Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

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5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1815 Ratings

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  1. 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
  2. jstanothergamr
    Nov 5, 2014
    4
    To give you an idea.. Battlefield 4 made me want to switch to COD.. then COD AW made me want to switch back to Battlefield

    After taking a break from Call Of Duty after Black Ops.. yes quite a few games ago.. I decided to give COD another go. Oh boy I'm honestly confused as to how major review outlets look at this game, play it, and then give it 8 and above. It's sad really. What    To give you an idea.. Battlefield 4 made me want to switch to COD.. then COD AW made me want to switch back to Battlefield

    After taking a break from Call Of Duty after Black Ops.. yes quite a few games ago.. I decided to give COD another go. Oh boy

    I'm honestly confused as to how major review outlets look at this game, play it, and then give it 8 and above. It's sad really. What they are doing is supporting re-packaging and ignorance.

    COD was designed to be a drug (just like Destiny). Get to the next fix. Doesn't matter that it's the same thing every time. It's only about the high. There is always a new unlock, a new killstreak, yada yada to try and fuel this mundane affair.
    Meanwhile, beaming jingoism into your eye sockets and filling your ears with explosions and the cussing of prepubescent children (even though they are sadly mostly adults), the game is yet again, another rehash, reskin, re-re-er, etc. Reminder: this analysis is coming from someone who hasn't played COD since 2010.

    Everything about the game feels extremely dated (no, adding an ability to jump Halo style or skid sideways does not make it different). The graphics, in all honesty, are some of the worst I've seen in 2014. They are just bland with washy textures and are life-less. To give you an idea, while you are watching an in-game POV cutscene, there is motion blur and depth of field (those add a realistic texture / fillmick look), but the second the game gives you control, the motion blur and DOF are gone. Interesting design choice......

    As I noted before, the ability to jump around doesn't really make the game any different. Actually, the only noticeable gameplay difference I noticed from the added feature was.. people can now camp on roofs. It's weirdly transformed the game from a fast paced shooter to a slow camping nightmare. If the maps were bigger and the people online 'more intelligent' then maybe that could be interesting, but it's not.

    Campaign wise - there's almost no reason to talk about it honestly. Like all COD campaigns, the stories are like an overly long Michael Bay 'Pearl Harbors' (wait that was long) that you just want to get through for the achievements. In fact, the games even more linear than I remember.. and Black Ops was linear.

    I received this game as a gift so.. price wise I can't complain. If you have $60.. do not... do not.. spend it here. If you do spend it.. enjoy the pop ups in the game trying to get you to spend another $50 on the DLC. Yes, everyday the game will pop up asking you to buy the DLC.    … Expand
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. spyder_gamer
    Nov 11, 2014
    4
    COD continuing to be COD but now with the Jet Pack and other trinkets , nothing more shouldnt be acrescentado.Bons graphics, fast and fluid movement, and indestructible scenarios without much need skill to Eliminate enemies , quite pleasing new players in FPS .
    - In short : an Annual Continuous game without notable news.
  6. coinblock
    Nov 11, 2014
    4
    One of the least notable campaigns yet in a Call of Duty game. Predictable and bland. Graphics are outstanding. Nothing memorable about this one, and nothing even remotely interesting about the story. Characters are detached and unappealing. Completely lacks any sense of grandeur. Exo survival is not the same fun as zombies was on previous generations (no strategy other than don't die). IfOne of the least notable campaigns yet in a Call of Duty game. Predictable and bland. Graphics are outstanding. Nothing memorable about this one, and nothing even remotely interesting about the story. Characters are detached and unappealing. Completely lacks any sense of grandeur. Exo survival is not the same fun as zombies was on previous generations (no strategy other than don't die). If I could, I would have skipped this one altogether.… Expand
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. TheHolyToast
    Nov 27, 2014
    4
    These guys NEVER learn. Sure, the visuals and the gameplay are enough to HOOK an audience, but when the game is out and one sees that the game has nearly congruent mechanics as its predecessor, that's when us customers realize that we wasted our money. Barely anything about the series' design has changed, including the fact that it's still a linear single-player experience with a bunch ofThese guys NEVER learn. Sure, the visuals and the gameplay are enough to HOOK an audience, but when the game is out and one sees that the game has nearly congruent mechanics as its predecessor, that's when us customers realize that we wasted our money. Barely anything about the series' design has changed, including the fact that it's still a linear single-player experience with a bunch of set-pieces, pre-coded quicktime events, dumb-as-rocks, unnatural AI, and one hell of an uninteresting and silly storyline. As for the multiplayer, there is STILL no access to certain optimization options such as Field-Of-View, and the visuals on current-gen consoles(PS3, X360) are not as 'beautiful' as they are on next-gen consoles, and do not deviate much from that of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Not to nag at this franchise's feet, but this is just the kind of dickery I'd come to expect after such an abomination as Call of Duty: Ghosts.… Expand
  11. 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
  12. AvxrageJoe
    Jul 3, 2015
    4
    The exosuits were a good idea, but they come out as a hit and miss. The campaign was alright, though that is mainly due to the good voice acting. The multiplayer is bad once again. It doesn't work as a public game nor as an eSports game. Boosts really hurt the gameplay especially in SnD. Latency and lag issues are worse than they were in Ghosts.

