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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
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Cover art used for all territories
Developer(s) Infinity Ward
Publisher(s) Activision
Director(s) Jason West
Producer(s) Mark Rubin
Designer(s) Todd Alderman
Steve Fukuda
Mackey McCandlish
Artist(s) Richard Kriegler
Writer(s) Jesse Stern
Composer(s) Stephen Barton
Series Call of Duty
Engine IW 3.0
Platform(s)
Release Xbox 360, PS3, Windows
  • NA: November 5, 2007
  • AU: November 7, 2007
  • EU: November 9, 2007
OS X
  • NA: September 26, 2008
  • AU: January 28, 2011
Wii
November 10, 2009
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Aggregate score
Aggregator Score
Metacritic (X360) 94/100
(PS3) 94/100
(PC) 92/100
(Wii) 76/100
Review scores
Publication Score
Eurogamer 9/10
Game Informer 10/10
GamePro 5/5 stars
GameSpot 9/10
GameSpy 5/5 stars
GameTrailers 9.4/10
IGN 9.4/10
OXM (US) 10/10
X-Play 5/5 stars
Awards
Publication Award
Game Critics Awards Best Action Game
GameSpot Best Graphics, Best Shooter, Best Xbox 360 Game, Best PlayStation 3 Game
GameTrailers Best Graphics, Best PS3 Game
GamePro Best Overall Game of the Year
IGN Best Xbox 360 Game, Best Shooter of 2007
GameSpy Best PS3 Game, Best Xbox 360 Game, Best PC Game, Game of the Year
X-Play Best Shooter, Best Sound Design
Spike Video Game Awards Best Shooter, Best Military Game
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Action Game of the Year, Console Game of the Year, Overall Game of the Year
Golden Joystick Awards Game of the Year

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. The fourth installment in the Call of Duty series, it was released in 2007 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows. The game breaks away from the World War II setting of previous entries in the series and is instead set in modern times. Developed for over two years, the game uses a proprietary game engine.

The story takes place in the year 2011, where a radical leader has executed the president of an unnamed country in the Middle East, and an ultranationalist movement ignites a civil war in Russia. The conflicts are seen from the perspectives of a U.S. Force Reconnaissance Marine and a British SAS commando, and are set in various locales, such as the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine. The multiplayer portion of the game features various game modes, and contains a leveling system that allows the player to unlock additional weapons, weapon attachments, and camouflage schemes as they advance.

Critically acclaimed, the game received an aggregated score of 94% from both GameRankings and Metacritic. The gameplay and story received particular praise, while criticism targeted the failure of the game to substantially innovate the first-person shooter genre. The game won numerous awards from gaming websites, including IGN's Best Xbox 360 Game. It was the top-selling game worldwide for 2007, selling around seven million copies by January 2008 and almost sixteen million by November 2013.


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