Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

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  1. Piecefighter
    Nov 4, 2014
    3
    This is not fun, look at any youtube video of this game before you buy they all look the same. Uninspired maps, outdated engine, monotonous gameplay, laughably bad death rendering, cheap sound effects. Why are you doing this every year? You certainly are not doing it for the initiated gamer!
  2. TksAvenger
    Nov 4, 2014
    4
    The shallow attempt to advance this game have gone worthless. I bought it reading the reviews hoping it would be more like Titanfall. I was wrong. The physics are god awful, same as every Call of Duty Game. When you run, you become an easier target. The only thing that they changed has been the fact you can jump real high and climb up on stuff, which sounds cool at first, until you realizeThe shallow attempt to advance this game have gone worthless. I bought it reading the reviews hoping it would be more like Titanfall. I was wrong. The physics are god awful, same as every Call of Duty Game. When you run, you become an easier target. The only thing that they changed has been the fact you can jump real high and climb up on stuff, which sounds cool at first, until you realize you move really slow and jumping makes you a bigger/slower target (just like sprinting). So what will happen is, you will run into a room, and get shot in the back by a guy standing in the corner, Just like every other Call of Duty Game ever. The random respawns are horribly annoying because people spawn directly behind you and shoot you in the back. (classic call of duty) The story mode is a joke. I played through the entire Call of Duty Ghost's campaign and thought it was okay it was short but i liked it for the most part. But this is just horrible, The character progression the story, everything seems like a crappy fiction story someone wrote at 12 years old. The graphics are extremely overrated, Lots of terrible terrible environments made shiny by some filters, I wish I could attach some pictures highlighting this, but I cannot. Maybe I am not the best person to be reviewing this because I haven't enjoyed a COD game since MW2 but this game has not brought back anything to the franchise or added any truly new exciting features. Please just let Call of Duty die. Thanks… Expand
  3. Oxtone
    Nov 3, 2014
    4
    I have played every game from modern warfare 2 until this game and the spawn system is still frustratingly poor, the guns are in essence ghosts guns reskinned and the games lag is so unstable one game your unstoppable the next people are walking all over you, sure the graphics are a bit nicer but then its ps4 and i'd expect them to be better, the exo suits are this games twist but notI have played every game from modern warfare 2 until this game and the spawn system is still frustratingly poor, the guns are in essence ghosts guns reskinned and the games lag is so unstable one game your unstoppable the next people are walking all over you, sure the graphics are a bit nicer but then its ps4 and i'd expect them to be better, the exo suits are this games twist but not really ground breaking. I'm basing this review on the multiplayer as this is why i buy cod. If your a die hard fan im sure you'll love it, if not if you've played one you've played them all.… Expand
  4. ssweeting
    Nov 3, 2014
    0
    All the guns the same and the game modes the same as previous. Lots of grasshoppers everywhere. Total regurgitated from previous COD's. Totally boring but then I may be suffering from COD burnout. My advice save your money.
  5. partyintheback
    Nov 3, 2014
    1
    Short campaign. We beat it in 4 hours. Mediocre multiplayer. Seems like the creator of these games has stopped caring or something. Please put more effort into the next game. This isn't worth $60. Give to charity instead.
  6. Danny_UK
    Nov 3, 2014
    1
    More of the same. Another re-skin with slightly prettier graphics. The whole thing follows the formula of previous COD's and adds virtually nothing new. Remember 'that' All Gullied Up mission from COD 4 Modern Warfare? Well, it has been used YET AGAIN in Advanced Warfare, except this time your wearing a cloaking device instead. It starts of in predictable COD manner, on a plane that isMore of the same. Another re-skin with slightly prettier graphics. The whole thing follows the formula of previous COD's and adds virtually nothing new. Remember 'that' All Gullied Up mission from COD 4 Modern Warfare? Well, it has been used YET AGAIN in Advanced Warfare, except this time your wearing a cloaking device instead. It starts of in predictable COD manner, on a plane that is about to explode. And there is the bit where you have to hide and wait for yet another convoy to go by. It just recycles missions from past COD's again. I'm amazed that they even attempted to get away with this, again! It really is short of imagination. The only new things really are a "double jump" and a "dodge move". Advanced Warfare is touted as an all new game that will reignite the franchise. But i don't see how giving people more of the same is doing that. The Future setting has been done to death now too. And Advanced Warfare is basically Black Ops 2.5. It needs to go back to more realistic, current or past warfare. The graphics aren't anything special either. Because the game runs at 60FPS means the graphics have to take a hit. As a result, interiors etc feel very plain, and the maps in multiplayer are dead when it comes to detail and content. But that's the price you have to pay when you want a game to run at 60FPS. Multiplayer is also more of the same but with different guns and a few extra moves. But overall you won't really notice the difference and could easily mistake this for a past COD game that you've already played a million times over.… Expand
