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. Shirasu
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    Played it for like 2h and im already exhausted from the bad design and how unrewarded the true skill is.
  2. sora63
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    - Campagne vite fais oublier direct
    - Zombie quasiment vide
    - Multijoueur nul
  3. PrimeGlaz
    Nov 19, 2021
    2
    Typical Activision... Another yearly release and another terrible story, dont get me started on the multiplayer.
  4. jts2
    Nov 20, 2021
    1
    Absolute garbage. I played for several hours in the open multiplayer beta and deleted it the same day. This review will cover only multiplayer. Note that I haven’t played CoD seriously since BO3.

    Pros - • weapon customization Cons - • historically inaccurate, sometimes criminally • awful multiplayer maps • bad spawns (spawning behind enemies or even in front of them) • guns either kill    Absolute garbage. I played for several hours in the open multiplayer beta and deleted it the same day. This review will cover only multiplayer. Note that I haven’t played CoD seriously since BO3.

    Pros -
    • weapon customization

    Cons -
    • historically inaccurate, sometimes criminally
    • awful multiplayer maps
    • bad spawns (spawning behind enemies or even in front of them)
    • guns either kill in two shots or are hit marker simulators, there is no middle ground
    • kill streaks (instead of score streaks) encourage players to play TDM in every game mode and ignore objectives
    • boring kill streak rewards
    • so many explosions and particles that you literally cannot see anything in some maps (my particles were turned all the way down!)
    • way too much flair with very little substance

    Play the open beta and see for yourself. Don’t waste your money on this garbage.    … Expand
  5. Pyter
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    Very bad overall. Firing is kinda not fun. Hit boxes are random. Maps are or too big or too small. You respawn next to enemies to get killed and repeat. The worst Call of Duty.
  6. Barkman117
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Call of Duty Vanguard ist einfach schlecht und natürlich skillbase matchmaking muss wieder drin sein Schmutz!!!… Expand
  7. andrey2866
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Activision has revealed the first trailer for the zombie mode Call of Duty: Vanguard. There is a version completely in Russian.Although everyone who wanted to, already had time to watch it a few hours before the premiere due to a failure of YouTube algorithms. edgehammer Games, Treyarch and Activision publishing still showed the first trailer of the zombie mode Call of Duty: Vanguard with hordes of monsters, threatening speeches of villains and Billy Ailish. This time it's official.

    Now you can watch it not only in normal resolution and quality, but also completely in Russian.

