| Developer(s)
| Sledgehammer Games (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC)
High Moon Studios (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
|
| Publisher(s)
| Activision
|
| Released
| November 3rd, 2014 (Day Zero Edition)
November 4th, 2014
|
| Genre(s)
| First-person shooter
|
| Ratings
| ESRB: Mature
PEGI: 18
USK: 18
CERO: Z
ACB: MA15+ |
| Platform(s)
| Xbox One
Xbox 360
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 3
PC
|
| System requirements
| Minimum
Operating System
Windows 7 64-Bit
Windows 8 64-Bit
Windows 8.1 64-Bit
Processor
Intel® Core™ i3530 @ 2.93 GHz
AMD Phenom™ II X4 810
@ 2.60 GHz
Memory
6GB RAM
Graphics
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 450 @ 1GB
ATI® Radeon™ HD 5870 @ 1GB
DirectX
Version 11
Network
Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive
55 GB available space
Sound Card
DirectX Compatible
Recommended
Processor
Intel® Core™ i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 @ 4GB
Sound Card
100% DirectX 9.0c Compatible 16-bit |
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the eleventh main
Call of Duty
game. It was developed by Sledgehammer Games on PlayStation 4, Xbox One
and PC and High Moon Studios on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was
released on November 4, 2014 for
Xbox One,
PlayStation 4,
PlayStation 3,
Xbox 360, and PC. It is the first game in the series to benefit from the three year development cycle.
Gameplay
Harnessing the power of next-gen platforms,
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
brings players into the battlegrounds of the future by boasting a new
hi-tech, advanced arsenal and ability set, arming players with all-new
equipment, technology, perks, and vehicles like hoverbikes and highly
specialized drones. Players can also choose between standard ammunition
and an all-new class of directed-energy weaponry that enables totally
new gameplay dynamics. Additionally, with exoskeletons delivering a
massive force multiplier and unprecedented tactical freedom,
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare evolves every firefight.
Powerful exoskeletons evolve every aspect of a soldier’s battle
readiness, enabling combatants to deploy with an advanced lethality and
eliminating the need for specialization. The introduction of this
gameplay mechanic delivers enhanced player movement and verticality
through boost jumps and grappling, covert cloaking abilities, and
biomechanics that provide unparalleled strength, awareness, endurance,
and speed. With the advent of the exoskeleton and newly advanced armor
and weaponry, every soldier commands tactical freedom in any terrain
unlike ever before, fundamentally changing the way gamers play
Call of Duty across all modes.
In singleplayer, players will earn points during missions that can be used to upgrade the exoskeleton suit with new features.
Plot
In 2054, six months after enlisting for the United States Marine Corps, Privates Jack Mitchell and his best friend Will Irons
are stationed in Seoul, South Korea, in an effort to repel a massive
North Korean invasion force. The mission is successful, but at a massive
cost: 6000 Marines are killed, including Will. Mitchell loses his left
arm due to a piece of shrapnel severing it when he and Will were tasked
to take down an aerial launcher, but is saved by his squad leader,
Sergeant Cormack.
Whilst attending Will's funeral, Mitchell is approached by Will's
father, Jonathan Irons. Irons offers Mitchell a place in his private
military company, Atlas.
Mitchell accepts and is given a "second chance" in the form of a
high-tech prosthetic arm, as well as elite training and state-of-the-art
gear. He befriends three fellow Atlas operatives: Ilona, Gideon and
Joker.
Mitchell's first assignment with Atlas is to rescue the Nigerian Prime Minister, Samuel Abidoyo, from the KVA,
a large anti-western, anti-technology terrorist organization. The
president and a few other technologists are held hostage at a technology
summit in Lagos but is quickly rescued by Atlas forces, who soon
discover that the KVA are not targeting the president, but a
technologist who was attending the conference. They pursue the escaping
KVA vehicles and recover the technologist, who is taken back to Atlas HQ
on Irons' orders.
Soon afterwards, the KVA launches a massive surprise attack on
nuclear power stations all over the world. Mitchell, along with a
massive Atlas quick-reaction force, is sent to retake a power plant in
Seattle, Washington, and although the Atlas forces manage to defeat the
KVA, they are too late to stop the KVA from initiating a meltdown and
blowing up the reactors. 50,000 people around the world die as a result
of the KVA attacks.
Four years later, the world has recovered from the attacks with
the help of Atlas, which has provided aid and shelter to everyone
affected. Atlas has now become the largest corporation in the world and
effectively controls much of the world's resources. Mitchell, Gideon and
Joker are stationed in Detroit to track down an affiliate of the KVA,
Dr. Pierre Danois, who has information on the whereabouts of the KVA's
leader, codenamed Hades. They track down Danois successfully and he is
interrogated by Ilona, who manages to get answers out of him.
Danois' intel points to Hades being in Greece, and Irons sends
Atlas forces to track him down and kill him, despite opposition from
U.S. officials. Mitchell and Ilona locate Hades and Mitchell shoots him
using a WASP drone, but it is revealed to be a double and they are
ambushed by masses of KVA forces. The real Hades makes an attempt to
escape, but Mitchell and Ilona stop him and, after a brief struggle,
Mitchell cuts Hades' throat. As he is dying, Hades utters the words
"Irons knows" and gives Mitchell and Ilona a storage device containing a
recording.
