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Advanced Warfare, like the other Call of Duty titles, is presented in a first-person shooter perspective. The game features several significant changes; unlike other installments, Advanced Warfare does not use a traditional heads-up display (HUD); instead, all information is relayed to the player via holographic projections from the weapon equipped. The general gunplay remains unchanged, apart from new mechanics, such as 'Exo' movements. After each mission, the player is given a certain amount of upgrade points that can be used to upgrade the Exo suit or weapons. The amount of points given, is determined by the players performance in the missions. The player may earn additional points by completing specific side objectives, one of which is collecting the game's lone collectable 'Intel'. The player can switch between six different types of grenades, all of which posses distinctly different abilities. The game is the first in the Call of Duty series that allows the player to choose differing types of conventional weaponry; for example, the game features regular conventional firearms, but the player can choose to use laser or energy directed weaponry, both of which have differing attributes.
Campaign
The single-player campaign features one sole playable character, Jack Mitchell, as opposed to multiple characters in previous Call of Duty games. It makes use of pre-rendered cinematic cut scenes, similar to Call of Duty: Black Ops II, assisting in the story telling aspect of the campaign.
Multiplayer[edit]
Apart from the Exo movement, Advanced Warfare 's multiplayer retains certain similarities to previous Call of Duty titles. The Pick 10 system in Black Ops II returns as Pick 13, allowing players to pick weapons, attachments, perks and score-streaks within a total of 13 allocation points. Score-streaks are also upgradable with different modules, allowing for additional abilities/effects, at an extra score cost. Advanced Warfare introduces weapon variants, which contain various different stats compared to the base weapons. This allows the game to contain over 350 weapons, both variants and base versions. Supply drops allow players to earn new gears through playing the game. The content of each supply drop is randomized, and can range from weapon variants to player customization items, as well as bonus experience points (XPs) time. Players can complete daily challenges to earn supply drops.
Exo Survival[edit]
Exo Survival was first introduced as Advanced Warfare 's cooperative game mode. Considered to be a new version of the Survival Mode from Modern Warfare 3, Exo Survival allows up to four players to engage in a wave-based match against A.I.-controlled enemies. Players can choose from four different classes of Exo, which grant different abilities and score-streaks. Weapons and score-streaks can be upgraded throughout each match. After a certain number of rounds, players are given objectives to perform, such as defending a location, or collecting intel from fallen enemies. Completing the objectives grant players bonus upgrade points; not completing them result in the players being punished, such as having their Exo suits temporarily disabled or activating hostile security turrets. Exo Survival is played on the game's multiplayer maps, with a total of 13 maps divived into four tiers. Each tier can be unlocked by playing the previous tier and survive a specific number of rounds.
Exo Zombies
Exo Zombies was first teased at the end of the Exo Survival map "Riot", and was officially announced with the Havoc downloadable content (DLC) pack. The game mode is said to be "a brand new take on zombies", featuring zombies utilizing exo suits, giving them more maneuverability. The game mode stars four brand new characters: Oz, Lilith, Decker, and Kahn.
Exo Zombies plays similarly to the original Zombies game mode that was featured in Treyarch's Call of Duty games since Call of Duty: World at War: up to four players have to survive against endless waves of undead enemies, with an optional story quest, or easter egg, that can be done at any time during a match. Players earn points by injuring and/or killing zombies, and use them to open doors/clear obstacles, or buy new weapons and perks to strengthen their chance of survival. Players can also acquire exo suits in the game mode, allowing them to utilize new movements. Different types of zombies are present in the game, including Charger zombies that have increased movement speed, and Electro-magnetic zombies (EMZs) that can disable the players' Exo suit in close proximity.
The first Exo Zombies map, "Outbreak", was released on January 27, 2015 on Xbox Live, February 26, 2015 on PlayStation Network and March 3, 2015 on Steam, as part of the Havoc DLC map pack. The second map, "Infection", was released on March 31, 2015 on Xbox Live and April 30, 2015 on PlayStation Network and Steam , as part of the Ascendance DLC pack.
Plot
Single-player campaign
In 2054, Private Jack Mitchell (Troy Baker) of the United States Marine Corps, along with Private Will Irons (Paul Telfer) and group leader Sergeant Cormack (Russell Richardson), participates in a battle against North Koreans in Seoul. During the counterattack, Will is killed in action, while Mitchell's left arm is severed, forcing him to be discharged from military service. After attending Will's funeral service, Mitchell is offered a position with the Atlas Corporation, the world's most powerful private military contractor, by CEO Jonathan Irons (Kevin Spacey), Will's father. Mitchell is also given an advanced prosthetic arm to replace his lost one.
