Call of Duty: Vanguard

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3.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 692 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 54 out of 692
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  1. Jakedoe
    Nov 8, 2021
    4
    Runs like crap currently.
    Audio cut out, constant stuttering and drops.
    Fun game, when it works though
  2. vak1ch
    Nov 7, 2021
    4
    Give us please a choice between ranked and unranked lobbies. It is very nice to play the first 10 matches and you really have fun with different types of players. But when sbmm turns on it starts to be much sweatier with every match. I want to play for fun and just relax.
  3. Kunray
    Nov 15, 2021
    4
    Game play is like being literally pushed through a pre-determined story line.
  4. xTh-3-nDx
    Nov 16, 2021
    4
    The same as every year nothing changes the same animation the same game loop they added the blitz mod which makes the game unplayable **** map design that you get boxed at spawn overpower guns and the list goes on the only good thing is the graphics if you want to buy it just wait for a sale it's not worth the money
  5. Seba26
    Nov 7, 2021
    4
    The multiplayer is very good! The campaigns has to much 'Woke' bs in it, thats why it gets a '4' instead of an '8'. Shame shame :( .
  6. Felixz
    Nov 14, 2021
    4
    Мультиплеер сломанный, баланса нет как такового, геймпады с аимасистом скоро перестанут нуждаться в игроках. А самое страшное, что всё это скоро нужно ждать в Варзоне.
  7. Raphi-FR
    Nov 7, 2021
    4
    Move your Body Call of duty !!!
    Call of duty Vanguard c'est un manque de travail du studio il nous ponde beaucoup de Map pour nous faire plaisir car on c'est plaint sur Cold war mais le jeux reste toujours aussi vide faut acheter le prochain pour que celui la soit complet. Ne parlons même pas du SBMM qui enlevé le plaisir de jouer .
  8. Vivivosso
    Nov 19, 2021
    4
    Мдааааа. Не похоже на то что в неё вложили душу. Компания ужас а мультиплеер душный.
  9. popPunker
    Feb 22, 2022
    4
    Conseguiram falhar até na killcam, que é algo que tem há mais de 10 anos na franquia, como é possível um jogo sair tão quebrado, tendo levado o dobro do tempo que deveria? o cold war (antecessor) teve que sair 1 ano mais cedo e mesmo assim consegue ser muito melhor ao vanguard.

    Tem gráficos bonitos, mas não passa disso, quem se importa com gráficos ta na franquia concorrente. Tem    Conseguiram falhar até na killcam, que é algo que tem há mais de 10 anos na franquia, como é possível um jogo sair tão quebrado, tendo levado o dobro do tempo que deveria? o cold war (antecessor) teve que sair 1 ano mais cedo e mesmo assim consegue ser muito melhor ao vanguard.

    Tem gráficos bonitos, mas não passa disso, quem se importa com gráficos ta na franquia concorrente.
    Tem diversos bugs, alguns são dentro da partida, outros são por fora, como por exemplo os desafios pra tu ganhar a camuflagem, vários estão bugados.
    Os mapas são os piores já feitos, sabe aquele mapa que sempre tem em todo cod e tu nunca joga pq ele não combina com o jogo? todos os mapas do vanguard são assim.
    Desbalanceamento que chega a ser ridiculo, as shotguns estão parecendo snipers nesse jogo.
    Por ter gráficos mais realistas, o jogo acaba sendo mais escuro e isso dificulta pra ver os inimigos.    … Expand
  10. ThreeOfDiamonds
    May 6, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. To Be Honest, When This Came Out, My Excitement Was Over The Charts. But Then I Played The Game... WOW It's A Call Of Duty: WWII Copy. I Remember A Map In Call Of Duty 2 'Stalingrad' And Then I Saw a Map That Looks EXACTLY Like The Call Of Duty 2 Map

    Copy And Paste: 100%

    Now About Zombies...

    Call Of Duty: Ghosts Is Better Than Vanguard Zombies WOW

    No Bosses, The Zombies Are Broken, The Zombies Only Attack When You Shoot Them HOW ARE THE ZOMBIES BLIND??!