    The game will be released on November 5 on personal computers, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X / Series.
    Reveal Trailer | Call of Duty: Vanguard.
    https://shrinke.me/j9xGbm    … Expand
  8. AboJRa7
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    Very bad and repetition and there is nothing new just exploitation of money and players
  9. Steven233
    Nov 21, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If they don't fix the modders on this game I will never buy another Call of Duty game ever again and neither should you. Modders are RAMPANT on MW and Warzone and they're doing absolutely nothing about it do you know why? Because they're making money off of you being cheated and they don't give a fk..They don't want to ban them because they are a customer base and they don't want them to quit buying their games or give them negative reviews. Why pay all that money just to get online to be cheated? The ONLY players at the top of the leader boards are modders so if you buy this game get ready to spend a whole lot more money on mods just to be able to compete. I see people modding on Vanguard and eventually they will let them take the game completely over. Another thing that I've seen on Warzone is them trying to influence small children and young adults into being ga by including all of the sick creep flags on the calling cards. That makes me want to vomit. Nobody with a brain wants to see that and they should be sued over it along with the fact that they're soliciting drug use to children as well. Quit giving these creeps your money.… Expand
  10. Mr-Mlook-SA
    Nov 24, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A very bad game on the zombie hand........................................!… Expand
  11. Dallsolso
    Nov 27, 2021
    1
    Horrible multiplayer. Bugs all over the place and generally unplayable. The playerbase seems to enjoy toxicity and the heavily expanded gunsmith is a little jarring.
  12. snackpants
    Dec 1, 2021
    2
    Another boring, bland entry into this tired franchise that will have people grinding for camos and purchasing six or seven battle passes until next years' entry arrives, so they can do it all over again. And again. And again.
  13. htmn
    Dec 8, 2021
    0
    Another trash of duty. Unbalanced guns, lots of bugs, zombie mod is boring, bugged mvp system. Maps looks pretty cool, but boring, nothing new, just grind the guns and camos for new warzone pacific map. Waste of time and your mental health. You can connect to lobby with flamethrowers killing your entire team, bad respawn spots in front of enemies. After every round you have to watch thatAnother trash of duty. Unbalanced guns, lots of bugs, zombie mod is boring, bugged mvp system. Maps looks pretty cool, but boring, nothing new, just grind the guns and camos for new warzone pacific map. Waste of time and your mental health. You can connect to lobby with flamethrowers killing your entire team, bad respawn spots in front of enemies. After every round you have to watch that stupid mvp broken moment and vote for "best players"..… Expand
  14. Nerby
    Dec 9, 2021
    0
    Видимо у студии не было отдела тестирования, иначе я не понимаю, откуда в игре столько багов. Сюжетная кампания отвратительна. Я бы уволил того геймдизайнера, который додумался, вы не поверите, летящую под углом посылку, которая отскочит от земли и полетит за края карты. Графика тоже ужасная, т.к. эффекты перекрывают всю видимость... Я как фанат колды в очередной раз разочарован. Даже CodВидимо у студии не было отдела тестирования, иначе я не понимаю, откуда в игре столько багов. Сюжетная кампания отвратительна. Я бы уволил того геймдизайнера, который додумался, вы не поверите, летящую под углом посылку, которая отскочит от земли и полетит за края карты. Графика тоже ужасная, т.к. эффекты перекрывают всю видимость... Я как фанат колды в очередной раз разочарован. Даже Cod bo4 приносила мне хоть какое-то удовольствие.… Expand
  15. romakit90
    Dec 10, 2021
    0
    To many bags. Trash game. DO NOT BUY WITH MONEY! To many bags. Trash game. DO NOT BUY WITH MONEY!
  16. blood_ra91
    Dec 19, 2021
    0
    The game is full of historically inaccuracies, and also exposes the Soviet Union in a disgusting way.
  17. kratos1618
    Dec 25, 2021
    0
    Worst cod ever made! Game have very serious serwer issues, lags and bugs. Vanguard is a woke garbage save your money.
  18. ramkun
    Jan 13, 2022
    0
    Worst system, worst server, worst balance.
    And Sledgehammer Games is completely unaware of Vanguard's problems.
  19. Matheus420
    Apr 12, 2022
    0
    lixo dos lixos !!! spawn horroroso ! cheio de bugs !! armas desbalanceadas !! nao vale nem de graça essa bosta !!!
  20. Alexpress94
    Mar 18, 2022
    0
    The worst game I've ever played. It feels like a PS2 game. Poor graphics, bad sounds, ugly maps. There is nothing I like about it.
  21. ukrScorpion
    Dec 18, 2021
    2
    Bugs and lags!
    Disapheared xp for guns, disapheared cp point!
    many cheathers!
    and this is just a few surprises from activision and Sledgehammer Games for us
    I'm sure after playing you will find new and specially created for you!)))
  22. Raziels
    Jan 2, 2022
    0
    El peor Call of Duty que he visto junto al resto de los anteriores años en cuanto SBMMM, Activision da puto asco con sus políticas de mierda. Multijugador roto desde el día de lanzamiento, accesorios en las armas que están mal y que hacen que algunas armas te maten de dos balas o menos, mapas horribles para beneficiar a los camperos, todo el mundo sacando la rachita de los perros, deberíaEl peor Call of Duty que he visto junto al resto de los anteriores años en cuanto SBMMM, Activision da puto asco con sus políticas de mierda. Multijugador roto desde el día de lanzamiento, accesorios en las armas que están mal y que hacen que algunas armas te maten de dos balas o menos, mapas horribles para beneficiar a los camperos, todo el mundo sacando la rachita de los perros, debería de llamarse COD Dog, una optimización pésima en el que caen los fps en el multijugador muchas veces
    El emparejamiento por habilidad es el cancer de estos juegos desde hace tiempo y Activision no le da la gana de quitarlo, parece que estás jugando la final de la liga de COD contra tryhards de mierda que parece que se están ganando un premio de miles de dolares.

