Ghosts is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward , with assistance from Raven Software , Neversoft and Certain Affinity. Published by Activision , it is the tenth primary installment in the Call of Duty series and the sixth developed by Infinity Ward. The video game was released for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 3 , Xbox , and Wii U on November 5, , with Treyarch handling the port for the Wii U.

The game was released with the launch of next-generation consoles PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and was the second and final Call of Duty game for the Wii U. Ghosts received generally positive reviews from critics, with most praising its multiplayer gameplay and introduction of the new game mode Extinction, but criticizing it for its single-player campaign, rehashing of familiar concepts, general lack of innovation, and storyline ending.

Ghosts is set in an alternate timeline that follows the nuclear destruction of the Middle East. The oil-producing nations of South America , led by Venezuela, form "the Federation" in response to the ensuing global economic crisis and quickly grow into a global superpower, swiftly invading and conquering Central America , the Caribbean , and Mexico.

The game's main protagonists are the Ghosts, a force of U. Special Operations personnel trained to conduct clandestine missions behind enemy lines.

The unit is led by retired U. Army Captain Elias Walker Stephen Lang. He is joined by his sons Logan and David "Hesh" Walker Brandon Routh , along with a trained German Shepherd named Riley, Captain Thomas A.

Merrick Jeffrey Pierce , and Sergeant Keegan P. The game's main antagonist is Gabriel Rorke Kevin Gage , the former leader of the Ghosts who works for the Federation after being captured and brainwashed by the Federation with torture and hallucinogens. Army officer Elias Walker Stephen Lang tells his sons, Logan and David "Hesh" Walker Brandon Routh , the legend of how the Ghosts, an elite coalition of all U.

Special Operations units, first appeared. Meanwhile, in space, the "Federation of the Americas" hijack the controlling space station of the Orbital Defense Initiative ODIN , [8] an orbital superweapon that utilizes kinetic bombardment , and use it to destroy several cities in the southwestern United States.

The surviving American astronauts, Baker and Mosley, sacrifice themselves to self-destruct the space station and prevent other ODIN satellites from launching their payloads further inland; Elias and the teenage Logan and David narrowly escape the destruction of San Diego, California. Ten years later, the war between the United States and the Federation has been a bloody stalemate along a front that comprises the destroyed cities, known as " No Man's Land ", which has become a war of attrition as more Federation forces attempt to break the frontlines.

However, the Americans stand their ground, fighting near the former United States-Mexico border. Logan and Hesh are part of a U. S special unit under the command of Elias and are accompanied by their loyal military-trained German Shepherd, Riley. During a mission into No Man's Land, they spot an American working with the Federation, named Gabriel Rorke Kevin Gage , interrogating a Ghost member, named Ajax.

When the brothers are later ambushed by wolves, they are rescued by Ghost members Thomas Merrick and Keegan Russ, who are aiming to rescue Ajax; Logan and Hesh join them, but Ajax is killed. The brothers return to Santa Monica, California , where U. S forces hold out against an assault from Federation forces, and reunite with their father, who reveals himself as the current leader of Ghosts.

Elias recruits them into the Ghosts, and they learn from him that Rorke was their previous commanding officer and Elias' best friend. However, during a mission to assassinate General Diego Almagro, then president of the Federation, in the capital city Caracas , Elias was forced to abandon Rorke, who was captured and brainwashed by the Federation and began hunting down members of the Ghosts.

The Ghosts capture Rorke, but Rorke's men attack their plane and rescue him. The Ghosts raid a Federation laboratory in the Andes and obtain data regarding classified information in a factory at Rio de Janeiro. The Ghosts destroy the Federation's Atlas oil platform located in Antarctica to lure the Federation's fleet away from their objective and sink a destroyer guarding the Brazilian coast. The team discovers that the Federation reverse engineered ODIN's technology and developed their own orbital bombardment system code named "LOKI".

