At a Call of Duty: Ghosts press event in London this week, Activision walked us through a new mission that takes place near the beginning of the game and thrusts players into a gravity-defying and exciting battle on a space station, setting up the action nicely for a war that takes place following a kinetic bombardment on the United States.
Owned by the United States air force, the Odin (Orbital Defense Initiative) space station is a weapons platform that is under attack by an unknown group. The action begins with the player floating toward the station using the bumper buttons to ascend and descend through space toward the air-lock door.
On entering the station, the player and his team come immediately under attack from armed enemies floating around the space station’s corridors. It’s a unique and impressively produced sequence that sees the player having to battle against the movement of gravity as well as keeping his gun at the ready to shoot at enemies who spring out at you throughout the short mission.
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After killing an enemy their gun floats around the station and players have the opportunity to switch weapons if they wish to do so as they head for the first objective of reaching the ODIN shutdown controls. A few fire-fights later and an explosion tears open the floor of the space station and the player free falls through space and attempts to disable ODIN’s weapons by firing frantically at its core.
A huge explosion at the end of the level indicates things probably didn’t quite go according to plan. We presume this level is the prelude to the main storyline which is set approximately 10 years after 30 cities across the United States are bombarded by kinetic tungsten rods, presumably from the hacking of the ODIN space station.
With ground-based warfare being the main theme of the Call of Duty games, this space-based mission offers something a little different and sets up storyline very nicely for the battle ahead as an underdog who seeks to protect what remains of the U.S.
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