Developer : Activision
Release date : November 4, 2014
Synopsis :
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a 2014 first-person shooter video game published by Activision. The eleventh major installment in the Call of Duty series, the game was developed by Sledgehammer Games for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while High Moon Studios developed the versions released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and Raven Software developed the game’s multiplayer and the Exo-Zombies mode.
Advanced Warfare was the first Call of Duty title to be developed primarily by Sledgehammer, following the supporting work the studio did on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 alongside Infinity Ward in 2011. Though the game was released on November 4, 2014, a special edition entitled the Day Zero Edition, which came with bonus in-game content, was released on November 3 for people who pre-ordered the game.
Before the development of Advanced Warfare, Sledgehammer were originally working on a game set during the events of the Vietnam War. Development for Advanced Warfare began in late 2011, shortly before the release of Modern Warfare 3. The game became the first entry in the Call of Duty series since Call of Duty 2 to feature a game engine that has had its majority re-written and built from scratch. For the game’s single-player campaign mode, Sledgehammer employed veteran actors Troy Baker and Kevin Spacey in lead roles. The game’s story features a futuristic setting, set between 2054 and 2061, and follows Jack Mitchell of the United States Marine Corps and his involvement with Atlas, a private military corporation that sells its services to the highest bidder.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was released to a positive critical reception and was declared an improvement over its predecessor, Call of Duty: Ghosts. Many critics praised the visuals, voice acting, single-player campaign, the fast, dynamic, and exciting gameplay, and content-rich multiplayer, but some criticized the predictable plot in the single player campaign. The game won several awards and was considered a commercial success.
In 2054, United States Marines Private First Class Jackson “Jack” Mitchell (Troy Baker) and Private William “Will” Irons (Paul Telfer) take part in an operation to repel a North Korean invasion of Seoul, under the command of Sergeant Cormack (Russell Richardson). During the firefight, Will is killed and Mitchell loses his arm, resulting in him being medically discharged from the Marine Corps. After attending Will’s funeral, Mitchell is offered a position in the Atlas Corporation, a private military corporation, by CEO Jonathan Irons (Kevin Spacey), Will’s father, and is also given an advanced prosthetic arm to replace his lost one.
Meanwhile, a terrorist group called the KVA, composed of former Chechen separatists 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 operatives rescue Nigerian Prime Minister Samuel Abidoyo and capture a KVA technologist in Lagos, Nigeria during an international technologist 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 then 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 are dispatched to the irradiated Detroit to find and successfully capture Dr. Pierre Danois (Erik Passoja), the KVA’s second-in-command, who reveals that Hades is at Santorini, Greece, where the KVA leaders are holding a conference. Mitchell fatally wounds Hades by slicing his throat, but before dying, Hades utters that “Irons knows”, and gives Mitchell a data chip. Ilona (Angela Gots), an ex-Russian Spetsnaz soldier turned Atlas operative, analyzes the chip, which shows Irons killing the technologist they captured in Nigeria after learning of the KVA global attack, and revealing that he deliberately allowed the attacks to occur to improve Atlas’ reputation and profit. Irons attempts to have Mitchell and Ilona arrested by Atlas Military Police, but they escape Atlas’ headquarters in the rebuilt 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 former squad leader, Cormack, who is now a member of the Sentinel Task Force, a Tier One US led global military task force initially created to investigate the KVA power plant attacks, but now re-purposed to prevent Atlas’ rise to power.
In 2060, Mitchell, Cormack, Ilona, and Knox (Khary Payton) infiltrate Irons’ private residence in Bangkok. The team discovers that Dr. Danois (now working under the alias Bellamy) is collaborating with Irons on a project called “Manticore”. They set up a tracker on a plane carrying the bio-weapon bound for Argentina, before intercepting the plane, which crashes in Antarctica. Gideon appears and helps the Sentinel task force defeat the Atlas soldiers, allowing the team to successfully retrieve a sample of the WMD. After analyzing it, they discover that Manticore is a bio-weapon designed to attack the specific DNA of any individuals and kill them. The only exceptions are any members of Atlas. Sentinel, now joined by Gideon, infiltrates and destroys an Atlas bio-weapons laboratory in Bulgaria, eliminating many of the Manticore samples. With his plan revealed, Irons declares war on the world at the United Nations General Assembly with the intention to dominate the world, believing that the world would be better off without wars if Atlas were in control. The team discovers that despite destroying the laboratory, Irons had a backup plan, and is planning a preemptive strike on the United States via an Atlas attack in San Francisco. Atlas destroys the Golden Gate Bridge, trapping the United States Navy’s Third Fleet in the Bay Area, in an attempt to destroy the fleet, but are stopped by Sentinel. After the attack, the United States, along with the rest of the world, declares war on Atlas, forcing Irons to retreat to his headquarters in New Baghdad.
Seven months later in 2061, 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 troops. Mitchell, Ilona, and Gideon, whose DNA are recognized by Manticore as former Atlas soldiers, are spared, as well as Cormack, who was outside the blast radius. Cormack, Ilona, Mitchell and Gideon are captured and brought to an Atlas prison camp, which also runs Manticore experiments on its inmates. The team escape the facility, but Irons shoots Cormack and severely damages Mitchell’s prosthetic arm. After Cormack dies, the others discover that Irons already has enough Manticore to attack every military base in the world and will be launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) loaded with the bio-weapon shortly. Using heavily armored battlesuits, Mitchell and Gideon launch a lone assault on the Atlas HQ and manage to destroy the ICBM. They find Irons as the other Sentinels prepare to bombard the building, but Irons disables their exoskeletons. Mitchell, forced to release the exoskeleton to chase Irons, tackles Irons at the edge of the building. Irons hangs onto Mitchell’s prosthetic arm, but 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.
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