Legends of War

***Legends of War*** is a 2022 first-person shooter video game that was developed by SOI Studios and Supreme Studios. The game was announced in 2015, when Monsteristic first announced they were planning on making a game outside of the ShooterofIO franchise, by 2016 a game was confirmed to be in development by Supreme Studios, however due to development issues, Monsteristic assigned SOI Studios to help them in 2018. The game was pushed back from its original 2019 release date and was confirmed to be coming mid-2022. The first trailer was released on June 12, 2022, confirming the release date of August 12, 2022. A sequel is in development.

## Gameplay

*Legends of War* has three main gamemodes, campaign, multiplayer, and operations. In operations, development focused directly into the A.I. pathways systems and how A.I. reacts to randomized events, as the team wanted to ensure gameplay was different every time players experienced operations. This "Smart A.I" system is also used in multiplayer, allowing players to play against offline bots and still feel like they're playing a real match.

### Campaign

The games campaign features classic mission style gameplay. Players witness the story through playable missions. What makes this campaign unique is that each mission has side-stories and mini easter eggs, and those who find them earn unique rewards for multiplayer. The campaign is unique, allowing players to mount their weapons, craft weaponry, items, and essential equipment, while completing tasks and objectives given to you. Players also can climb walls, smash through doors, destroy buildings, and switch clothes in order to disguise as enemy soldiers, all of these mechanics to create the *Legends of War* campaign.

### Multiplayer

The games multiplayer features run and gun gameplay which is very fast paced while the game offers various customisable features and items, the game is very straight forward. Players are able to pick a single character called a "Legend", each Legend has their own unique perk and piece of equipment that can be used in battle. Players are able to create custom loadouts in the menus, and unlock more cosmetics by just using the weapon of their choice and progress through the default levels before being able to prestige.

There are six Legends players can use:

* **Captain. John Price:** John Price makes the player immune to stun/flash grenades.
* **John "Soap" MacTavish:** Soap makes the player's speed increase by 25%. 50% less fall damage.
* **Simon "Ghost" Riley:** More slide length. Ability to carry 50% more ammo.
* **Max:** 5% less point requirement for Scorestreaks. If Killstreak, 1 less kill required.
* **Frank Woods:** Carry more lethal and tactical equipment. You regain equipment after 2 and a half minutes.
* **Alex Mason:** Ability to Mount weapons.

### Operations

Operations is a very unique cooperative game mode with many interesting features. Players spawn into a lobby area where they can move around and interact with other players, trade items, and earn rewards that are also usable in multiplayer. Players can find themselves in the "Training Camp", where they must pick a mission to complete to increase their skill levels. Players cannot pick a specific weapon and must use a pre-selected weapon. Players must move around the lobby, pick an objective, and finish the missions given. The more missions that are completed, the more rewards that the player earns to use in multiplayer. Players will be able to use Legends in operations as well, allowing for unique strategies to be used.

Operations is a very unique cooperative mode where players will be able to play 5 missions on launch. Each mission is garanteed to play differently after you've played it once, ensuring never ending amounts of fun.

## Plot

### Campaign

In March 1982, General Russell Power assigns Task Force 343 of stopping a incoming threat to the city of New York. Captain. Simon Powell, who is the leader of the Task Force 343 and contacts General Power, and reveals they are after a man named Billy Styles, who is in possession of two nuclear bombs, that have been made by the United States. Simon works with someone named, Max, who explains that the Billy is known for his lies and will try his best to avoid capture and talking with officials. The Task Force set out to find him.

In the field, General Power assigns them to kill Billy revealing that he has already killed 15 hostages he kept only days prior. Frank Woods meets up with Max, Simon, and his others, John Price, John "Soap" MacTavish, and Simon "Ghost" Riley. The group find Billy and hold him over a roof edge, and question him, which he reveals where exactly the nuclear bombs are. They then kill him on demand by General Power.

They return to their home-base, where General Power talks to the team and tells them John Price is now in charge of it and will be called Captain. Price for future. General Power explains how they made a good choice in killing Billy, however tells the team the mission isn't over and gives a location, Russia, where the nuclear bombs could be. Price, Soap, and Ghost accept this while Simon and Max both agree to being the backup, but are forced to work with the others.

The crew head out to West Russia and locate a potential place where they might be able to hold a nuclear bomb in. Cpt. Price checks the containers and find out they're empty, but a note stating "Australia", which then Price radios General Power and reveals to him the news of the bombs in "Australia". They return to base to prepare to fly to Australia, however General Power mentions they must send only a few, so he chooses Price and Ghost to head over.

Upon arrival to Australia, Price and Ghost meet up with the Prime Minister of the country, Scott, who warns the duo of the possible chance the nuclear bombs aren't in Australia due to the systems they use to protect the country from such threats. The duo locate a container that has at-least twenty dead bodies, with a note from someone unknown stating they're "too late to save them."

Price and Ghost contact General Power, and tell him that someone has moved the bombs and has killed twenty more people. Ghost suggests they do some research and investigating on who could be behind this all and comes down to one singler suspect, Perseus, who is at large currently, but still under the radar, and is well known by Frank Woods. Price gets into contact with Frank, who contacts his partner Alex Mason to join the group in finding and stopping Perseus.

