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2017 video game

2017 video game

Call of Duty: WWII
Developer(southward)	Sledgehammer Games[a]
Publisher(due south)	Activision
Director(due south)	Cameron Dayton Glen Schofield Michael Condrey Bret Robbins
Producer(southward)	Jaime Wojick
Designer(s)	Daniel Bryner Sean Soucy
Developer(due south)	Jason Bong
Artist(southward)	Joe Salud
Writer(south)	Jeremy Breslau
Composer(south)	Wilbert Roget II
Serial	Call of Duty
Engine	Sledgehammer Engine[b]
Platform(south)	Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One
Release	November 3, 2017
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single-role player, multiplayer

Call of Duty: WWII is a 2017 offset-person shooter game adult by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It was released worldwide on November three, 2017 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation iv and Xbox One. It is the fourteenth chief installment in the Call of Duty series and the first title in the series to be set primarily during Earth State of war II since Call of Duty: World at War in 2008.

The game'southward campaign is prepare in the European theatre and is centered around a squad in the 1st Infantry Division post-obit their battles on the Western Front and fix mainly in the historical events of Operation Overlord. The player controls Ronald "Red" Daniels, who has squadmates who tin can supply the player with extra ammunition, health, or grenades as well as a targeted grenade and target spotting; none of these are automatically replenished in the campaign. The multiplayer mode features map locations not seen in the campaign. The mode also features the new Divisions system, replacing the create-a-class system that previous games in the series used. A social hub, Headquarters, was besides implemented into the game, allowing for players to interact with each other.

Sledgehammer Games were interested in bringing the serial back to Earth State of war II later developing their previous title, Telephone call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014), which featured advanced movements and futuristic warfare technology. Studio head Michael Condrey stated that he was unsure if a World State of war Ii game would feel correct after creating a futuristic championship like Advanced Warfare, but the developers ultimately decided to create a game in this time period. They also chose to include atrocities and Nazi concentration camps in the campaign fashion to deliver an accurate state of war story.

Upon release, the game received generally positive reviews from critics. Praise was given towards its story, the combat support of squad members and lack of regenerating wellness, multiplayer modes, and visuals. Notwithstanding, it was criticized for the single-thespian'due south lack of innovation and similarity to by games set up in the aforementioned era. The game was a commercial success, creating $500 million of revenue within just three days of its release. It became the highest-grossing console game of 2017 in Northward America, and generated over $1 billion in worldwide revenue past the end of the yr.

Gameplay [edit]

Call of Duty: WWII is a first-person shooter game. Not like to its recent predecessors, it removes the advanced system of motility present in the two previous Call of Duty titles, which included double jumping and wall running. Instead, it features a render of traditional movement to the series, taking information technology back to an original "boots on the footing" (which refers to non-aerial ground gainsay) gameplay manner. The game features an unlimited sprint mechanic, seen in the previous two titles.^[2] Instead of a "slide" movement mechanic, which allowed players to slide quickly on the ground, WWII features a "hit-the-deck" mechanic that allows the player to leap forrad and throw themselves on the ground in order to get to encompass quickly, similarly to a previous mechanic known equally "dolphin dive" in Treyarch'south Phone call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.^[3]

Campaign [edit]

WWII is the commencement championship since the original game and Call of Duty two: Big Blood-red Ane not to feature health regeneration in the entrada. Instead, players must notice health packs scattered throughout levels, or rely on their medic squadmate to provide health packs. Other members of the actor'southward squad tin can provide ammunition, grenades, telephone call in mortar strikes, or spot enemies and reveal their position in form of silhouettes.^[4] In certain sections of the game, enemy soldiers in the campaign can be captured, and wounded allies tin be dragged to cover. In some parts of the entrada, players are able to control vehicles.^[5]

Multiplayer [edit]

The multiplayer way for Telephone call of Duty: WWII was revealed on E3 2017, which took identify from June 13–15.^[six] Sledgehammer Games announced features such as the new headquarters social space, divisions, war manner and the render to "boots-on-the-ground" gameplay. Players who pre-order the game were invited to a airtight beta, which was released initially for the PlayStation 4, and later on released on other platforms.^[seven]

In online multiplayer matches, players are randomly assigned either to Allies or Axis side. With regards to playing as the latter, Glen Schofield, co-founder and co-studio head at Sledgehammer, said "The large distinction that Germans however make today is that between the German language armed services and the Nazis. We fabricated certain we made that distinction in the game, that the Germans were doing their duty".^[viii]