    Una plaga de hackers en pc y en consola con cronus Zen más de uno que es descaradísimo y todo el mundo aplaudiendo que el Ricocheat era la salvación xD

    Un modo campaña mediocre y el modo zombies es el peor que he visto en mi vida, donde quedaron los modos zombies de COD5, Black Ops 1 y 2 etc, hasta el de Cold War es infinitamente mejor en el modo Outbreak.

    En definitiva una estafa que lo único que hacen es sacar skins de pago en su tienda a 20 pavos y que ni se molestan en devolver la diversión que muchos hemos podido disfrutar con juegos como MW2, me rio en la cara de aquellos que siguen defenfiendo que los anteriores Cods por 2012 ya tenían SBMM cuando eran por conexión. Ni se os ocurra comprar este juego ni aunque esté rebajas, os aseguro que os vais a enfadar mucho    … Expand
  23. zyphir77
    Dec 10, 2021
    2
    This game is complete trash that was crammed down our throats. The only reason I bought this piece of garbage was to level the guns for warzone which is another depressing story as well. Warzone was finally in a good state in terms of weapon balance and now we have all this world war 2 **** tossed in to **** up the balance for another 6 months. The guns take WAY too long to level,This game is complete trash that was crammed down our throats. The only reason I bought this piece of garbage was to level the guns for warzone which is another depressing story as well. Warzone was finally in a good state in terms of weapon balance and now we have all this world war 2 **** tossed in to **** up the balance for another 6 months. The guns take WAY too long to level, especially considering the zombies and multiplayer modes are not in any way fun or engaging. This was just another low effort cash grab.… Expand
  24. Nstarnoe
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    Super fun.... for about 2 hours

    Disregarding the bug and errors (of which there are many and which we know will never be fixed), after about 2 hours the sbmm will kick in and the game is unplayable.

    Not because of sbmm per say, but the game will start mactching you with so wide that the desync is about 2 x ttk. Which makes the game completly unplayable
  25. Donald6000
    Dec 23, 2021
    2
    The campaign was fun but I quickly ran out of steam and couldn’t be bothered to finish it.

    Multiplayer was a mess of bad spawns, boring guns and terrible audio. Zombie mode got boring after 20 minutes but I always get bored of zombie mode. Warzone is where the game really gets messy, guns that are big black spikes, sometimes no guns at all. Buildings that don’t load fast enough, so you    The campaign was fun but I quickly ran out of steam and couldn’t be bothered to finish it.

    Multiplayer was a mess of bad spawns, boring guns and terrible audio.

    Zombie mode got boring after 20 minutes but I always get bored of zombie mode.

    Warzone is where the game really gets messy, guns that are big black spikes, sometimes no guns at all. Buildings that don’t load fast enough, so you can see through them. A crampus that isn’t very popular… or animated. Audio that sounds like someone’s messing with the audio jack, or doesn’t make a sound at all (footsteps) a new map that looks like it was designed for the N64 one minute then more modern the next.    … Expand
  26. SkDok
    Dec 24, 2021
    1
    Я ставлю только 1 балл за графику, у меня есть претензии которые я распишу в 2х словах, 1. Немцы были жестокие. 2. Русская девушка - феминистка. 3. Возрождение в мультиплеере ужасны. 4. баланс оружия ужасен.
  27. kaczan3
    Jul 23, 2022
    0
    Absolute garbage. I'd never pay for Call of Feminism, that teaches us that women won the WW2, or ever give money to Activision-Blizzard, but there's a free weekend now for this game.
    The game takes ages to load, even on M.2 drive. When you try to skip the cringe cinematic too fast, the game freezes. Then it takes ages to find a game (even with cross-platform and during the free weekend).    Absolute garbage. I'd never pay for Call of Feminism, that teaches us that women won the WW2, or ever give money to Activision-Blizzard, but there's a free weekend now for this game.
    The game takes ages to load, even on M.2 drive. When you try to skip the cringe cinematic too fast, the game freezes. Then it takes ages to find a game (even with cross-platform and during the free weekend). And when you finally get to play the game, it's just garbage.