After destroying the factory, the Ghosts regroup at a safehouse in Las Vegas , but are captured by Rorke. After Rorke kills Elias, the brothers escape along with Merrick, Keegan and Riley. The American forces successfully seize LOKI and turn its weapons on the Federation forces, completely decimating them. Hesh and Logan then pursue Rorke to avenge their father and are seemingly successful, only to find out during the aftermath that Rorke survived.

Logan attempts to defend his wounded brother, but has his arm broken and is captured by Rorke, who announces his plans to brainwash Logan into killing the rest of the Ghosts. In a post-credits scene , Logan is seen being kept inside a pit in the jungle, presumably going through the same torture methods that Rorke went through.

In Call of Duty: Ghosts , the story is mostly told through the eyes of one single character, Logan Walker. Players assume the role of Logan for most of the game, with several other playable characters, including an astronaut specialist named Baker, and Logan's father, Elias Walker, with an all new option to play as Riley, the first non-machine and non-human character in the series. The multiplayer in Call of Duty: Ghosts features changes from that of previous Call of Duty games as some new mechanics have been added to it.

Maps now have areas that can be altered or destroyed.

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There is a nuke-like kill streak reward, the KEM Strike. You can get the ODIN kill streak by either getting a certain amount of kills or you can get it 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 you build and you can face other squads around the world.

Your squad can be leveled up and will act like a true individual. The dynamic map, "Free Fall", was a pre-order bonus. The game now features playable female soldiers. Ghosts introduces a new game type called Squads. This mode can be played either solo or with other players including friends. A squad consists of ten different customizable characters. Squads can be utilized in unique gamemodes involving AI controlled enemies and AI controlled squad mates.

The gamemodes include Squad Assault, Safeguard, Safeguard Infinite, Squad vs Squad, and Wargame. All of these modes can be played while online or offline. Ghosts features several staple multiplayer game modes, while introducing several new game types, including:. Extinction is a new 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. The first map, "Point of Contact", is included within the base game, and serves as an introduction to the game mode. The map takes place in an abandoned city in Colorado, two weeks after the events of the campaign mission "Ghost Stories". The second map, "Nightfall", is released as part of the Onslaught DLC pack, and is advertised as the first of the four episodic contents for Extinction.

The map takes place in an Alaskan research facility, 14 weeks after "Point of Contact", and introduces two characters central to the story: Samantha Cross and Cpt. The map also introduces two new types of Cryptid aliens, one of which the Breeder serves as a boss-type enemy. Players are also given access to a mysterious and powerful weapon: Players can unlock several pieces of intel, revealing details about the story revolving around Cross and Archer. The third map, "Mayday", is released as part of the Devastation DLC pack, and is the second of four episodes of Extinction.

The map takes place on board a Naval ship, 26 days after the events in "Nightfall", and introduces two more new types of Cryptids: The Seeder Which looks like the red seekers but is bright orange and spawns plantlike turrets that shoot projectiles at the players, and the Kraken, the large, multi-tentacled boss at the end of the chapter. In addition to weapons scattered throughout the ship, players can access schematics to build powerful offensive and defensive weapons, including 4 variations of the Venom X from the previous chapter.

Players can also find intel as well to learn more about the story of Extinction. The fourth map, "Awakening", which is released as part of the Invasion DLC pack, is advertised as the third episode.

The map takes place in an underground Cryptid hive, 36 hours after "Mayday", and introduces three new types of Cryptids: The Cryptids' masters, the Ancestors, are also seen in the map. The players have access to ARK attachments, which turn weapons into laser weapons, greatly increasing their power.

As with the previous two maps, intels can be found to discover more information regarding the story. The final map, "Exodus", which also acts as the final episode of Extinction, is released as part of the Nemesis DLC pack. The map takes place in a launch facility, 3 months after "Awakening", where the players are pit in a final battle against the forces of the Cryptids.

Nearly every Cryptid type is encountered in the map, including the Ancestors. Players can choose their own paths in progressing throughout the map. The map also introduces two brand new weapons, the NX-1 Disruptor and the NX-1 Grenades, which are required in taking out the Ancestors.

On February 7, , Activision confirmed that a new Call of Duty game was in development and would be released Q4, The publisher expects to sell fewer copies than the series' previous entry, Call of Duty: Black Ops II on seventh generation consoles PlayStation 3 and Xbox due to the transition to next-generation consoles.