Instead of the usual create-a-class system, WWII features Divisions. Players tin cull one out of five (later eight) divisions, each with their ain unlike basic gainsay training, division training and weapon skills. Players demand to progress through ranks in divisions in order to use additional perks, in addition to a global perk organisation named Basic Training. The divisions featured in the game are:

• Infantry: The most versatile division in the game, it is equipped for mid to long range gainsay. The special skill of this division is the bayonet accuse, which tin can lead to savage melee combat.
• Airborne: This division makes players move fast while remaining quiet. Players in this sectionalisation can adhere suppressors to sub-car guns at any time during combat which allows for more than stealth based gameplay style.
• Armored: This sectionalization has the heaviest firepower, being able to mount low-cal car guns while taking less fire and explosive damage.
• Mountain: This division focuses on long range combat, making sniper rifles more than precise with aim assist and improving the aim through scope by blocking out surroundings from player'south view.
• Expeditionary: Shotguns used past players in this division accept incendiary rounds that burn enemies to death. This division tin also furnish their lethal and tactical grenades through killing enemies.
• Resistance: Added in Jan 2018 as role of an update, this division allows players to apply tactical knife in combination with their pistol, focusing on stealthy close-quarter combat. This division also tin sense nearby enemies as well as scramble their radar in shut proximity.
• Cavalry: Added in June 2018 as part of an update, this division carries a specialized riot shield, which provides increased defensive capabilities in firefights. The Cavalry division can also charge at enemies with the shield, and also has improved objective skills.
• Commando: Added August 2018 every bit part of an update. This division allows players to place a flare on the map which, after a death, respawns the histrion at the location of the flare via a parachute. The flare takes the place of all tactical equipment. Also allows other perks which focus mainly on wellness regeneration.

On Apr vi, Sledgehammer Games announced an overhaul to the Divisions system, which includes massive changes to the meta of the system: Division-specific weapon skills are selectable as attachments for the corresponding weapon classes rather than existence tied to the Divisions (with LMG bipods and sniper sharpshooter abilities being available by default), and several Division trainings are switched out/adjusted to improve promote their recommended playstyle, without posing limitation of customization on the players. Other global changes include allowing suppressors on pistols, usage of rocket launchers without needing the Launched bones grooming, and infinite sprinting.

WWII also features Headquarters mode, which acts as a social space in the game. The hub is assail the Omaha Beach in Normandy, iii days after the invasion when Allies retake the embankment and plow information technology into a base. 48 players can exist in the Headquarters at a time, and accept part in diverse activities. For example, players tin can watch other players open up boodle boxes while in the Headquarters.^[9] In that location is a firing range in the hub, where all players tin practise their shooting skills with all weapons, as well as a field where they can test scorestreaks. At that place are also areas where players can engage in "1v1" fights, as other players sentinel the duels.^[10]

The stop-game "killcam" highlight shown at the end of multiplayer matches has been inverse to "Bronze Star", which show kills "deemed nearly impressive" (counted by most points gained in a row).^[11] The exception to this is the Search & Destroy game mode, which does non use Bronze Star killcam. Search & Destroy uses a final killcam, showing the concluding kill in the round.^[12]

A new game style, War, is introduced every bit a "narrative-driven" multiplayer game mode, developed in partnership with Raven Software. In War, ii teams of 6 players perform objectives as either the Allied or Axis faction, inspired by some of the iconic Globe War 2 battles, such as storming Normandy on D-Day as the Allied, or defending the Normandy bunker as the Axis in the map Operation Neptune. In addition to War, popular game modes such as Team Deathmatch, Domination and Hardpoint return, as well as Gridiron, a "boots on the ground" variation of Uplink, which was originally introduced by Sledgehammer Games in Phone call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Several fan-favorite modes, likewise as new modes, are introduced in time-express events throughout the flavor, such every bit Demolition or Infected.

