THESE ARE MY OVERALL OPINIONS OF THE GAME, AFTER SIX YEARS OF BEING RELEASED. KEEP IN MIND, THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE AND I CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR EVERYONE, BUT I'VE TRIED TO BE UNBIASED AND AS IMPARTIAL AS POSSIBLE. I HAVE NOT PLAYED THIS GAME UNTIL NOW DUE TO THE MASSIVELY EXPENSIVE PRICE IT HAS EVEN SIX YEARS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

TLDR; Game is bland, repetitive, and overall, just another re-skin carbon copy of the Call of Duty franchise. Its still better than Infinite Warfare, and not as cheesy. But its definitely not worth the price it currently has. Wait for an 80% sale and then try it out. Don't expect multiplayer to work, and definitely don't expect a campaign longer than 8 hours.

PRICE OF THE GAME, HOW LONG IT TAKES & OVERALL FEEL
As of April 21st, 2020. The game is still too expensive and highly priced for a game that came out six years ago, don't bother buying this game at full price, wait for 80% off like I did. I'm not necessarily a big fan of Call of Duty games, I haven't been ever since Modern Warfare 3, and that was before Steam. Overall, Advanced Warfare touches a lot of the "cliche" and overused formula of Call of Duty. Run & Gun, take cover, push this button, wait for the AI to open the door, and all of that fancy stuff they've had since 2010. The game is fun to go through in terms of its campaign, the first half is quite well done but the second half devolves into a typical "hero becomes villainous megalomaniac bent on doing what he thinks is right" and at this point, you know that the guy you worked for is the enemy. The guy being the Atlas CEO Jonathan Irons. Ain't that a surprise? The game takes about 7-10 hours to complete on a first run, possibly 12-14 if you try to collect the intel.

THE CAMPAIGN, GUNPLAY, AND HEADS UP DISPLAY
The campaign is serviceable, gunplay is great and the usage of holographic HUDs are a nice touch instead of the occasional display on the entire screen. There is no "HUD" per se, everything is displayed thanks to advanced or futuristic technology. Your ammo and other on-screen prompts such as grenade counts are displayed on your gun, and objective markers are simple enough to not clutter the screen. However this can become a big problem in a way for people who don't notice the ammo counter and suddenly realize they're out of ammo after a brief firefight. The hardest thing to look after are your grenades, you'll go through 'em pretty quickly in this game. You'll attempt to utilize the "see-through walls" threat grenades, and the handy heat-seeking smart grenades in a single firefight and then realize you're out of grenades for the next area.

THE AI ENEMIES AND ALLIES
The AI is still pretty s**t and that's because they've overused the same engine for a near six or seven years leading up to Advanced Warfare. AI will simply spawn around a corner through trigger scripts laid down by the devs, and you can easily gun down squads of enemies because they're conga-lining towards you or to get to nearby cover. The enemy AI are absolutely CRAP. You'd think that by 2014, Activision would've found a way to somehow let the enemies utilize cover and their SMALL, BOXED IN ARENA-LIKE combat environments better, but no. Enemies and their gigantic heads will peak out of cover enough for you to be able to headshot them from across the way, they will run out of cover seemingly to run into another cover that is LESS formidable than the one they were at or to give you a chance to shoot them outright. This is in EVERY difficulty. The allied AI are no better, they'll be at least 10 feet away from another enemy having a small firefight over cover, and will be unable to kill the enemy unless they get near them enough for a melee kill or if you're moving into another area. You will clearly see allied AI PURPOSELY MISSING their shots. Special forces everyone, this is obviously for gameplay and balance purposes, but the allied AI is USELESS.

THE LEVEL DESIGNS
The level designs are nice from an aesthetic standpoint, practically though in a modern game setting. They are boring, Advanced Warfare still uses the same principles as the older games. Its the same arena-like combat areas where enemies will charge straight at you. Go from cover to cover, regain health, shoot, move forward. It gets ultimately boring. After you play the first time, you will most likely never do a second playthrough. Its too easy to figure out where enemies will come from, there's tons of doors, balconies, or straight up open areas in front of you where an enemy will obviously come from. The level design is good, but boring and too predictable.

