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By now, you probably know that Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is our June cover story. We’ve shared the first screenshot and you’ve likely seen the first trailer, too. Now we have some more details about the story and the features.
The year is 2054, and the world has suffered an attack on its militaries around the world. Jonathan Irons (Kevin Spacey) is the founder and president of the world’s largest private military corporation, Atlas Corporation, and you are one if its advanced soldiers.
Equipped with an exoskeleton (as seen in the first trailer), players will have new gameplay mechanics and abilities at their disposal. What exactly will those be? Well, you’ll have to wait just a bit longer.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is under development at Sledgehammer Games. The studio was founded by Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield who brought the Dead Space series to life while at EA’s Visceral Games.
Sledgehammer began its work on the Call of Duty franchise in tandem with Infinity Ward in 2011 on Modern Warfare 3. “This is an opportunity of a lifetime, and it’s humbling,” Schofield says. “We’ve been fans of the franchise since the beginning, so we know how important every single detail must be. We’re taking nothing for granted from the endless research, attention to detail, and creative pre-productions to every bit of polish and balancing. Call of Duty has such meaning to everyone. And that’s inspiring us to craft a new vision for the next generation.”
This is just the beginning of a month of in-depth coverage that will begin on May 4 at 12:00 p.m. Central. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is set for a November 4, 2014 release.
I swear that guy looks exactly like one of the characters from Binary Domain.
Will there be any t-101's in this game?
I just hope the maps are bigger and more movement friendly. For whatever reason it seemed CoD's response to Battlefield's bigger more versatile maps was smaller and even more twitch based maps. Titanfall has really balanced out both in my opinion and had some of the better maps of the past few years. Halo has been good at that as well but the gunplay and tactics of halo are a lot different. Hopefully for the multiplayer they put a lot of thought into the maps and get rid of the kill alley's ever recent CoD map ultimately turns into.
Back to the future again?
Might as well just call it Crysis. I don't see this title selling well this fall. And I really don't see people buying it if M$ get's timed DLC exclusive again.
This looks interesting, but hasn't CoD done near future with both BO2 and Ghosts, and now another future setting?
I really really like Visceral Games, so that fact that some of the guys who worked there are working on this is encouraging.
I wonder if this one will be actually good, Last one I thought was fun was Black ops 1 and had a blast the most on Mw2. With a different studio we could maybe get a better game, they seem like they might do better than Treyarch.
Sounds interesting. But "Advanced Warfare." Really? They couldn't come up with a more original name?
Since Spacey's character seems to be the villian and the player character works for him I hope that means we play as the bad guys. That could be great.
So wait . . . Your the bad guys in the Campaign!?!?
I keep saying that I'm done with Call of Duty after Black Ops 2 but this looks very interesting.
Sledgehammer is going to do good things to this game I think.
10-1 this is going to be Titanfall minus titans. I am not entirely opposed.