Nazi Zombies [edit]

WWII includes a zombies cooperative game manner, like to previous entries past Treyarch and Infinity Ward, with its ain original storyline set in alternate history and divide from the campaign. The game mode, dubbed Nazi Zombies in reference to its first iteration in Treyarch's Call of Duty: Globe at War, is also prepare in the events of Globe State of war II, as the 3rd Reich makes a drastic attempt to turn the tide of the state of war by creating an undead army in the final stages of the state of war. While the mode is based on science-fiction and is a fictional take on the war, Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey said that the story of the style is based on some "real events". He also revealed that the experience is similar to Dead Space, a third person shooter horror video game directed past both Condrey and Schofield during their work time at EA Redwood Shores.^[thirteen]

In regards to gameplay, Nazi Zombies retains the wave-based survival formula that accept been used in all previous Zombies entries, with new additions. A class system is introduced, where players can opt for 1 of four combat roles: Offense, Command, Medic and Support, which provide different in-game abilities. Grade loadouts are as well included, with equippable Raven Mods, which are perks similar to the multiplayer way. Sledgehammer Games also attempted to rationalize some of the popular mechanics, such as weapon wallbuys and currencies, with realistic explanation that fit inside the lore of the game mode. Nazi Zombies includes a hint organization, where portions of the chief story quest are given directional hints for players to detect and progress. In regards to the story quest, Sledgehammer's artistic managing director Cameron Dayton reveals that in that location is a "casual path" for new and coincidental players where they can progress with the story, while a "hardcore" path, which is considered the official canon, exists with hidden objectives, and expands more on the story beyond what the coincidental path contains.^[fourteen]

Plot [edit]

Entrada [edit]

On June 6, 1944, U.Southward. Army Private First Form Ronald "Carmine" Daniels (Brett Zimmerman), of the 1st Infantry Partitioning, takes office in the Normandy landings (D-Twenty-four hours) with his platoon, consisting of Private First Class Robert Zussman (Jonathan Tucker), Individual Drew Stiles (Kevin Coubal), Technician Fifth Grade Frank Aiello (Jeff Schine), Technical Sergeant William Pierson (Josh Duhamel) and First Lieutenant Joseph Turner (Jeffrey Pierce). Post-obit the landings, Zussman is stabbed past a German soldier, resulting in his hospitalization for several weeks.

Zussman returns to duty in fourth dimension for the American breakout Operation Cobra, where American forces successfully push to reclaim the town of Marigny. The platoon is ordered by Colonel Davis (Matt Riedy) to conduct an operation with British Special Operations Executive officers Major Arthur Crowley (David Alpay) and Vivian Harris (Helen Sadler) to intercept a German armored railroad train carrying V2-rockets. Daniels and Zussman successfully derail the train before existence escorted back to their squad by French Resistance leader Camille "Rousseau" Denis (Bella Dayne).

A week afterward, Rousseau and Crowley infiltrate a High german garrison in Paris to recollect explosives in preparation for the platoon's assault upon information technology. Rousseau successfully places explosives on the garrison's gates and assassinates SS-und Polizeiführer Heinrich (J. Paul Boehmer) in retaliation for his murder of her family, allowing the platoon to liberate Paris.

Two months after, the platoon enters Aachen, and is saved from a German attack by support from tank commander Staff Sergeant Augustine Pérez (Christian Lanz). They are ordered to take over a German language-occupied hotel. They discover civilians inside the hotel's basement and Turner orders their evacuation to Pierson'due south dismay. A young girl named Anna (Lilith Max) goes missing, and Daniels rescues her. German soldiers open burn on a truck carrying the civilians, killing Anna's older sister, Erica. Pierson sends the truck away without protection, creating a rift with Turner.

At the Battle of Hürtgen Woods, the platoon is ordered to take Hill 493. Turner splits the platoon into two groups; Pierson and Zussman are tasked with advancing towards the hill, while Turner and Daniels comprehend them until they can meet at the bottom. Turner'south squad before long receives a transmission revealing that Pierson ordered an attack on the hill against Turner'due south orders, forcing Turner to join in. The platoon destroys arms positions, but the Germans counterattack with a Tiger II tank. Daniels is knocked out trying to disable the tank, which is destroyed past Pérez, who is killed by the tank in turn. Turner is fatally wounded rescuing Daniels, and orders Daniels to abandon him while he covers the platoon's escape. In the backwash of Turner'due south death, Pierson becomes head of the platoon and makes Daniels his second-in-command, promoting him to Corporal.

At the height of the Battle of the Bulge, the platoon is surrounded by Germans. Daniels meets an African American combat engineer, Howard (Russell Richardson), who helps the platoon contact air back up. The platoon captures several German soldiers, and discovers that the Germans plan to destroy the bridge at Remagen, the last span over the Rhine. Afterwards destroying the explosives in transit, Pierson orders the platoon to attack a nearby air base of operations to destroy the remaining explosives. The attack fails, resulting in Daniels and Zussman existence surrounded past enemy troops. Daniels is saved by Howard, while Zussman is captured and taken to a German prisoner of war camp, Stalag Ix-B. Daniels disobeys Pierson and attempts to pursue the German truck carrying Zussman, but ends upwardly injuring himself in the process and letting the truck escape. He is hospitalized, with Pierson denying him from the platoon. In Stalag Ix-B, Zussman is interrogated on his Jewish heritage by SS officeholder Metz (George Regout), is beaten and sent to a concentration camp.

