Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
| Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | |
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Cover art used for all territories
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| 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
November 10, 2009 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate score | |
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| 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 |  |
| GameSpot | 9/10 |
| GameSpy | |
| GameTrailers | 9.4/10 |
| IGN | 9.4/10 |
| OXM (US) | 10/10 |
| X-Play | |
| Awards | |
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| 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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