Activision Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - DAY ZERO Edition

Kevin Spacey and Troy Baker are the game-changer Activision needed to bring Call of Duty back to its former glory. The characters are well written, the chemistry is right, the punchlines are spot on. Kevin Spacey certainly doesn't play his role as CEO with the brilliance he does in House of Cards...

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is set in the future. In the 22nd century, to be precise. In this time, a private arms company shifts world politics in their favour. The player runs in a high-tech suit that allows you to run faster and run up steep walls. Unfortunately, the campaign is a bit short, but there is also an extensive multiplayer mode.

Even though a name like Kevin Spacey raises great expectations for the story of Advanced Warfare, in my opinion they are not really fulfilled. But compared to the predecessors, I find the campaign and the storyline as a whole unusually good, as it has a common thread and is very nicely staged because of the elaborate cutscenes...

I am somewhat ambivalent, even more so than usual with Call of Duty. I find the campaign one of the weakest in recent years, despite Spacey's star power. Maybe a little because of that, his role doesn't give much, and with it the plot wanders into insignificance and dies there until the end credits...