Call of Duty: Vanguard in Test: Back in World War II!

Test Conclusion

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Call of Duty: Vanguard stays behind his possibilities. Although the all-too short campaign trumps with successful presentation and varied missions, in terms of background history and opponent behavior, however, the series goes back a noticeable step. Thus, the solo mode offers entertaining action food, but ranks only in the upper genre midfield. The multiplayer in turn stages developers Sledgehammer Games as usual fast and especially well playable ballerbude with a tremendous periphery and high long-term motivation. Here the makers do not reinvent the wheel, but build cleverly on old ideas; In contrast to the zombie mode, which one has felt noticeably diluted in favor of the entry-level friendliness. Call of Duty: Vanguard is finally a solid shooter that shines above all in multiplayer. He will not meet the great demands all in all.

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Very successful presentation Varied solo missions Large scope thanks to campaign, multiplayer and zombie mode Good control and weapon feedback Lathed strong, but little innovative multiplayer mode Champion Hill as a fun innovation

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Catastrophic opponent I Campaign with six to eight hours bad Background history very shallow and provided with too much pathos Zombies mode cropped important functions

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With Call of Duty it attracts the shooter series after four years of abstinence back to the Second World War: According to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) and Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold was (2020), the Action Saga thus resumes the scenario that has once made it successfully and found the last in 2017 in Call of Duty: WW2.

In Call of Duty: Vanguard, campaign, multiplayer part and zombie mode form the three cornerstones, which should also offer the competitors battlefield 2042 parole, which also appears in winter 2021. In the test crystallize quickly known strengths, but also old weaknesses. The familiar nostalgic world war scenario and the usual bombastic staging do not change it.

Sovereign solo campaign

The new Call of Duty sets the name-based Vanguard special unit at the center of the solo campaign. In the first mission, this squad is to sabotage the Nazi secret project Phoenix, but can be caught and is caught. As a result, US developer tells Sledgehammer Games the history of the four protagonists in exciting flashbacks. As Write Arthur Kingsley, they jump as paratroopers above Normandy, with Sniper Molina Petrov, meanwhile, go to Stalingrad.

Due to the frequent location and character changes, the linear missions are very varied. Although they continue to be shooting with dusty, but Loïc passages relieve the gameplay noticeably. The heroes have different special features: With Kingsley, for example, you will receive a limited part of the commander and can set up the fire of your escort for specific opponents or areas. Petrov is an agile soldier with excellent climbing capabilities.

As expected, the developers do not enter into any risks in the campaign and play the World War Glory Craving with all their motifs and neat Pathos. Call of Duty: Vanguard is popcorn gaming in pure culture and does not want to critically handle the topic. Accordingly, the game delivers excellent presented high gloss action in the form of a lousy one-way streets burdock.

As the biggest fun brake, the partly catastrophic behavior of the computer soldiers proves: they run past one, react much too late and mad from a cover to the next. If the adversaries were no luminaires in previous Call of Duty offshoots, the Vanguard Staten underbid them again. Another drawback is the short playing time. After six to eight hours, they finished the campaign; There is no great playback value.

Hurry up now!

Anyone who has played the campaign is usually dedicated to the online multiplayer. Compared to the solo mode, the game pace clearly attracts here and offers the Call of Duty-typical arrow-fast infantry fields. Control as well as weapons and hit feedback are on the usual high level. Vanguard also turns out to be extremely handy first -Person shooter, where it arrives at good reflexes and a waking eye. Who wants, the tempo should also adjust themselves and thus arrange the chaos a little.

The 16 cards available to the start are pretty designed, but comparatively small. Accordingly high is the number of screen mode and restarts. Very nice, however, as in the campaign you can shoot in multiplayer mode through wooden barricades and destroy smaller objects. That does the momentum of the game very well. In terms of mode selection, Vanguard supplies two new types of play with patrol and Champion Hill.

Especially the latter convinces on a whole line! In Champion Hill, eight up to four players strong teams fight for the supremacy. The Cloud: The teams are not on the way, but occur in duels against each other. The number of lives has strictly limited games. Who stands the last, wins. Between the rounds in turn you buy new equipment and weapons to get an advantage.

Extended Undead

A true disappointment reveals itself to the popular zombie mode. Because where fans of co-opa-battles in extensive and slow-opening areas aspirated are now comparatively straightforward undead action. The biggest problem: Starting is still missing a big main quest, instead they fight into repetitive missions. Publisher Activision already announced that additional content appears in the coming weeks.

However, that does not change the fact that this year s zombie mode is breaking with many traditions of the series. Will mean: no more to decelerate windows, no new areas and no real bosses. Instead, they jump from a central hub level with upgrade possibilities in portals and so in new areas. In the field you will discover extensions and thus improve your characters and their basic values. However, these skills are gone as soon as they fall victim to the modern bags. In short, the zombie mode is still a construction site, which lacks it noticeably at depth and possibilities.

Release: Call of Duty: Vanguard : November 5, 2021, for PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X / s. The game costs around 70 euros in the trade.