


Rather, all the things that people point to in a top-notch game-immersive realism, blood pressure-raising intensity and challenging missions-are all done really well here.Īs the title suggests, this latest Call of Duty jumps ahead 60 years from the World War II focus of its first three installments to a fictional but totally plausible conflict in the modern-day Middle East. It’s not that Call of Duty reinvents the genre. My call of duty, then? Dig into what makes a war game stand out during basic training. Add a few months onto the back side of your calculations, and by June 2008 you’re looking at a phenomenon that had sold a reported 10 million copies and claimed a spot among the Top 10 best-selling video games of all time. In fact, even though this title wasn’t released until November, it still ended up being numero uno. Here’s a bit of trivia for you: Remember all the media fervor that the sci-fi shooter Halo 3 caused last year? You may be surprised to know that that much-referenced game was not the biggest seller of 2007. The franchise was introduced in 2003, and these well-made games have consistently landed on top of the critical-praise and award-winning heap ever since. But there are few with the reputation of Call of Duty. And in a lot of them all you do is pick up a digital gun and pop ’til you drop. But here’s where we actually stop short of a confirmation: a tweet by former Infinity Ward developer, Robert Bowling.īowling, a former Call of Duty Creative Strategist and Infinity Ward lead, told Twitter user chuyylo to “buy some brown pants” in response to a tweet where the fan said that he’d crap himself if reports of Modern Warfare 4 are true.There are a lot of first-person shooter video games out there. Following this, Tennessee Titans Quarterback, Marcus Mariot, was heard talking about the game on a Fortnite Twitch stream. For those not familiar with Call of Duty‘s development cycles, it’s Infinity Ward’s turn this year and we already know that the studio isn’t working on Ghosts 2 so that’s out of question.Įarlier this week, a group of college football players were caught discussing Modern Warfare 4 on video after attending a private Call of Duty event. In February 2019, a cryptic tease by Infinity Ward’s Communications Manager, Ashton Williams, led people to believe that the developer was either working on a new Modern Warfare title or he was teasing the Modern Warfare 2 remaster that was outed by European rating board, PEGI.