    Zombies: 0/10

    Campaign Time

    The Campaign Starts With A Task Force Called 'Task Force Vanguard' On A Mission To Figure Out What The Hell Is Project Phoenix. After Some Time, The Task Force Found The Documents Or Smth But Got Ambushed By The Germans. The Task Force Was Captured And Taken To Some Warehouse And Now There Is Activision Explaining Why Racism Is Bad For 7 Minutes. After The Talk, The Character That You Play Gets Killed With A Chair By The Villain 'Hermman Freisinger'. The Germans Take The Task Force To A Prison And Interrogate them One By One.

    Arthur's Backstory

    The Mission Starts Off In A Paratrooper Plane Where The Captain Is Explaining The Mission, After The Germans Fired Their AA The Captain Said This. "Looks Like The Krauts Already Know We're Coming" ... Dude, The Germans Never Knew D-Day Was In Normandy. Anyways Everyone Jumps Out, Arthur's Friend Caught On Fire And Burned His Parachute, This Scene Took SO LONG And It's Not Even Fun You Don't Even Have To Press Any Keys, I Actually Liked The Call of Duty: WWII Quick Thinking Feature Or Smth Where You have To Press Keys Fast or Else You Die. The Boys Then Landed And I Saw Excessive Warcrimes, I Can No Longer Support Activision Because Of This. The Boys Meet Up And Then Arthur Magically Becomes The Leader Of The Battalion. I Can't Even Tell The Whole Story, The Boys Finally Destroyed The Enemy Artillery. Great, Now We Can Move On To Stalingrad (It's Worse)

    Polina's Backstory

    Have You Ever Wondered What It Would be Like To Become A Russian Woman Doing Parkour Cause She Thinks She Is Dream? Call of Duty: Vanguard Answers Your Question! The Mission Starts With The Player And His Virtual Family Talking About Soviet Things. The Stupid Brother Forgot Some Molotov So The Game Tells You To Help. Now When I Looked Outside, Wow The Soviet Union Is Great Why Are The Actual Images Of The Soviet Union So Bad? Anyways, Polina Goes To A Medical Station Or Smth, But Then The Luftwaffe Arrived And Started Being Savages. I Immediately Got Destroyed By A Bomb And The Game Tells Me To "Flee From The Bombing More Quickly". I Then Got To My House And Picked Up The Sniper Rifle That The Germans Just Left, I Then Shoot A German Officer, Unfortunately I Triggered The Other Germans Who Shoots My Dad. I Won't Continue The Whole Story Go Watch A Video Bout' the Game Because I Don't Recommend Buying It.

    AMERICANO Backstory

    The Mission Starts Off With The Commander Explaining The Mission, I Then Get To A Plane And Take Off. Now In This Mission I See Stonks Of Historical Inaccuracies, So Get Ready For Historical Madness. I See Destroyers Next To USS Enterprise (The Carrier) But I Remember That There Was No Destroyers In The Movie 'Midway' And Midway Was Very Accurate. The Squadron Now Found The Japanese Carrier, Without Making A Detour. Alright, The Americans Found The Japs Because Lt. Com. Wade McClusky Spotted A Japanese Destroyer, McClusky Said The Destroyer Might Be Heading For The Fleet And It Was A Miracle That The Americans Found The Fleet. The Japanese Started Firing AA, And One Of The Pilots Said "Avoid The Flak" Hold Up... Japanese Flak? I'm Done With This. When You Dive Down You Are Squared In The Middle Of The Flag (Very Effective Target) And Then When You Drop The Bomb The Carrier Gets Destroyed Immediately (WRONG). Actually When You Drop The Bomb Even At The Flag, It Doesn't Get Destroyed Immediately. Then Arthur Said "Wade Was Known As The Greatest Pilot Of The War" He destroyed Two Ships. And Then some Jungle Vietnam Mission But The Enemy Don't Hide.

    I Don't Even Want To Do The Campaign anymore lets just do the horrible detail

    STG-44 In 1941-3

    AK47 In Stalingrad (AS44 Is A Prototype Rifle That Never Saw Service)

    Prototype Lee Enfield In El Alamein

    MG42 In 1941 (Tobruk mission)

    Warmachine (GRENADE LAUNCHER) wtf

    I Actually Liked The Graphics But Not The Gameplay, The Graphics Are Gold, The Gameplay Is Stone.

