Like many, I was getting pretty burnt out on Call of Duty's increasingly samey takes on multiplayer by 2014. Of course, the four and a half hour campaign isn't what made Advanced Warfare one of my favorite CoDs ever. With Advanced Warfare we were still in the era of CoD's shooting feeling a bit stiff and dated (Modern Warfare changed that in 2019), but its novel futuristic arsenal including a sonic shotgun and "Smart Grenades" that can toggle functions on the fly helped keep things fresh. Of course, you do get to drop him off the top of a skyscraper Hans Gruber-style by chopping off your own prosthetic arm with a knife, so that's pretty neat. I'm glad to say the campaign still kinda rules, even if Kevin Spacey as a shady, manipulative PMC father figure is harder to watch today. I really liked Advanced Warfare back in 2014, but I was worried it wouldn't hold up after seven years of FPS evolution. It seems all-but-confirmed that we're getting another WWII game (opens in new tab) in November and it's a damn tragedy. Advanced Warfare's inventive movement system and freeform loadouts still rank it among the best "forgotten" CoDs of its time, and I can't shake the feeling that now in 2021, Sledgehammer is making a sequel to the wrong game.
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