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Call of Duty: Ghosts($7.99 at Amazon), developer Infinity Ward's latest military-themed first-person shooter, aims to blaze new ground in the long-running series. Ghosts, the tale of Special Forces soldiers who unite to free a fallen America from an external threat, lets players customize their virtual soldiers, and take them onto the battlefield for rapid-fire action.
The story opens with a firefight aboard the Orbital Defense Initiative (ODIN) space station, a weapons-based platform that was designed to protect the United States. After ODIN strikes America, a ragtag group of soldiers known as Ghosts emerges to fight the enemy before it launches another attack.
The multiplayer mode lets fans customize their soldiers and squads as male or female characters (in fact, there are over 20,000 possible character combinations in total). Call of Duty: Ghosts also includes 14 maps, a new Squads mode for up to six-player co-op play, over 30 new weapons, a new Marksman Rifle weapon class, and over 20 new killstreaks. Call of Duty: Ghosts also introduces Extinction, a new co-op game mode featuring survival gameplay, base defense, player customization and class leveling.
"From Day One, we've set out to create the next generation of Call of Duty with Ghosts," said Mark Rubin, Executive Producer, Infinity Ward. "With an all-new single player story, our best multiplayer game yet, character customisation, squads mode and an all-new Extinction mode that lets you battle it out against aliens, this game is the complete entertainment package. We're excited today is finally here and can't wait for our fans all over the world to start playing."
Call of Duty: Ghosts will also infiltrate the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 4.
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