  7. Das2003
    Nov 3, 2014
    3
    Another year goes by and yet another dull and boring Call of Duty game gets released more streamlined than the previous game. Soon it will just be 1 level and 1 gun and everyone will look the same. Until then I think I've just bought my last Activision game. What an absolute waste of time and money. Someone in Activision must get a kick out of releasing the same game but with less guns andAnother year goes by and yet another dull and boring Call of Duty game gets released more streamlined than the previous game. Soon it will just be 1 level and 1 gun and everyone will look the same. Until then I think I've just bought my last Activision game. What an absolute waste of time and money. Someone in Activision must get a kick out of releasing the same game but with less guns and game modes that the previous edition. Black Ops was the best Call of Duty game since Modern Warfare. Demolition game mode will never be played again by me unless I re-purchase a PS3 or an Xbox 360 for me and my friends. Demolition was superb! Where is it? Does Activision not want its fans to have fun anymore? Besides the new graphics and the TitanFall-esque gameplay, this is just boring. 1 good point about the Activision games, they are the ONLY ones who allow people to host private matches, something that is void on every next gen game, PS4 anyways. Activision and Bungie are dead to me and I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER ATTEMPT OF A GAME FROM THEM AGAIN! UNLESS THEY HIRE TALENT FOR FUTURE RELEASES.… Expand
  8. Eradicate
    Nov 3, 2014
    0
    Yet again another Call of Boring! I really can't stand Activision or EA anymore and it's funny how people still buy this stuff. Why do people still pay $60 for the same game over and over? Beats me but I will never buy a EA or Activison game again (They ruin games). Maybe someday Gamers and not Lamers will know that they're just getting ripped off by these companies and will stop givingYet again another Call of Boring! I really can't stand Activision or EA anymore and it's funny how people still buy this stuff. Why do people still pay $60 for the same game over and over? Beats me but I will never buy a EA or Activison game again (They ruin games). Maybe someday Gamers and not Lamers will know that they're just getting ripped off by these companies and will stop giving them money for junk.… Expand
  9. FizzlesFTW
    Nov 4, 2014
    0
    Starts with 8 Hours of Game Downloading
    Followed by 2 Hours of Multiplayer Downloading
    Followed by 2 Hours of Multiplayer Installing
    Followed by 2 Seconds of Deleting from my PS4
    Followed by 2 Minutes of Disputing Charges on my Credit Card.
    Best download screens ever...
  10. JMEReviews
    Nov 3, 2014
    0
    The game is okay, but it feels like I got tricked by Activision into buying the same Call of Duty again. Mostly because they still use the same outdated 10 year old engine, but aside from that the graphics are nothing special. The exosuit mechanics are a fun addition, but it's nothing new or revolutionary; Crysis and Titanfall have done it already. But what really turned me off from theThe game is okay, but it feels like I got tricked by Activision into buying the same Call of Duty again. Mostly because they still use the same outdated 10 year old engine, but aside from that the graphics are nothing special. The exosuit mechanics are a fun addition, but it's nothing new or revolutionary; Crysis and Titanfall have done it already. But what really turned me off from the game was the same community. I'm not sure about you guys, but I do not enjoy listening to angry children and angsty teens being all butthurt and frustrated over the mic. Bottom line is that the game is entertaining and I will probably play it for a while, but even though I want to enjoy the game I can't, it's like trying to experience the same fun you had in modern warfare.… Expand
  11. Alpacalypse
    Nov 3, 2014
    3
    I never knew that Call of Duty needed to rip off a game made by its own **** developers. I'll give it credit for realizing that its own formula was growing stale, though. This time, they decided to combine visuals that are so good they physically hurt to look at with gameplay snagged right out of Titanfall to create a masterful work of ****
    Advanced Warfare may just well be the best Call    I never knew that Call of Duty needed to rip off a game made by its own **** developers. I'll give it credit for realizing that its own formula was growing stale, though. This time, they decided to combine visuals that are so good they physically hurt to look at with gameplay snagged right out of Titanfall to create a masterful work of ****
    Advanced Warfare may just well be the best Call of Duty game, if only because it tries to be Titanfall. Which was a damn good game, for all of its lack of content. It's just another call of duty run-and-gun antigravity mess, but now you can jump upwards like you've installed commando and attacked the sun, and you can dash to the side. Glad they're taking ideas from both Titanfall, and a flash game from 2001.