After recovering for eight weeks, Daniels learns from Davis about the events that changed Pierson in the Battle of Kasserine Pass: instead of recklessly leading his men to their deaths, like everyone thought, he disobeyed orders to retreat in a failed effort to salvage part of his platoon that was trapped, losing even more than in the procedure. Daniels later confronts Pierson in his tent and tears up his honorable belch papers when Pierson accuses of him knowing nothing nearly cede. They successfully capture the terminal bridge over the Rhine. The platoon heads into Federal republic of germany, liberating concentration camps in search of Zussman, eventually reaching the Berga concentration camp, which they find abased; the camp'due south survivors were sent on a expiry march. Daniels finds and saves Zussman past killing Metz before he can execute him.

At the end of the war, Daniels parts ways with his platoon and returns to Texas, reuniting with his wife and newborn son. He visits the grave of his older brother, Paul (Chris Browning), who died from injuries he sustained after fighting a wolf that Daniels failed to shoot in time. He places his Bronze Star medal on the grave, saying that his brother deserves it for teaching him how to fight for himself and for his brothers.

Nazi Zombies [edit]

Austrian engineer Marie Fischer (Katheryn Winnick) is sent on a mission to her hometown hamlet of Mittelberg by her commanding officeholder, Major Hank Rideau (Darin De Paul), to retrieve lost artifacts stolen past the Nazis for experimentation, likewise as rescue her brother, Klaus, who provided the information. Klaus has been unwillingly working with their lead scientist Peter Straub (Udo Kier) and weapons expert Colonel Heinz Richter (Tomm Voss) on a projection to exploit a new free energy dubbed "Geistkraft" (literal translation: 'Spiritforce') to assist the Nazi political party's war efforts. Marie is accompanied by Scottish history professor turned art thief Drostan Hynd (David Tennant), Fine art Historian turned French Resistance fighter Olivia Durant (Élodie Yung) and United States Army captain Jefferson Potts (Ving Rhames), all of whom have significant knowledge on the stolen arts and relics. Withal, on their railroad train ride to Mittelberg, the group is attacked by an unidentified colossal being. Marie is stranded from the others, and finds herself taking temporary refuge at a small firm nearby, where she holds out confronting hordes of dead German language soldiers reanimated by Geistkraft, until she is able to brand her mode to the village.

After reuniting with the other three, Marie and the crew keep further down into the village'southward subconscious bunker, where Straub has set up his laboratory. There, they fend off against Straub's undead horde, besides as Richter, whose obsession on weaponization of Geistkraft puts him at odds with Straub. Somewhen, the group recovers the artifact, the Hilt of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's Sword. They so encounter the creature from before, a humanoid-shaped amalgam of numerous body parts sewn and stitched together, dubbed the Panzermörder (literal translation: 'Armor Killer'), with Klaus fused into the creature'due south chest. Using special magnetized batteries, the group manages to stun the Panzermörder and adhere the batteries onto it. Richter's zeppelin, flying in a higher place the hamlet, attempts to pull the batteries back, which pulls the creature forth besides. The Panzermörder struggles to escape, and destroys the zeppelin and itself, freeing Klaus from its body. The Hilt's power somehow revives Klaus, just in a seemingly possessed state, he staggers into the hamlet while ignoring Marie'south pleas. He tells the crew to prevent "the Emperor"'s return, before activating a fire trap, disappearing in the engulfing flame.

Days later on, the coiffure receives intel of Straub's sighting at the islands of Heligoland, where he has been storing his undead army. They travel to the island in pursuit of Straub, also every bit the side by side piece of Barbarossa's Sword. The coiffure comes into struggle with the Nazi Kriegsmarine forces protecting the island as well as Straub's latest undead creations, as he prepares for an assault on Britain. Upon solving several ancient riddles, they observe a ritual chamber dedicated to the goddess Nerthus, where they acquire the Pommel of Barbarossa'south Sword. The crew and so calls the British Royal Air Force in for an airstrike to destroy the facility on the isle; in an try to escape, they go up against the Meistermeuchlers (literal translation: Master Assassins), zombies that are engineered to adjust to their enemies' combat style and skills. After defeating the monstrous creatures, they manage to stow away on one of Straub'southward zeppelins, as he and his forces return to Berlin in response to Adolf Hitler's call for rescue.