Meanwhile, a terrorist group known as the KVA, led by a technophobic man named Joseph "Hades" Chkheidze (Sharif Ibrahim), begins staging numerous terrorist attacks, with the world turning to Atlas to stop them. Mitchell, along with Gideon (Gideon Emery), Joker (Jeremy Kent Jackson) and other Atlas soldiers rescue the Nigerian prime minister and later capture a KVA technologist in Lagos, Nigeria during a technology summit. However, by 2055, the KVA's attacks have become more sophisticated and Mitchell and his team fail to prevent the KVA from forcing a nuclear reactor meltdown on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The KVA launch simultaneous attacks against nuclear power plants worldwide, irradiating numerous cities, killing thousands of people and putting national governments and militaries in turmoil. Atlas emerges as the dominant military force in the world by aiding civilians affected by the attacks and holding back the KVA's rampage.
Four years later in 2059, Mitchell and Gideon search an abandoned downtown Detroit, Michigan to find Dr. Pierre Danois (Erik Passoja), the KVA's second-in-command. After Ilona (Angela Gots), an ex-Spetsnaz Atlas operative, interrogates the doctor, the team tracks Hades to Santorini, Greece, where KVA leaders are holding a conference. Mitchell corners Hades and fatally wounds him. With his last breath, Hades utters "Irons knows," and gives Mitchell a data chip.
Ilona analyzes the chip, only to find out that Irons killed the technologist they captured in Nigeria after Irons learned of the KVA global attack, proving that he deliberately allowed the attacks to occur to improve Atlas' reputation and power. Irons attempts to have Mitchell and Ilona arrested, but they escape Atlas' headquarters in the rebuilt Baghdad (called New Baghdad), guided by a mysterious soldier, while Gideon stays by Irons' side for further investigation. The mysterious soldier reveals himself to be Mitchell's old squad leader, Cormack, who is now a member of the Sentinel Task Force, an international effort initially created to investigate the KVA power plant attacks, but now repurposed to prevent Atlas' rise to power.
In 2060, Mitchell, now a Sentinel, joins Cormack, Ilona, and Knox (Khary Payton) to infiltrate Irons' private residence in Bangkok. The team discovers that Dr. Danois (now working under the alias Bellamy) is collaborating with Irons on "Manticore", a bio-weapon. They set up a tracker on a plane carrying the bio-weapon bound for Argentina. Sentinel later intercepts the plane, which crashes in Antarctica. Gideon appears and helps the Sentinels defeat the Atlas soldiers. The team successfully retrieves the WMD and are able to retrieve a sample. After analyzing the sample, they discover that Manticore is a bio-weapon designed to attack the DNA of individuals and kills them except specific individuals, meaning Irons can use the weapon without risking harm to his own troops or people having their DNA record in ATLAS database. The Sentinels, now joined by Gideon, infiltrate and destroy an Atlas bio-weapons laboratory in Bulgaria, eliminating many of the Manticore samples.
With his plot revealed, Irons releases his ultimatum to remove all politicians, whom he thinks are the problem of the world, at the United Nations General Assembly and declares war on the world. The Sentinels discover that Irons is planning a preemptive strike on the United States and try to stop an Atlas attack on the country in San Francisco, California. Atlas destroys the Golden Gate Bridge, trapping the U.S. 3rd fleet in the Bay Area, and attempt to destroy the fleet in a single strike. The Sentinels use a railgun aboard an aircraft carrier to destroy the attacking Atlas ships. With the ultimatum and the attack on U.S. soil, the United States, along with the rest of the world, declares war against Atlas and Irons retreats to his headquarters in New Baghdad.
Seven months later, the Sentinels and the United States Army attack New Baghdad to bring Irons to justice. However, Atlas releases Manticore, killing Knox and most of the attacking troops. Mitchell, Ilona, and Gideon, whose DNA are recognized by Manticore as they are former Atlas soldiers, are spared, as well as Cormack, who was outside the blast radius. The four are brought to an Atlas prison camp, which also runs Manticore experiments on its inmates. The Sentinels escape, but Irons kills Cormack and severely damages Mitchell's prosthetic arm. As they escape the facility, they discover that Irons already has enough Manticore to attack every military base in the world and will be launching an ICBM loaded with the bio-weapon shortly.
