Call of Duty - Advanced Warfare (Germany / Spieldisc)
Xbox 360
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Reviewed in 2014
88
✪ Reviewed on September 13, 2025
87
Sledgehammer juice Call of Duty back up with the exo-suit and boosted jumps. The Kevin Spacey led campaign owns its blockbuster instincts, multiplayer gains real verticality, and the whole thing is a great unapologetic action ride.
First-person shooter by Sledgehammer Games and Activision, November 2014. Soldier Jack Mitchell joins Atlas Corporation's elite unit run by billionaire Jonathan Irons in a near future where private military companies dominate warfare. Augmented exosuits enabling jumps, sprints and camouflage, varied futuristic weapons and Kevin Spacey narrative. Major technological evolution of the Call of Duty franchise.
Call of Duty - Advanced Warfare review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Sledgehammer builds its image around a face: Kevin Spacey digitized through performance capture, pores and micro-expressions included, setting the era's photorealism bar. Around him, Atlas imposes a military-multinational aesthetic, immaculate showrooms, promotional drones and chromed exoskeletons, where war looks like a product launch.
The story takes a question of its time seriously: what war becomes when a private company outgrows nations. Jonathan Irons, a charismatic magnate, recruits the hero at his own son's funeral and builds before his eyes a superpower with no flag and no voters. The expected betrayal comes, but it is the economic logic that makes it credible, shareholder speeches included.
Gameplay
"Masterful"
Leaping, dodging and gliding thanks to the exoskeleton injects a welcome verticality into the military FPS, both solo and online. The gunplay stays crisp and precise, and the heightened mobility breathes fresh life into the firefights. Without reinventing the formula, this installment retains a brisk pace and a readability that make it an ever-effective stress-reliever.
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
The FPS thrust into a near future, where an exoskeleton enables boosted jumps, lateral dodges and an unprecedented verticality that energises the clashes. The increased mobility and high-tech arsenal renew the multiplayer formula with flair. Snappy, spectacular and superbly made, a shooter that injects a good dose of science fiction into a proven recipe, for frantic duels.
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, a Sledgehammer entry that introduces the exoskeleton and vertical mobility to the hit military shooter, issued in multiple localized versions. Extremely widespread, its collector interest is low, its value resting largely on a now-reduced online experience. A mainly functional piece, whose appeal rests on the completeness of an annual series rather than scarcity.
Better with friends
With two or more, the Exo Survival co-op mode turns the exoskeleton into a playground: double jumps, dodges and boosts to hold ever-denser waves of enemies. The competitive multiplayer embraces that same vertical mobility, where exo-movement reshapes the duels and rewards control of high ground. The era's official servers are no longer guaranteed, but the sense of speed and verticality stay fresh in local play.
Is Call of Duty - Advanced Warfare still worth playing in 2026?
Released in 2014 on Xbox 360, Sledgehammer Games' Advanced Warfare injects verticality into the formula with its exoskeleton, allowing double jumps, lateral dodges and boosts that change the tempo of firefights. The campaign, led by a Kevin Spacey military magnate, leans on spectacle and futuristic weaponry. On the previous generation console, the visuals fall a notch below the newer machines. The official multiplayer has shut down. But the solo and the co op mode stay lively. For fans of nervy shooters and military science fiction, this entry keeps real interest today.
