Franchise file / Infinity Ward
Call of Duty
Blockbuster war, every autumn
Activision's first-person shooter line began with Infinity Ward's 2003 World War II game and grew into a studio relay spanning Black Ops, Modern Warfare and the free-to-play Warzone.
- 2003
- First game
- 3
- Series
- Infinity Ward
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
World War II. Infinity Ward's debut and its sequels built the series on squad-based Allied campaigns, with Treyarch taking over for Call of Duty 3.
Start with Call of Duty 2Your next late night
The essentials
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Infinity Ward2007
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Infinity Ward2009
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Treyarch2010
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Treyarch2012
Call of Duty 2
Infinity Ward2005
Call of Duty: World at War
Treyarch2008
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Infinity Ward2019
Call of Duty: Warzone
Infinity Ward2022
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Treyarch2024
Call of Duty: WWII
Sledgehammer Games2017
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Sledgehammer Games2014
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
Treyarch2020
Chapters
Series (3)
The line beyond the sub-brandsCall of DutyThe Call of Duty games outside Black Ops and Modern Warfare: the World War II originals, future wars such as Advanced Warfare, spin-offs and the free-to-play Warzone.
Cold War secrets and ZombiesCall of Duty: Black OpsTreyarch's Call of Duty line of covert operations, mind games and Zombies, launched in 2010 with Black Ops and rooted in the World War II prologue of World at War.War in the present tenseCall of Duty: Modern WarfareThe Call of Duty line that left World War II behind in 2007. Infinity Ward's contemporary war stories run through an original trilogy and a rebooted timeline that began in 2019.
A legacy worth revisiting
Three studios. No off-season.
Call of Duty started in World War II, then left history behind in 2007 when Modern Warfare moved to the present day. Infinity Ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games have traded the lead ever since, pairing tight campaigns with fast multiplayer and Treyarch's Zombies mode.
- 2003 to 2006
- World War II
- 2007 to 2018
- The modern turn
- 2020 onwards
- The Warzone years
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