It is also the most successful video game franchise created in the United States and the fourth best-selling video game franchise of all time. Meanwhile, the games in the series have consistently released annually to blockbuster-level sales, the series is verified by the Guinness World Records as the best-selling first-person shooter game series. Sledgehammer Games, who were co-developers for Modern Warfare 3, have also developed three titles, Advanced Warfare (2014), Call of Duty: WWII (2017), and Vanguard (2021).Īs of April 2021, the series has sold over 400 million copies. Four other entries, Black Ops II (2012), Black Ops III (2015), Black Ops 4 (2018), and Cold War (2020) were made, the latter in conjunction with Raven Software.

Treyarch made one last World War II-based game, World at War (2008), before releasing Black Ops (2010) and subsequently creating the Black Ops sub-series.

Infinity Ward have also developed two games outside of the Modern Warfare sub-series, Ghosts (2013) and Infinite Warfare (2016).

The sub-series received a reboot with Modern Warfare in 2019, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II released in 2022. Two other entries, Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Modern Warfare 3 (2011), were made. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) introduced a modern setting, and proved to be the breakthrough title for the series, creating the Modern Warfare sub-series a Modern Warfare remastered version released in 2016. The series originally focused on the World War II setting, with Infinity Ward developing Call of Duty (2003) and Call of Duty 2 (2005) titles in the series and Treyarch developing the Call of Duty 3 (2006). The most recent title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, was released on October 28, 2022. Several spin-off and handheld games were made by other developers. The games were first developed by Infinity Ward, then by Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games. Call of Duty is a video game series and media franchise published by Activision, starting in 2003.

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