THE WEAPON DESIGNS & THE EXOSUIT UPGRADE SYSTEM
Re-skinned and re-named versions of modern day weapons, given a futuristic aesthetic and given more accuracy bonuses due to MUH EXOSUITS. You can judge it for yourself, there's the AK-12, the ARX-160, you name it. They're silhouettes of modern day guns, just re-skinned and renamed for aDvANCed WArfAre. The guns are proper, but if you're playing multiplayer. Expect being able to gun down legions of enemies with any kind of weapon, because the recoil is non-existent and the accuracy is totally on point. This is also thanks to the "upgrade system" which allows you to upgrade your exo-suit with less flinching, more accuracy, less weapon recoil, more health, etc... which beats the purpose of an actual challenge even on higher difficulties.

THE MULTIPLAYER
You'd think a Call of Duty game from 2014 would have at least a hundred players in 2020? No, Modern Warfare 2 & 3 still have more players than this garbage of a game. The multiplayer is dead, Exo Zombies will keep connecting and keep sending you back with a prompt saying "Unable to connect to Advanced Warfare online services at this time" and this is the same for Exo Co-op. You are FORCED to play solo on Exo Zombies and Co-op because the multiplayer services apparently no longer work for Advanced Warfare, but the multiplayer service for Modern Warfare 2 & 3 STILL WORK after 11 long years. Don't even try to play regular multiplayer. If you have DLCs enabled and installed, then you're in for a rough ride. You can't play multiplayer with players who don't own the same DLCs as you, and the same goes for them. So you will NEVER find a game at this point.

