![]() ![]() Due to an incredibly well designed multiplayer progression system, an action packed and gut wrenching campaign that explored the threats of our modern world, and the series tried and true gameplay, Call of Duty 4 was a huge hit.Ĭall of Duty had always been a popular series that sold well, but Call of Duty 4 took things to a level no one could have expected. Call of Duty 4 was not only the best game in the series without question, it was also an entirely fresh experience. After the tepidly received Call of Duty 3, which was the fifth WWII COD game in the span of three years (including Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Call of Duty 2: Big Red One), the series was beginning to stagnate. While there were some military shooters during this time, most prominently games in the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon lines of Tom Clancy games as well as Socom, World War II and science fiction made up the bulk of the most popular shooters.Īs I said earlier, the rise of modern military settings in the Xbox 360 and PS3 era can be traced directly back to the massive success of Call of Duty 4. Halo, Halo 2, and Half Life 2 were the real heavy hitters of sci-fi shooters, but other games like Killzone, Timesplitters and its sequels, and the Red Faction games were some other fairly successful sci-fi shooters of the time. Games like Call of Duty, various Medal of Honor games, Battlefield 1942, Brothers in Arms and its sequel, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein were some of the more notable WWII shooters of the time. Call of Duty 4 didn’t only launch the series and shooters in general to a new level of unprecedented success, it also ushered in the dominance of the modern military shooter, which would last for the entirety of generation seven.ĭuring generation six, first person shooters were typically based either in science fiction or World War II settings. Shooters on consoles had been steadily gaining popularity ever since Halo: Combat Evolved first came out back in 2001, but it wasn’t until Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007 that shooters became the clear-cut most popular genre in the gaming mainstream. For the entirety of the last console generation, first person shooters were the most popular and most prominent genre within gaming. ![]()
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