are eventually overwhelmed. However, 🌞 they are rescued by Atlas forces, who then take them to an urban facility, for medical treatment. When the four 🌞 survivors recover, they are thrown into another battle against the infected, ensuring the survival of not only themselves but also 🌞 innocent citizens trapped in the vicinity.
Eventually, the group is rescued by Sentinel Task Force operatives, but their leader, Captain Lennox 🌞 (Bruce Campbell), claims that Oz is the source of the zombie infection. Lennox executes Oz and has Lilith, Decker and 🌞 Kahn injected with anesthetic. However, Atlas forces ambush them and reclaim the ex-Atlas employees. Sentinel tracks them down, leading them 🌞 to an Atlas aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean. Oz, however, begins to reanimate while being transported on 🌞 one of the Sentinel's transports. Upon arrival within the carrier, Lennox locates the three Atlas survivors and leads them in 🌞 battle against the combined forces of the zombies and Atlas soldiers. Lennox reveals to the other three that Oz was 🌞 once part of Sentinel, and that he was present at the prison when Atlas released the Manticore bomb, making him 🌞 one of the first people infected. He also claims that Oz was planted in Kahn's facility by Atlas in order 🌞 to start the zombie outbreak. The group decides to sink the carrier to the bottom of the ocean, in order 🌞 to prevent the infection from spreading. They set the ship to self-destruct, but before they can extract in an emergency 🌞 pod, they briefly encounter Oz, now fully zombified while retaining his intelligence.
The group escapes and decides that Oz must be 🌞 eliminated, and head to a nearby Atlas underwater survival facility, the Trident Retreat. Oz, however, has already arrived at the 🌞 facility and murdered all Atlas employees within the base. The group bands together for one final battle against the undead 🌞 horde, including Oz himself. After undertaking various challenges set by Oz, they are teleported into a digital representation of Oz's 🌞 memory, where Kahn, Lilith and Decker learn the truth: while they are immune to the Manticore virus' effect, they can 🌞 be used as a cure for the infection, unlike Oz. Having finished all of Oz's challenges, the group finally confronts 🌞 him and discovers he has mutated into a monstrous figure. After a long fight, Oz is finally killed, and the 🌞 group proceeds to burn his mutated corpse, vowing vengeance against Atlas. In the aftermath of the incident, Lennox is promoted 🌞 to Lieutenant Colonel, and he helps Decker enlist in Sentinel as a full-fledged soldier; Kahn files a lawsuit against Atlas, 🌞 with the help of Lilith, who now works as a hacktivist. Unbeknownst to the group, Atlas has already created clones 🌞 of Oz, all kept hidden under the Trident facility.
Development [ edit ]
Advanced Warfare is the first Call of Duty title 🌞 since Call of Duty 2 to use an engine which has had the majority of it re-written and built-up from 🌞 scratch by Sledgehammer Games.
Before being switched to become the co-developers of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Sledgehammer Games was 🌞 already working on a Call of Duty game called Call of Duty: Fog of War. Fog of War was announced 🌞 before Modern Warfare 3 and after Black Ops. It was to be set during the events of the Vietnam War 🌞 and was said to be an action-adventure third-person shooter video game. A Call of Duty massively multiplayer online game was 🌞 also in development.[26] Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg later stated that Modern Warfare 3 was not the same title as 🌞 Sledgehammer Games' action-adventure Call of Duty game. When asked if the action-adventure game was also in development, Hirshberg then stated 🌞 that the Sledgehammer team was fully focused on Modern Warfare 3 and that their own title had been put on 🌞 hold.[27]
A new game in the Call of Duty series was announced to be released in November 2014.[28]
Director Michael Condrey said 🌞 that the majority of the engine has been built from scratch. He stated that although there are lines of the 🌞 old code left, there are new rendering, animation, physics and audio systems.[29][30] With the improved engine, the audio has been 🌞 built from the ground up.[31] According to Don Veca, who worked on Advanced Warfare, the audio in the game is 🌞 very advanced which gives the game a genuine and great feel.[32][33][34] Saying that audio doesn't come last as it did 🌞 in previous titles, Glen Schofield says "We make sure that audio is just as important as anything else and Don's 🌞 in there from the start with us."