5/10

THESE ARE MY OVERALL OPINIONS OF THE GAME, AFTER SIX YEARS OF BEING RELEASED. KEEP IN MIND, THIS IS [b] MY EXPERIENCE [/b] AND I CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR EVERYONE, BUT I'VE TRIED TO BE UNBIASED AND AS IMPARTIAL AS POSSIBLE. I HAVE NOT PLAYED THIS GAME UNTIL NOW DUE TO THE MASSIVELY EXPENSIVE PRICE IT HAS EVEN SIX YEARS AFTER ITS RELEASE. TLDR; Game is bland, repetitive, and overall, just another re-skin carbon copy of the Call of Duty franchise. Its still better than Infinite Warfare, and not as cheesy. But its definitely not worth the price it currently has. Wait for an 80% sale and then try it out. Don't expect multiplayer to work, and definitely don't expect a campaign longer than 8 hours. [b] PRICE OF THE GAME, HOW LONG IT TAKES & OVERALL FEEL [/b] As of April 21st, 2020. The game is still too expensive and highly priced for a game that came out [b] six years [/b] ago, don't bother buying this game at full price, wait for 80% off like I did. I'm not necessarily a big fan of Call of Duty games, I haven't been ever since Modern Warfare 3, and that was before Steam. Overall, Advanced Warfare touches a lot of the "cliche" and overused formula of Call of Duty. Run & Gun, take cover, push this button, wait for the AI to open the door, and all of that fancy stuff they've had since 2010. The game is fun to go through in terms of its campaign, the first half is quite well done but the second half devolves into a typical "hero becomes villainous megalomaniac bent on doing what he thinks is right" and at this point, you know that the guy you worked for is the enemy. The guy being the [spoiler] Atlas CEO Jonathan Irons. [/spoiler] Ain't that a surprise? The game takes about 7-10 hours to complete on a first run, possibly 12-14 if you try to collect the intel. [b] THE CAMPAIGN, GUNPLAY, AND HEADS UP DISPLAY [/b] The campaign is serviceable, gunplay is great and the usage of holographic HUDs are a nice touch instead of the occasional display on the [b] entire screen. [/b] There is no "HUD" per se, everything is displayed thanks to advanced or futuristic technology. Your ammo and other on-screen prompts such as grenade counts are displayed on your gun, and objective markers are simple enough to not clutter the screen. However this can become a big problem in a way for people who don't notice the ammo counter and suddenly realize they're out of ammo after a brief firefight. The hardest thing to look after are your grenades, you'll go through 'em pretty quickly in this game. You'll attempt to utilize the "see-through walls" threat grenades, and the handy heat-seeking smart grenades in a single firefight and then realize you're out of grenades for the next area. [b] THE AI ENEMIES AND ALLIES [/b] The AI is still pretty [b] s**t [/b] and that's because they've overused the same engine for a near six or seven years leading up to Advanced Warfare. AI will simply spawn around a corner through trigger scripts laid down by the devs, and you can easily gun down squads of enemies because they're conga-lining towards you or to get to nearby cover. The enemy AI are absolutely CRAP. You'd think that by 2014, Activision would've found a way to somehow let the enemies utilize cover and their SMALL, BOXED IN ARENA-LIKE combat environments better, but no. Enemies and their gigantic heads will peak out of cover enough for you to be able to headshot them from across the way, they will run out of cover seemingly to run into another cover that is LESS formidable than the one they were at or to give you a chance to shoot them outright. This is in EVERY difficulty. The allied AI are no better, they'll be at least 10 feet away from another enemy having a small firefight over cover, and will be unable to kill the enemy unless they get near them enough for a melee kill or if you're moving into another area. You will clearly see allied AI PURPOSELY MISSING their shots. Special forces everyone, this is obviously for gameplay and balance purposes, but the allied AI is USELESS. [b] THE LEVEL DESIGNS [/b] The level designs are nice from an aesthetic standpoint, practically though in a modern game setting. They are boring, Advanced Warfare still uses the same principles as the older games. Its the same arena-like combat areas where enemies will charge straight at you. Go from cover to cover, regain health, shoot, move forward. It gets ultimately boring. After you play the first time, you will most likely never do a second playthrough. Its too easy to figure out where enemies will come from, there's tons of doors, balconies, or straight up open areas in front of you where an enemy will obviously come from. The level design is good, but boring and too predictable. [b] THE WEAPON DESIGNS & THE EXOSUIT UPGRADE SYSTEM [/b] Re-skinned and re-named versions of modern day weapons, given a futuristic aesthetic and given more accuracy bonuses due to MUH EXOSUITS. You can judge it for yourself, there's the AK-12, the ARX-160, you name it. They're silhouettes of modern day guns, just re-skinned and renamed for aDvANCed WArfAre. The guns are proper, but if you're playing multiplayer. Expect being able to gun down legions of enemies with any kind of weapon, because the recoil is non-existent and the accuracy is totally on point. This is also thanks to the "upgrade system" which allows you to upgrade your exo-suit with less flinching, more accuracy, less weapon recoil, more health, etc... which beats the purpose of an actual challenge even on higher difficulties. [b] THE MULTIPLAYER [/b] You'd think a Call of Duty game from 2014 would have at least a hundred players in 2020? No, Modern Warfare 2 & 3 still have more players than this garbage of a game. The multiplayer is dead, Exo Zombies will keep connecting and keep sending you back with a prompt saying "Unable to connect to Advanced Warfare online services at this time" and this is the same for Exo Co-op. You are FORCED to play solo on Exo Zombies and Co-op because the multiplayer services apparently no longer work for Advanced Warfare, but the multiplayer service for Modern Warfare 2 & 3 STILL WORK after 11 long years. Don't even try to play regular multiplayer. If you have DLCs enabled and installed, then you're in for a rough ride. You can't play multiplayer with players who don't own the same DLCs as you, and the same goes for them. So you will NEVER find a game at this point. 5/10