History VideoGame / CallOfDutyVanguard

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:Once Vanguard catches up to Reisinger in Berlin, Reisinger invokes this trope in a bit to save his life as he has the intel the Allies need to understand Project Phoenix, with Lucas Riggs agreeing that Reisinger is valuable as intel. Arthur and Polina decides [[KickTheSonOfABitch to hell with that]] and [[KillItWithFire burns him alive]]. Reisinger's defense is [[SubvertedTrope later made moot]] when Vanguard takes his escape plane and finds it loaded with Project Phoenix documents.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Although Vanguard [[spoiler:captures the Nazi commander, Reisinger, alive and rather than keep him that way as a source of intel, Arthur and Polina decides to just kill him instead for everything he's done to the team.]]

The game was released on November 5, 2021 for the UsefulNotes/Playstation4, UsefulNotes/Playstation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and PC.

''Vanguard'' also incorporates its own take on the series' famed ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies Zombies]]'' mode, serving as a prequel to the incarnation from ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsColdWar Black Ops Cold War]]''.

''Call of Duty: Vanguard'' is a 2021 first-person shooter video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Creator/{{Activision}}. It is the eighteenth mainline entry in the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series. Like Sledgehammer's [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyWWII previous installment]], ''Vanguard'' returns to a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII setting, but with a bit of a twist.

''Vanguard'' also incorporates its own take on the series' famed ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies Zombies]]'' mode, with Treyarch assisting in its development.

While the backdrop is still that of typical WWII, the campaign largely focuses on events in the European war's immediate aftermath (in Europe at least). After the Battle of Berlin, four soldiers from different Allied armies - Arthur Kingsley of Great Britain, Polina Petrova of the Soviet Union, Lucas Riggs of Australia and Wade Jackson of America - are inducted into a special forces program known as Task Force Vanguard. Their mission? To uncover the truth behind Project Phoenix, a contingency plan adopted by Nazi Germany to instate a successor to Hitler after his death, and ensure that this "successor" does not come to power. The campaign hops back and forth between this operation, and missions set during the war itself, fleshing out each operative's origins on different fronts of the conflict.

While the backdrop is still that of typical WWII, the campaign largely focuses on events in the war's immediate aftermath. After the Battle of Berlin, four soldiers from different Allied armies - Arthur Kingsley of Great Britain, Polina Petrova of the Soviet Union, Lucas Riggs of Australia and Wade Jackson of America - are inducted into a special forces program known as Task Force Vanguard. Their mission? To uncover the truth behind Project Phoenix, a contingency plan adopted by Nazi Germany to instate a successor to Hitler after his death, and ensure that this "successor" does not come to power. The campaign hops back and forth between this operation, and missions set during the war itself, fleshing out each operative's origins on different fronts of the conflict.

The multiplayer is largely akin to that of ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Modern Warfare (2019)]]'', carrying over that game's Gunsmith system and the more tactical mechanics of that game that were omitted from Treyarch's ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsColdWar Cold War]]'', though there is also a new gamemode included in the form of Champion Hill - which sees teams of two fighting their way through a tournament-style bracket, on a limited pool of lives that carry over between rounds.

While the backdrop is still largely that of typical WWII, the campaign largely focuses on events in the war's immediate aftermath. After the Battle of Berlin, four soldiers from different Allied armies - Arthur Kingsley of Great Britain, Polina Petrova of the Soviet Union, Lucas Riggs of Australia and Wade Jackson of America - are inducted into a special forces program known as Task Force Vanguard. Their mission? To uncover the truth behind Project Phoenix, a contingency plan adopted by Nazi Germany to instate a successor to Hitler after his death, and ensure that this "successor" does not come to power. The campaign hops back and forth between this operation, and missions set during the war itself, fleshing out each operative's origins on different fronts of the conflict.

''Call of Duty: Vanguard'' is a 2021 first-person shooter video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Creator/{{Activision}}. It is the eighteenth mainline entry in the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series. Like Sledgehammer's [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyWWII previous installment]], ''Vanguard'' returns to a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII setting. There are story arcs for four fronts of the war: the forests and trenches of the Western Front, the urban combat of the Eastern Front, the {{desert warfare}} of North Africa, and the seaborne, island-hopping Pacific Front.

There are five playable characters in the single-player campaign.

** The 3 flamethrower troopers in Polina's section of the final level are the only time in the campaign said enemies ever appear.

* BulletTime: Wade's skill "Focus" in shooting segments becomes this, slowing down time to allow him to more easily pepper Nazi or Japanese soldiers with bullets.

* HeavilyArmoredMook: The machinegun-wielding Jagermorders are heavily armored and can take quite a lot of punishment before going down. They're actually only about half as durable as ''Modern Warfare'''s Juggernauts, going down after a few dozen rounds of assault rifle fire as opposed to several dozen bullets, but are much faster and more intelligent, using smoke grenades to stun you and reposition after being shot several times, launching surprise attacks from flanking positions, and utilizing sniper rifles at long range.

* HeavilyArmoredMook: The machinegun-wielding Jagermorders are heavily armored and can take quite a punishment before going down.

* AKA47: Similar to recent titles, ''Vanguard'' has to make do with unlicensed names even for familiar firearms. To name a few: The Luger P08 pistol is called the "Klauser", the Tokarev TT-33 is the "Ratt", the Webley Mk. VI revolver is the "Top-Break", the Fedorov Avtomat is now the "Automaton", and the Mauser C96 and Winchester M1897 are slapped with the generic "Machine Pistol" and "Combat Shotgun". Even the Thompson, named the M1928 in-game, is the wrong model (it's the period-accurate [=M1A1=], though several attachments are available to make it superficially resemble the M1928). The Mosin-Nagant is called the "Three-Line Rifle", a common nickname for it in Russia that's been practically unheard of in the West. The choice to rename many of these weapons was likely for artistic purposes, since most of the trademarks of WWII weapon names, if they even existed, would have expired by now.