The core is the new campaign, which is intended to be a more serious, thoughtful meditation on the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation and the horrors of war. As a result, you get a lot of scenes that alternate between the excellent and the outright laughable.' ' WWII wants to be both a game that works on a narrative level and a bombastic, big budget first-person shooter. The goal is here is twofold: to return the series to its boots-on-the-ground roots, which were lacking in the last two titles, and to the conflict that defined the series before its excursion to a technology-focused future for a change of pace.

It’s been nearly a decade since a Call of Duty game explored the most costly armed conflict in human history, and Sledgehammer Games has never made a game set in the time period. While the series started in World War II, there hasn’t been a game set in the conflict since Treyarch’s awesome Call of Duty: World at War, which was released in 2008. The series has traveled from the beaches of Normandy to the rivers of Vietnam and even into space. Games in the series have been created by original developer Infinity Ward, Treyarch (who has made the franchise’s most commercially successful games with the Black Ops sub-series), and newcomers Sledgehammer Games. Since 2003, Activision has released sixteen full-length Call of Duty games, if you count standalone spin-offs like Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Call of Duty 2: Big Red One.

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