The zeppelins arrive at Berlin as the Red Regular army begins their invasion into the urban center. Realizing that the Russians will be outmatched by the undead regular army, the crew grabs onto one of the zombie driblet pods and lands onto the ground. After assisting the Red Regular army by drawing Straub'due south attention abroad from them, the 4 recover three Geistkraft-powered melee weapons hidden around the city past the Nazis. Using the weapons every bit keys, they uncover a hidden courtyard, where they discover the final piece of Barbarossa's Sword, the Blade. With all parts of the Sword nerveless, the coiffure infiltrates Straub's zeppelin for a final showdown, where he ends upwards being overwhelmed and brutally killed by his own zombies. They battle against Straub'south concluding cosmos, the Stadtjäger (literal translation: 'City Hunter'), and then make it back to the city where they concord out against the countless zombie horde until Rideau arrives and extracts them.

In the wake of Straub'south demise, the undead army is unleashed all across Europe. United States President Harry Southward. Truman authorizes Rideau, at present General, to form the Bureau of Primitive Technologies, a special task force consisting of global elite Allied agents, in social club to combat the new threat. Unable to reassemble the Sword of Barbarossa on their ain, Marie and Drostan deduce that their only option is to notice the legendary forge of Thule. Jefferson, now promoted to Major, leads the squad to New Swabia, Antarctica, in search of the forge upon discovery of increased Nazi activity in the region. Rideau leads a team of new Agency recruits to transport the pieces of the Sword by different routes to New Swabia. The B.A.T. operatives head to a port at Málaga, Spain, and board a send beyond the Atlantic Ocean. Forth the way, they encounter resistance from the undead regular army, but manage to prevail. At New Swabia, the coiffure discover the forge, and upon successful deciphering of ancient Thulian runes, they finally reassemble the Sword after Rideau delivers the remaining pieces. Afterwards, the crew battles against the Guardian of the forge, and emerges victorious. The four manage to escape the forge as it collapses, but unbeknownst to them, Geistkraft energy begins to menstruum intensively beneath the area.

On their flight back from New Swabia, the crew's airplane is shot by a bolt of Geistkraft lightning, and crash-lands most the site. They then detect themselves within the Lost Metropolis of Thule, the source of the Geistkraft energy. The squad uncovers ancient weapons in one case wielded by the Raven Lords, elite warriors who are meant to bring rest to a bicycle of life and death, and uses them against the undead horde. B.A.T. amanuensis Vivian Harris, who is sent by Rideau to recover Barbarossa's Sword from the crash, is driven insane by its power, and uses it to awaken the God Rex, a gigantic Thulian entity who claims to be the influence behind Straub as well as Barbarossa. The God King seemingly overpowers the four, only Klaus, who has been reborn as the Rook, arrives and charges them with Geistkraft, bestowing them the title of Raven Lords, allowing them to defeat the God Male monarch. Rideau then contacts the four, revealing his true status equally a member of the Order of the Ravens, an ancient cult dedicated to serving the Raven Lords; he insists that they must now embrace their newfound titles and destiny, and lead the Order in the ongoing boxing against the remaining undead forces.

Development [edit]

Phone call of Duty: Globe War II is the 2d game in the Call of Duty franchise developed past Sledgehammer Games, and the fourth to do good under publisher Activision's three-twelvemonth development cycle (the first being Sledgehammer'southward Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare) in guild for a longer development time for each game. A new Call of Duty championship set in Earth State of war II was alluded to in a 2014 Telephone call of Duty: Avant-garde Warfare launch interview with Michael Condrey, co-founder of Sledgehammer Games. In the interview by Metro, the interviewer asked him what the possibilities of where the adjacent Call of Duty could go in terms of setting. Condrey responded, "Some of my favorite pieces of amusement are set in World War II." Band of Brothers, I'm a massive fan of Band of Brothers." Condrey dived further into the subject, "And that's a corking hero'due south war, kind of the final that was recognized as a noble cause in a war. So yeah, I call up a next generation game with the latest production values and robustness in a World War 2 setting like Band of Brothers would be amazing. Now, how would information technology play and how would the multiplayer work subsequently the new movement set in Advanced Warfare? That'southward a tougher question than I've had to tackle withal…".^[15]

