


Assault, Heavy, and Specialist, and the varied missions of the campaign will see players frequently moving back and forth between them. In addition, there are different classes of Exo – e.g. To paraphrase Prince, Sledgehammer Games has seen the future, and it works.Įxos also make CoD players hardier, faster and far more lethal than ever before, as multiple upgrade slots on the basic Exo frame allow players to enhance their defensive and offensive abilities with upgrade points earned through the campaign.

Preying on the current and very genuine fears of Private Military Corporations (PMCs), weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and the proliferation of drone technology (not to mention liberally taking pages out of both 2006’s Battlefield 2142 and the more recent Titanfall’s playbooks), Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare attempts to revolutionize the franchise’s tried-and-true movement system with never-seen-before speed, verticality and lateral movement, and the result is quite impressive. So it should come as no surprise that developer Sledgehammer Games looked even further into the future than Call of Duty: Ghosts for their first original entry in the Call of Duty canon: Advanced Warfare. From its original setting of World War II through the murkier periods of the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and ultimately “modern warfare”, there are few epic, global wars left for publisher Activision to plunder for source material (aside from those that are currently happening a little too close to home). Over the past eight years, the Call of Duty franchise has done quite a bit of era-hopping.