With the knowledge of who is behind all this madness and murders, Ghost, Woods, Soap, Simon, and Alex go to their base and create a plan that is to stop this Perseus from activating both nuclear bombs, and to stop a World War III from happening. With the new plan in place, Price explains how first they must first get into the Red Room, locate Perseus's real identity, and kill him for his murders and for stealing American nuclear bombs. They find out that they must get inside of the Soviet Union to find all the classified information about Perseus's plans.

Price puts Woods and Mason together to sneak into the Soviet Union base to find all the information, and to hope to find the location of the nuclear bombs. Mason and Woods together, find the real location of the nuclear bombs, and warn the team, Price who, tells General Power, who demands the crew to stop the nuclear bombs. Mason and Woods both escape the Soviet Union base, after they destroy it using fire.

Price, Woods, Ghost, Soap, and Simon all join together and travel back to New York where they can finally find Perseus and stop him from whatever plan he wants to do. The team get onto a plane and travel to New York.

Ghost, Woods, Soap, Simon, and Alex manage to find Perseus and face off against him. Perseus manages to flee to a skyscraper, leaving behind the crew to face against a uncountable amount of soldiers. The team push through and go into the skyscraper while Ghost goes onto a rooftop with a sniper, and the crew find Perseus and fight him. Perseus gets the upperhand but is shot dead by Ghost.

Ghost, Woods, Soap, Simon, and Alex return to their base in America, and celebrate a victory, however Price pulls out his phone and tells the team they might not be finished as he shows a photo of the nuclear bombs that have just exploded. Ghost, in secret, hacks into the nukes and makes them explode into outer-space, and he tells the team they don't need to worry.

The crew continue to celebrate and find out they have all become Task Force 666.

## Development

In April 2015, it was rumored that Supreme Studios was planning a new game that wasn't in the *ShooterofIO* franchise. By March 2017, it was confirmed by them that they were developing a first-person shooter video game that merged the combat of *Apex Legends* and gameplay of *Call of Duty* together. Soon after the confirmation of the development of this new project, Monsteristic planned to scrap development due to "budget" issues regarding the *ShooterofIO* franchise. By December 2019, Microloft made a agreement with Monsteristic to partner up to release this new project and Monsteristic after a week of talks, agreed. By July 2020, Supreme Studios had announced that SOI Studios had joined them for development as part of the deal with Monsteristic.

On November 6, 2022, Supreme Studios announced and confirmed that post-launch content is coming in early-2023 and that they have huge plans for the game. Also announced, the game would also adopt a seasonal update system that would also bring in the battle pass and store, they also revealed the in-game currency, "War Coins", which will be connected to every *Legends of War* game.

On March 6, 2023 it was announced that Season 1 would begin on April 14 that year, and the update would include 12 new maps for multiplayer, 2 new operations missions, and over 10 new weapons with 30 challenges with each. This update also introduced War Coins, the currency earned where players can use to buy bundles and skins for their Legends.

On June 23, 2023 Season 2 was released and added 2 new multiplayer maps and a new operations mission. The battle pass was also refreshed adding a heap of new skins for all six Legends. Many new bundles were added to the game.

On September 1, 2023 Season 3 was released and added 4 new multiplayer maps and 2 new operations missions were added into the game. The battle pass was also refreshed adding a heap of new skins for all six Legends. Many new bundles were added to the game and more ways to earn War Coins for free.

On November 10, 2023 Season 4 was released and added 4 new multiplayer maps and 2 new operations missions were added into the game. The battle pass was also refreshed adding a heap of new skins for all six Legends. Many new bundles were added to the game, while more War Coins Quests were added to the game.

On January 19, 2024 Season 5 was released and added 4 new multiplayer maps and 2 new operations missions were added into the game. The battle pass was also refreshed adding a heap of new skins for all six Legends. Many new bundles were added to the game, while more War Coins Quests were added to the game.

On March 29, 2024 Season 6 was released and added 4 new multiplayer maps and 2 new operations missions were added into the game. The battle pass was also refreshed adding a heap of new skins for all six Legends. Many new bundles were added to the game, while more War Coins Quests were added to the game.

On June 7, 2024 Season 7 was released and added 4 new multiplayer maps and 2 new operations missions were added into the game. The battle pass was also refreshed adding a heap of new skins for all six Legends. Many new bundles were added to the game, while more War Coins Quests were added to the game.

On August 16, 2024 Season 8 was released and added 4 new multiplayer maps and 2 new operations missions were added into the game. The battle pass was also refreshed adding a heap of new skins for all six Legends. Many new bundles were added to the game, while more War Coins Quests were added to the game. This was the final season.

## Marketing

### Reveal

In March 2022, Monsteristic confirmed that the new franchise game would release in 2022 and announced the title "Legends of War". Monsteristic, on their official Facebook account, confirmed that the game would release much earlier than fans would expect. By April, it was announced the game would release on August 12, 2022 instead of a October or November release. The first trailer for the game was released on June 12, showcasing gameplay from the campaign mode, as well as confirming the game's release on Steam, and the eighth and ninth generation consoles. On July 11, they released a new trailer focusing on gameplay from the multiplayer mode, which revealed the multiplayer beta that is happening the week following.

### Release

The multiplayer beta for *Legends of War* started for all platforms on July 18. The beta officially ended on July 30. Pre-orders of all editions grant "early" access to the open multiplayer beta. Pre-ordering also granted early access to the campaign a week earlier on August 5.