    The game looks cool, but it certainly isn't.
  13. lshrsyson
    Feb 26, 2015
    4
    There is nothing new about Advanced Warfare, if anything its an add-on for Black Ops 2, as usual 80-90% of content was taken from previous COD's and remodelled into the latest COD, furthermore take away the exo abilities and its just like all the other COD's. You would think after X amount of games they would of actually done some major improvements but no instead they continue the copyThere is nothing new about Advanced Warfare, if anything its an add-on for Black Ops 2, as usual 80-90% of content was taken from previous COD's and remodelled into the latest COD, furthermore take away the exo abilities and its just like all the other COD's. You would think after X amount of games they would of actually done some major improvements but no instead they continue the copy and paste effort and fan boys still continue to buy it so nothing will change.… Expand
  14. tamarus19
    Feb 28, 2015
    4
    I had high hopes for AW and Sledgehammer,I was extremely let down. The Exo suits absolutely ruin this Call of Duty. Now let me explain. First off, I appreciate the attempt to add to the game (something Ghosts failed miserably at). In my opinion the Exo suits should have been a Killstreak reward not a standard loadout option. This is COD, not Halo, not Titanfall. I almost traded this gameI had high hopes for AW and Sledgehammer,I was extremely let down. The Exo suits absolutely ruin this Call of Duty. Now let me explain. First off, I appreciate the attempt to add to the game (something Ghosts failed miserably at). In my opinion the Exo suits should have been a Killstreak reward not a standard loadout option. This is COD, not Halo, not Titanfall. I almost traded this game in within 2 weeks of buying it but I wanted to give it an honest chance. Now here we are at the end of Feb and although I've become fully used to it I still find this to be an amazing letdown.

    The good - Exo movement innovation, vast game types to accommodate what the multiplayer gamers want

    The bad - Exo suits as a standard, killstreaks (the worst of any COD), game sound effects (gun shots, reloads, grenades), spawns (4 months in and still awful), game lobby (can't even see other people's stats)