Mitchell and Gideon launch a lone assault on the Atlas HQ while using heavily armored battlesuits and manage to destroy the ICBM. They find Irons as the other Sentinels prepare to bombard the building. Irons disables their exoskeletons, forcing Mitchell to release the exoskeleton to chase Irons. Mitchell tackles Irons off the building, but he hangs on to Mitchell's prosthetic arm. Mitchell severs his prosthetic, sending Irons falling to his death. As Gideon arrives to carry him out of the building, Mitchell notes that Irons' death was only the beginning and the war against Atlas is far from over.
Exo Zombies
NOTE: the story of Exo Zombies is updated as each new map is released; certain details are subject to change.
Following a failed attempt to contain a riot at a prison, the Atlas Corporation releases the Manticore bioweapon in order to end the fight peacefully. However, instead of killing the enemy forces, the Manticore bomb reanimates them as zombies. Four Atlas soldiers, who were sent in to contain the riot, are forced to fight their way out of the prison using limited weaponry. One soldier manages to escape with the help of Atlas captain Gideon, but while taking off on a Warbird helicopter, Gideon is pulled out by a zombie and gets eaten. Three platoons are sent in to cage the undead forces, but only one survive, while the others are brought back to an Atlas research facility for further studies. The research is carried out in secret, without the knowledge of the employees of said facility, in a hidden area known as Sub-Level 6.
On one night, the captured zombies break out of their containment, and begin to overrun the facility, infecting Atlas personnel in the process. Amidst the chaos, four Atlas employees - Oz the janitor (John Malkovich), Lilith the IT specialist (Rose McGowan), Decker the security guard (Jon Bernthal), and Kahn the executive (Bill Paxton) - attempt to evacuate, but their rescue Warbird is attacked by zombies and crash-lands onto the facility. Finding an encrypted communication box at the crash site, the four attempt to call in another Warbird for rescue, by using their security ID badges, which have to be upgraded to have maximum clearance level. While this is happening, the Atlas Corporation also sends in several orbital care packages, suggesting that someone is watching them from afar. The four survivors succeed in calling in a second Warbird, but then it is shot down by an Atlas care package, leaving them stranded once again.
The four survivors mount a last stand against the zombie horde, but are eventually defeated. However, they are rescued by Atlas forces, who then take them to a facility, located near a Burger Town restaurant, for medical treatment. Some times later, the four survivors recover, only to find themselves in the midst of another zombie-infested area. Not only do they have to fight for survival, they also have to rescue civilians trapped within the vicinity of Burger Town. Eventually, they discover a way to activate Bubby, the Burger Town mascot statue, which either comes to life and aides them in battle, or simply explodes. While doing this, they also unknowingly send a missile from Burger Town into the sky, its purposes remaining a mystery. Eventually, the survivors are rescued by Sentinel Task Force, but are then held at gunpoint by their leader (Bruce Campbell), who claims that one of them "has to go".
Campaign
The single-player campaign features one sole playable character, Jack Mitchell, as opposed to multiple characters in previous Call of Duty games. It makes use of pre-rendered cinematic cut scenes, similar to Call of Duty: Black Ops II, assisting in the story telling aspect of the campaign.
Multiplayer[edit]
Apart from the Exo movement, Advanced Warfare 's multiplayer retains certain similarities to previous Call of Duty titles. The Pick 10 system in Black Ops II returns as Pick 13, allowing players to pick weapons, attachments, perks and score-streaks within a total of 13 allocation points. Score-streaks are also upgradable with different modules, allowing for additional abilities/effects, at an extra score cost. Advanced Warfare introduces weapon variants, which contain various different stats compared to the base weapons. This allows the game to contain over 350 weapons, both variants and base versions. Supply drops allow players to earn new gears through playing the game. The content of each supply drop is randomized, and can range from weapon variants to player customization items, as well as bonus experience points (XPs) time. Players can complete daily challenges to earn supply drops.
Exo Survival[edit]
Exo Survival was first introduced as Advanced Warfare 's cooperative game mode. Considered to be a new version of the Survival Mode from Modern Warfare 3, Exo Survival allows up to four players to engage in a wave-based match against A.I.-controlled enemies. Players can choose from four different classes of Exo, which grant different abilities and score-streaks. Weapons and score-streaks can be upgraded throughout each match. After a certain number of rounds, players are given objectives to perform, such as defending a location, or collecting intel from fallen enemies. Completing the objectives grant players bonus upgrade points; not completing them result in the players being punished, such as having their Exo suits temporarily disabled or activating hostile security turrets. Exo Survival is played on the game's multiplayer maps, with a total of 13 maps divived into four tiers. Each tier can be unlocked by playing the previous tier and survive a specific number of rounds.