    So, originality? Not exactly this game's finest. But, to be fair, it works. It's an acceptable game, and it met my low expectations.
    TL;DR Literally painful visuals (It isn't **** cinematic, IGN, it looks like the characters have pedalbin trashcans on their heads when they talk. Their mouths flap open like god damn Goat Simulator.), an unoriginal concept that's executed in a boring way, gameplay that is now more **** and less predictable than CoD: Goats, and an acceptably made shooter overall.
    Still, this does more than most games at disproving the theory that games can be considered art. I don't think that anyone made ye olde mad stacks by ripping off the Mona Lisa once every **** year.    … Expand
  12. HiddenName
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Overall it again, copy, paste. Laziness on the whole. Still the same engine, added just flying. The campaign is very poor, I'll be honest switched off after less than an hour. Multiplayer copes despite the fact that the balance lies a whole. Do not waste your money.
  13. Jhahn505
    Aug 25, 2015
    0
    Worst COD in the series. During the first week of playing this I really enjoyed it and thought it was going to be one of my favorites. I stopped playing AW completely after less than a month. I've played every COD since MW4 except for AW for at least 3-4 months before getting bored of it. Two critical problems: 3D movement and time to kill. Both of these factors combined means that you'llWorst COD in the series. During the first week of playing this I really enjoyed it and thought it was going to be one of my favorites. I stopped playing AW completely after less than a month. I've played every COD since MW4 except for AW for at least 3-4 months before getting bored of it. Two critical problems: 3D movement and time to kill. Both of these factors combined means that you'll get shot in your blind areas and die quickly. My KD ratio has been 2+ since BLOPS 1 but in AW it was exactly 1.00. There's hardly any gunfights. That's what makes COD fun. That's the point. When you die very very quickly and can get shot from 18 different angles you and your enemy will just take turns killing each other in your blind spots. It's just boring as f*ck and the reason I stopped playing. The reason I'm writing this review is because I've just recently read about the BLOPS 3 beta to see if it uses the same movement system/TTK as this game. If it's anything like AW count me out for good.… Expand
  14. TimTheBearded
    Oct 1, 2015
    3
    To be blunt this is not Call of Duty. I dont understand why Activision feels like it needs to keep pushing Call of Duty into the future. Exo suits, lazer guns, and cloaking is not what Call of Duty should be. The only reason I feel AW deserves a 3 is because the map design is very well done and Activision finally added a loot system.
  15. Cebola
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Sledgehammer had a cool idea, but it didn't work and the game is poor, unfortunately. I think the exo movements were exaggerated, and it made the game boring and unbalanced.
  16. Steelers412
    Nov 5, 2014
    1
    Ghost was a terrible game so I guess they decided "Hey! Lets make and even WORSE game!"
    The guns are total trash, the maps suck and everyone jumps 50ft in the air whenever you try to shoot them, thats if they don't go invisible 1st! Way too futuristic and corny! Black Ops 2 looks like its still going to be going strong!!
  17. 00000000001
    Apr 26, 2015
    3
    I considered mw3 the worst call of duty of all time and strongly believed no game in this franchise could possibly take its crown, until now. Advanced warfare makes mw3 look like call of duty 4 in comparison, it is a absolute, unconditional disaster with little to no redeeming value.

    Starting with the single player, a 4 hour linear shooter with very little story, just you a gun and    I considered mw3 the worst call of duty of all time and strongly believed no game in this franchise could possibly take its crown, until now. Advanced warfare makes mw3 look like call of duty 4 in comparison, it is a absolute, unconditional disaster with little to no redeeming value.