Sledgehammer Games was hesitant to reveal all the authentic settings from World War Ii that developers accept put into the game's storyline. Activision initially refused to deny claims that Nazi extermination camps would be featured in the game.^{[ citation needed ]} Adam Rosenberg of Mashable wrote that video games ready during Earth War 2 tended to be "Holocaust deniers" in the sense that they avoided broaching the subject for business reasons, but that this could be the very first Call of Duty World War Two based game where the Holocaust would exist depicted. Senior creative managing director Bret Robbins said in an interview "Some very, very dark things happened during this conflict and it felt wrong for u.s.a. to ignore that." He further stated "We absolutely show atrocities. It's an unfortunate part of the history, simply you tin't tell an authentic, true story without going there. So we went there." Robbins argued that audiences tin can at present handle games with more than maturity and nuance, "People are fix for it. They want it", he said.^{[16] [17]} When asked directly over Twitter as to whether or not the story entrada would allow gamers the opportunity to play as soldiers from the Axis powers such equally Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Sledgehammer Games confirmed that the campaign gameplay would be limited to Allied forces. More specifically, Sledgehammer co-founder Michael Condrey confirmed that the game volition focus exclusively on the Allied powers.^{[ citation needed ]}

The Windows version of the game was developed in a collaboration with Raven Software. In regards to it, Raven's CTO Dwight Luetscher stated that they were trying to focus on the Windows platform, as well equally the customs, by responding to their needs for information technology to excel. The Windows version features several notable changes, including removal of controller aim assist and improver of sensitivity slider for aim-downwardly-sights mechanic.^[18]

All pre-orders excluding the PC version included access to the private beta, which was made available starting time on the PlayStation iv from August 25–28, followed by a second week for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One from September ane–4. The PC beta was appear as an open beta, and ran from September 29 – Oct two on Steam. Players who participated in the beta received the Beta Combat Pack for the full game, which contains a special in-game helmet, emblem and calling card. The game is available in three editions: Base of operations Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition and the Pro Edition. The Pro Edition was sold exclusively at GameStop, with pre-orders of the game at GameStop also included a limited edition hat.^[xix]

Release [edit]

The game was released worldwide on Nov 3, 2017, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.^[20]

Upon the game'southward release, online servers were downward for nearly of the day, inhibiting players from playing online multiplayer, also as some not beingness able to access the campaign and Nazi Zombies. Activision acknowledged the problem and announced they were working to resolve information technology.^{[21] [22]}

Downloadable content [edit]

Call of Duty: WWII offers 4 downloadable content map packs, each containing 3 regular multiplayer maps, ane War map, and 1 Nazi Zombies map. Players who purchase the Season Pass, which grant access to all iv map packs on release, also receive Carentan, a remake of the multiplayer map of the same name featured in Call of Duty and Telephone call of Duty 2.

On December 19, 2017, Activision released a preview trailer for the first downloadable content pack, The Resistance, containing 3 new multiplayer maps: Anthropoid, Valkyrie, Occupation (the latter of which is a remake of Resistance from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare iii); ane new War map: Operation Intercept; and 1 new Nazi Zombies map: The Darkest Shore. The map pack was released Jan 30, 2018, offset on PlayStation 4, and on March i, 2018, for Xbox Ane and Steam.^[23]

On April half dozen, 2018, Activision announced the 2d downloadable content pack, The War Machine, containing 3 multiplayer maps: Arab republic of egypt, Dunkirk, V2; ane new War map: Operation Husky; and ane new Nazi Zombies map: The Shadowed Throne. The map pack was released April 17, 2018, outset on PlayStation 4, and on May 17, 2018, for Xbox I and Steam.

On June 19, 2018, Activision appear the tertiary downloadable content pack, United Front, containing iii multiplayer maps: Monte Cassino, Market Garden, Stalingrad; one new War map: Performance Supercharge; and 3 new Nazi Zombies maps: Into the Storm, Across the Depth, and Beneath the Ice, referred to collectively equally The Tortured Path. The map pack was released June 26, 2018, outset on PlayStation 4, and on July 26, 2018, for Xbox Ane and Steam.

On August 23, 2018, Activision appear the quaternary and last downloadable content pack, Shadow State of war, containing 3 multiplayer maps: Balloon, Chancellery, Excavation; 1 new War map: Operation Arcane; and one new Nazi Zombies map: The Frozen Dawn. The map pack was released August 28, 2018, first on PlayStation 4, and on September 27, 2018, for Xbox One and Steam.