Exo Zombies
Exo Zombies was first teased at the end of the Exo Survival map "Riot", and was officially announced with the Havoc downloadable content (DLC) pack. The game mode is said to be "a brand new take on zombies", featuring zombies utilizing exo suits, giving them more maneuverability. The game mode stars four brand new characters: Oz, Lilith, Decker, and Kahn.
Exo Zombies plays similarly to the original Zombies game mode that was featured in Treyarch's Call of Duty games since Call of Duty: World at War: up to four players have to survive against endless waves of undead enemies, with an optional story quest, or easter egg, that can be done at any time during a match. Players earn points by injuring and/or killing zombies, and use them to open doors/clear obstacles, or buy new weapons and perks to strengthen their chance of survival. Players can also acquire exo suits in the game mode, allowing them to utilize new movements. Different types of zombies are present in the game, including Charger zombies that have increased movement speed, and Electro-magnetic zombies (EMZs) that can disable the players' Exo suit in close proximity.
The first Exo Zombies map, "Outbreak", was released on January 27, 2015 on Xbox Live, February 26, 2015 on PlayStation Network and March 3, 2015 on Steam, as part of the Havoc DLC map pack. The second map, "Infection", was released on March 31, 2015 on Xbox Live and April 30, 2015 on PlayStation Network and Steam , as part of the Ascendance DLC pack.
Plot
Single-player campaign
In 2054, Private Jack Mitchell (Troy Baker) of the United States Marine Corps, along with Private Will Irons (Paul Telfer) and group leader Sergeant Cormack (Russell Richardson), participates in a battle against North Koreans in Seoul. During the counterattack, Will is killed in action, while Mitchell's left arm is severed, forcing him to be discharged from military service. After attending Will's funeral service, Mitchell is offered a position with the Atlas Corporation, the world's most powerful private military contractor, by CEO Jonathan Irons (Kevin Spacey), Will's father. Mitchell is also given an advanced prosthetic arm to replace his lost one.
Meanwhile, a terrorist group known as the KVA, led by a technophobic man named Joseph "Hades" Chkheidze (Sharif Ibrahim), begins staging numerous terrorist attacks, with the world turning to Atlas to stop them. Mitchell, along with Gideon (Gideon Emery), Joker (Jeremy Kent Jackson) and other Atlas soldiers rescue the Nigerian prime minister and later capture a KVA technologist in Lagos, Nigeria during a technology summit. However, by 2055, the KVA's attacks have become more sophisticated and Mitchell and his team fail to prevent the KVA from forcing a nuclear reactor meltdown on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The KVA launch simultaneous attacks against nuclear power plants worldwide, irradiating numerous cities, killing thousands of people and putting national governments and militaries in turmoil. Atlas emerges as the dominant military force in the world by aiding civilians affected by the attacks and holding back the KVA's rampage.
Four years later in 2059, Mitchell and Gideon search an abandoned downtown Detroit, Michigan to find Dr. Pierre Danois (Erik Passoja), the KVA's second-in-command. After Ilona (Angela Gots), an ex-Spetsnaz Atlas operative, interrogates the doctor, the team tracks Hades to Santorini, Greece, where KVA leaders are holding a conference. Mitchell corners Hades and fatally wounds him. With his last breath, Hades utters "Irons knows," and gives Mitchell a data chip.
Ilona analyzes the chip, only to find out that Irons killed the technologist they captured in Nigeria after Irons learned of the KVA global attack, proving that he deliberately allowed the attacks to occur to improve Atlas' reputation and power. Irons attempts to have Mitchell and Ilona arrested, but they escape Atlas' headquarters in the rebuilt Baghdad (called New Baghdad), guided by a mysterious soldier, while Gideon stays by Irons' side for further investigation. The mysterious soldier reveals himself to be Mitchell's old squad leader, Cormack, who is now a member of the Sentinel Task Force, an international effort initially created to investigate the KVA power plant attacks, but now repurposed to prevent Atlas' rise to power.
In 2060, Mitchell, now a Sentinel, joins Cormack, Ilona, and Knox (Khary Payton) to infiltrate Irons' private residence in Bangkok. The team discovers that Dr. Danois (now working under the alias Bellamy) is collaborating with Irons on "Manticore", a bio-weapon. They set up a tracker on a plane carrying the bio-weapon bound for Argentina. Sentinel later intercepts the plane, which crashes in Antarctica. Gideon appears and helps the Sentinels defeat the Atlas soldiers. The team successfully retrieves the WMD and are able to retrieve a sample. After analyzing the sample, they discover that Manticore is a bio-weapon designed to attack the DNA of individuals and kills them except specific individuals, meaning Irons can use the weapon without risking harm to his own troops or people having their DNA record in ATLAS database. The Sentinels, now joined by Gideon, infiltrate and destroy an Atlas bio-weapons laboratory in Bulgaria, eliminating many of the Manticore samples.
