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CoD Advanced Warfare - 7 Things That Don't Make ANY Sense

Plot (*SPOILERS)

In 2054, Jack Mitchell, a new recruit in the U.S. Marine Corps, along with his best friend Will Irons, are deployed to Seoul. The assignment is an effort to repel North Korean forces from advancing into South Korea. They mission is a success, but at the cost of 6000 marines’ lives, including Will’s own from an explosion that severed Mitchell’s left arm.
He is later recruited into Atlas, a private military corporation, by Will’s father Jeremy Irons. He receives a mechanically-advanced prosthetic arm to stop the KVA, an anti-western terrorist organization, from launching multiple terrorist attacks on North American nuclear reactors. After killing its leader Hades, it turns out the Atlas CEO Irons’ intentions were corrupt all along and he declares war on all world governments. Instead of the peace and security that was Atlas’ illusory purpose, Irons stands for total domination, as the only standing political power.

Atlas later develops Manticore, a biological agent that can target the genotype of non-Atlas personnel. After most his squad is wiped out by the agent, Mitchell is captured by Atlas. With the help of his teammates Gideon and Illona, they stop Manticore from being deployed globally by destroying it before its launch. Mitchell chases and confronts Irons, before crashing into to him and nearly toppling off a building. While Irons clings onto Mitchell’s prosthetic arm, Mitchell severs it and Irons falls to his death. Gideon states that this is just the beginning; Atlas forces are still out there to force institutional change upon governments worldwide.

Narrative Inconsistency



  • Will is apparently Mitchell’s best friend, yet at the start of the game their motives for joining the military are suddenly a surprise; as it is when telling each other about their fathers. Wouldn't that be known already?
  • The best friend dies within first fifteen minutes of the game, with no sense of established relationship and no emotional connection to the character — he just dies and the player just goes with it.
  • One character (Gideon’s friend Joker) completely vanishes after a point, is he still with Atlas or was he KIA?
  • By walking through the missile's ignition flames, shouldn't their exposed heads be frying?


Even with an ultra-advanced Exo suit:
  • You can only sprint for a few seconds and get killed when someone butts you with their gun
  • Two Exo-equipped soldiers (Mitchell and Illona) struggle to take down a non-Exo equipped soldier (Hades), in a dramatically-scripted fight sequence
  • Meanwhile, we had seen a regular soldier outfitted with an Exo suit and effortlessly handle himself against five armed men

Tropes and Cliches - The CoD Formula

  • Villain wants total world domination
  • Main character loses someone important
  • Only the hero can defeat the bad guy at the end
  • Ending: “No, it’s not over yet  — it’s only just begun.”
  • Heroes can’t die (immunity)
  • The only woman in the game is the love interest
  • It isn’t the future without jetpacks and hover-bikes

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