    Campaign: 1.25/10 (Because Of The Graphics Its 1.25)

    Multiplayer

    MP Is Just Violent

    Multiplayer: 2.75/10    … Expand
  11. Top1saraya_
    Mar 24, 2023
    4
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  12. realWhiteMan
    Feb 4, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  13. DimaLuksha
    Aug 28, 2023
    4
    Single player-2 Multi player-6
  14. Veska
    Nov 11, 2021
    3
    Singleplayer

    One of the most dumbest AI ever. Really. Amazing cutsceens, but that is all. Boring character, stupid as hell. Recurring missions, 20 minutes of watching a "movie", 20 minutes of "playing". I will give this as an example. You slowly fire 60 rounds into the tank at the flamethrower so that the NPC at least starts to burn. Nothing. He'll just die. After his death, the same    Singleplayer

    One of the most dumbest AI ever. Really. Amazing cutsceens, but that is all. Boring character, stupid as hell. Recurring missions, 20 minutes of watching a "movie", 20 minutes of "playing". I will give this as an example. You slowly fire 60 rounds into the tank at the flamethrower so that the NPC at least starts to burn. Nothing. He'll just die. After his death, the same character you played for will follow the same method, but in the cutscene the NPC will set on fire. But you as a player will not do it....

    Multiplayer
    No words. This is one of the worst MP, that I ever played. Not only CoD games. Really. Gunplay doesnt work, matchmaking horrible, maps awfull and ugly as hell, recovery on the map in some modes you will die 30 times in a minute, because the game will throw you right next to the enemy.

    Zombies
    Forget that this mode would exist at all. The worst zombie mode of all CoD games. And the iconic and beloved weapons from previous episodes? They are not. Characters? They are not. Story? It's not.