With his plot revealed, Irons releases his ultimatum to remove all politicians, whom he thinks are the problem of the world, at the United Nations General Assembly and declares war on the world. The Sentinels discover that Irons is planning a preemptive strike on the United States and try to stop an Atlas attack on the country in San Francisco, California. Atlas destroys the Golden Gate Bridge, trapping the U.S. 3rd fleet in the Bay Area, and attempt to destroy the fleet in a single strike. The Sentinels use a railgun aboard an aircraft carrier to destroy the attacking Atlas ships. With the ultimatum and the attack on U.S. soil, the United States, along with the rest of the world, declares war against Atlas and Irons retreats to his headquarters in New Baghdad.
Seven months later, the Sentinels and the United States Army attack New Baghdad to bring Irons to justice. However, Atlas releases Manticore, killing Knox and most of the attacking troops. Mitchell, Ilona, and Gideon, whose DNA are recognized by Manticore as they are former Atlas soldiers, are spared, as well as Cormack, who was outside the blast radius. The four are brought to an Atlas prison camp, which also runs Manticore experiments on its inmates. The Sentinels escape, but Irons kills Cormack and severely damages Mitchell's prosthetic arm. As they escape the facility, they discover that Irons already has enough Manticore to attack every military base in the world and will be launching an ICBM loaded with the bio-weapon shortly.
Mitchell and Gideon launch a lone assault on the Atlas HQ while using heavily armored battlesuits and manage to destroy the ICBM. They find Irons as the other Sentinels prepare to bombard the building. Irons disables their exoskeletons, forcing Mitchell to release the exoskeleton to chase Irons. Mitchell tackles Irons off the building, but he hangs on to Mitchell's prosthetic arm. Mitchell severs his prosthetic, sending Irons falling to his death. As Gideon arrives to carry him out of the building, Mitchell notes that Irons' death was only the beginning and the war against Atlas is far from over.
Exo Zombies
NOTE: the story of Exo Zombies is updated as each new map is released; certain details are subject to change.
Following a failed attempt to contain a riot at a prison, the Atlas Corporation releases the Manticore bioweapon in order to end the fight peacefully. However, instead of killing the enemy forces, the Manticore bomb reanimates them as zombies. Four Atlas soldiers, who were sent in to contain the riot, are forced to fight their way out of the prison using limited weaponry. One soldier manages to escape with the help of Atlas captain Gideon, but while taking off on a Warbird helicopter, Gideon is pulled out by a zombie and gets eaten. Three platoons are sent in to cage the undead forces, but only one survive, while the others are brought back to an Atlas research facility for further studies. The research is carried out in secret, without the knowledge of the employees of said facility, in a hidden area known as Sub-Level 6.
On one night, the captured zombies break out of their containment, and begin to overrun the facility, infecting Atlas personnel in the process. Amidst the chaos, four Atlas employees - Oz the janitor (John Malkovich), Lilith the IT specialist (Rose McGowan), Decker the security guard (Jon Bernthal), and Kahn the executive (Bill Paxton) - attempt to evacuate, but their rescue Warbird is attacked by zombies and crash-lands onto the facility. Finding an encrypted communication box at the crash site, the four attempt to call in another Warbird for rescue, by using their security ID badges, which have to be upgraded to have maximum clearance level. While this is happening, the Atlas Corporation also sends in several orbital care packages, suggesting that someone is watching them from afar. The four survivors succeed in calling in a second Warbird, but then it is shot down by an Atlas care package, leaving them stranded once again.
The four survivors mount a last stand against the zombie horde, but are eventually defeated. However, they are rescued by Atlas forces, who then take them to a facility, located near a Burger Town restaurant, for medical treatment. Some times later, the four survivors recover, only to find themselves in the midst of another zombie-infested area. Not only do they have to fight for survival, they also have to rescue civilians trapped within the vicinity of Burger Town. Eventually, they discover a way to activate Bubby, the Burger Town mascot statue, which either comes to life and aides them in battle, or simply explodes. While doing this, they also unknowingly send a missile from Burger Town into the sky, its purposes remaining a mystery. Eventually, the survivors are rescued by Sentinel Task Force, but are then held at gunpoint by their leader (Bruce Campbell), who claims that one of them "has to go".