Call of Duty

AI squadmates and constant scripted chaos made the player one soldier inside a battle.

Released 2003 Developer Infinity Ward Publisher Activision Platform PC Genre FPS Era Broadband & the console shooter Website callofduty.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Call of Duty inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Checkpoint Respawn ~~1984~~Selectable Difficulty ~~1993~~Directed In-Engine Camera Language ~~1998~~Iron-Sight Aim-Down-Sights ~~1998~~Waypoint Objective Marker ~~2001~~

Descends from

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault ~~2002~~

The Call of Duty series in this dataset

2003

Call of Duty ~~this page~~

2007

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ~~2007~~

2008

Call of Duty: World at War ~~2008~~

2009

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ~~2009~~

2010

Call of Duty: Black Ops ~~2010~~

2020

Call of Duty: Warzone ~~2020~~

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