The best trick in my arsenal, and the mechanic that I truly miss in recent CoD games, is the lateral boost that propels you left, right, or backward. It often felt like a literal leap of faith to dive into a gunfight midair (though it was handy for sudden flanks over high walls). I often heard the complaint that double jumping made fights too chaotic, but in my experience, hopping around randomly would just get you killed. Everyone having a boosted jump by default allowed for more verticality in maps while making it effortless to get where you wanted to be. I wasn't expecting much from AW, especially after the original Titanfall had briefly caught fire earlier that year, but the entire exosuit concept really came into its own against other players. Like many, I was getting pretty burnt out on Call of Duty's increasingly samey takes on multiplayer by 2014. Of course, the four and a half hour campaign isn't what made Advanced Warfare one of my favorite CoDs ever. The game came out at the peak of the voice actor being in basically everything, but this is the only Baker role I can think of in which he lends his voice and his face (it's a nice face). I also forgot that you play as Troy Baker, like, literally. With Advanced Warfare we were still in the era of CoD's shooting feeling a bit stiff and dated (Modern Warfare changed that in 2019), but its novel futuristic arsenal including a sonic shotgun and "Smart Grenades" that can toggle functions on the fly helped keep things fresh. Of course, you do get to drop him off the top of a skyscraper Hans Gruber-style by chopping off your own prosthetic arm with a knife, so that's pretty neat. I'm glad to say the campaign still kinda rules, even if Kevin Spacey as a shady, manipulative PMC father figure is harder to watch today. I really liked Advanced Warfare back in 2014, but I was worried it wouldn't hold up after seven years of FPS evolution. It seems all-but-confirmed that we're getting another WWII game in November and it's a damn tragedy. Advanced Warfare's inventive movement system and freeform loadouts still rank it among the best "forgotten" CoDs of its time, and I can't shake the feeling that now in 2021, Sledgehammer is making a sequel to the wrong game.
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