You care about Jack’s struggle because you understand it. Sledgehammer tethered its story to a single human, a single perspective, and it makes all the difference. It’s a somewhat restrained voice, one that only speaks during cutscenes and never pipes up while you, the player, are in control. Simple, easy to follow, affecting.Ĭredit two creative choices for that success: The decision to stick to a single protagonist throughout the story, and to give him a voice, both firsts for the series. Mitchell goes from soldier to contractor to resistance fighter, and the reasons are clear all the way through. It’s an arc that makes actual sense, beginning to end. In a loose three-act structure that spills out across the standard six-to-eight hours of campaign play, Mitchell loses everything, finds hope, sees the truth for what it is, and finally makes the Right Choice. Jonathan Irons (Kevin Spacey), father of Jack’s slain pal, has an opportunity: A billion-dollar prosthetic arm and a job with Irons’ privately owned military force-for-hire, Atlas. After losing both a best friend and a left arm in battle, honorably discharged Marine Private Jack Mitchell (Troy Baker) is offered a new outlet for his aggression.
Advanced Warfare is anchored by its most coherent campaign mode in ages, possibly ever. Mitchell loses everything, finds hope, sees the truth for what it is, and finally makes the Right Choice. It’s future-world warfare for a futuretech-obsessed world.
After skating along for the better part of the last decade, propelled by the evolutionary success of 2007’s Modern Warfare, Activision finally unhooks the chain and lets developer Sledgehammer Games go wild with exoskeletons, hoverbikes, and laser beams. Blockbusters may be thought of as box office-breakers, but fundamentally? They’re just stories that get us all talking.īoy oh boy is there a lot to talk about in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – the latest in the blockbuster action series. But it’s more of a scarlet letter now, defining a category of entertainment that appeals to the lowest common denominator. It was a fresh idea back in 1975, when Steven Spielberg’s shark-and-awe suspense flick Jaws coined the term by becoming a national conversation. “Blockbuster” doesn’t have to be a dirty word. Unforgiving learning curve for online play
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