Call of Duty: Vanguard

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With sixteen maps designed for traditional core play plus four maps encompassing the Champion Hill experience, there is going to be no shortage of environments to explore, lanes to charge, combat zones to conquer. Through the gripping narrative and remarkable journey of these steeled soldiers, players will experience influential battles across four theaters of World War II as they engage enemies across the Eastern and Western Fronts of Europe and fight for the free world throughout the Pacific and North Africa. Multiplayer brings 20 Launch Maps and more Actual platform availability and launch date(s) of Beta subject to change. Limited time only. Minimum Open Beta duration is 2 days. Internet connection required. PlayStation®Plus subscription may be required.

This Alpha is the first hands-on opportunity the world will have with Call of Duty: Vanguard, introducing just some of the game’s innovations — as broken down today on stream by Greg Reisdorf, Sledgehammer Games’ Multiplayer Creative Director — and putting them into your hands to experience and test.Call of Duty: Vanguard attempts to tell a mature WWII story past the franchise’s love of explosions and spectacle. Regardless of how interesting the prospects are for the world’s first special forces team, the campaign mode ultimately falls flat when it comes to both narrative and gameplay. Polina Petrova’s portion aside, the other three male leads’ moments are underdeveloped and feel redundant. It doesn’t help that players only see what the crew can do as a collective till the beginning and end. Finally, in most cases, a PlayStation Plus subscription is not required to play the Beta, in either weekend.***

For years, the world has endured the largest and deadliest war ever seen, but the tides of World War II are finally turning. New Weapons: With plenty of nefarious goods, such as weapons like the EX1 Assault Rifle at Tier 15 and the RA 225 SMG at Tier 31, you’ll be able to do a lot more harm than good.

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New Multiplayer maps: Take a bite out of the Big Apple in the post-apocalyptic streets of New York City in "Beheaded", or later in the season engage your foes in the rustic sea-foamed alleys of Malta in "Fortress".

Call of Duty: Vanguard is now available, bringing 16 standard multiplayer maps and four maps exclusive to the Champions Hill mode. As always with a new Call of Duty game, you want to make sure you're using the best settings. This guide covers the Controllers and Graphics settings in the Call of Duty: Vanguard menus. Visual and audio presentation has always catered toward Hollywood style production values within the Call of Duty series and Vanguard continues that tradition. Unlike the gritty brown and muted colours of Call of Duty: WWII, Vanguard’s take on The Second World War is pretty colorful besides the more technical graphical feats pulled.

CALL OF DUTY®: VANGUARD - RISE ON EVERY FRONT

Players put in the boots of Lt. Arthur Kingsley are given the ability to have accompanying soldiers concentrate fire so he can flank at the touch of a button. It’s a fairly useless feature outside of moments when it becomes important for progress to the next combat scenario. Performances from the lead cast including Chiké Okonkwo and Martin Copping alongside The Last of Us II alums Laura Bailey and Derek Phillips, who provide great performances with the wonky material presented to them. Actors Dan Donohue and Lord of The Rings’ own Dominic Monaghan lend the story some serious tension as the main antagonists of the single-player campaign. Add composer Bear McCreary’s cinematically epic score into the mix and this becomes one of the best Call of Duty games to date on the presentation side.

Sledgehammer Games introduces Champion Hill, a tournament-style, multi-map and multi-life game mode where tactics and strategy go beyond the pull of a trigger.PS4™ and PS5™ owners in Germany will need a PS Plus subscription due to the game’s age rating. Alpha starts August 27, 2021, on PS4 and PS5. Actual platform availability and launch date(s) of Alpha subject to change. Minimum Alpha duration is 2 days. Limited time only. Internet connection required.