Much has been made about the rich and inclusive story in this year’s edition of the popular Call of Duty video game franchise.
That may be, but “Call of Duty: Vanguard,” out Friday for PlayStation 5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and PCs ($59.99-up, rated Mature for ages 17 and up) wastes little time on exposition at the outset. Instead, the single-player story mode drops you right into the action of World War II.
You are part of a team of special forces soldiers trying to commandeer a German train buzzing toward Hamburg. It’s fast and frenetic fighting as you and your five teammates vault back and forth between the cars of two trains propelling ahead in parallel. You must dodge gunfire from Nazis on both rail lines and German military trucks buzzing between the set of tracks.
Your team, led by Sgt. Arthur Kingsley, a Black multilingual British Army officer, discovers that the…
