Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Sledgehammer Games. Published by Activision, it is the eleventh primary installment in the Call of Duty series and the first developed primarily by Sledgehammer Games. The game is set to be released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on November 4, 2014.

Plot

In 2054, most developed countries including the United States have suffered attacks on their military infrastructures around the world. The largest military force in the world isn't a country, but powerful, private military corporations. Mitchell (Troy Baker), a former U.S. Marine private, joins Jonathan Irons (Kevin Spacey), the CEO and founder of Atlas, the largest private military company with the most advanced technologies in the world, composing clandestine operations around the world. Irons begins his war with America over his beliefs that the U.S. has failed numerous attempts to install democracies all over the world for over a century, and to change the global balance of powers.

Development

Before being switched to become the co-developers of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Sledgehammer Games were already working on a Call of Duty game. This game was announced before Modern Warfare 3 and after Black Ops, however, no details were released. The game was said to be an action-adventure third-person shooter computer/video game. A Call of Duty massively multiplayer online game was also rumored to be in development.  Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg later stated that Modern Warfare 3 was not the same title as Sledgehammer Games' action-adventure Call of Duty game. When asked if the action-adventure game was also in development, Hirshberg then stated that the Sledgehammer team was fully focused on Modern Warfare 3 and that their own title had been put on hold.

A new game in the Call of Duty series will be released in November 2014. It was officially unveiled on May 1, 2014.

In an EDGE magazine interview, Michael Condrey confirmed that the majority of Advanced Warfare's engine has been built from scratch. He stated that although there are lines of the old code left, there is new rendering, animation, physics and audio systems. This is the first Call of Duty since Call of Duty 2 that has used a new engine. Call of Duty Ghosts was said to have a new engine, however, it turned out to be an upgraded version of the IW engine. It is currently unknown and unconfirmed what the name of the new Advanced Warfare engine is.

With the new in-house engine of Advanced Warfare, the audio has been made from scratch. Don Veca, among the many of Sledgehammer Games that has left Visceral Games, is working on Advanced Warfare. "It goes through your body, into your bones, and your skull. You hear it in your ear, and it sounds completely different,” Veca says in EDGE magazine, talking in-detail about the aftermath from firing a gun in-game. “No matter where you put the microphones, you’re not going to capture that sound, so we've tried to emulate that feeling.” Saying that audio doesn't come last as it did in previous titles, Glen Schofield says "We make sure that audio is just as important as anything else and Don’s in there from the start with us."

On the June 6th issue of MCV Online Magazine, it was confirmed that High Moon Studios, the team behind Deadpool video game and Transformers games, is working on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Advanced Warfare, while Sledgehammer Games is focussing on the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the title.

Marketing and release

Reveal

In May 2014, the official Call of Duty website was updated with a scrambled image that was due to be revealed on May 4, 2014. However, the trailer was leaked ahead of schedule on May 1 and then officially released soon after. The trailer revealed actor Kevin Spacey as portraying a character in the game.^[5] The trailer contained a variety of futuristic technologies, including cloaking aircraft, twin-rotor drones, hover bikes, "spider" tanks, specialized weapons, powered exoskeletons, scan-tron grenades and gloves that allow their wearer to climb up walls.

On June 9, 2014, E3 was opened with a new gameplay trailer for Advanced Warfare that showcased features such as swarms of drones resembling birds and infrared enemy identifiers. During the presentation, Xbox head Phil Spencer said that downloadable content for Advanced Warfare will be released first on Xbox Live.

Pre-order Bonus

Pre-ordering Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare gives players an Advanced Warfare-themed personalization pack for usage in Call Of Duty: Ghosts and Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Another pre-order bonus was announced entitled ‘Advanced Arsenal’ which consisted of a Custom Exoskeleton & EM1 Quantum Weapon, usable in campaign, multiplayer and co-op modes.