Review
Roderick Scott 0

I'm not going to lie.  I swore that COD: Black Ops 2 was the last of the series that I would buy.  I was beginning to feel the redundancy after playing Modern Warfare 2, 3, and the 2nd Black Ops.  Hell, I even owned Call Of Duty 2 which was one of the launch games for the Xbox 360 many moons ago.  Not easy to keep things fresh when you're dropping a new game every year.

Enter: Advanced Warfare.  Activision + Sledgehammer Games presents their vision of war in the future.  This involves a lot technology and the acting chops of always-awesome-in-everything-he's-in Kevin Spacey.  This year aims to merge a great game w/ narrative and multiplayer as it hopes to be the best COD of the series to date.   After playing it, we'll let you know if it does or does it fall short.  



COD AW weaponry

COD AW SPacey

 

There's nothing like holding X to pay respects at a funeral.  This is how the game's main character shifts from getting honorably discharged after your arm gets amputated.  You start to work for Atlas that's ran by your dead but good friend's dad, Jonathan Irons (Kevin Spacey).  Atlas is a privatized military company that has more evolved tech than the anywhere else in the world.  Chasing after a terrorist who set off a chain of events that screws things up on a global scale.  

COD AW exo suit

Playing Advanced Warfare

The basics of shooting, aiming down sights, melee, grenades and such are the same.  It took a little adjusting to getting the best use out of all of the future tech at your disposal.  You can stun nearby enemies w/ sonics, you have your own personal drone w/ machine gun, and more on the campaign side of things.  The game (physics, gameplay, etc.) retains the feel of COD: Ghosts but better.

Camping on Multiplayer just got a lot harder.

Moving onto the multiplayer side of things, everything is better here as well.  The basics remain the same as you now have different features like boost jumps, energy riot shield + stealth cloaking as extra perks.  More new additions like supply drops which brings you variants of standard weapons borrowed from other like games.  And lastly new, we have a new overdrive option that slows thing down Max Payne-style to multiple targets.
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"Think of some Max Payne Bullet-Time + Titanfall abilites added to your favorite Call Of Duty game."

TG 2 Cents

Advanced Warfare has renewed my faith within the Call Of Duty franchise.  Advanced Warfare paints a beautiful picture of war (for gaming)  w/ the help of technological advances - namely the exo suit.  The abilities/features of the exo suit provides a refreshing spin to it.  Think of some Max Payne Bullet-Time + Titanfall abilites added to your favorite Call Of Duty game.  This easily breathes new life into the series as well.  Sledgehammer Games to the rescue for the series.
Thanks again to Activision for sending up a review copy of COD: AW for the Xbox One.

To Buy Or To Rent

If you haven't played Call of Duty in a while, this might be a great time to jump back in.  Definitely for those own a PS4 or Xbox One.  The aforementioned changes sounds minor but it makes the world of a difference.  
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Author: Roderick Scott

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