Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Protagonist(s): Jack Mitchell Genre(s): First-person shooter Platform(s): Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 PlayStation 3 Xbox One Xbox 360 Release: November 4th, 2014 Developer(s): Sledgehammer Games Publisher(s): Activision

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a 2014 first-person shooter video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and Activision that was released on November 4, 2014 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360.

Why It's Advanced

1. It introduced the exo suit, which made the game more fun to play and improved from Ghosts.
2. There’s a firing range in the multiplayer mode which can be used as practice and seeing if your weapon is good or not.
3. Jack Mitchell is an underrated and memorable protagonist.
   • The campaign has other likable characters such as Gideon, Ilona, Knox, and Cormack.
4. Decent campaign story about a PMC team trying to hunt down a leader of a terrorist faction, and then the PMC team find out about the evil things Jonathan Irons has done, thus causing the team to turn against Atlas and join Sentinel Task Force and try to hunt down Jonathan Irons.
5. There's so many action sequence, like Highway sequence is really cool action like the Hollywood movies.
6. The weapons were creative, such as a shoulder mounted sniper rifle, a rifle that prints ammo, a shotgun that fires a lethal soundwave, a sub machine gun that fires laser shots, and a pistol that is a mini rail gun that fires a high caliber shot.
7. A highly deep multiplayer customization, you can change your character from pants, shoes, shirts, exo suits, helmets, and whether your character will be a boy or girl.
8. To make way for the exo suit and more modifications, the Pick-10 create a class system from Black Ops 2 was modified into the Pick-13 create a class system.
9. Jonathan Irons, while a somewhat cliched villain in the sense he’s a twist villain, is a massive improvement from the terrible and cliched Gabriel Rorke.
   • Additionally, he’s voiced by Kevin Spacey, who does a great job voicing him.
10. The graphics are remarkable on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC versions. This was because Sledgehammer had the entire engine rewritten from the ground up.

Not Advanced Qualities

1. This is the game that introduced the dreaded pay-to-win supply drops (also known as microtransactions.) to the Call of Duty franchise. It not only made the multiplayer feel pay to win, but it also became a trait that was inherited by other AAA games such as the FIFA series.
2. This game also started the trend of Call of Duty games moving towards more futuristic settings with more advanced movement, and while it sounds like a good idea on paper, it got to the point where players found the whole thing stale and wanted Call of Duty to go back to boots on the ground (which that didn’t happen until 2017’s Call of Duty: WWII) And that also culminated in the hated game in 2016 that is Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
3. The campaign, while it has a decent story as mentioned above, is too similar to the previous Call of Duty campaigns due to linear gameplay.
   • Also, the story, while decent, it has a plot that was criticized for being too predictable.
4. The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions look notably worse than Call of Duty: Ghosts on last-gen, but it's not as bad as Black Ops 3 on last-gen. This is because the game was ported by High Moon Studios instead of Sledgehammer.
5. The game has several server issues in multiplayer, lagging, crashing, and freezing can be constantly annoying and ruining the gameplay, which this issue are most notably from the PC version.
   • There's no dedicated server, so the matchmaking can be take too long time to find.
6. Because Activision was embarrassed about the sales of Ghosts, you cannot see the online player count in multiplayer (you can still see the player count on the PC version through the Steam Community Hub).

Reception

The game received positive reception, with critic praising for graphics, story, themes, and multiplayer, but criticism for lack of innovation, some characters are unlikable, server issues, and introducing the Microtransaction in the Call of Duty games that squeeze the player for money.

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