Call of Duty®: Vanguard

Set during World War II, the campaign follows members of a multinational squad on missions across several fronts, including Stalingrad, the Pacific, France, and North Africa. Its story connects the soldiers’ backgrounds to their wartime mission.

The first-person campaign combines firefights with missions built around different soldiers and their abilities. Players take on roles including a sniper, and some sequences involve stealth, squad commands, or aerial combat.

Multiplayer offers competitive matches across a large map selection, with weapon customization for building loadouts. In Zombies, players fight waves of enemies, upgrade weapons, and gather gear to survive, including in co-op.

Players who enjoy Vanguard often praise its responsive gunplay, cinematic campaign missions, and the different soldier perspectives and abilities. Some also like the fast multiplayer matches, weapon customization, visuals, and co-op Zombies. Other reviews criticize the campaign’s length and writing, historical liberties, and recurring launch or crash problems, so experiences vary.