    Starting with the single player, a 4 hour linear shooter with very little story, just you a gun and mowing down endless "bad guys". The voice acting is excellent, but countless quick time events and no character building lead to an irritating, bland and very forgettable single-player experience. If you buy cod for its single-player(not like anyone does) spending £40 for Kevin Spacey(who is House of Cards, but more militarised) is a waste, spend it on lots of prescription drugs to give to your friends who play the multiplayer.

    People may not care about Kevin's wacky antics in the single-player and buy this game solely for it multiplayer experience. Well advanced warfare's multiplayer is so bad it does a disservice to it's licence; the spawns are broken with you constantly being shot almost immediately after you spawn in. There is no gun balance, its Bal-27 or ASM-1 otherwise you will just lose every gunfight to the player using those guns(which is everyone). The maps are terrible too small very little verticality, so no real use to the exosuits. Instead of building a game around the exosuits they built a standard call of duty game and threw them in thinking it would work. There is a good reason Titanfall's maps are big and its not just because they have huge robots fighting in them. But all of these issues become somewhat minor when the hit detection in the game is broken, very broken. Its next gen consoles and still Activision will not fork out the money for dedicated servers, peer to peer is **** will they get the memo? Unlikely. The hit reg does not work you will die with no visual recognition of it, you just fall over; you will be constantly killed through sight lines that are blocked with obstacles or shoot first only for the game to disregard your bullets in favour of your opponents. The whole thing feels like pure luck instead of skill.

    The question must be asked is, is it worth your money? With all of the above you can guess absolutely not, maybe if it is was £20, but at its current price definitely not.    … Expand
  18. Luhgnut
    Nov 6, 2014
    1
    How much skill does a player need to rage in COD:Advanced Warfare? Not much apparently. This game is like Unreal Tournament 2000 with all cheats enabled for everyone.

    I've never experienced a game, where the developers main focus is to allow players to use "cheats" that would get you banned in other games. Those being: I can see through walls with my gun sight (wall hack). I can    How much skill does a player need to rage in COD:Advanced Warfare? Not much apparently. This game is like Unreal Tournament 2000 with all cheats enabled for everyone.

    I've never experienced a game, where the developers main focus is to allow players to use "cheats" that would get you banned in other games. Those being:

    I can see through walls with my gun sight (wall hack). I can shoot through walls (another wall hack). Another gun site lights up all players in front of you in bright red (Skinning Hack). Another gun will track onto lit up targets (Aimbot). Now if that isn't enough to make you an uber player... let's bring in the toys..... shall we? We now have "Homing Grenades" yes, the hand grenades can be tossed in the general direction of the enemy and they will home in onto them, no defense. You have hand grenades that light up every player camping in a building. So I pull out my no skill, shoot through a wall gun, and casually kill everyone. - Homing drones. Yes, boys and girls, you can take this paper airplane looking thing... toss it into the air without a care in the world, and it will fly over the battlefield and when it sees someone, homes in on them. Now, we have drones, that allow everyone to see everyone on the battlefield. A player tosses one of these no brainers into the air, and other players on the team, can join in on the fun, and rain hell down on everybody. And since it sees everyone on the field. You can kill everyone pretty easy. Lightning strikes obliterate anyone in it's path. Cover or no cover. If it flys over, you're dead.

    Oh the nifty new dodge feature/gimmick. It allows you to glitch your movement. It's not fluid, and it looks stupid, because the animation is stuck while you do it. And it lights you up on the minimap instantly when you bolt a few feet in a direction. Then you're dead because since the maps are so small, everyone can shoot everyone as long as you can see them. Since everyone can pretty much see everyone, what's the point? You may as well avoid all that, remove the buildings. Put everyone on a flat surface and give them all uzi's.

    Sound is horrid. Simply horrid. My surround sound headphones that are normally filled battle sounds and positional sound mapping, is confusing, because sounds just go in and out at random. Very quiet battles. Nobody yelling, nobody saying anything.

    Oh a shotgun can be silenced. Shoots like a full automatic rifle, and sounds like a small handgun. The positional 3D should be disabled, because where the footsteps seem to be coming from one direction, they are actually someplace else, because the sound processing is so weak, it's confusing. Turn off your surround sound gear because it makes things worse.

