Call of Duty has a long and chequered past, often considered to be a franchise on it’s death bed we still see a new game every year. A lot of people have said enough is enough, but Sledgehammer games is coming out with a new entry into the franchise.

Call of Duty: Advanced warfare is looking to change your opinion of this long standing franchise by trying to create a new world and concept within the overarching franchise. Advanced Warfare has been in development for three years by Sledgehammer games who have done extensive scientific research to bring us the Earth from 50 years in the future in the most realistic and engaging way possible. During their EGX presentation they talked extensively about how they wanted this world to feel real and visceral but they still wanted the player to feel like a bad ass. They’ve opted for a much more realistic graphical style and taken real world technology and tried to make it feel sleeker and more futuristic to create a believable world in which private military corporations, a real concern for the world’s governments, have gone out of control and grown in power to the point where war is the only way.

Their EGX presentation also revealed more about the main character and the EXO suit that he is wearing. The suit is based off of the real deal, which in the present is a bit clunky ,so the team at Sledgehammer put their own spin on it-  making it sleek and slimming it down while bringing more EXO based technology and vehicles into the game and even Sci-fi classics like tanks that can walk OR drive. There seems to be plenty of research and science influencing this game but it also appears to be keeping the core mechanics and feel of Call of Duty which are often criticised as being archaic and poorly implemented.

At the end of the presentation they showed a trailer (See below) which showed a portion of the multi-player including a survival mode and some of the single player story. There were also a couple of questions at the end including the very important question about PC support which he rather openly deflected saying more would be announced about that soon.

Will you be picking up the newest entry in the Call of Duty franchise? Could this game be what the franchise needs? Tell us what you think in the comments below!