The Call of Duty series has the weaponry and special effects that gamers always love. However, for a game to earn over a billion dollars in sales, gamers should be engaged to the story. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare teasers have been officially released online but a leaked trailer was also revealed early, forcing Activision to launch the official trailer at once.
Based on the trailer, it is obvious that Activision used a Hollywood production to pull more audiences this time. The trailer shows the story of Sledgehammer's first Call of Duty.
"In the next Call of Duty, the world's most powerful military is not a country," a voice narrated on the video. "It's a corporation. In the last 20 years, global combat has seen a steady shift towards the use of private military corporations or PMCs. What happens when the highest bidder becomes the world's next superpower?"
"Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" appears to focus on a PMC (private military company) which will go against the government. Ken Spacey appears to be the character that leads the group like an anti-Frank Underwood who's determined to pull down the system instead of upholding it.
"Democracy. Democracy!" Spacey says. "Democracy is not what these people need. Hell, it's not even what they want. America has been trying to install democracies in nations for a century and it hasn't worked one time." The voice ended the video, saying "Power changes everything."
Rumors about the game have been going around on the Internet for several months now. Rumor has it that Sledgehammer Games developed this game which is codenamed "Blacksmith" to be launched in May. Black Ops2 and Ghosts were both announced on May 1, 2012 and 2013 respectively. According to another unofficial information, Sledgehammer named the game after an impressive image of a soldier from in-game assets.
The Call of Duty series achieved record breaking sales in Modern Warfare 3 but the following game, Black Ops2 sold slightly less. Call of Duty: Ghosts came a year after but sold a lot less. Modern Warfare supposedly sold around 29 million copies while Ghosts only sold around 12.5 million even with the most recent gen platforms. Activision must certainly aim to reverse this trend with Advanced
Warfare.