    Graphics.... ON a high end graphics card, it is pretty bad. No shading, I don't see any benefit for having shadows on, because you really can't see them, but they do appear to have a negative impact on performance,.... shut them off, because they aren't needed and will make things worse.

    Maps are tiny. Tiny tiny. If you play Battlefield, Imagine taking a server of 24 people. Cram them all between A and B objectives on Metro. You get the idea. That's what ALL the maps are like. A smaller, crammed full small Rush Metro map. That's their "Conquest" size map. I get claustrophobic just loading into the map. If you want a quality, fast shooter, that requires some skill... Go play Titanfall. It's much more of everything COD:AW wants to be and more.

    I wasn't a COD hateboy before buying this, but I am now. This is a joke. If you like it...good for you, but you must be seriously, easily amused or on a console. This is not PC gaming material. It's nearly an insult.    … Expand
  19. soapmctavish
    Nov 15, 2014
    4
    I am giving this one a middle of the road campaign is engaging and great but the online multiplayer not so much I will stick with BO2 and MW3 -I think ghosts is better! The leveling sucks the exo suit is stupid this game is no different than titanfall or Halo fine if you like that type of sci fi shooter but I like military war games like Battlefield and previous cod. This is our own faultI am giving this one a middle of the road campaign is engaging and great but the online multiplayer not so much I will stick with BO2 and MW3 -I think ghosts is better! The leveling sucks the exo suit is stupid this game is no different than titanfall or Halo fine if you like that type of sci fi shooter but I like military war games like Battlefield and previous cod. This is our own fault we keep asking them to re invent the series it doesnt need that ! Just refinement like playing against players of close ranking so it doesnt suck for the guy that is a 20 or 60 helps both groups combat training sucks you dont earn any XP same with ranked play. Ghosts got it right with the weapo system. maps where great you cant just run around like an idiot and hip shoot. They erased all of that with this one. People complained about maps being to large in Ghosts -they shouldve tweeked ghosts a little this is not what I was hoping for graphics are great but gameplay in multi sucks def dont buy new by the way I purchased the advanced warfare xbox one package -I have it for the 360 as well save your money ! used for $25 in a few months the campaign is worth the price but not for full price! Between em all people hate ghosts but that and bo2 are getting my time online
    good luck
    campaign -A

    Multiplayer D
    battlefield hardline comes out soon if it is good might not be coming back to COD series    … Expand
  20. RazerN
    Nov 5, 2014
    2
    The game is ok, certainly better than ghosts. Not a big fan of the futuristic feel and weapons, more old school but the balance works well. However I am giving the low score for feeling ripped off, the game costs £55 and feels lacking in content. But wait, We could pay £90 and get all the content they could have included in the main game if they were not trying to rip us off. Fed up withThe game is ok, certainly better than ghosts. Not a big fan of the futuristic feel and weapons, more old school but the balance works well. However I am giving the low score for feeling ripped off, the game costs £55 and feels lacking in content. But wait, We could pay £90 and get all the content they could have included in the main game if they were not trying to rip us off. Fed up with companies peddling extra content straight after the release which they could have easily included.… Expand
  21. ratcat
    Nov 4, 2014
    2
    The game had me in at the start looks very impressive but that was it, single player was a bit slow crap to be honest played fist mission and that was it for that. Online that lasted 5 mins in to multiplayer LAG Same Same peer to peer . I was hope-ing they would have dedicated severs on the new format wrong """""""""""SOLD THE GAME"""""""
  22. theFPSyoungGOD
    Nov 6, 2014
    4
    better than ghosts by a long way but i dont think the suits are a welcomed addition...also the co op thing is so boring compared to other cods and it seems so laggy as well.
  23. Furyus01
    Nov 6, 2014
    3
    This is the worst online experience I've ever played without a doubt! I just posted a YouTube video (same user name) showing me shoot a full clip at a guy who wasn't moving and not 1 bullet hit. This is common for me with this game because I have really fast Internet and they went back to peer to peer matchmaking. Worse than anything the algorithm they use allows up to an 800 ping toThis is the worst online experience I've ever played without a doubt! I just posted a YouTube video (same user name) showing me shoot a full clip at a guy who wasn't moving and not 1 bullet hit. This is common for me with this game because I have really fast Internet and they went back to peer to peer matchmaking. Worse than anything the algorithm they use allows up to an 800 ping to host! Lag is everywhere and it is literally unplayable for me (see video if you don't believe me). I'm gonna give it a 4 because the single player functions properly. What a disappointment and I bought the bundle. Save your money for GTA 5, Far Cry 4, Dying Light, and Battlefield Hardline that will have dedicated servers like a proper online multiplayer. If you're competitive DON'T BUY IT… Expand
  24. xenopred426
    Mar 18, 2015
    2
    Boring game they should have just remastered Cod 4, MW2 and Waw.
    Campaign was decent and enjoyable however the multiplayer got boring very quickly. The killstreaks were dull yet again.
  25. Cookiebooky
    Jan 4, 2015
    4
    Multiplayer sucks so much. Get ready for the worth spawnpoints in CoD history. Getting killed from rooftop campers. Borong weps. Dull sound effects and boring maps. Most important thing: where is the switch to turn VOIP off or perma mute all. Missing a lot of fun gamemodes as seen in BO2, MW3 and Ghosts
    Boring infected gamemode. Only one weapon...
    Graphic have been improved but not    Multiplayer sucks so much. Get ready for the worth spawnpoints in CoD history. Getting killed from rooftop campers. Borong weps. Dull sound effects and boring maps. Most important thing: where is the switch to turn VOIP off or perma mute all. Missing a lot of fun gamemodes as seen in BO2, MW3 and Ghosts
    Boring infected gamemode. Only one weapon...

