'It feels realistic and authentic.'Īfter Sledgehammer finished Call of Duty WWII – the top-selling game of 2017, generating more than $1 billion in revenue by the year's end – the studio wanted to create another game set in that period. 'We were really inspired by these first special forces operators and they seemed like such interesting characters that we wanted to explore,' said David Swenson, creative director of the game's single-player story campaign for development studio Sledgehammer Games.Ĭall of Duty: Vanguard's story is fiction, but 'even though we are not beholden to history, we are rooted in history,' Swenson said.

►Video games: Fortnite meets Among Us? New Impostors mode rolling out ►Oculus VR: Facebook's Horizon Workrooms wants to bring VR to the workplace Special operations forces such as SEAL Team Six grew out of Allied experiments with small squads chosen for specialized missions in World War II. In developing the single-player story campaign, Sledgehammer's creative team worked with historians including Marty Morgan, author of 'D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion' who served as technical director on the studio's 2017 game Call of Duty WWII. 5 for Microsoft Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One, Sony PlayStation 5 and PS4, and PCs on ), you get to know – and fight as – four different characters who eventually team up as the first special forces squad for a mission against the Nazis in Berlin.

Call of Duty is parachuting back into World War II.Ĭall of Duty: Vanguard, the next entry in Activision's multibillion-selling video game franchise, inserts players into many pivotal battles including the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Midway, and Operation Tonga on the eve of the D-Day invasion.

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