Learn much more about the next chapter in the first-person shooter series

May 3, 2014 13:09 GMT  ·  By

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has just received a proper reveal, with Activision and Sledgehammer Games offering a whole list of details about the game's story, its gameplay, and how it's developed first for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Call of Duty games have mostly remained in the past, present, or near future settings but with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, the series is heading a big further into the future, taking place in 2054.

The world has been torn asunder by different conflicts and most nations now rely only on PMCs (Private Military Corporations) instead of their own armies, and the most powerful is the Atlas Corporation, led by Jonathan Irons, who's played in the game by actor Kevin Spacey.

Players take on the role of a specialized soldier equipped with all sorts of futuristic gadgets, from an impressive exosuit, to hoverbikes and much more.

"You are the advanced soldier. Empowered with new, cutting-edge exoskeleton abilities, technological advancements and high-tech gear, players join the ranks of a highly-trained, specialized unit committed to restoring order in a state of advanced warfare," Activision said about the game.

The game is being developed "specifically" for PC, PS4, and Xbox One by Sledgehammer but it seems that PS3 and Xbox 360 editions will still appear, probably from another Activision-owned team.

"With the expanded production capabilities, Sledgehammer Games is able to create an astonishing new, next generation experience, featuring an array of technical advancements from the sights and sounds that create a near photorealistic world unlike any Call of Duty before, to new performance capture and facial animation technologies that deliver lifelike characters, to a rich and immersive story that brings the fiction to life," the publisher added.

As you can imagine, Activision is quite thrilled with the new game and is hyping up the new technologies and gameplay mechanics introduced by Advanced Warfare, not to mention the presence of Kevin Spacey. "This is our first three-year development cycle," Activision's Eric Hirshberg said. "It's our first time with Sledgehammer Games at the creative helm. And we're shaking up the formula in several ways. New core gameplay mechanics with the exoskeleton suit. A riveting new story. An iconic new character played by one of the world's best actors in Kevin Spacey. We're having a lot of fun making this game, and we think the world is going to have even more fun playing it."

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is set to debut on November 4 worldwide.