Call of Duty: Vanguard
This is WWII combat like never before. Witness the origins of Special Forces as you play a pivotal role and change the face of history, forming Task Force One in a gripping Campaign across four major theaters…
Call of Duty: Vanguard is a shooter developed by Sledgehammer Games, released 5 November 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 5 hrs to finish.
What Call of Duty: Vanguard is
Call of Duty: Vanguard is a shooter game developed by Sledgehammer Games and released in 2021. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on IW Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In August 1941, Private Lucas Riggs is stationed at Tobruk, Libya as part of the Australian-led Rats of Tobruk garrison. After a failed ambush attempt on the Royal Italian Army and Africa Korps, Riggs is assigned to recover supplies for the British Army, alongside fellow Rat Private Desmond "Des" Wilmot and British lieutenant Robert Jacobs. Riggs, Des and Jacobs manage to find intelligence relating to General Erwin Rommel, and destroy a German depot in the process, but they were detained by Major Henry Hamms for insubordination. In 1942, during the Battle of El Alamein, Riggs and the Rats are ordered by Hamms to form a defensive line, but Riggs disobeys the command and tries to retake a…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 44 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Call of Duty series
Call of Duty: Vanguard is the 192nd of 204 entries we hold in the Call of Duty series. The next entry was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - Vault Edition in 2022. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Collection 1 at 90.
How it was received
Call of Duty: Vanguard holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored about average for its year. Players rate it 69, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 100 hrs, roughly 20 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 36GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Call of Duty: Vanguard launched on 5 November 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Call of Duty: Vanguard yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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