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After kicking the week off with midnight openings, launch parties, and hordes of minor celebrities, Call of Duty: Ghosts wants you to go hard this weekend. The first double XP weekend begins in a few hours, so you can power through the lower ranks and start unlocking fancier guns and perks.
Gamers scoffed when Activision revealed the PC minimum spec of Call of Duty: Ghosts. Sure, it's running a new DirectX 11 engine. But, does it really need 6GB of RAM?
Obviously, there's going to be another Call of Duty game. Infinity Ward producer Mark Rubin talked about their next game. Players that have finished the short campaign already have some idea what's going to happen, and Rubin confirms that they're already "working on" the story of the next game.
For the past four years, the day after the launch of a new Call of Duty game has seen Activision boldly declaring its latest man-shooter the new biggest entertainment launch ever. This year, the broken record skipped. Perhaps due to staggering success of Grand Theft Auto V, Activision has changed this year's boast. $1 billion of Call of Duty: Ghosts has gone out to stores, the publisher said, declining to mention how much it actually sold.
Call of Duty: Ghosts is a capable, if unremarkable, entry into the series. It plays a little too safe with the campaign and multiplayer, but does add some cool new ideas, like the co-op Extinction mode and the customizable Squads.
Another year means another Call of Duty means another big-budget Hollywood-style live action commercial. This year's commercial channels The...
Call of Duty: Ghosts will launch with an exclusive multiplayer map for players that pre-order. "Free Fall" takes place in a collapsing skyscraper, and highlights Infinity Ward's take on that whole "levolution" concept.
As is becoming increasingly common on Xbox 360, Call of Duty: Ghosts will require a hard drive installation.
Initial reports pegged PlayStation 4 as more powerful than Xbox One. But, will the differences between the two consoles make much a difference? Apparently, two big multiplatform games both run at a higher resolution on PS4 than on Xbox One: Call of Duty and Battlefield.
Call of Duty: Ghosts will introduce a brand new game mode, one involving aliens.
