Call of Duty Vanguard campaign length and how long to beat

If you want to know the Call of Duty Vanguard campaign length and how long it takes to beat the story, we've got what you need. Call of Duty story campaigns can be a bit hit or miss, so you might want to know the sort of time commitment you'll face if you want to play through it - after all, some will want a short, punchy story, while others will want to get the most bang for their buck in length. Whatever your thought, we've got what you need to know about COD Vanguard's campaign length and how long it takes to beat Vanguard below. There's also a full mission list, letting you know how many missions there are to help you figure out how far through the campaign you are.

Call of Duty Vanguard campaign length

Call of Duty: Vanguard multiplayer — (Image credit: Activision)

Call of Duty Vanguard's campaign length will vary depending on your own personal skill and the difficulty at which you play it, but we'll plant our flag and say it's roughly 5-7 hours for the vast majority of people to make it from the new game prompt to seeing the credits roll. This is a fairly standard campaign length for a modern Call of Duty game, which usually lean towards being short and punchy rather than extended military campaigns (so to speak).

Actual missions in COD Vanguard are a bit longer than you'd expect though. Each one lasts generally 45 minutes (though again, this'll depend on how difficult you find it), so they're not really drop-in, drop-out experiences. As elaborated on in our Call of Duty Vanguard review, many of these are designed to be self-contained experiences, so while they're arguably a little longer than the average shooter mission, they do present a whole story each time.

However, it's worth keeping in mind that not all of this will be gameplay. Vanguard has slightly more focus towards telling a story than recent COD games, and with this comes more robust and lengthy cutscenes that make up a bigger percentage of the experience. Players may appreciate this or not, depending on their preference - if you like storytelling and a deeper understanding of the characters you're controlling, this may speak to you. If you can't understand why anybody would rather watch monologues than blow things up, you may get impatient at times.

Call of Duty Vanguard mission list

COD Vanguard has nine missions specifically and no real side content to speak of, in contrast to recent COD games. Each mission is roughly the same length (as mentioned, about 45 minutes), so players shouldn't have too much trouble estimating whereabouts they are within the story and how much longer they have to go. We'll lay them all out in a full list below.

Phoenix
Operation Tonga
Stalingrad
The Battle of Midway
Numa Numa Trail
Lady Nightingale
The Rats of Tobruk
The Battle of El Alamein
The Fourth Reich