With Atlas now at the height of their popularity due to killing
Hades and effectively destroying the whole of the KVA, Mitchell and
Gideon are accompanying Irons at the Atlas headquarters in the thriving
New Baghdad. Ilona shows Mitchell and Gideon the recording that Hades
gave them, and it reveals that the technologist from Nigeria warned
Irons of the KVA attacks on the nuclear reactors, but Irons killed the
technologist and deliberately kept quiet about the attacks in order to
make a profit from the aftermath. Gideon believes the recording is a
fake, but Mitchell and Ilona attempt to flee the headquarters, only to
be held captive by Atlas troops on Irons' orders. They are contacted by
an unknown person who assists them in escaping captivity, and they
escape New Baghdad. Their unknown assailant turns out to be Mitchell's
old sergeant Cormack, who is now part of an elite U.S.-led multinational
team known as the Sentinel Task Force,
whose priority was previously to investigate the KVA attacks and
prevent anything like it from happening again, but once Atlas and
Jonathan Irons grew in power, it became clear he and his company were
the bigger threat, and the Sentinels are now investigating Irons and
Atlas.
Mitchell and Ilona defect to Sentinel and, along with Cormack and Knox,
infiltrate Irons' home in Bangkok to find intel on a mysterious Atlas
operation called "Manticore". They find out that "Manticore" is a
biological agent that only targets specific genotypes (those that are
not registered on the Atlas database) and will not affect any Atlas
personnel, meaning Irons can deploy it in the midst of a battle without
risking harm to his own troops, while the opposing force is annihilated .
They tag a cargo plane that is about to transport a large shipment of
Manticore before pulling out.
Later, the Sentinel forces move in on the Atlas cargo plane and
bring it down over Antarctica. As they are attempting to secure the
Manticore, a large Atlas force ambushes from drop pods and recovers the
Manticore. Cormack, Ilona and Mitchell manage to take out most of the
Atlas soldiers, but are captured by Gideon
and his squad. Gideon calls for evac before suddenly shooting his
squadmates and helping the remaining Sentinel forces dispose of the
Manticore.
With Gideon now on the side of Sentinel, he is reunited with his
old teammates once more. Gideon reveals where Manticore is being made -
in an Atlas bio lab in Bulgaria. He and Mitchell infiltrate the lab and
destroy it before escaping in an experimental Atlas hover-tank.
A month later, Jonathan Irons is inaugurated into the United
Nations. He issues a speech effectively declaring war on the governments
of the world, now obsessed with total domination and believing the
world would be better off under Atlas. His first move is an attack on
the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, which Sentinel forces attempt
to repel. They fail, and the Golden Gate Bridge is demolished over a
U.S. Navy carrier, which is promptly boarded by Atlas forces. Mitchell
and Gideon are among only a handful of Sentinel operatives to survive
the attack, and are soon joined by Cormack and Knox, who help them in
retaking the carrier and destroying the advancing Atlas ships.
With Atlas now officially at war with the world, U.S. forces
close in on the Atlas headquarters in New Baghdad. Mitchell, Ilona,
Cormack, Gideon, and Knox are among the personnel involved in the
attack, and they manage to defeat most of the Atlas forces in the area.
With New Baghdad under siege and Atlas losing, Irons deploys Manticore,
which wipes out all the U.S. forces in the area, including Knox.
Mitchell, Ilona and Gideon survive since they were once Atlas personnel
and are thus unaffected by Manticore.
The three are captured and taken to an Atlas prison camp, where
they meet up with Cormack. Irons meet the four in person and shoots
Cormack in the leg before destroying Mitchell's prosthetic arm as
payback for him defecting from Atlas. Ilona and Gideon overpower their
captors and rescue Mitchell and Cormack. Whilst escaping, they learn
that Irons plans to unleash Manticore strikes on military bases all over
the world. They escape the camp after Mitchell commandeers an AST, but Cormack succumbs to his wounds and dies.
With little hope of taking New Baghdad and stopping Atlas,
Mitchell and Gideon attempt one final, all out frontal attack in a pair
of AST suits, while Ilona guides them. They manage to infiltrate the
Atlas launch center and destroy the Manticore rockets before they are
launched. However, because they had to access the rocket from the launch
vents and they were caught in the blast, Mitchell is in critical
health, so Gideon has to carry him. Irons shows up and locks down their
exoskeletons, rendering them unable to move, but refuses to kill them in
an attempt to show that he still has some humanity left in him, still
claiming that he was "saving the world from itself." and Gideon arguing
"Twisted fucks throughout history have used the same argument...". As he
flees, Mitchell manages to escape his exoskeleton and catch up with
Irons in his office at the top of the Atlas headquarters. After a brief
struggle, Irons nearly falls off the edge of the roof, but grabs onto
Mitchell's lifeless prosthetic arm and tries to convince him to pull him
up to safety. Mitchell, unable to shake Irons off, severs his own
prosthetic arm with a knife and watches as Irons falls to his death. As
Gideon arrives to help Mitchell, he comments that Atlas is still at
large and the war has only just begun.