    In summary, AW is like a game that comes out after COD. It might be a decent game for your rotation but after 2 months you go back to playing COD exclusively. I'll be going back to Ghosts and BO2 until Treyarch hopefully saves the COD Series this November.    … Expand
  15. Maxiibon
    Mar 16, 2015
    4
    First off, the graphics of the game are beautiful. Although, this doesn't improve the gameplay. The only thing I have seen improve in Call of Duty is the graphics, the gameplay is a copy + paste and the guns are always the same (pretty much all equal damage and 100% accuracy). It's like you're not even shooting because the gun doesn't move a bit when firing! You would expect a lot of kick!First off, the graphics of the game are beautiful. Although, this doesn't improve the gameplay. The only thing I have seen improve in Call of Duty is the graphics, the gameplay is a copy + paste and the guns are always the same (pretty much all equal damage and 100% accuracy). It's like you're not even shooting because the gun doesn't move a bit when firing! You would expect a lot of kick! The game is also now a mix between Crysis, Halo, Battlefield (animations of the guns) and some weird futuristic game. I know I was complaining about they copy + paste (but that is the lack of tactics and increase of campers that now have tactics for camping). The game would be better if it wasn't about the future and ZOMBIES WITH EXO SUITS??? How would they know how to operate an exo suit unless they were MUTANTS? I guess you could say S.S.D.D. That's a quote from a GOOD Call of Duty… Expand
  16. MattJames86
    Mar 31, 2015
    4
    Although the game is probably one of the most imaginative since Black ops it's not enough to revive the Franchise, the multiplayer is probably the best since Modern Warfare 2 the exo mechanics bring a new flow to combat and the small map size makes sure the game is as fast paced as possible without being incoherent, but the small size maps bring out all the character from them; they areAlthough the game is probably one of the most imaginative since Black ops it's not enough to revive the Franchise, the multiplayer is probably the best since Modern Warfare 2 the exo mechanics bring a new flow to combat and the small map size makes sure the game is as fast paced as possible without being incoherent, but the small size maps bring out all the character from them; they are all the same size and have the same structure so all though there's no maps I dislike there's none I like either, the guns are just replicas from guns from previous games with a makeover and none of them are really that fun to use.
    There is some fun to be had on the multiplayer which is more than can be said about the Single player that is as boring and repetitive as every other entry into the Franchise.    … Expand
  17. njja02
    May 15, 2018
    4
    Another generic COD game. A fun campaign, but lacking in almost every other place.
  18. iCSiMarcelinmBR
    Dec 26, 2015
    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 Collapse… Expand
  19. mildewman
    Aug 8, 2016
    4
    A very scripted game - you can only play it one way. Large amounts of it are just walking from bit to bit, hitting preset buttons to advance cut scenes. I like the gun sounds and the engine is nice - it could be used to make a great game, but this is basically a rail shooter.
  20. Maxttvd
    Jun 18, 2020
    4
    Agravante e criador de mitos problemas que permanecerán e permanecen en call Of Duty , AW é totalmente descartável.
  21. DPlayer4GMS
    Jan 6, 2021
    4
    Na minha humilde opinião, o pior CoD já feito, o Single Player do jogo é o que da 4 pro jogo sozinho pois é a única coisa boa desse jogo, o futurismo que futuramente foi melhorado, nesse jogo é péssimo, a gameplay do Multiplayer é terrível, e os mapas adaptados também não são lá essas coisas.
  22. Epicmonster5600
    Dec 6, 2022
    4
    This is when stuff started going down the drain. Unneeded loot boxes, awful campaign that was stupid, ridiculous futuristic stuff and exosuits...
  23. 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.
  24. Northur
    Nov 13, 2014
    3
    I was hoping for a leap in the franchice.. Well that's not what I got in COD AW.. This feels like unfinished Titanfall, very stiff controls compared to TF. The campaing is once again total **** Kevin Spacey saves a lot but I did feel like I was wathcing a movie not playing a FPS game.. Can't recommend this to anyone. Well, there is always next year.
  25. 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!
  26. 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
  27. MrSquidga
    Nov 5, 2014
    3
    Still frustrating... Campaign is meh, co op tries to be something but it isn't. The fact certain perks are available from the get-go is kind of ridiculous, I got a UAV and not one person on the opposite team showed up on the mini-map, and this was on 'day zero'. I can't get used to the new exo movements, I don't know if I'm being slow or what, but I find myself staying in the classicStill frustrating... Campaign is meh, co op tries to be something but it isn't. The fact certain perks are available from the get-go is kind of ridiculous, I got a UAV and not one person on the opposite team showed up on the mini-map, and this was on 'day zero'. I can't get used to the new exo movements, I don't know if I'm being slow or what, but I find myself staying in the classic playlists.
    The guns don't feel well balanced, assault rifles are by far superior to all the other weapons, with high damage outputs and laser accuracy. Not sure if the multiplayer is uses hosts or servers, but I constantly find myself with a 1 bar connection, meaning I always seem to shoot last. Also find the teams stacked, on my side or the other, I either do well and get a decent score or shockingly and go negative 10.
    I don't get what people are saying in their reviews when they say that 'this is the best looking shooter'. It runs at 60fps, yes, but didn't all the CoDs with their simple style? Battlefield 4 looks far superior to this, which actually looks realistic. To me it's a smoother version of all the past CoD games. I'd happily see a Modern Warefare 2 Redux for the Xbox One, perhaps a Halo:MCC, but consisting of CoD 4, MW2 and MW3. I'd get to play my favourite CoD and Activision can make heaps of cash, we both win! Back to this game...
    The genre is tired, laser guns are boring, Titanfall is for mech suits or whatever they're called. Bring it back to current-day tech, or the the past. Those games were fun and believable.
    Overall unimpressed, all this has made me do is go blow the dust off my 360 and stick in MW2, which is by far, at least for me, the benchmark, with superior map design a noticeable distinction (What happened to map designs, not been a game I like the maps on since Halo: Reach and MW2). I'm unimpressed frankly, and await to see what rubbish comes out next year, labeled as good purely because of the brand. The only way you can tell if you like this is to play it, as reviewers are always rating Call of Duty games higher than they deserve, in my opinion. This game might deserve higher than my 3, but no way is it IGN's 9 either. Just because the name of the game is CoD doesn't mean it's going to be great.

    Distinctly below average, in my humble, humble opinion.    … Expand
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. SRKNZ
    Dec 31, 2014
    3
    Played Battlefield 4 and it was mediocre but at least it played on my slightly dated but still reasonable rig. By contrast this game was a frame rate, laggy nightmare. So much so I gave up and walked away. Unless you own a pro gaming rig don't waste your time or money on this one.
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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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