14 DAY TRIAL // Havoc, the first major downloadable content pack for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, is now launched on the Xbox One and the Xbox 360, with gamers who are playing on the PC, the PlayStation 4 and the PS3 set to get access to it in about one month.
Following a formula that has become traditional for the series, it includes exactly four new maps, all of them designed for variety in multiplayer, and new weapons.
Gamers who pick it up will also be able to engage with the Exo Zombies mode, a cooperative experience that introduces four character that need to work together in order to move out of a facility filled with undead and discover some narrative elements in the process.
The same basic template will also be used to create the other three DLC packs for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, which will probably be offered in the middle of March, late April and then in May, based on the patterns that Activision established for previous titles in the franchise.
When the final new content for the current game is out, we might also learn more about the title that will be introduced this year.
Sledgehammer Games succeeded because it broke patterns
Many members of the Call of Duty community consider the Advanced Warfare launch one of the best that the series has delivered in the past few years.
And much of the praise is linked to the future warfare theme and the addition of the exo-skeleton, which gave the developers at Sledgehammer Games a way to tweak the mechanics and increase the customization options and its battlefield impact.
The company should persuade publisher Activision to apply a similar system for the DLC that’s set to arrive.
It’s probably too late to introduce entirely new ideas in the second pack but the third and the fourth should actively aim to break the rules of the franchise.
It would be nice to see one DLC that only delivers one map but significantly increases the weapons that are added or maybe tweaks the rules in a big way.
It would also be interesting to see Sledgehammer use the data it has gathered from the community to make Advanced Warfare more strategic or to add another cooperative campaign apart from the one included in Exo Zombies.
There are many possibilities and they would probably lead to increased sales for the shooter and its DLC.
