After destroying the factory, the Ghosts regroup at a safe house in Las Vegas, but are captured by Rorke and Federation armed forces and paramilitary forces, who executes Elias. Every five seconds a flag in controlled will gain a player's team a point, if a player's team controls two or three flags, they gain two or three points. Constructing a counterattack, the Ghosts make significant gains against the Federation by destroying their Atlas oil platform in Antarctica and sinking a destroyer guarding a Federation factory in the port of Rio de Janeiro. Domination: A gamemode where three flags are scattered throughout the map for players to take and control.

The player can get the ODIN kill streak by either getting a certain amount of kills or by killing the top player on the other team and then completing various challenges after picking up a blue briefcase that is dropped. Players can unlock several pieces of intel, revealing details about the story revolving around Cross and Archer.Activision announced that the game would be available for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in time for each console's release date on November 15, 2013, and November 22, 2013, respectively. The load-out choices you make for your Squad members will directly change the AI behavior of your squad-mates. This mode takes the best parts of the multiplayer experience and allows you to play either solo or cooperatively with the custom soldiers created and leveled up in multiplayer. Crates are dropped in random locations throughout the match that contains more weapons and ammo for the players to compete for. The third map pack, Invasion, was released on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One on June 3, 2014, and on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Windows, on July 3, 2014.

The game also utilized Umbra Software's rendering tool, Umbra 3, as a way to speed up the rendering process of large environments by an optimization known as occlusion culling – a method of filtering out hidden objects so they are not rendered. The main goal is usually to destroy all of the Cryptid hives scattered across the map (with the exception of Awakening and Exodus; the former requires players scanning for obelisks in an area which need to be destroyed, while Exodus features generators which the players have to activate). Using her as a beacon, Archer guided the destroyer toward the remaining Cryptid Arks around the world. The live-action teaser trailer for Ghosts, titled "Masked Warriors", features glimpses of people wearing historical battle masks, among them one of a group of soldiers putting on the skull mask shown on the box art.Because of this, Rorke, formally the leader of the Ghosts, convinced the United States government to send him and Elias on a military operation in the Federation's capital of Caracas to assassinate the general. It delivers much of what made its previous incarnations great, yet at the same time adds new efforts that successfully freshen up what should be a relatively long-in-the-tooth formula by now. Air Force astronauts Baker and Mosley sacrifice themselves to self-destruct the space station and prevent ODIN from launching other payloads further inland.

CIF Team One was later dispatched by Castle to find Archer as well as retrieve the Cortex, a device containing tissue samples of an Ancestor's brain. The new Extinction mode is particularly good, but it's the highlight in a title that's following a tired recipe.

Despite being successful in killing Almagro, Elias was forced to abandon Rorke to save himself and his other squad mates. Ground War: Containing a rotating playlist with Domination and Team Deathmatch, but with 12–18 players and a 100-kill limit for TDM. Hesh and Logan are part of an Army special unit under the command of Elias and are accompanied by Riley, their loyal military-trained German Shepherd. Lee Ermey (who starred in Full Metal Jacket), Personalization Packs, Legend Packs and Special Characters. During a mission into No Man's Land, they spot Federation agent Gabriel Rorke interrogating Ghost member Ajax.