Call of Duty Vanguard: First Look Campaign Demo Play-through
Get a first look at the Call of Duty: Vanguard Campaign, in a Stalingrad Level play-through.
Call of Duty: Vanguard showcased the first look in a play-through during the Gamescom 2021 Opening Night Live event, which was available to watch on Twitch and Youtube. The next instalment of the Call of Duty Series, Vanguard is set to launch on November 5.
Call of Duty®: Vanguard – Stalingrad Demo Play-through
The mission shown in the 10 minute trailer gives us a look at the Stalingrad battle, featuring Pollina Petrova (played by Laura Bailey). In the play-through Petrova is seen trying to make her way through a grim, war-stricken landscape.
A First Look at the Call of Duty: Vanguard Campaign Mission — Stalingrad Summer
During Gamescom, Sledgehammer Games showed off the “Stalingrad Summer” mission from the game’s Campaign. An intermediate part of the game’s full single-player story, “Stalingrad Summer” is based on the initial invasion of the city – through Polina’s perspective, we see her family, home, and life destroyed before her very eyes, which ultimately sparks her transformation into the deadly sniper that rises up to defend her home come winter.
“Players will experience the city before it was invaded in the summer of 1942,” Swenson said of the missions that take place on the Eastern Front, “giving players the chance to see and feel the beautiful city, in the summertime, untouched by war. Players will also experience the city near the end of the 6-month battle, in the winter of 1943. Here, players will be able to fight on the snowy landscape of the Russian winter that was so iconic in WWII.”
In the gameplay footage shown at Gamescom, we see a soldier — Polina Petrova — shell-shocked and buried under rubble following an aerial attack that left all her comrades dead or MIA. Pushing herself to the surface, she comes to her senses and realizes what she must do to defeat these invaders: get back to her home and save her brother Misha.
As we see in the playthrough, Petrova stealthily eliminates a hostile search crew, saves a few hostages, and maneuvers her way onto the rooftops as she returns to her apartment. There, on the cold tile floor, she finds the weapon that helped her slay dozens of Axis infantry in her sharpshooting career: a three-line Sniper Rifle she calls Requiem.
It is the key to saving another group of captive civilians, but at this point, her cover is blown. Eliminating reinforcements and avoiding a tank column, the player-controlled Operator takes to an air duct only to find herself at the foot of another guard. She remains silent just long enough to silently assassinate him, but the rage inside her, pent up after these intruders destroyed her home, finally boils over. Immediately after subduing another guard, she lights a Molotov Cocktail, hurls it at a trio of guards, and hits another with her scopeless bolt-action rifle.
Then everything gets hot: numerous soldiers rush in to take Petrova dead or alive, but the 138th Rifle Division’s elite sniper dispatches every one of them… until smoke rolls in and an unseen enemy knocks her unconscious.
This is a taste of the full level of gameplay shown — and afterward, we get to see a 30,000 foot view of the other three fronts to be won through the game’s Campaign, from airdropping over France to dogfighting over the Midway Islands and blasting through advancing forces in North Africa. From here on out, expect much more information and gameplay footage as Call of Duty: Vanguard marches toward a November 5 release date.
Play Champion Hill: Alpha on PlayStation This Weekend — Preload Now
For those more interested in the Multiplayer aspect, PS5 and PS4 owners can play a preview of the new Champion Hill Multiplayer mode in the limited-time Alpha, from August 27 at 10 AM PT to August 29 at 10 AM PT. View more info here.
This exclusive two-day look into the game’s Multiplayer features an innovative new game mode known as Champion Hill, where frenetic small-squad gameplay meets tactical resource management to build a tournament-winning Loadout. It also gives a first look at four Operators who lead the game’s Campaign, including Polina Petrova, and some of the weaponry, destructible environments, and more innovative features to come in the full game on November 5.