In addition to the map packs, the game besides received several gratuitous multiplayer maps as office of seasonal events. On December 7, 2017, Sledgehammer released Wintertime Carentan, a winter-themed version of the Carentan map to all players as function of the Wintertime Siege event. On March 13, 2018, Shipment 1944, a remake of the map Shipment from Telephone call of Duty 4: Mod Warfare was released to all season pass holders, and to all players 3 days later on. On Apr 17, 2018, Sledgehammer Games introduced a new map, HQ, based on the same Headquarters social hub, as a playable map in several party modes. On May 29, 2018, the Nazi Zombies map Gröesten Haus is brought into Multiplayer as a playable map for zombie-themed game modes every bit part of the Attack of the Undead event. On July 30, 2018, a new map, Sandbox, is added for free to all PlayStation iv players every bit part of the Days of Summertime event, and on August 30, 2018 for Xbox One and Steam players.

Reception [edit]

Pre-release [edit]

Before the game's release, its thin use of the Swastika symbol, too as the diversity of playable German soldiers in the online multiplayer, drew some criticism. During E3 2017, Sledgehammer co-founder Michael Condrey explained that swastikas were removed from the multiplayer and Zombies modes as "Including Nazi symbols wouldn't bring accolade, nor be appropriate, without the rich history of a WW2 story to ground their context in Multiplayer" and that the multiplayer experiences were "shared, global ones, so nosotros needed to adhere to local laws and regulations", referring to Germany's censorship laws on the imagery of swastikas. On the other hand, swastikas would be included in the entrada, stemming from wanting to exist "historically accurate and tell the story we wanted to tell ... the best style to stand for history, which was very important to the states."^{[24] [ self-published source ]} Condrey as well empathized with complaints that including black and female German soldiers in the multiplayer was historically inaccurate (as in reality Nazi Germany never recruited people from such denominations), saying he wanted the game to entreatment to a diverse audience and beingness reflected in their thespian avatar: "information technology'due south also about putting you lot - this is most you - in Globe War two ... that evolution of your character means information technology'south important for us to allow you to choose to be you, and to have a hero that represents who you are, whomever you cull that to be."^[25]

Post-release [edit]

Phone call of Duty: WWII received "by and large favorable" reviews from critics for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while the PC version received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.^{[28] [27] [26]}

Miguel Concepcion of GameSpot awarded the game a 9/x, writing: "A first-person shooter set during the journey from Normandy to The Rhine isn't unique, but you haven't quite experienced anything like the bout of Ronald Daniels and the 1st Infantry Division in Call of Duty: WWII" and praising "A supporting cast of well-crafted personalities", as well as the game'due south "first-class visuals and sound blueprint".^[34] Daniel Tack from Game Informer gave the game an 8.75/10, stating that he felt the campaign was the only drawback overall; despite capturing a "signature explosive feel through various adrenaline-fueled moments", he idea progression felt boring equally a outcome of "standard gunplay and countless killing fields". He praised the multiplayer equally the "shining star of the three modes", peculiarly enjoying the game's new War mode in terms of its variety, and highlighted the return to the traditional gameplay and range of customization options.^[32]

In his 8.v/10 review for EGMNow, Nick Plasses wrote that the campaign'south protagonists were "well characterized and [...] the cause for the game's near impactful conflicts". He praised the lack of regenerating health which gave the game "new levels of strategy and exploration, ultimately adding more than entertainment than frustration", and that the reliance on fellow soldiers "necessitates more strategic positioning and resource management".^[31] IGN 's Miranda Sanchez awarded the game eight/10, saying the campaign was a "more human perspective than we've seen in recent years", with interesting and diverse characters. However, she criticized its alien tone, every bit well as several repetitive and frustrating missions. She wrote that the Zombies was the standout way in the game, which helped strike "a rewarding residue for the diehard zombies fans [...] and those that only want to leap in and have a skillful time", although criticized that the experience suffered when playing with other people.^[37]