Another objective that Sledgehammer accomplished with Advanced Warfare were the animations. The facial animating 🌞 system and set is the same as James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water. According to Activision, the new three-year 🌞 Call of Duty development cycle meant that Advanced Warfare developer Sledgehammer Games was able to create a 'near photorealistic' world 🌞 unlike any Call of Duty before.[35][36][37] Michael Condrey confirmed in a tweet that Advanced Warfare would be featuring female soldiers 🌞 in multiplayer, as well.[38]
On June 6, 2014, in an issue of MCVOnline Magazine, it was confirmed that High Moon Studios, 🌞 the team behind the Deadpool video game and Transformers games, was working on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions 🌞 of Advanced Warfare, while Sledgehammer Games was focusing on the PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One versions of the title.[39] 🌞 Activision also confirmed that the game would not be released on the Wii U, making Advanced Warfare the first main 🌞 Call of Duty game to not see a release on a Nintendo platform since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 🌞 in 2009.[40][41]
Music [ edit ]
Harry Gregson-Williams, who composed the main title theme for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, returned 🌞 for Advanced Warfare while audiomachine composed the overall score of the game.[42][43]
The score for the Exo Zombies downloadable content pack 🌞 was composed by Chris Vrenna.[44]
Marketing and release [ edit ]
Advanced Warfare was released one day earlier to customers who purchased 🌞 the Day Zero Edition. This version featured double XP for the first day and two exclusive guns, as well as 🌞 access to exclusive weapons and an Exo Skeleton suit.[1][45][46]
A 1-terabyte Xbox One console bundle with a Sentinel Task Force-inspired hardware 🌞 design, and a digital copy of the Day Zero Edition, was also released by Microsoft as a tie-in.[47][48]
Reveal [ edit 🌞 ]
In May 2014, the official Call of Duty website was updated with a scrambled image that was due to be 🌞 revealed on May 4, 2014, but the trailer was leaked ahead of schedule on May 1 and then officially released 🌞 soon after. The trailer revealed actor Kevin Spacey as portraying a character in the game who resents democracy.[45] The trailer 🌞 contained a variety of futuristic technologies, including cloaking aircraft, twin-rotor drones, hover bikes, "spider" tanks, specialized weapons, powered exoskeletons, threat-detection 🌞 grenades and gloves that allow their wearer to climb up walls.[45]
On June 9, 2014, E3 2014 was opened with a 🌞 new gameplay trailer for Advanced Warfare that showcased features such as swarms of drones resembling birds and infrared enemy identifiers. 🌞 During the presentation, Xbox head Phil Spencer said that downloadable content for Advanced Warfare will be released first on Xbox 🌞 Live in the same fashion as the previous games in the series.
On July 29, 2014, Sledgehammer Games released a trailer 🌞 showing a more in depth look into the main back story of the campaign side of the game. Within the 🌞 last five seconds of the trailer a brief view of the multiplayer was shown, the first time multiplayer had been 🌞 shown. Within it "score streaks" were visible which are returning from Black Ops II. Also shown was the new HUD 🌞 which usually changes from each title. The trailer also stated that there would be a worldwide full multiplayer reveal on 🌞 August 11, 2014, during Gamescom 2014.[49]
On October 30, Taylor Kitsch and Emily Ratajkowski co-starred in the live action trailer in 🌞 advance of the game's November 4 release directed by Peter Berg who previously worked with Kitsch in the films Battleship 🌞 and Lone Survivor.[50][51]
Downloadable content [ edit ]
A pre-order bonus was announced entitled 'Advanced Arsenal' which consists of a Custom Exoskeleton 🌞 along with an EM1 Quantum & AK-12G weapon usable in multiplayer.[52] An advertisement revealed that the collector's editions will include 🌞 a bonus multiplayer map, "Atlas Gorge", which is a remake of the map "Pipeline" from Call of Duty 4: Modern 🌞 Warfare; an Atlas Digital Content Pack, which includes two bonus weapons, a custom character helmet, a player card, five in-game 🌞 "supply drops" and a single-player upgrade token. Also included is a season pass, granting players access to four post-release map 🌞 packs. Additionally, all pre-orders would be upgraded to the "Day Zero Edition", which includes 24 hours early access to the 🌞 game with double XP, additional weapons and in-game items.[53]
