Call of Duty: Vanguard officially announced - more to be revealed by Activision in Warzone on 19 August

(Pocket-lint) - Activision has officially announced Call of Duty: Vanguard, dropping a abbreviated trailer that teases the adjacent rubric successful the series.

The video itself, seen below, doesn't really person excessively overmuch substance to it, but it does corroborate overmuch of the pre-announcement leaks and manufacture whispers.

We'll besides cognize much precise soon, with the institution noting that other details volition beryllium revealed astatine an lawsuit - titled the 'Battle of Verdansk' - wrong Call of Duty: Warzone connected 19 August astatine 13:30 ET / 18:30 BST. 

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Vanguard, it's present certain, volition instrumentality spot during World War II, and apt centre connected the 4 locations that look successful the trailer. You tin spot a sniper's nest, a godforsaken battlefield, a German wood and a formation filled with craft debris, hinting astatine the war's cardinal battlefields connected the Eastern Front, Western Front, Pacific and successful North Africa.

Each of the 4 places features a hidden look wrong the scene, with a mates of names ('Petrova' successful the archetypal scene, and 'Sgt. Kingsley' successful the third) perchance besides hinting astatine characters that volition diagnostic successful the crippled - possibly adjacent representing 2 of the 4 that look astatine the extremity of the trailer.

Aside from this, though, we'll person to hold a mates much days to fig retired what other Activision has successful store.

And if you are readying to get a sneak peek connected 19 August, you'll privation to marque definite you've logged successful good up of clip - erstwhile experiences person shown that the servers tin rapidly go overloaded during peculiar events.

Writing by Conor Allison. Originally published connected 17 August 2021.