Destructoid 'south Chris Moyse praised the game equally a "satisfying experience" and the campaign as "one of the series' best in some time", but felt that "it also makes little effort to overhaul the brand as a whole, playing it incredibly safe when the opportunity for reinvention was correct there for the taking."^[29] Polygon 'south Russ Frushtick mostly praised the multiplayer, calling information technology "strong and enjoyable", merely criticized the entrada, writing that "only about every mission feels like déjà vu, as if I'd played it before in another game" and that "Changing the fourth dimension flow so dramatically only helps to highlight how piffling has changed since the franchise's full re-imagining with Telephone call of Duty 4."^[39] Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb was more critical of the game as a whole, stating he found the characters "experience lifeless and generic", calling the antagonists "faceless Nazis", stating that "the game doesn't really feel like it's doing annihilation absurd to have reward of its setting and time menstruation" and summarising "despite all of Activision's big talk about "boots on the ground" action and how this was going to be some big deal, the setting alter didn't bring whatever new and exciting inspiration with information technology. This feels like the most cycle-spinning, by-the-numbers Call of Duty they've made thus far."^[36]

Eurogamer ranked the game 38th on their list of the "Pinnacle 50 Games of 2017",^[forty] while EGMNow ranked information technology 20th in their list of the 25 All-time Games of 2017.^[41] The game was nominated for "Best Shooter", "Best Graphics", "All-time Multiplayer" and "All-time Spectator Game" in IGN's Best of 2017 Awards.^{[42] [43] [44] [45]}

Sales [edit]

The game earned over US$500 1000000 within its first three days of release.^[46] On Dec 20, 2017, information technology was announced that the game had generated over $1 billion in worldwide revenue, and was the highest-grossing console game of the yr in North America.^[47] By the end of 2017, the game had over twenty.7 million players, 12.one million players on PlayStation 4, vii.8 million players on Xbox I, and 825,000 players on Steam.^[48]

The PlayStation 4 version sold 168,234 copies within its kickoff week on auction in Nihon, making it the best-selling game of that week in the state.^[49]

Accolades [edit]

Twelvemonth	Honour	Category	Consequence	Ref
2017	Game Critics Awards	Best Activeness Game	Nominated	[fifty]
		Best Online Multiplayer	Nominated
	Gold Joystick Awards	Most Wanted Game	Nominated	[51]
	The Game Awards 2017	Best Multiplayer	Nominated	[52]
	Titanium Awards	Best Action Game	Nominated	[53]
2018	Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Best Music Supervision in a Video Game	Nominated	[54]
	16th Visual Effects Society Awards	Outstanding Visual Furnishings in a Real-Time Project	Nominated	[55]
	21st Annual D.I.C.Due east. Awards	Action Game of the Year	Nominated	[56]
		Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition	Nominated
		Outstanding Accomplishment in Online Gameplay	Nominated
	National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards	Camera Direction in a Game Engine	Nominated	[57]
	Italian Video Game Awards	People's Choice	Nominated	[58]
	SXSW Gaming Awards	Excellence in SFX	Nominated	[59] [60]
		eSports Game of the Twelvemonth	Nominated
	16th Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards	Music of the Year	Won	[61]
		Sound Design of the Year	Won
		Best Original Soundtrack Album	Won
		Best Interactive Score	Won
		Best Cinematic/Cutscene Audio	Nominated
		Best Original Instrumental ("A Brotherhood of Heroes")	Won
		Best Game Audio Article, Publication or Circulate	Won
	14th British Academy Games Awards	Audio Achievement	Nominated	[62] [63]
	ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards	2017 ASCAP Video Game Score of the Year	Nominated	[64] [65]
	BBC Radio 1's Teen Awards	Best Game	Nominated	[66]
	Gilded Joystick Awards	All-time Competitive Game	Nominated	[67] [68]
		eSports Game of the Year	Nominated

Swatting incident [edit]

Not long after WWII was released, a fatal incident occurred in which Ohio resident Casey Viner, angered over friendly fire that ruined an online match in a tournament that cost $ane.50 in betting, threatened to swat his teammate, Wichita resident Shane Gaskill. Gaskill posted his previous home address in McCormick and challenged Viner to swat him. Viner contacted Los Angeles resident Tyler Barriss, who called the Wichita Police Department (WPD) claiming to have murdered his male parent and taken his mother and sibling hostage. He provided them with the McCormick address used by Gaskill. WPD officers arrived at the address, now occupied by 28-yr-onetime Andrew Finch, and shot and killed Finch when he reached for his waistband.^[69]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Boosted work by Raven Software, Infinity Ward, High Moon Studios, Beenox, Toys for Bob and Demonware.
2. ^ Upgraded version of Sledgehammer Games' in-house custom engine from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.^[1]

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External links [edit]

• Official website

Call Of Duty Wwii Wii,

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