Read Our Killzone: Shadow Fall (for PlayStation 4) Reviewĭespite the polished controls and excellent sound design, the biggest problem with Call of Duty games is the lack of agency and the emphasis on Hollywood-style scripted sequences in which you feel more like a bystander than an active participant. Respawning enemies and regenerating health (duck behind cover and wait!) are the main nuisances you endure as you follow squad mates, drive through tunnels, follow some more guys, or sit in vehicles and let scenes play out without much input at all.
You shoot guys (and robotic drone swarms straight out of The Matrix) in whack-a-mole galleries set in South Korea, Detroit, New Baghdad, and other locations.
What follows is the usual globetrotting tale you expect in a Call of Duty title. You know Irons is the villain because Kevin Spacey is in the game, and each of his lines before the reveal has all the subtlety of, well, a sledgehammer. A manufactured tragedy gives rise to the iron rule of a weapons company named Atlas, with a Bond-ian bad guy, Irons, in charge. That's Call of Duty in a nutshell if you like the casual gunplay it has served up for the past seven years, you'll like Advance Warfare because the latest installment for PlayStation 4 ($22.80 at Amazon UK) (also available on PC, PlayStation 3 ($22.80 at Amazon UK), Xbox 360 ($22.80 at Amazon UK), and Xbox One ($22.80 at Amazon UK) ) is no different.Īdvanced Warfare has a predictable story, one that 9/11 conspiracy theorists ought to love. A disjointed campaign disappoints, although an enjoyable (if flawed) multiplayer mode provides some thrills online. The Sledgehammer Games-developed title apes sci-fi movies like District 9 and Elysium to shake things up, but beyond some mechs, exoskeletons, and double jumps, it's the same template we've gunned through time and time again. Peer-to-peer hosting means lots of online lag.Ĭall of Duty: Advanced Warfare ($22.80 at Amazon UK) does little to help the stagnated first-person-shooter genre.Unconvincing visual design and animation.
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