Over 50 million pre-registrations overall and over 11 million views in the first 4 days for the trailer on YouTube: those are important numbers Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, available from 5pm today for Android and iOS. Better said: they are numbers from Call of Duty, which for over twenty years has been the reference video game when it comes to first-person shooters and multiplayer shooters. That they concern one version intended for smartphonesperhaps gives an idea of the extent of the phenomenon.
“We started development in 2020 and we were an external studio – he told us Xavier Carrillo, CEO di Digital Legendsthe Barcelona software house that collaborated on the creation of the game – Then in November 2021 we were acquired by Activision and we became part of this team of not only good but also wonderful people. It was a dream come true.”
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youtube: il trailer di Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
What is Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
Like the other titles in the family Warzone within the series CODthis is too what is called a battle royal (the genre of the various Apex Legends, Fortnite, PUBG): dozens and dozens of gamers compete against each other and whoever remains last, or the team that remains last, wins. Carrillo has us confirmed that “there is no single player mode”but that in any case “you can play against bots or cooperatively with friends”.
The game is theoretically available for iPhones 8 and up and for Android smartphones from the Samsung A71 onwards, but one of its fundamental characteristics is that it should be able to adapt to more or less any smartphone: “There are settings and graphics settings like on PC, so that everyone can have the best possible experience depending on the device used – Carrillo told us again – There is support for different controllers and for screens of different sizesto change the touch controls and the appearance of the HUD”.
Above all, ed It’s “something that’s never been done before”there is the link to this Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile with the whole world of COD and with other games, on computers and consoles. What does it mean? It means you can play at home on your PC on your Xbox, go out and continue doing it on your phone, with your character’s progress being transferred from one platform to another: “Simply log in with your Activision ID and all the content acquired in Modern Warfare III e Warzone they will be transferred without problems, becoming continuously available between games”, the company clarified to us.
In particular, and fundamental for more expert gamers, the player experience earned on Warzone Mobile carries over to console and PC and vice versa, so that the player’s level and prestige remain the same regardless of platform. Likewise, since leveling up weapons to earn new camos and accessories is a key part of the experience of Call of Dutyyou can continue collect experience points for the weapon both at home and on the move.
Xavier Carrillo, CEO di Digital Legends
What changes (or doesn’t change) compared to other Call of Duty games
Conversely, one aspect that the developers cared about was that the game be in some way inclusive and welcoming for those who have never set foot in this world: “It’s a free-to-play game, so we expect a lot of casual gamers, many who have never tried a title like this before. And we wanted it to be accessible for them too,” Carrillo told us. So what? “And so we have thought about the idea of smart movements, automated actions (climbing stairs, climbing over an obstacle and so on, ed.) that the character will perform alone, so as to simplify control”. Obviously, “more experienced players will be able to deactivate everything and enjoy the experience as if they were on their home PC”.
The game will be based on the concept of Battle Pass typical of others Call of Duty and there will be so-called microtransactions: “You can buy upgrades with COD Pointswhich can be earned by playing or purchased with real money, but they mainly have an aesthetic purpose, therefore it is not necessary to spend to win or in any case to progress”, Carrillo clarified to us.
The point to understand, according to the developers, is that “this it is not the conversion of a product that already existedbut a product made specifically for the mobile market: we have recreated the world of COD for smartphones” and “what arrives on other platforms in the future will also arrive on this version”.
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Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile game modes
The new title in the series COD it’s basically based on two much loved maps from the historic players of the franchise: Worldly e Rebirth Island.
The first, decidedly larger, is the reconstruction of a city full of areas to explore and in which to look for loot (and find opponents) and allows battles up to a maximum of 120 players at the same time. If you are killed you end up in the Gulag and fight again with the others eliminated to be able to return to action. This doesn’t happen on the other hand Rebirth Island (for a maximum of 48 players): as the name suggests, when you die you are reborn and return to the game, at least until one of your teammates is still alive; the idea here is to foster a quicker return to action and frenetic as possible.
Among the other modes, perhaps useful for leveling a weapon or gaining experience, there are the various Shipment, Shoot House, Scrapyard and the inevitable Team Deathmatch, Domination, Kill Confirmed and Search and Destroy, all also in Hardcore variant. Because without this Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile it wouldn’t be true Call of Duty.
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