The series starts a new subseries with Ghosts to coincide with Sony and Microsoft's eighth generation consoles entering the market. The game was supposed to debut an engine built by the developer, originally described as a new engine, but later clarified to be the same engine as used in previous games with "significant" upgrades.

The Wii U version of the game was developed by Treyarch. Infinity Ward prioritised frame rate over display resolution during the development of Call of Duty: Ghosts , with the game targeted to run at 60 frames per second on each platform.

While the game outputs at p on PlayStation 4 , the Xbox One can only manage p while maintaining the frame rate. Due to a "configuration issue" however, the PlayStation 4 version still required a release day patch to reach p.

David Buckley scored the game's original soundtrack. On April 29, , the official Call of Duty website was updated with a social media mosaic that filled up every time a user logged into the site via Twitter or Facebook. The next day, the mosaic was completed and the picture showed a skull along the text "the Ghosts are real. It was released on May 1, Ghosts appeared at the "Xbox Reveal" event on May 21, On August 14, , American rapper Eminem 's " Survival " featuring Liz Rodrigues, with production by DJ Khalil was premiered in the multiplayer trailer for the game.

Ghosts was released for Microsoft Windows and current-generation game consoles — PlayStation 3 , Xbox , and Wii U — on November 5, Downloadable content DLC for Ghosts has been released. Pre-ordered versions of the game included a bonus "dynamic" map called Free Fall and also got Simon "Ghost" Riley from Modern Warfare 2 as a playable multiplayer character. However, Free Fall was excluded from the Wii U pre-ordered version.

Four sets of DLC map packs were released in A Season Pass is available, which gives players immediate access to all four DLC packs.

The first map pack, Onslaught , was released for the Xbox and Xbox One on January 28, and for Windows, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 on February 27, It contains an exclusive playlist for owners of the DLC. The map Ignition is a re-make of Scrapyard from Modern Warfare 2. It also includes two new multiplayer weapons: On the multiplayer map Fog, Michael Myers from the Halloween film series appears as a playable character, obtainable by earning a care package by completing various challenges via Field Orders.

The second map pack, Devastation , was released on the Xbox and Xbox One on April 3, , and on Windows, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 on May 8, The pack introduces four new multiplayer maps: The map Unearthed is a re-make of the fan-favorite map Dome from Modern Warfare 3. It includes a new hybrid multiplayer weapon called the Ripper, which Season Pass owners received early. On the map "Ruins", Predator from the Predator film series appears as a playable character.

Additionally, it includes the next installment in the Extinction episodic contents, titled "Mayday". The third map pack, Invasion , was released on the Xbox and Xbox One on June 3, , and on Windows, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 on July 3, It includes the third Extinction episodic content, titled "Awakening". The final map pack, Nemesis , was released on the Xbox and Xbox One on August 5, , and on Windows, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 on September 4, Modern Warfare , "Showtime".

It includes the final Extinction episode, titled "Exodus". Additional downloadable content includes; Announcer Packs of Snoop Dogg and the Drill Instructor featuring R.

Lee Ermey who starred in Full Metal Jacket , Personalization Packs, Legend Packs and Special Characters. Ghosts received generally positive reviews from critics. It was praised for its multiplayer gameplay and introduction of the new game mode "Extinction", but was criticized for its single-player campaign, rehashing of familiar concepts, and general lack of innovation. IGN praised the sequel for introducing "sweeping changes that breathe new life into the multiplayer experience" and called the campaign "lengthy, challenging, and varied".

The game has also received a great deal of criticism, despite getting favorable ratings. Many critics claimed that its campaign mode lacks a compelling story and fails to connect emotionally. Many also agreed that while it is a solid game overall, Call of Duty: Ghosts does very little to reinvent the franchise and instead relies on a proven formula by offering more of the same familiar concepts from previous installments.

PC Gamer dubbed the campaign as "exciting but only passively entertaining" and criticized the "whack-a-mole" feel in the game's multiplayer.

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