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Call of Duty: Vanguard review — Aligning history, narrative, and gameplay

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 11 min

Call of Duty: Vanguard is a decent game that balances a love for history, a strong fictional narrative, and familiar and fun gameplay. You get a lot of variety in this game that chronicles the rise of Special Forces in WWII.

And one of the hallmarks of Vanguard is that it is filled with diversity. You get to play the single-player campaign with a tightly woven story and diverse characters from different nationalities and backgrounds. You can engage in multiplayer across 20 different maps and multiple modes like the new Champion Hill tournaments, and you fight the undead in intense and unique Zombies co-op action.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.