Call of Duty: Ghosts
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Scripted dialogue includes strong profanity such as 'fuck' spoken by soldier characters during combat.
The player fights human enemy soldiers with realistic firearms, knives and explosives; hits produce blood but no dismemberment or gore.
The plot turns on wartime devastation of a crippled nation, an orbital superweapon striking cities, and named characters killed on screen.
A captured antagonist is coercively interrogated by characters, and a lead villain's turning through captivity is referenced in the story.
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What it is
Call of Duty: Ghosts is a first-person military shooter with a cinematic single-player campaign and competitive online multiplayer. The campaign follows a special-operations unit fighting a technologically superior enemy in a near-future war, playing across several characters including a soldier's father and, briefly, a trained dog. Play centers on realistic gunfights against human soldiers using firearms, explosives and stealth; hits draw blood but there is no dismemberment or lingering gore. The story carries heavy wartime subject matter — cities destroyed by an orbital strike, named characters killed, and a coercive interrogation — and scripted dialogue includes strong profanity. Online multiplayer pits players against strangers in team and free-for-all modes, and there is a cooperative mode against AI. The store data lists no in-game purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as heroic military duty: the player is a soldier resisting an invading power, and combat is presented as sanctioned warfare against armed enemies rather than crime. Enemy kills and objectives are rewarded with points and kill-streak abilities, and the tone treats the deaths of allies and the devastation of the war as dramatic sacrifice within a patriotic action narrative.
Details
- Developer
- Infinity Ward
- Publisher
- Activision
- Released
- Mar 25, 2014
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