    Just look at what kind of fools he gives 8 or more. Artificially created user accounts, which ideally "rates" on all platforms. I hope Meta intervenes and lubricates this solidly. The game, if I close all eyes and kill any realistic sight, does not deserve more than 3/10. And yes, I didn't have to buy the game, I got it. Unfortunately, the buyer did not keep a bill to return the ****    … Expand
  15. PS4_PC_LIFE
    Nov 8, 2021
    3
    notice how the majority of the reviewers aren't talking about the hacker problems and just rip on battlefield, wonder if they are actual gamers, because the story is mediocre, and the multiplayer is a nightmare filled with hackers. in its current state the game is DOA, Activision didn't even bother releasing its anti cheat on day one knowing full well the game was already broken at Beta.
  16. Pure14
    Nov 8, 2021
    3
    Single Player: As usual, short but good production value and interesting locations. Characters aren't memorable at all and neither is the overall story. Big set pieces and events which dazzle the eyes but lack realism and genuine historic portrayal. Multiplayer: Same old same old. Maps are awful for the most part, everyone uses the same couple of guns. Killstreaks are abysmally boring andSingle Player: As usual, short but good production value and interesting locations. Characters aren't memorable at all and neither is the overall story. Big set pieces and events which dazzle the eyes but lack realism and genuine historic portrayal. Multiplayer: Same old same old. Maps are awful for the most part, everyone uses the same couple of guns. Killstreaks are abysmally boring and rarely useful. Pretty much zero innovation other than a few semi destructible walls. Cheaters already flooding the game. Zombies: This one is just sad. 1 map. No real content. No goals. No easter egg. Simple staples like perks and packapunch have lost their flair. Really gone down hill since BO4. Funny how many bot reviews there are submitting 10's. Someone at Activision must've known this was a stinker.… Expand
  17. Se7so161
    Nov 7, 2021
    3
    The game is so bad multiplayer so slow bad animation bad sound effects bad guns nothing new graphics is too bad i cant believe this is call of dut im gonna skip this year zombie also bad campaign is the only good in the game
  18. Ilija8886
    Mar 21, 2022
    3
    Insecurity game
    Lack of service
    Lack of reporting as no answer! Positive Stuck Something happened before I played it after standing stuck! What the hell?!?!?! For what all the time service usually years underestimate us as gross! Every time I did I reported a topic something stuck playing but it is of course clean and perfect but weird why service is disrespectful???? Not just    Insecurity game
    Lack of service
    Lack of reporting as no answer!
    Positive Stuck Something happened before I played it after standing stuck!
    What the hell?!?!?!
    For what all the time service usually years underestimate us as gross!
    Every time I did I reported a topic something stuck playing but it is of course clean and perfect but weird why service is disrespectful???? Not just VANGAURD and those every year a different session before!
    How much how much can be said about ignoring service ??? Latest
    I usually like playing in CALL OF DUTY
    But Infinity Ward employees were really ashamed of themselves!
    Just a disparaging service issue!
    Hello look at us!
    You work gross!!!!!
    You must be awake!!!    … Expand
  19. MiguelD
    Sep 5, 2023
    3
    Invisible walls everywhere, weird scripted scenes, weird and stupid enemy and team AI. Awfull 'boss' fights. The flying scenes are not really flying scenes, you almost have no control. Endlessly talking about 'project Phoenix', while you never get to know what it actually is... . Not worth the money.
  20. Pavelprof
    Nov 10, 2021
    3
    Super down level and bad multiplayer...No narrative and poor level design. I do believe that the game is made in rush and they can make games better.
    For now 3/10
  21. Richard_dias
    Aug 14, 2023
    3
    Worst COD I've ever bought. Uninspired campaign, horrid multiplayer with total trash maps, and a lame zombies mode. That was the final nail on the coffin so I would not buy COD anymore, and I'm glad I did it. I'll just play the campaigns when they arrive on Game Pass and call it the day.
  22. Styx1337
    Nov 19, 2021
    3
    One of the buggiest pieces of software I came across. Multiplayer is barely playable, I receive "packet burst" nearly every 30secs and my game basically holds for one second. The Campaign regularly crashes my whole PC and I have to hard reset. My system works completely fine with any game btw. The play of the game clips after a Multiplayer game lags so bad, I can only watch 2 frames of theOne of the buggiest pieces of software I came across. Multiplayer is barely playable, I receive "packet burst" nearly every 30secs and my game basically holds for one second. The Campaign regularly crashes my whole PC and I have to hard reset. My system works completely fine with any game btw. The play of the game clips after a Multiplayer game lags so bad, I can only watch 2 frames of the whole intro. Still, the gameplay is pretty fun, but not worth the money.… Expand
  23. Solid83
    Nov 8, 2021
    3
    El juego el modo zombies es horrible es el peor de todos, los anteriores son mucho más entretenidos y el modo online es muy repetitivo y el modo historia tiene muchos bug pero que se pueden mejorar
  24. Hazix
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    Un apartado técnico sobresaliente, pero en mecánicas y gameplay es más de lo mismo :/
  25. doismiu
    Nov 10, 2021
    3
    Pretty good cinematic campaign, but too short. MP is more of the same and Zombies Mode is the worst of all franchise.
  26. TheNebeskyMuz
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Rly bad. Looks like mod for Modern Warfare 2019 . Also good sound, and cool graphic ! But not cool fully game.
  27. Supermanchebs
    Nov 17, 2021
    3
    If the game was working as intended, i would highly rate it as it has tight gunplay and good visuals. HOWEVER, the sheer amount of bugs and glitches plaguing this game is appalling and unacceptable for a supposed AAA game. Attachments that don't exist which makes challenges impossible to complete, invincible riot shield glitches and so on. Therefore i cannot with good conscience recommendIf the game was working as intended, i would highly rate it as it has tight gunplay and good visuals. HOWEVER, the sheer amount of bugs and glitches plaguing this game is appalling and unacceptable for a supposed AAA game. Attachments that don't exist which makes challenges impossible to complete, invincible riot shield glitches and so on. Therefore i cannot with good conscience recommend this trash...for now, at least until it get patched… Expand
  28. Turdoville
    Nov 21, 2021
    3
    The most atrocious and outdated piece of camping crap i've ever played. Enemy players were spawning in front of me. "No sound" skill is literally ruining the way to telegraph the threat, great against campers, but both of those thing are cancerous.
  29. P09XD371
    Nov 22, 2021
    3
    Common warzone plug:
    The plot is a checkpoint;
    Multiplayer is created purely for pumping weapons and knocking out skins;
    The cards are not balanced;
    ttk is too fast for such a game.
    So the game came out bad
  30. Rickmath13
    Nov 22, 2021
    3
    This is a disappointment , you had the game engine all ready done and can’t make the game right, let’s begin:
    The campaign is short wont go into details on it you have to play it your self- I thought they made the game like this so they can have a decent multiplayer mode right ? Wrong lets talk the multiplayer the mode that you’ll spend the rest of the time when finishing the campaign    This is a disappointment , you had the game engine all ready done and can’t make the game right, let’s begin:
    The campaign is short wont go into details on it you have to play it your self- I thought they made the game like this so they can have a decent multiplayer mode right ? Wrong lets talk the multiplayer the mode that you’ll spend the rest of the time when finishing the campaign (or if you don’t play it all the time then)

