Call of Duty Vanguard worldwide trailer confirms WWII setting, release date

(Pocket-lint) - Sledgehammer has released a worldwide uncover trailer for Call of Duty: Vanguard (above) and confirmed details astir the gameplay. 

Last week, Activision officially announced Call of Duty: Vanguard, by dropping a abbreviated trailer that teased the adjacent rubric successful the series. But that video didn't really person excessively overmuch substance to it, though it made it look similar the crippled volition instrumentality spot during World War II. Now, Activision-owned Sledgehammer Games, isolated from releasing a caller trailer, has officially confirmed the adjacent Call of Duty shooter launches successful November and is so acceptable astatine the extremity of World War II. 

Keep successful caput Sledgehammer hasn't led improvement connected a Call of Duty crippled since 2017's Call of Duty: WW2.

The crippled volition diagnostic a “historically inspired” single-player campaign, a multiplayer mode, and integration with Call of Duty: Zombies and Warzone. The single-player campaign, hones successful connected the root of the peculiar forces, from aggregate points of view. Sledgehammer said the communicative is astir “the untold stories of multinational heroes that formed Task Force One, changing the look of past and mounting the signifier for peculiar forces arsenic we cognize it".

You tin expect characters inspired by real-world personalities, specified arsenic Lt. Polina Petrova, who is based connected Soviet sniper Lyudmila "Lady Death" Pavlichenko.

As for the multiplayer mode, Vanguard volition person 20 maps astatine launch. It'll besides person crippled modes similar “Champion Hill",  where players duel solo oregon successful squads of 2 oregon three. There volition beryllium a Zombies mode, too, that's been developed by Black Ops workplace Treyarch. It's a follow-up to Black Ops Cold War.

Call of Duty: Vanguard is acceptable to merchandise connected 5 November 2021. It's coming to the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 20 August 2021.