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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare vs Call of Duty: WWII

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is an FPS game from High Moon Studios (2014) while Call of Duty: WWII is an FPS game from Raven Software (2017).

Quick answer: Call of Duty: WWII has the higher Metacritic, 80 to 78.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

2014 · High Moon Studios

6.5GamingPickz Score

$39.99

Steam: Mixed

Call of Duty: WWII

2017 · Raven Software

80Metacritic

What each one is

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is filed under FPS. In contrast, Call of Duty: WWII under FPS.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare envisions a powerful future, where both technology and tactics have evolved to usher in a new era of combat for the franchise.Power Changes Everything.

Description from its Steam store page

Call of Duty: WWII

Call of Duty: WWII is a 2017 first-person shooter game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It was released worldwide on November 3, 2017, for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One. It is the fourteenth main installment in the Call of Duty series and the first title in the series to be set primarily during World War II since Call of Duty: World at War in 2008.

Description from Wikipedia

Story, characters and reception

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Plot

Troy Baker plays the story's main protagonist, Jack Mitchell. Kevin Spacey plays the story's later-to-be main antagonist, Jonathan Irons. Campaign In 2054, U. (Wikipedia)

Reception

Reception Critical reception Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare received "generally favorable reviews", according to review aggregator website Metacritic . Josh Harmon from Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a 9/10. He praised the engaging combat mechanics, coherent story (which he described as "a welcome shift for Call of Duty "), new mobility options, as well as in-depth specialization and the multiplayer, which he described as "The deepest, most… (Wikipedia)

Call of Duty: WWII
Plot

Campaign On June 6, 1944, United States Army Private First Class Ronald "Red" Daniels (Brett Zimmerman), of the 16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division , assaults Omaha Beach with his platoon as part of the Normandy landings , accompanied by PFC Robert Zussman ( Jonathan Tucker ), Technician Fifth Grade Frank Aiello (Jeff Schine), and Private Drew Stiles (Kevin Coubal); as well as the abrasive and alcoholic Technical Sergeant William Pierson (… (Wikipedia)

Reception

Pre-release Before the game's release, its sparse use of the Swastika symbol, as well as the diversity of playable German soldiers in the online multiplayer, drew some criticism. During E3 2017 , Sledgehammer co-founder Michael Condrey explained that swastikas were removed from the multiplayer and Zombies modes as "Including Nazi symbols wouldn't bring honor, nor be appropriate, without the rich history of a WW2 story to ground their context in… (Wikipedia)

At a glance

Call of Duty: Advanced WarfareCall of Duty: WWII
GamingPickz Score6.5/10—
Steam ratingMixed (65%, 25,526)—
Critic aggregate78/10080/100
Price$39.99Unknown
Install size55 GB—
Steam DeckverifiedUntested
Released20142017
DeveloperHigh Moon StudiosRaven Software

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare vs Call of Duty: WWII, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Call of Duty: Advanced WarfareFPS game
    Call of Duty: WWIIFPS game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Call of Duty: Advanced WarfareDog, FPS, Action
    Call of Duty: WWIINo descriptive tags

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Call of Duty: Advanced WarfareMetacritic 78
    Call of Duty: WWII ✓Metacritic 80

    Metacritic's critic aggregate, from the game's Wikipedia reception where it was never on Steam.

  4. Content and scale

    Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare25,526 reviews · 43 add-ons · 55 GB
    Call of Duty: WWII—

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare$39.99
    Call of Duty: WWIIUnknown

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

Call of Duty: WWII takes 1 of the marked rounds to 0. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.

Which to pick, by what you want

  • The better reviewed of the two: Call of Duty: WWII (Metacritic 80)

Where they differ

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is also

DogFPSActionMultiplayerShooterFuturistic

Call of Duty: WWII is also

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. Call of Duty: WWII is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 1 accessibility feature for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and 0 for Call of Duty: WWII. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Call of Duty: WWII in scope?

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has drawn 25,526 Steam reviews, ships 43 add-ons and installs in 55 GB. Call of Duty: WWII lists little scope data.

Is Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare or Call of Duty: WWII better?

Neither carries enough reviews for us to score it reliably, so we do not call a winner. The table above shows what each does have.

Which is cheaper, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare or Call of Duty: WWII?

One or both do not have a current listed price, so a straight comparison is not possible. See the table above.

Should I get Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare or Call of Duty: WWII?

Call of Duty: WWII has the higher Metacritic, 80 to 78. It also depends on what you want: the "which to pick" section above calls out which is cheaper, lighter on storage, better on a Steam Deck and the safer bet by weight of reviews.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

All comparisons

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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