    Fun fact: Blizzard was taken to the court in a a lawsuit for 100 million dollars (judging by a similar RIOT lawsuit) for saying mean things about chicks. But the script writer for this game (same company), a woke chick, openly says about men (on her twitter) worse things than what Blizzard employees ALLEGEDLY said in privite about chicks. But of course she wasn't even fired. This is the world we live in.    … Expand
  28. Gregos_Basilio
    Oct 19, 2022
    0
    дуже погана гра. знову сильні жінки і чорні. набридло це вже. феменістки і чорні ідіт нахуй. ви лиш ігри портите
  29. Dethstarr
    Dec 7, 2021
    1
    Really like Black Ops Cold War. Which is still a game I play constantly. So I was excited to see this.
    This game play feels like Warzone, whereas, I like Black Ops Cold War and this feels like Warzone all the way.
    A big issue for me was the poor level design. It just felt like something was worse than what I already have. The guns felt really off and unsatisfying and I didn't like    Really like Black Ops Cold War. Which is still a game I play constantly. So I was excited to see this.
    This game play feels like Warzone, whereas, I like Black Ops Cold War and this feels like Warzone all the way.
    A big issue for me was the poor level design. It just felt like something was worse than what I already have. The guns felt really off and unsatisfying and I didn't like the way they customise or the lack of variety, which is not done half so well as they do in Black Ops Cold War.

    I absolutely despised the interface for all of that. It was awful and felt like a step backwards.

    They kept focusing on these corny character narratives and animations. Whereas I just couldn't care less. I just wanted a good multiplayer experience with lots of weapons and a range of decent maps.
    But it was not there. Even the graphics look like a downgrade to me. But I thought it was the same engine so I do not see why that happened. It feels like they focused more on cutscenes and characters I couldn't care less about, than gameplay and maps.

    The cutscenes drove me really nuts. If I wanted to watch an animated movie, I would buy one. Not a game. It was like when you have a movie you love, then a sequel comes along, made in today's hollywood environment, and it totally destroys it. Had to refund it as it doesn't really want to be a game. It wants to be a movie and the lack of focus on gameplay really shows where it matters

    Maybe it will mature. Remove the nonsense cutscenes, create far better maps. Which means less restrictive maps of a reasonable size. Remove the super annoying barriers to where you can go on maps. Sort out the weirdly inconsistent graphics.

    It desperately needs more weapons and customisation to earn progression and motivate me to play.

    They went off on a really odd direction with this, breaking the things I really like about Black Ops Cold War and trying to make an animated movie. Even the campaign is unplayable. Super scripted to the point you feel like you don't really matter that much.

    For me COD is a multiplayer game. This went backwards in a big way.    … Expand
  30. Thunerbolt
    Dec 17, 2021
    1
    Okay!- its just a game- relax! No I won't.
    Weapons wrong, tanks wrong, designs on them is wrong, players are not accurate soldiers to say the least.
    This game is a woke joke. Everything wrong with Americas education system all wrapped up with a bow on top. Our guys that lived the horrors of WW2 deserve better. These kids are playing these games and may be learning at the same time. Their    Okay!- its just a game- relax! No I won't.
    Weapons wrong, tanks wrong, designs on them is wrong, players are not accurate soldiers to say the least.
    This game is a woke joke. Everything wrong with Americas education system all wrapped up with a bow on top. Our guys that lived the horrors of WW2 deserve better. These kids are playing these games and may be learning at the same time. Their liberal teacher isn't making sure they have accurate history so now they grow up thinking that a woman who looks like shes from Panama with a red sash is a WW2 commando. Russian women snipers? Fine I get it. Also love how nazis are faceless and called "the right" when in reality they were National Socialists- same as the socialist you might find in America on the democrat "Left" in America today. They made this game in a hurry. These designers better pull their head out of their #%+!    … Expand
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72

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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