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In fact, the majority of time they are untrustworthy of one another.
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What’s worse, his stealth mission was more of a walking simulator than anything else, and I didn’t find the random “focus” ability particularly useful or interesting.Įarly on in the campaign, Riggs asks a fitting question: “We’re not even from the same continents, why are we tasked with this mission?” He’s right, it doesn’t make sense that this small group of select individuals would be pulled from their globally divided divisions and forced to work together. Wade isn’t the most interesting character of the bunch either, yet players are seemingly put in his shoes more than the other characters.

Vehicular combat has never been a point in Call of Duty, so I’m always left confused why fighter pilot sequences are added. Controls are stiff and it’s a bore to slog through, and that quickly becomes apparent once Wade takes off. Sometimes these are done brilliantly, like in Infinite Warfare’s exciting zero gravity gameplay, but in most cases, they feel out of place, like with Wade’s Midway plane mission in the Pacific. From here, the campaign shifts gear for the worse, leaving us with origin stories rather than progressing from the opening scene.Ĭall of Duty games tend to add unique sections in their campaigns that aren’t found anywhere else. Further along, we meet Hermann Freisinger, a racist, mocking and bratty nazi who is the perfect villain to set up the rest story. There’s gung ho pilot Wade Jackson, snarky explosive expert Lucas Riggs, vengeful sniper Polina Petrova, and aspiring leader Arthur Kingsley - a bit too on the nose with that last one, Sledgehammer.Īs you might expect, there’s plenty of bombastic cinematic action, with players using tanks on trains to take out nearby turrets with someone saying a witty one-liner as a form of kudos.
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Task Force One, and each of their somewhat stereotypical action movie personalities. The rain hitting down on a Nazi-occupied train with a burning Hamburg in the background is an enticing opening scene, as players are quickly introduced to the band of merry bandits, a.k.a.

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Whether you go for the Big Mac or Bacon Double Cheeseburger, Mickey D’s will always deliver its signature taste - one just has more bacon than bun. So, how does Call of Duty’s latest WWII entry stand out from the pack?Ī quick trip to McDonald’s will help answer this. If you’ve come for engaging first-person shooter action with satisfying gameplay and striking visuals, you don’t need this review to tell you ]what’s in store in Vanguard. From the action-packed campaign and viciously fast-paced multiplayer to the weird yet wonderful addition of Zombies, Vanguard has Call of Duty written all over it.

This is no different with Sledgehammer Games’ latest entry to the series, Call of Duty: Vanguard. Despite these vastly different settings, each Call of Duty is praised for and guilty of one thing: familiarity. Since 2005, an annual game has been added to the series, taking gamers on blockbuster adventures spanning across the gritty battlefields of World War II to imagined futuristic warfare. , Hendeson states that the reason for this is "because Sledgehammer Games have tried to do a lot of different things with Call of Duty: Vanguard to set it apart from the 2017's Call of Duty WW2 but a lot of these features never made it to fruition, they were cut for whatever reason and instead this is a traditional Call of Duty WW2 title.Another year, another entry to the Call of Duty franchise. The rumours also suggested that this could be the first Call of Duty title to be delayed into the next year, in a long long time but it seems the game is still expected in 2021.Īccording to the latest info from a well-known industry insider Tom Henderson, due to development troubles, Call of Duty Vanguard's multiplayer will basically be a Black Ops Cold War 2.0, without major unique features or changes. Apparently, every Activision studio are now helping Sledgehammer Games, which are the lead development studio behind the game. Rumours about the troubled development of this year's Call of Duty, which is reportedly titled Call of Duty: Vanguard, have been floating around the internet for quite some time.