    Graphic have been improved but not that great.

    Good things: Nice Singleplayer, tho short, even on veteran. Loot system is nice.    … Expand
  26. toaplan
    Mar 13, 2015
    4
    No likey! This is the game that was supposed to revitalize the CoD series? Gimme a break... The campaign was barely enjoyable. The first half was good with all the Kevin Spacey cutscenes, but the second half was a chore to play through. Clearly they just ran out of ideas. The only thing that kept me going was the Spacey cutscenes and I also liked the supporting "Ilona" character. MultipratNo likey! This is the game that was supposed to revitalize the CoD series? Gimme a break... The campaign was barely enjoyable. The first half was good with all the Kevin Spacey cutscenes, but the second half was a chore to play through. Clearly they just ran out of ideas. The only thing that kept me going was the Spacey cutscenes and I also liked the supporting "Ilona" character. Multiprat was bad as always and they even managed to screw up the brilliant survival mode from MW3, which was now full of all kinds of annoying, unavoidable and even invisible enemies. Grrr....… Expand
  27. UnisurSpudda
    Dec 28, 2014
    0
    I felt the need to drop a steaming deuce on the disc before returning to scamstop for my petty 5$ reward. Developers seem to be glaring at cash while masturbating instead of creating decent games.
  28. neowizp
    Mar 26, 2015
    3
    Always will prefer the Black Ops II in my opinion , but this game could come better.
    Graphics still the same , Campaign very short , didn't like the fact of there's weapons and maps of 2020.
    Still a good game , good on-line game with kinda news games type and very easy to shot someone when they're running.
  29. pedalyourbike
    Jan 14, 2015
    1
    With the SBMM in this game and lag compensation, this game is the worst of all COD's. PEOPLE WONT DIE. Then after you put 7 clips of mags into them they turn around and shoot you with one bullet. Most of the time I am around the wall and they still kill me. Makes no sense. They have ruined this game. I am a 2kd player and they penalize me for being good against noobs. No thanks.
  30. GeneralSnivy
    Jan 19, 2015
    4
    Another year, another Call of Duty. After the atrocity that was Call of Duty Ghosts, I was hoping and praying that Advanced Warfare will be "The One." I was hoping that this Call of Duty will be the one to allow me to have fun with the series again and really invest my time into it with little frustrations, rage and **** Well guess what; this game seriously blows! (In other words, itAnother year, another Call of Duty. After the atrocity that was Call of Duty Ghosts, I was hoping and praying that Advanced Warfare will be "The One." I was hoping that this Call of Duty will be the one to allow me to have fun with the series again and really invest my time into it with little frustrations, rage and **** Well guess what; this game seriously blows! (In other words, it sucks!) Why does it suck? I'll go over that in a little while. I'm going to break down the game into two sections: The single player campaign, and the multiplayer.

