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The size of the digital download for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has been revealed, less than a month before the game goes live.

The reveal comes from Reddit user RpLayy, who noticed the game's listing on the Xbox One store, showing that the size of the digital download is no less than 45.84 GB.

This seems to be the standard size for big releases these days and for the foreseeable future, which means that if you don't already own an external drive to help with your gaming needs, you would do well to start saving up for one, especially if you plan on getting multiple AAA blockbusters in the near future.

The game's Season Pass also popped up on the store page, and the thing is priced at $50 / €39 / £35, the traditional rate, but for the time being, no information related to its content is available. However, as we inch even closer to launch, developer Sledgehammer Games is bound to reveal more.

For the time being, the listing states that the Season Pass will grant buyers access to four "action-packed" downloadable content packs, to be released over the course of next year.

Packed with a new kind of action

If you're wondering what you're getting for that hefty 45.84 GB download, well, Sledgehammer Games aim to revitalize the series by taking it in a different direction, just like Visceral Games is doing with the Battlefield series, in the upcoming Battlefield Hardline.

While Hardline will shift from DICE's usual military-based action to an urban setting, focusing on playing cops and robbers, Advanced Warfare is a much more exciting departure from the Call of Duty series' usual setting, with its action taking place in the near future.

This enabled Sledgehammer Games to toy around with the base package, and the introduction of many exciting technologies has spruced up multiplayer gameplay quite a bit. The annual installments in the series saw many people complaining that the action, although fun, was getting a bit stale, not warranting the serialization that publisher Activision decided to make the norm.

A ton of exciting additions

Apart from a huge pack of new tricks to pull off in multiplayer clashes, including jump boosts and side boosts, cloaking technology, multi-purpose hand-mounted rockets and grenades, the developer also intends to deliver a gripping story in the single-player campaign.

The storyline won't feature the usual clear-cut heroes versus villains dynamic of previous episodes, but will instead explore a morally gray area where power subtly turns into abuse, and where former protectors slowly turn into oppressors.

The engrossing story will be supported by performances by talented voice actors, with Kevin Spacey playing the role of Jonathan Irons, the game's main antagonist.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is scheduled to come out on November 4 worldwide, headed to the PC, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 home consoles from Sony, and the Xbox 360 and Xbox One entertainment devices from Microsoft.