Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a 2014 shooter video game made by Sledgehammer Games and Activision.
By 2054 private military corporations have become more powerful than most governments, and Atlas Corporation, run by Jonathan Irons, is the largest of all. A soldier named Jack Mitchell joins Atlas after a catastrophic loss and rises through its ranks as Irons pursues an agenda of his own. Kevin Spacey brings an unusual amount of committed screen presence to the role. Advanced Warfare rebuilds the series around vertical movement, exoskeleton abilities, and the question of whether a private army can be trusted with the firepower of a nation-state.
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What is Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare about?
By 2054 private military corporations have become more powerful than most governments, and Atlas Corporation, run by Jonathan Irons, is the largest of all. A soldier named Jack Mitchell joins Atlas after a catastrophic loss and rises through its ranks as Irons pursues an agenda of his own. Kevin Spacey brings an unusual amount of committed screen presence to the role. Advanced Warfare rebuilds the series around vertical movement, exoskeleton abilities, and the question of whether a private army can be trusted with the firepower of a nation-state.
When was Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare released?
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was released on 3 November 2014.
Who made Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare?
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was made by Sledgehammer Games, Activision and Square Enix.
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A few thoughts on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Advanced Warfare arrives at the franchise's recurring question, whether private military power is compatible with accountability, and it is more willing than most entries to sit with the uncomfortable answer. Kevin Spacey's Jonathan Irons is an unusual Call of Duty antagonist: articulate, ideologically coherent, and genuinely threatening rather than cartoonish. The exoskeleton movement overhaul gives the 2054 setting a mechanical basis, adding vertical traversal and boost-jumping to a formula that had calcified. The campaign's corporate-military critique lands harder than the series usually manages, and the set pieces are among the more inventive the franchise has produced.
Private militaries with more firepower than the government
Advanced Warfare puts Jack Mitchell inside Atlas Corporation, a private army under Jonathan Irons that outguns most national militaries while Kevin Spacey plays the calculation behind it. The Boys and Ghost in the Shell chase the same fear: corporations and agencies built for war, wielding more force than the governments meant to hold them in check.
One soldier against a militarized system he can't trust
Jack Mitchell rises through Atlas's ranks only to realize the firepower he serves might not be pointed where he was told. Half-Life 2 and The Last of Us put a lone figure against an occupying military machine, The Punisher: One Last Kill follows a soldier who trusts no chain of command but his own, and Stranger Things builds its dread from a government lab nobody was meant to see inside.
Concept albums built around war, control and a corporate future
Advanced Warfare imagines 2054 as a place where private military contracts decide the future, a mood these four records share in sound. Blade Runner's score and Muse's Simulation Theory both build atmospheres of surveillance and corporate control, Repo! The Genetic Opera turns a monopoly's grip on life itself into a rock opera, and Neil Young's Living With War answers all of it with straight protest.