Apex Legends vs Call of Duty: Ghosts

Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale built around squads of “Legends” with unique abilities, praised for its fast, fluid movement, gunplay, and ping communication system.

Call of Duty: Ghosts is a first-person shooter set in a near-future world where the United States has been crippled by an orbital kinetic weapons strike. Players step into the boots of Logan Walker, joining an elite special operations squad known as the Ghosts to wage guerrilla warfare against the powerful Federation of the Americas and their treacherous former leader, Rorke. The game delivers a multi-faceted package featuring a cinematic single-player campaign, dynamic multiplayer modes with destructible map elements, the AI-focused Squads mode, and Extinction, a cooperative mode where players fight waves of alien Cryptids. It combines intense military combat with sci-fi themes of survival and stealth across multiple platforms.

• Excellent gunplay and movement
• Free to play
• Great non-verbal comms
• Strong hero design

• Action-packed single-player campaign with a memorable premise
• Extinction mode provides a fun cooperative alternative to standard multiplayer
• Destructible map elements add dynamic tactical options
• Diverse range of game modes including Cranked and Blitz

• Squad play can frustrate solos
• Grindy cosmetics
• Steep aim skill ceiling

• Critical reception was mixed compared to previous franchise entries
• Near-future setting and plot elements felt derivative to some players
• Graphics on older generation consoles lagged behind the newer platforms