On November 3, 2014, Activision revealed 4 DLCs for Advanced Warfare, namely 🌞 Havoc, Ascendance, Supremacy, and Reckoning.[54] A new co-op mode, Exo Zombies, was announced on November 27, 2014, and was released 🌞 alongside the Havoc DLC on January 27, 2024, for the Xbox consoles, February 26, 2024, for the PlayStation consoles,[55][56] and 🌞 March 3, 2024, for Windows.[57] The Ascendance DLC was released on March 31, 2024, for the Xbox consoles and April 🌞 30, 2024, for the PlayStation consoles and Windows.[58] The DLC includes 4 new maps, the second Exo Zombies map and 🌞 a new grappling hook feature playlist.[59] The third DLC of the game, Supremacy, was released on June 2, 2024, for 🌞 the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The DLC includes four new maps and act as a continuation to the Exo 🌞 Zombies campaign.[60] It was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Windows on July 2, 2024.[61] The last DLC, Reckoning, 🌞 was released for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One on August 4, 2024.[62] It was released for the remaining platforms 🌞 on September 3, 2024. The release of Reckoning on these platforms marked the end of the exclusivity deal between Activision 🌞 and Microsoft.[63]
Reception [ edit ]
Critical reception [ edit ]
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare received "generally favorable reviews", according to review 🌞 aggregator Metacritic.[64][65][66] Josh Harmon from Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a 9/10. He praised the engaging combat mechanics, coherent 🌞 story (which he described as "a welcome shift for Call of Duty"), new mobility options, as well as in-depth specialization 🌞 and the multiplayer, which he described as "The deepest, most enjoyable and the most skill-based Call of Duty multiplayer to 🌞 date". He also praised the futuristic gadgetry which he described as "a feature that breathes new life into the franchise". 🌞 However, he criticized the single-mission level design for being similar to the previous installments, as well as a predictable, disappointing 🌞 plot twist, unimpressive co-operative mode and clumsy vehicle-involved single-player mission.[67]
Brian Albert from IGN gave the game 9.1/10. He praised the 🌞 iteration of the game set in the mid 21st century, calling it the biggest and most successful departure from what's 🌞 expected in the Call of Duty series since the Modern Warfare trilogy brought the series into the 21st century. Albert 🌞 gave praise to the campaign, singling out the performances of Troy Baker and Kevin Spacey in their roles as Mitchell 🌞 and Jonathan Irons respectively, but criticized the campaign's hindrance of its characters' relationships and the exposition dialogue. He praised the 🌞 creativity of the campaign levels, singling out certain missions that allow freedom to complete objectives. Albert gave praise to the 🌞 Exo suit, while despite not having full use during the campaign, was a welcome addition for multiplayer which made it 🌞 more intuitive and fun. He also mentions that the Exo suit allows him to have advantages in multiplayer that weren't 🌞 possible in earlier Call of Duty titles, and mentioning that certain modes like Capture the Flag felt more intense than 🌞 expected. He also praised the accelerated pace of rewards given to players who level up during multiplayer, citing supply drops 🌞 of cosmetic items, new weapons and temporary perks like double experience points as examples. Albert also praised the Pick 13 🌞 System, an expansion of the Pick 10 System introduced in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which allowed him more 🌞 options and flexibility on which weapons, attachments, and score-streaks he wanted in his loadout. He also praised the addition of 🌞 a firing range in the multiplayer lobby, which allowed him to test the strengths and weaknesses of his loadout.[72]
