Call of Duty Advanced Warfare

found this while i was in college check it out

Info from Amazon UK product description (which I can no longer find, my guess is that Amazon made it public accidentally and then removed it) :

www.charlieintel.com/2014/05/02/first-details-on-story-and-soldiers-of-advanced-warfare-revealed-by-amazon/

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, developed by Sledgehammer Games (co-developers of Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3), harnesses the first three-year, all next-gen development cycle in franchise history.

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare envisions the powerful battlegrounds of the future, where both technology and tactic have evolved to usher in a new era of combat for the franchise. Delivering a stunning performance, Academy Award® winning actor Kevin Spacey stars as Jonathan Irons – one of the most powerful men in the world – shaping this chilling vision of the future of war.

Power Changes Everything.

An Advanced World:

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare takes place in a plausible future in which technological progress and today’s military practices have converged with powerful consequences.
In this carefully researched and crafted vision of the future, Private Military Corporations (PMCs) have become the dominant armed forces for countless nations outsourcing their military needs, redrawing borders and rewriting the rules of war.
And Jonathan Irons, the founder and president of the world’s largest PMC – Atlas Corporation – is at the center of it all.

An Advanced Soldier:

Powerful exoskeletons evolve every aspect of a soldier’s battle readiness, enabling combatants to deploy with an advanced lethality and eliminating the need for specialization.
The introduction of this gameplay mechanic delivers enhanced player movement and verticality through boost jumps and grappling, covert cloaking abilities, and biomechanics that provide unparalleled strength, awareness, endurance, and speed.
With the advent of the exoskeleton and newly advanced armor and weaponry, every soldier commands tactical freedom in any terrain unlike ever before.

An Advanced Arsenal:

Harnessing the power of next-gen platforms, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare brings players into the battlegrounds of the future by boasting a new hi-tech, advanced arsenal and ability set, arming players with all-new equipment, technology, perks, and vehicles like hoverbikes and highly specialized drones.
Players can also choose between standard ammunition and an all-new class of directed-energy weaponry that enables totally new gameplay dynamics.
And with exoskeletons delivering a massive force multiplier and unprecedented tactical freedom, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare evolves every firefight.

Must say thus far I'm not very impressed. I'm just not a fan futuristic military shooters. How I long for COD 4 and MW2.

Well, this picture says it all:




Seriously speaking, CoD needs innovative movement systems, because every shooter is doing it:

1) Titanfall: double jump and wall run feel great;
2) Destiny: each of the 3 classes (Hunter, Titan, Warlock) has a special vertical move, and possibly a special horizontal move;
3) Borderlands pre-sequel: jet pack to enable double jump;

The only way for CoD to have such systems is to become more "futuristic".

I'm fine with overly futuristic stuff in the single player, but I don't want too much of that in the multiplayer.

I'm gonna respectfully disagree with you here. Going vertical has been around a long time since unreal tournament. Matter of fact it existed before call of duty and the franchise got big inspite of not hopping around like an idiot. I think a large portion of that was people that wanted to beat up on friends with guns they've heard of or seen in movies. This new change I don't think will hold up. Its Titanfall with more money. I don't get it. 

It's an interesting debate we are having here. The key question is: for a successful franchise like CoD or Halo, should developers keep the core "combat sandbox" intact, or introduce new elements from time to time?

Personally I don't have a strong opinion. The point I was trying to make is that if no new elements are added (with vertical movements as an example), the franchise will risk losing its ability to attract new players. The existing fans might be happy and even strongly prefer that, but the game developers always want to make the next game in the franchise to look "more interesting" outside of its existing fan base.

Bungie with Halo Reach and 343 Industries with Halo 4 attempted on that. The are perceived as failures because existing fans don't like them, and they were not able to attract fresh blood to the franchise. However, we would never know what would have happened if they did not do that. Are the games going to be more successful? If Halo 4 plays just like Halo 3, what would be the main reasons to push players to buy it instead of just playing Halo 3? Would graphics enhancement alone be enough?

CoD has similar if not more severe issues. There has to be something new to get players to say: this is cooler than Ghosts (or BO2, or MW3, or whatever), so I'll switch to that. What should this "something" be? Next Gen graphics and that's good enough?

Yeah, I'll need to see more details before I decide.