There are enemy detecting grenades that make a nice one-two combo with guns that dish out headshots through interior walls. The suits are complemented by other advanced weaponry.
Snipers on a catwalk? Stay low and try to blast them or jump up there and take the battle to them. Leaps from window to window or rooftop to rooftop become child’s play. Caught out of cover? Activate the specialist suit’s shield and soak up the bullets while you trudge to safety. Why cower behind crates taking pot shots at the generic terrorist scum when you can leap into the air, slam down on half the squad then get down to the serious business of shooting the survivors in the face. The exosuits don’t always change what you’re doing, but they will change the way that you do it. And the third? Well, we won’t spoil it for you, but if you feel kicked around during some stages of the campaign, please comfort yourself with the knowledge that payback will eventually come your way. The second, the specialist exosuit – gives you a fold-up riot shield, an instant health recharging stimpack and an overdrive ability, which effectively works like the slowmo abilities found in F.E.A.R. The first – the assault exosuit – gives you a jet-assisted set of jumping and gliding manouvres, plus (later on) a handy grappling hook. You’ll find yourself donning three variations of the strength-enhancing exoskeleton at different stages of the campaign. The game changers here are the game’s near-future setting and, more specifically, the exosuit. It’s not a thinking man’s shooter, but who cares when dumb is this much fun? It’s not that the team at Sledgehammer Games has done anything all that new or all that innovative, but they have done it with a confidence and focus that the series hasn’t seen in years.
But if you liked Call of Duty 2 and 3, loved Modern Warfare and its first sequel and enjoy being dragged along from one big action sequence to the next, then Advanced Warfare will be right up your street. It is still Call of Duty, and everything the hipsters like to mock about the series – its linearity, its migraine-inducing bombast, its woefully thin plot lines, its follow the objective marker approach – is still here to be mocked. While Call of Duty still has legions of fans, it’s been a while since you could admit in polite company that you were one of them.Īdvanced Warfare won’t change that entirely. You might argue that the world’s biggest FPS series never went away, but last year’s next-gen debut, Call of Duty: Ghosts, saw sales and review scores slip, while the previous instalments, Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops 2, showed a series in serious danger of stagnation. Say it loud and say it proud: The Call of Duty comeback starts here. Available on Xbox One, PS4, PC, Xbox 360 and PS3
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