Daniel Tack 🌞 from Game Informer gave the game a 9/10, praising the unprecedented amount of fast movement, extensive multiplayer weapon customization, excellent 🌞 visuals, well-executed single-player, varied multiplayer modes and distinct and interesting single-player levels, but criticizing the predictable plot conclusion and non-impactful 🌞 weapon upgrades. He summarized the game as "a own special surge forward while maintaining the gunplay that makes the series 🌞 fantastic."[68]
PlayStation Lifestyle handed the game a 9/10 stating "Sledgehammer Games has given players a greater feeling of customization that goes 🌞 beyond the cosmetic of an emblem and given way to random unlocks and a great number of modifications."[76]
Ludwig Kietzmann from 🌞 Joystiq gave the game a 4/5. He praised the strong selection of dense, vertically challenging multiplayer maps, three-dimensional and liberating 🌞 movement, coherent and fast-paced campaign, smart storytelling, exciting and dynamic gameplay, lifelike characters and movie-like presentation, but criticised the game 🌞 for being a bit similar to the previous instalments as he stated that "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare just doesn't 🌞 have the power to break through the expectations of the brand".[73]
Miguel Concepcion from GameSpot gave the game an 8/10, praising 🌞 its content-rich multiplayer, futuristic combat system, entertaining Uplink mode (a new mode introduced in Advanced Warfare), but criticising the inconsistent 🌞 narrative, which he stated that "has prevented the campaign from being fully engaging", as well as shallow difficulty curve, making 🌞 the co-operative mode "tedious".[69]
The game garnered mixed reception from USgamer, awarding it with a 3.5/5 and stating "Advanced Warfare executes 🌞 the formula competently while adding a handful of bells and whistles like mechs, laser cannons, and double jumps; but Sledgehammer 🌞 Games seems reluctant to really cut loose and push the setting to its fullest potential, making Advanced Warfare a solid 🌞 but ultimately unexciting entry in the series."[77]
"Press F to pay respects" [ edit ]
One particular moment of the game that 🌞 was singled out by reviewers and players alike was Will Irons' funeral service, where the player is prompted to press 🌞 a button to approach the coffin; on the PC version, this particular prompt read "Press F to Pay Respects." The 🌞 mechanic was criticized and ridiculed for both being arbitrary and unnecessary, as well as being inappropriate to the tone of 🌞 the funeral the game otherwise would like to convey.[78][79][80] The phrase has since become detached from its source, becoming an 🌞 Internet meme in its own right, sometimes used unironically: during the tribute stream for the Jacksonville Landing shooting, viewers posted 🌞 a single letter "F" in the chat.[81]
Sales [ edit ]
Activision claimed that Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare generated more revenue 🌞 than any other media launch in 2014. It was reported in November 2014 that US retail sales of Advanced Warfare 🌞 were 27% down on 2013's Call of Duty: Ghosts.[82] Despite the decline, Advanced Warfare was still the top-selling game at 🌞 US retail for 2014.[83]
The PlayStation 3 version sold 79,586 copies within its first week on sale in Japan, making it 🌞 the bestselling game of the week in the country. In the same week, the PlayStation 4 version sold 64,060 copies, 🌞 and the Xbox One version sold 3,370 copies.[84]
Awards [ edit ]
Advanced Warfare won the award for "Best Graphics - Technology", 🌞 in IGN's Best of 2014 awards.[85] At the 2014 NAVGTR Awards the game won two awards: Performance in a Drama, 🌞 Lead (Kevin Spacey as Jonathan Irons) and Original Dramatic Score, Franchise, and received eight nominations: Writing in a Drama (Mark 🌞 Boal), Use of Sound(Franchise), Graphics(Technical), Game(Franchise Action) (Glen Schofield, Michael Condrey), Direction in a Game Cinema, Character Design, Art Direction(Contemporary) 🌞 and Animation, Technical.[86] It also won the award for "Outstanding Realtime Visuals in a videogame at the 2024 Visual Effects 🌞 Society Awards.[87] It received multiple nominations from awards ceremonies such as The Game Awards 2014, the 11th British Academy Games 🌞 Awards, the 18th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, and the 2024 Golden Joystick Awards.[88] It was nominated for the eSports Game of 🌞 the Year award at The Game Awards 2024.[89]
Notes [ edit ]
