Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a shooter game developed by Sledgehammer Games and released in 2014. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Sledgehammer Engine. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 45 achievements to unlock.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the 97th of 204 entries we hold in the Call of Duty series. The next entry was Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - Digital Pro Edition in 2014. Its critic score of 80 is 7 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Collection 1 at 90.

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 649 votes.

The main story runs about 7.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 22.7 hrs, roughly 2.9 times the length of the critical path.

The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom™ II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 450 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 5870 @ 1GB. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 55GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare launched on 3 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

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