In January, Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling dropped some stat bombs on the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare community that made IGN spill their caramel soy macchiatos. On his blog, IAMfourzerotwo, Bowling let the gaming world know that more than 14 million unique players had played CoD4 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 while connected to the Internet since the game launched in November 2007, 10 million of them on Xbox 360. That's a lot of headshots.
So what makes Call of Duty 4 so popular with such a wide audience of hardcore gamers, casual shooter fans and probably your parents? IGN recently reached out to Bowling to talk in more depth about CoD4's broad appeal and what gives the game such staying power.
Everything you need to know about Modern Warfare III coming to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass.
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Call Of Duty is back with its yearly instalment, but is Modern Warfare 3 breaking new ground, or just a lazy cash grab? The answer may not surprise you in today's review from JDR.
until Call Of Duty 4's replacement..
KILLZONE 2.