DICE delivered a bright, expansive combat sandbox that looked and felt like the future. Ghosts was already on the backfoot releasing a full week after Battlefield 4 ( 84%) was blowing up. That's all easy to say in retrospect, but it's interesting to look at the year of games it released into as well. Ghosts is so inessential and forgettable that I couldn't shake the thought I was playing the standalone expansion to an older game. What about its flavorless maps and last-last-gen weapon handling keeps them in Ghosts and not, say, any other CoD of the past decade? I couldn't parse it. I spent a while after logging off last night wondering what those 16 people see in Ghosts.
Almost every one of them was at max level and several were showing off expert quickscoping skills that had clearly been honed over the years. Otherwise I had a pretty chill time with the last 16 people (literally) keeping Ghosts' PC player base alive in an endless loop of Team Deathmatch. Every Call of Duty typically has a "thing" to hang its multiplayer on, but the most notable changes here are a borderline useless slide and automatic corner lean. While we're on the topic, on Xbox 360, Ghosts supports 1-4 offline players and 1-2 offline co-op players.Ghosts' multiplayer was just as uninspired as the rest of the package.
It is expected that the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions will allow for 18 players online. This is down from the maximum of 18 in previous current-gen Call of Duty games. Meanwhile, the Xbox Marketplace has revealed that the Xbox 360 version - and presumably all current-gen versions - of Ghosts supports a maximum of 12 players in online multiplayer. As Amrich points out, the map Free Fall, which is a pre-order bonus, is an additional download, so you'll need around 250MB for that. However, if you just want to play multiplayer, you don't need to install anything.
Any compatible USB 2.0 flash drive formatted for Xbox with enough free space will work also, including thumb drives. In a post on the One of Swords blog, Activision community manager Dan Amrich confirmed that Ghosts will play on an Xbox 360 with an internal 4GB flash drive. The Call of Duty: Ghosts single-player campaign requires a 3GB install on Xbox 360, Activision has revealed.
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