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CoD: Advanced Warfare story details

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Call of Duty claims to be moving in a new direction for their latest and greatest game. It certainly looks pretty and intriguing – if you haven’t already you should check out all the sexy new screenshots. However, CoD is striving to be more than just a pretty face this time around.

Sledgehammer Games was the first COD developer to use a three-year development cycle. Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg explains that everything is new and improved with this latest COD:

We’ve made several key decisions with an eye towards creative excellence on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. We’ve really approached this game differently. This is our first three-year development cycle. It’s our first time with Sledgehammer Games at the creative helm. And we’re shaking up the formula in several ways.

Shaking up the formula is about more than just exoskeleton suits, although that does seem to be a big part of it. While there will still be plenty of shooting, guns and strategy in the new Call of Duty, the story is also playing a big part. So, what is the story? Well, it’s taken from a hypothetical future 2054. Players will be advanced soldiers for a private military cooperation which has the power to rescue humanity from a “devastated world struggling to rebuild after a global attack on its military and infrastructure”. How does Kevin Spacey fit in? He’s the main villain and head of the Atlas Corporation, Jonathan Irons. Here’s what we know about the game so far:

  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare takes place in a plausible future in which technological progress and today’s military practices have converged with powerful consequences.
  • In this carefully researched and crafted vision of the future, Private Military Corporations (PMCs) have become the dominant armed forces for countless nations outsourcing their military needs, redrawing borders and rewriting the rules of war.
  • Jonathan Irons, the founder and president of the world’s largest PMC – Atlas Corporation – is at the center of it all.
  • 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.

Hmm, the exoskeleton sounds an awful lot like Titanfall – players can be the pilot or the titan at the same time thanks to their awesome exoskeleton upgrades. Those aren’t the only upgrades players can make use of – there are also promises of new hi-tech advanced arsenal and ability set and vehicles like hover bikes and specialized drones. All of this is being built for new-generation platforms. In fact, Sledgehammer is only developing the game for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. There will be an Xbox 360 and PS3 version, but it has not been announced which studio is actually making it – it’s assumed that High Moon will be the last-gen porting studio for the game.

So, do you think that “power changes everything” will make for a better CoD? Advanced Warfare will launch on 4 November and promises to be unique. Are you buying into the hype, or waiting to see more at E3?

Last Updated: May 5, 2014

35 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    May 5, 2014 at 13:40

    Atlas Corporation… exoskeletons… calling the final boss battle now…

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  2. Hammersteyn

    May 5, 2014 at 13:40

    Kevin Spacey can never be a good guy

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  3. Admiral Chief in Space

    May 5, 2014 at 13:43

    Moar copy/pasty

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    • Dutch Matrix

      May 5, 2014 at 13:45

      But with moar Kevin Spacey!

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      • Admiral Chief in Space

        May 5, 2014 at 13:45

        True dat, did not see that coming 😛

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        • Jedi JJ

          May 5, 2014 at 13:49

          Kevin Bacon would’ve been better. Because, you know, bacon.

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          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 5, 2014 at 13:49

            I wonder if Kevin Bacon tastes himself daily, you know, because, bacon

          • Jedi JJ

            May 5, 2014 at 13:49

            LOL
            I would

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 5, 2014 at 14:09

            You would lick Kevin Bacon daily?

          • Dutch Matrix

            May 5, 2014 at 14:14

            Would rather lick Kevin Bacon daily than pay for another Nkandla…

          • Jedi JJ

            May 5, 2014 at 15:01

            Yes. What you said.

          • Hammersteyn

            May 5, 2014 at 13:50

            If all religions ate bacon there would be world peace.

          • HvR - THE Average GAmer

            May 5, 2014 at 13:52

            And less over population.

          • Maxiviper117

            May 5, 2014 at 13:53

            Be difficult to persuade the vegans, could cause a war 😉

          • HvR - THE Average GAmer

            May 5, 2014 at 13:53

            But they are too weak to fight a war

          • Hammersteyn

            May 5, 2014 at 13:53

            Plus they don’t have the same hormone intake as us.

          • Jedi JJ

            May 5, 2014 at 13:54

            Yes. Until we start running out of pigs. Screw oil. Wars will be waged for pigs.

          • HvR - THE Average GAmer

            May 5, 2014 at 13:55

            Over untapped pig resources in the MIddle East?

          • Jedi JJ

            May 5, 2014 at 13:56

            Haha. You just punch a hole in the ground with a pickaxe and bacon fountains erupt.

          • Hammersteyn

            May 5, 2014 at 13:57

            They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to
            finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig
            farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight
            minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked
            flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”.
            Brick Top

            We feed them our dead.

          • Jedi JJ

            May 5, 2014 at 13:58

            You win today.

          • HvR - THE Average GAmer

            May 5, 2014 at 13:59

            LOL, that will make vegans organic feed.

          • HvR - THE Average GAmer

            May 5, 2014 at 13:51

            But then we won’t be getting it here because non-halaal.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            May 5, 2014 at 13:52

            Macon Bacon?

          • HvR - THE Average GAmer

            May 5, 2014 at 13:52

            Kevin Macon

        • Dutch Matrix

          May 5, 2014 at 13:59

          I would buy COD day one if they tell me they got ole Sly playing a main role

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  4. Hammersteyn

    May 5, 2014 at 13:47

    I believe Activision is very clever allowing three companies to develop COD, hence every company has three years time to add new content and mechanics as well as iron out all the bugs and server issues. That is If they actually do these things. EA should take notice *cough BF4 cough*

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  5. Kensei Seraph, Sparkly Samurai

    May 5, 2014 at 14:14

    I’m hoping you get to defect to the Atlas Corporation.
    That speech was awesome.
    If I had a choice I’d follow Jonathan Irons on the path to true iron-fisted peace.

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  6. InsanityFlea

    May 5, 2014 at 14:29

    Hopefully it’s not what we see and what we get:

    http://i.imgur.com/O9LHzpz.gif

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  7. Devourer of Small Bunnies

    May 5, 2014 at 14:33

    “However, CoD is striving to be more than just a pretty face this time around.” Pretty damn sure this has been said with every iteration of the game. Every. Single. One.

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  8. Devourer of Small Bunnies

    May 5, 2014 at 14:37

    Ok Im calling it:

    Dogs > Mechs > Mutated horticultural tools > Al Gore

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    • FoxOneZA

      May 5, 2014 at 15:37

      You forgotz teh fishes. The the ecosystem shall be completed 😛

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  9. Devourer of Small Bunnies

    May 5, 2014 at 14:40

    Sorry, I keep rereading the article. Anyone else here think the plot line is awfully similar to the Metal Gear Uni? Kevin Spacey is also aptly selected and IMO has a huge resemblance to old Solidus (just for the sake of aesthetics ok) and the PMC/Altered military controlled future lines up perfectly with FOXHOUND and the patriots.

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  10. Lourens Jordaan

    May 5, 2014 at 15:33

    It’s unique like fingerprints: The prints may differ but the fingers look the same.

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  11. Ryumoau

    May 5, 2014 at 17:55

    This game is getting more exciting the more details i hear about it.

    Reply

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