Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Well, thanks to a massive leak Activision has released the trailer for Sledgehammer Games' first Call Of Duty title, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare two days early.

I must say I'm a bit more hyped for the future aesthetic this time around compared to Black Ops II if only because they haven't half-assed it.

edited 1st May '14 11:38:21 PM by Deadbeatloser22

Dang it, I was just about to make this topic.

Anyways. Holy crap, does this look awesome. I'm just glad that they are taking the BOII route instead of the Ghosts route. Power armor and Spider-Man gloves are always welcome after all.

Either way hopefully it has saner PC requirements than Ghosts did; I already dropped more than the cost of an Xbox One on building my PC and I'd rather not feel like I undershot.

From the looks of it, it does seem like the requirements, should they be high, will probably be much more justified. Sledgehammer, from what I've gathered, was given three years to work on this game. Hence why it actually looks like a leap forward for the series. It really seems like they are trying to Win Back the Crowd with this one, much like Treyarch did with Black Ops II.

In any case, I am so pumped! Again, Power Armor! Mechs! Spider Man Gloves! Kevin Spacey as the Villain! Parkour Action!

Hey, I actually feel a little pumped here after that. :D

Could be a pip, but I'm definitely waiting for impressions before getting this one. So burnt by Ghosts.

Well hey, this isn't being made by the ghost of IW, so there's that. Plus, it actually looks like they are trying to make it unique by going even further with the sci-fi setting than even BOII.

And of course people are bitching about that because it's not the same.

After bitching because the previous games were too similar to each other.

True, but Sledgehammer has yet to prove themselves. I hope it's good, 'cause I'd like there to be at least two competent Call of Duty devs out there, but I'm not going to go buy it on a whim. I hoped Ghosts was good, but, aside from Extinction, I hated it.

"Advanced Warfare"? Kinda sounds like the first Co D game for Game Boy Advance.

Either way, it looks cool and I might check it out.

edited 2nd May '14 3:35:32 AM by Jinbo71

So, this is basically Kevin Spacey's character from the American remake of House of Cards rammed into a Call of Duty game?

I'm so down for that. Ish.

Advanced Warfare? Wow, it sounds like a parody-
-watches trailer-
...okay, now I'm hype. It's probably not gonna be as good as I'll think it will be, but I'm pretty hype.

Kevin Spacey is gonna be President Evil and the big bad in this game, calling it now. Hell he doesn't even try to change the southern twang he had from House of Cards, he's basically Frank Underwood!

Apparently, he's the head of a PMC.

But anyway: Mech suits! Power Armor! Jetpacks! Wall-crawling gloves! Invisible VTOL Helicopter-thingies! HOVERBIKES!

For anyone that watched the attached video regarding PM Cs... did they find the "fact" of G 4 S Security being an actual military PMC kinda hilarious? I used to work for those suckers in the past, and while they do have some pretty risky contracts which require the use of firearms, they're nowhere near as well armed as what you'd see in Iraq or Afghanistan. Probably the single area in the world where G 4 S is actually heavily armed would be their African branches, and that's because of the lack of proper police or military groups to protect their clients (and at worst it's just a few dudes with SM Gs or Carbines, and maybe the occasional armored SUV).

But it's "Private Security" so it clearly counts. Even if it's charging clients for a service they have no intention of providing.

edited 2nd May '14 5:57:14 AM by Deadbeatloser22

But again, the bulk of their staff consists of a bunch of guys who are paid minimum wage to stand around and give look intimidating... until you actually approach them and realize that they can't do crap, both contractually and legally, and begin to run off in fear precisely because of that reason.

And here I'd given up on Call of Duty after Ghosts.

Might actually be excited for this one

G 4 S are not in the top league of British PM Cs. The ones that are hire a lot of folks who know what colour the roof of the boathouse in Hereford was.

I see someone learned from how Battlefield 4 and Ghosts turned out. This appears fairly decent of a concept.

I've never played a Call of Duty game in my life, but hell, I'm excited for this one...mostly because of Kevin Spacey playing a Frank Underwood-esque character in it , but that's about it.

edited 2nd May '14 7:57:57 AM by higherbrainpattern

So the overriding opinions I'm seeing are people getting pissed that it's not the AU WWI game that some jackass on a pay-per-hit site said it would be, people getting pissed because it's not the MW 4 they thought it was going to be and people getting pissed because it's clearly a Titanfall ripoff.

Amazon has posted a more in-depth description of the game.

Well the game seems to have missions in Africa (Lagos actually), and if the Real Life G 4 S have the heavier armed employees working there...

PMC?

Capita-

Um, wait. //watches video

(Corporate) Fascism, ho!

Honestly, though I hope Kevin Spacey doesn't go all HAWX "Grr! Declare war on USA! Grr!" bat guano crazy and remains a sensible -if radical, eccentric and full of stupid overtly grandiose ideals- bossman till the end.

A game where the PMC doesn't turns out to be evil. How's that for a twist.

That said, looks kinda neat.