This is where players are introduced to the story’s villains Hermann Wenzel Freisnger and his underling Jannick Richter. Wade Jackson, Australian demolitions expert Lucas Riggs and Soviet sniper Polina Petrova, the crew are eventually captured by Nazi soldiers. Arthur Kingsley, American Naval pilot Lt. Following an explosive introductory mission with the cast including Black British paratrooper Lt. Come back later today and check out our review.Set within the shared WWII, Modern Warfare and Black Ops Cold War universe, Call of Duty: Vanguard introduces a narrative based around the first special forces team created near the end of WWII.
These videos embedded in the post show gameplay from most parts of the game. My best advice for Zombies is to play with people who are better than you so they can revive you when you are downed, as you can see in my Zombies video above. In multiplayer, Champion Hill mode features a tournament with up to 12 squads, where players can play solo (1v1) or squad up in duos (2v2) and trios (3v3) to battle it out in an arena consisting of four maps to be the last squad standing.Īnd Zombies features a crossover narrative with Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War and the WWII-focused theme where the Nazis try to stir up the undead to turn the tide of the war. And Activision has added its Ricochet anti-cheat technology to the multiplayer game. Those are always the hallmarks of Call of Duty games. The idea was to capture the turning points in the war where the heroics of individual soldiers made a difference, and to show how the Special Forces soldiers went through a crucible of fire to become the skilled soldiers entrusted with a big mission at the end of the war.Īs you can see from the videos, the imagery is beautiful, for a war game, with realistic environments, lifelike characters, and fast gameplay. That’s a big difference compared to Call of Duty games that we used to see. The game starts out with Arthur Kingsley, a Black soldier in the British Airborne forces who parachutes into France Lucas Riggs, an Australian soldier who fights in the Middle East Polina Petrova, a Russian sniper fighting in Stalingrad and modeled after real female soldiers who were the Soviet Union’s best snipers in the war and Wade Jackson, a pilot who fights in the Battle of Midway and also sees combat on the ground in Numa Numa, Bougainville.Īmong the interesting things about the characters is that they’re not only diverse when it comes to national origin, but they’re also diverse when it comes to gender and race.
You can play four major characters among the group of Special Forces operators. The campaign takes place across four major theaters of war: the Middle East (with the Battle of El Alamein and more), the Pacific Ocean (with the Battle of Midway and fighting for Bougainville), Berlin, Stalingrad, and Normandy (in the lead up to the D-Day invasion). On top of that, Raven Studios is developing a new Caldera map set in the Pacific theater for Warzone. While Sledgehammer is the lead, Beenox (PC developer), Treyarch (Zombies) and others such as High Moon Studios, and Activision Shanghai helped with the development. Still, it’s worth noting that Call of Duty titles - not counting the free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Mobile games, which have hundreds of millions of players - typically sell 25 million to 35 million copies each year.Īnd this one represents a big effort across multiple studios. EA said more than 7.7 million people participated in the beta for Battlefield 2042. That friction could give an opening to Electronic Arts, which is launching its rival Battlefield 2042 title - a modern warfare game with multiplayer modes only - to compete better. But game developers who want to make the company better have also said they would rather have gamers support them through buying the game. The ongoing publicity around the state of California’s allegations, which said the company has tolerated a “frat house culture” and pay inequity for years, has prompted some people to want to boycott the game. And yes, this is the same company that is embroiled in sexual discrimination lawsuits.