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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Campaign Story Is About Corporate Power

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Now that we're about less than 4 months from the announced release date of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Sledgehammer Games just made a timed release of the Campaign Story with a new a trailer. Initial impressions from the three-minute Campaign Story trailer put this latest COD title to have a tightly written story. I just hope the story is really good and compelling as Kevin's Spacey's acting which does a good job in making us keen in following the game's progress.

What the trailer reveals is that the campaign story starts with news of  global terrorist attacks at nuclear power plants in 5 continents and these were done simultaneously. The attacks have been effective and devastating that it has left governments and militaries paralyzed that they have to resort to an organisation that has the largest standing military in the world that is not controlled by any government --- a private military corporation with advanced technologies called Atlas and headed by Jonathan Irons which is played Kevin Spacey.

With over reliance of Atlas to conduct overt and covert operations, more power and responsibilities have been entrusted to the company. Irons knows well how to flex this power and he can conduct operations without any congressional oversight given that Atlas is a private company. This means also that Altas has become a dangerous entity that can unleash its own military power without fear of being accountable to any government.

Such proclamation by Irons near the end of the campaign story trailer makes the story interesting as the ethical and moral implications of giving a company more power will be debated upon. In the collaboration between Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Vice on the documentary "Superpower for Hire: Rise of the Private Military" they have ignited the debate on the role and accountability of PMCs.

Will the actual single player campaign story tackle the story of PMCs well? I just hope that the writers have spun a good yarn in creating the story for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare as compared to the Black Ops series. With some game developers eschewing single player campaigns and going directly into multiplayer releases, Sledgehammer and Activision will have to make sure that they make the interest in the single - multiplayer modes formula still high amongst gamers. Will recruiting Kevin Spacey continue the winning streak in terms of sales for the Call of Duty Franchise? We'll find out in November 2014.

And have you noticed at the end of the trailer of a multiplayer peak. Better get ready for some new tactical moves with the new technologies for Advanced Warfare. It will be different than the previous multiplayer modes as Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare wants to introduce a whole new way of FPS multiplayer gaming.

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