Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare - 10 Killer Features It Must Have

9. A Better Multiplayer Experience

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare may not have been the first FPS game to feature online multiplayer but it revolutionised it nonetheless. It brought new ideas like levelling and custom classes to the table while also keeping the gameplay fast, furious and exciting. COD's multiplayer has been a smash hit ever since with player figures absolutely dominating its rivals. Perhaps it was too successful for its own good though. Call of Duty: Ghosts feels remarkably stale after so long, and while it still maintains a high level of population, it's arguably the least exciting Call of Duty multiplayer experience for years. For several years each new title felt like an expansion pack with new weapons and maps, rather than a completely new experience and that was somewhat fine; we still loved it regardless due to such a robust game engine - however, Ghosts was the first clear sign that things needed to change. That's a big task for Sledgehammer Games. While they previously worked on Modern Warfare 3 with Infinity Ward, people may fear the relatively new development team messing with the Call of Duty formula too much, but let's be honest, even a few little changes could go a long way to making the multiplayer an exciting, addictive experience again. For example, weapon balancing has long been a problem in Call of Duty; how do you make every weapon a viable choice? Balancing every weapon to make the game as fair as possible is an unenviable task for Sledgehammer to handle (and honestly, they probably won't manage it; very few teams could) but creating a level playing-field through almost endless play-testing would reap rewards. The futuristic setting will aid Sledgehammer here though. With new, exciting weapons and locations, people may swarm back to Call of Duty with little effort. Of course, the challenge is keeping them there, but if Sledgehammer can recapture some of the old Call of Duty magic, they'll be lauded as a success. Likelihood: Likely. Call of Duty's issues are tough to solve without completely tearing up the series' foundations but Sledgehammer needs to do something after the lukewarm response to Call of Duty: Ghosts. The addition of futuristic maps and weapons may be just enough to bring people back.