    Campaign:
    This Call of Duty's campaign was pretty decent. Sure, it's another one of them linear Michael Bay campaigns but this time, it has Keven Spacy. The graphics during the campaign (On next gen consoles anyway) are really well done. There's more color than Ghosts and it looks really nice and most environments have "life" in them, which is a breath of fresh air. The story was pretty interesting, but still nowhere near as good as the story from the Modern Warfare games. It was still a fun ride none the less and I wouldn't mind playing through it again sometime in the future. The music during the campaign is forgettable and there aren't really any songs that stick out to me, which is sad. Granted, no Call of Duty is known for their soundtracks. Speaking of sound, the guns sound very week and most of them sound like popping popcorn or marshmallows. I've heard better gun sounds from Super Smash Brothers on the N64 than I've heard from this game. Overall, campaign is good, but not great. 6/10 for campaign.

    Multiplayer:
    Multiplayer, for me, is the meat and potatoes of any Call of Duty game as of Modern Warfare. Multiplayer is what drives me to come back to the game after beating the campaign to have some fun and kill some time. Sledgehammer promised a lot of things going into this game's multiplayer including the ever elusive, dedicated servers. Unfortunately, this is where the game falls flat on its face! There are no dedicated servers as far as I'm aware and the lag in this game's multiplayer makes the game nearly unplayable! What's worse is that there is Skill Based Matchmaking in the game's multiplayer! On paper, SBMM isn't a bad idea, but the way the developers over at Sledgehammer implemented it into this game's multiplayer was very badly executed! The main problem is that SBMM takes priority over connection when trying to find a multiplayer match! Nine times out of ten, I will be paired up against Mexicans, French people, and some from Spain and Japan to boot! I live in the United States and I should be matched up against people from the US! Now that we have a bad netcode, SBMM, and lack of players for this installment, people have resorted to manipulating the system to get into better lobbies by Reverse Boosting to lower their stats. I'm ok with this because it doesn't affect me. Hell, I've done it myself and I too, have experienced better connection games. The problem with this is that it's frowned upon the community and it'll get you banned. The other problem with SBMM is that people who want to play the game casually can't because everyone is using the most "Try hard" classes possible and they are forced to do the same! That's another thing I find wrong here is the weapon balance. The weapon balance is some of the worse I've ever seen. During the beginning month of Advanced Warfare, everybody and their grandmother was using the BAL-27 assault rifle. Assault rifles dominated this game's multiplayer because all other weapon classes were pea shooters. Sledgehammer did eventually rebalanced some of the weapons, but now everyone uses either the BAL-27 assault rifle or the ASM1sub machine gun. I hear that Sledgehammer will rebalance a lot more weapons within an upcoming patch, but I'm not holding my breath. One more thing I hate is that most score streaks are useless! They hardly get any kills and aren't satisfying to use!

    Now that I've gotten the bad things out of my system, it's time to talk about some good things, but they are far and in between. First thing I like, customizable score streaks. I like making my UAV be able to carry on through death and make it detect enemies through walls. It's a nice idea and it was implemented well for the most part. Second, the Supply Drops. Good idea. I like earning weapon variants that can sometimes redeem a bad weapon. If the variant sucks, I can redeem it for XP which is nice. Another thing I like is the virtual firing range. It allows you to try out guns before actually using them in multiplayer matches.

    Multiplayer score wise: 2/10

    Overall, this game is the second worst Call of Duty since Call of Duty Ghosts! The campaign is good but it isn't enough to redeem its bad multiplayer! The game had a lot of promises but utterly fall short for what could've been the best Call of Duty ever made.

    That'll do it for this review. If you read through the entire review, thank you for taking the time to read it! Bye for now    … Expand
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#26 Best PS4 Game of 2014
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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. Games Master UK
    Dec 30, 2014
    83
    The multiplayer maps need work, but otherwise this is the best Call of Duty game in years. [Jan 2015, p.66]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Dec 28, 2014
    80
    A welcome outsider take on a consistent series, increasing the pace still further in online multiplayer to fantastic effect. However, solo play feels a bit safe in comparison. [Christmas 2014, p.79]
  3. Play UK
    Dec 18, 2014
    87
    The best Call of Duty release since Black Ops. [Issue#251, p.62]
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