Call of Duty Ghosts

Call of Duty: Ghosts is a 2013 first-person shooter game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the tenth major installment in the Call of Duty series and the sixth developed by Infinity Ward. It was released for PlayStation 3, Wii U, Windows, and Xbox 360, on November 5, 2013, and served as the final entry for Nintendo platforms. The game was released with the launch of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Description

In Call of Duty: Ghosts, the story is mostly told through the eyes of Logan Walker, with several other playable characters, including an astronaut specialist named Baker; Sergeant Thompson; Elias Walker, member of Ghosts and Logan’s father; and the newer option to play as a German Shepherd, Riley, the first non-human playable character in the franchise. The multiplayer mode in Call of Duty: Ghosts features changes from previous Call of Duty games as some new mechanics have been added to it. Maps now have areas that can be altered or destroyed.

There is a nuke-like kill streak reward, the KEM Strike. The player can get the ODIN kill streak by either getting a certain amount of kills or by killing the top player on the other team and then completing various challenges after picking up a blue briefcase that is dropped. The sniper rifle scopes also have new “dual render technology” allowing the player to see around the outside of the scope (although blurred) when zoomed in. On October 3, a new multiplayer type was revealed, called Squads. This features a squad that the player can build and the player can face other squads around the world.

The player’s squad can be leveled up and will act like a true individual. “Octane”, “Prison Break”, “Tremor”, “Freight”, “Stormfront”, “Siege”, “Warhawk”, “Sovereign”, “Overlord”, “Flooded”, “Strikezone”, “Whiteout”, “Stonehaven” and “Chasm” are the maps that are in Call of Duty: Ghosts so far. The dynamic map, “Free Fall”, was a pre-order bonus. The game now features playable female soldiers. Extinction is a 4-player co-op mode, which pits the player(s) against various types of aliens (known altogether as Cryptids) in a base-defending survival style map.

The main goal is usually to destroy all of the Cryptid hives scattered across the map (with the exception of Awakening and Exodus; the former requires players scanning for obelisks in an area which need to be destroyed, while Exodus features generators which the players have to activate). Players choose from four different class types, with unique traits and customizable loadouts. The player(s) can level up their classes, unlocking more weapons and equipment for their loadouts. This mode is unlocked by finishing the first level of the Campaign. Sometime before the events of the game, a conflict in the Middle East devastated the region, destroying several oil regions.

The resulting global crisis led South America to form the Federation of the Americas, a military dictatorship, which then annexed all its remaining countries, uniting the continent. In 2017, U.S. Army Captain Elias Walker tells his teenage sons Logan and David “Hesh” Walker about the legend of the Ghosts, an elite coalition of all U.S. Special Operations Forces units, and how they first appeared. Meanwhile, in space, the Federation hijacks the Orbital Defense Initiative (ODIN), an American network of satellites using kinetic bombardment, which the Federation uses to destroy cities in the southwestern United States. 

U.S. Air Force astronauts Baker and Mosley sacrifice themselves to destroy the space station and stop ODIN from launching more payloads, and the Walker family narrowly escapes the destruction of San Diego. Ten years later, the Federation has expanded by invading Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. The U.S.-Federation war is a bloody stalemate along the destroyed cities, called “No Man’s Land”, becoming a war of attrition as Federation forces try to break the frontlines, with the U.S. holding its ground near the former United States-Mexico border.

By 2027, Hesh and Logan are part of a special Army unit under Elias, with Riley, their loyal German Shepherd. During a mission into No Man’s Land, they see Federation agent Gabriel Rorke interrogating a Ghost operative named Ajax. They meet and join fellow Ghost operatives Thomas Merrick and Keegan Russ to rescue Ajax, but he is killed. The brothers return to Santa Monica, California, where U.S. forces hold out against a Federation assault and reunite with their father, who reveals himself as the leader of the Ghosts. Recruiting his sons into the Ghosts, Elias tells them about Rorke, and how he began hunting the Ghosts.