    Lets talk multiplayer
    1.horrible spawns - this is the first game I played experience I spawn with 3 enemies behind me , I seen enemies spawn in front of me.
    2.dominations- like #1 it looks like sledgehammer don’t know how to program if enemies already spawn camping a base they should rotate your spawns to the other side giving you a chance to take other bases but no you can get spawn camp in an instant if your team mates can eliminate enemies soon enough for them get in position.
    3.explosions are like smoke grenades- I seen a lot of explosions and you can’t even see a thing because they last way too long so it’s annoying seeing this.
    4.Bad balancing teams- a level 1 all ready paired with prestige’s 3 really they all ready have good weapons with attachments and you’re not even playing with players with your level because you unlock the ability to edit load outs in level 4 so hey sledgehammer at least pair people with same level so they can level up first and unlock some things so they can defend themself with higher rank people. ( and im aware the battle pass has some weapons you can unlock that have good attachment but this is for people that don’t buy battle passes or can’t because whatever reasons but even that they should pair people with same ranks at least to get the hang of it.)
    5.new shipment- Horrible experience lets say spawn camp city look for videos you will see what I mean.
    6. Hackers- don’t need to say anymore this was the reason I stoped playing war zone in the first place.

    The champion hill mode - I should say its the one I felt more enjoyable becase here its competitive yes but I never gotten spawned camp or anything bad here for the moment But for me its good played in the alpha in the ps5 and still think is good.

    This is the last one I have and one of the most disappointing thing I seen I can even say even lazies thing and it is the operators - the operators you’ll get at random you need to complete challenges to unlock them that’s fine but the main issue I have is there are no opposing team of operators like heroes vs villains like other call of duty games this I mean because everyone can use the same operators if you have a separated operators sides then you can distinguish team vs enemies because if you run on to someone no many times you can see the red icon on the head to know if they are friendly or not, people can say look at the map to know but you know look away for a second it can be penalizing for the bad spawns.

    The reason I think sledgehammer are very lazy is because this people didn’t even made the engine so most of the work is already done they just did a reskin of a game so there is no excuse for everything I mentioned here (except for the #3 since its my opinion of that) they could have done a better job of the multiplayer since its the place where most players will be and honestly like I said they didn’t make an game engine so all that time they would had spend doing it would at least make the game fun but honestly it isn’t .

    So this is my opinion , I respect what others said as well but I disagree with many people thinking the game is 100% great when clearly it isn’t , even the game got a free week to play to try getting more players to the game but honestly with this issues I don’t recommend anyone buy this game from 50-70 dollars I don’t feel it wort that by the current state because this game is rushed beyond believe even after getting a head start with the engine .

    So this is my review thanks for reading , if you see the game free sometime play it every one has their own opinions , maybe some of the issues are fixed latter on except the operators since they where lazy enough to not create different sides, but hope of the others issues are fixed.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 15, 2021
    63
    It’s hard to name a single thing about this game that’s worth your time. [Issue#257, p.54]
  2. Gamersky
    Dec 2, 2021
    82
    Call of Duty: Vanguard maintains the usual high level of production of the Call of Duty series, with an excellent cinematic narrative that allows players to have an audio-visual experience of being in the battlefield. The online content is also excellent, the new zombie mode has many good parts, but the thin content makes it difficult to retain players for a long time. Overall, it is still a popular FPS worth trying.
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  3. Het Nieuwsblad
    Nov 28, 2021
    60
    With Vanguard, Call of Duty returns to the roots of the series: World War II. The solo campaign is entertaining but short, and the multiplayer is exactly as expected: full of action and adrenalin. However, the few novelties are not spectacular enough to lift it above mediocrity.
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