Kevin Spacey was revealed as a central figure in the game, portraying Jonathan Irons, the head of one such company seeking to privatize warfare on a global scale. When Activision began to first market the fiction that would shape Advanced Warfare, they made the focus clear: a look at how the rise of Private Military Companies could change the nature of war. But now that more details concerning Call of Duty: Advanced Warfarehave arrived, it seems the franchise is entering into full blown science fiction, bringing energy weapons and hovering vehicles, to name a few futuristic additions. With Black Ops 2, the series went into the near-future of mechanized warfare.
It would be an understatement to say that the developers of the Call of Duty series haven't limited their previous games with notions of what was plausible in real-world military operations or disasters.
