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Call of Duty: WW2 gets reveal trailer and release date

Pre-orders get early beta access.

Call of Duty: WW2 has been officially revealed in a livestream. You can see snippets of it in action in the debut trailer below:

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It will launch 3rd November for PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Those who pre-order will get early access to a private multiplayer beta ahead of release. No date has been set for this yet, though we know it will launch first on PS4.

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There will be a social hub called Headquarters, which looks rather similar to Destiny's tower. A very brief tease showed several dozen players (we counted 46) milling about on a beach. The highest ranking player was level 55.

A co-op Zombies mode has been confirmed with "the Third Reich trying to create an army.

The game will have a "dark, irreverent tone", according to Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg. The term "boots on the ground" was thrown around more than once.

The Headquarters social space.

Call of Duty: WW2 is being developed by Sledgehammer Games, the team behind 2014's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Eurogamer initially reported this new, old Call of Duty setting back in March.

We've gathered everything we know about it, meanwhile, in our roundup of details on the Call of Duty: WW2 beta, Nazi Zombies, release date, trailer and everything else you need to know.