Artwork and logos for this year's entry in the Call of Duty franchise — which will be titled Call of Duty: Vanguard — have been leaked online by way of in-game files hidden in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. They all but confirm the World War II setting for the next instalment from Sledgehammer Games, featuring soldiers and weapons of the era. The key art also details various editions of the upcoming title, including an Ultimate Edition and cross-gen bundle, with the former at least granting access to an open beta.
Embedded below is a tweet containing the artwork in question, but it's likely to receive a copyright strike from Activision in the near future. Push Square has seen the leaked images and can confirm their contents, but will not be hosting them on the site itself.
https://twitter.com/rdpgkellytv/status/1425680358520115200
Contents of the Ultimate Edition also detail three new Operators, named Lucas, Polina, and Wade. Skins for them are packaged alongside a Night Raid Mastercraft design for the PPSh-41 and a general Frontline weapons pack. Then there are some double XP tokens and what looks like an exclusive emblem.
Because of this key art leak for Call of Duty: Vanguard, some leakers have now left their trenches to share information concerning the upcoming reveal. The official announcement is supposedly taking place on 19th August 2021 at 6:45 pm BST / 10:45 am PT / 1:45 pm ET, which has been verified by four independent sources according to DualShockers' Tom Henderson. Last year's announcement took place inside Battle Royale title Call of Duty: Warzone, but it's currently unclear whether that's the plan for Call of Duty: Vanguard. If these claims are true, we don't have long to wait either way.
[source charlieintel.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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I've played enough of these World War games over the years so it will be a big pass from me. Though the graphics should be amazing compared to the PS2/PS3 World War games.
Still play WWII, so looking forward to this
A black dude and a woman on the cover, the virgin nerds are going to be mad about this.
I am looking forward to buying this, playing the campaign in like three years time, and then never touching it again.
@Amppari Cringe comment
@WolfKingk87 not anywhere near as much at the people who have an issue with the cover.
Bit stupid to be running across a battlefield shooting standing up without a helmet on!
If gun fight is in it I might give it a whirl. If not I'll probably pass and wait for Infinity Wards next one.
whats cringe is that the game cover is an obvious reach. i hope they didn't do this on purpose , just to stir-up controversy for publicity of the game . they knew what would happen .
its another boring *** world-war game so its not going to do well anyway .
I’m still bitter that modern warfare only had a tiny tutorial map on the disc and everything else being a download, so you know go eat farts Activision.
I'm happy it's a WW2 game, but this isn't looking good.
Why aren't they wearing helmets in a warzone? Is that woman part of a military unit that actually used female soldiers, is she shoehorned into one that didn't?
This is giving me BF5 vibes which is not good. I get that video games aren't ever going to be 100% historically accurate, but there are things that really not hard to get right, and take you out of the immersion is that aren't even attempted.
I dream of a WW2 game done as well as WAW, but it doesn't seem likely at this point. Hopefully this is just a bad first impression and it gets better.
@Amppari I'd also be pretty mad if they made up historical garbage, but there were plenty of real life heroines that fought in WW2 that inspiration could have been drawn from.
Not getting a dime from me this year, Activision. Battlefield 2042 here I come.
I remember Medal of Honour: Underground on the PS1 having a woman on the cover but then again you actually played as a woman in the French Resistance. I don't remember any outrage at that but a woman fighting in the resistance was a thing historically and we didn't have a culture war to fight back then. Simpler times indeed.
Time to wait and see if the woman in these images is shoehorned like females fighting in the US army or something more plausible like a resistance fighter.
@The_Moose
You also didn't have twitter back then either. That definitely helped too 😄.
The artwork looks rather similar to that used for Battlefield 1.
@Korgon
100%. Writing an angry letter to a gaming magazine was much more laborious.
@TwomanybuttonS "go eat farts" made me chuckle quite a bit, not gonna lie 😂
We did see that coming
@The_Moose Probably because there wasn't any social media back then so you didn't have a billion opinions available everyday.
Been rumours of a State of Play on the 19th. There were suggestions that Sony were doing an event to tie next to the CoD show so that would make sense.
Last cod I bought was modern warfare. Dunno how the last one was but the way Activision handled warzone with mw (forcing the warzone download and deleting mw everytime warzone had one of its regular updates) just turned me off cod - which should be about quick pick up and play action...not having to sit through hours of redownloading/installing when ever there's a patch. Will be skipping this if I have to deal with all that again.
Seeing as COD has gone sci-fi and futuristic before, I actually wish they'd push into other genres such as post-apocalypse or something.
I don't need to be reminded of WW2 every few years, nor do I need a modern or near-future setting. Go wild with it. Tell a crazy story in a fresh(er) setting. Try.
@Total_Weirdo I still remember playing Medal of Honour on PS1 - the one where you storm the beaches on D-Day - abd thinking THIS IS LIKE BEING THERE HOW IS THIS SO REALISTIC
Even CoD WW2 is showing it's age nowadays so I'd love to see what a PS5 one can do
Pretty clear with Halo and Battlefield coming up, and MW2 next year, they’re really phoning it in with this game. Don’t know if I’ve ever heard of a AAA title being announced less than 3 months from release 🤷
@BowTiesAreCool
The one you are thinking of was on ps2. Ps1 couldn't have dreamed of pulling off that kind of thing lol.
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