What is Call of Duty?

Call of Duty (CoD) is a war game with an FPS perspective. The best-selling Call of Duty series of all time, which received the "Game of The Year" award 3 times, was first developed in 2003 and has more than 10 games.

Call of Duty games take place in different periods and dates. In addition to the games designed according to modern times, games covering the period of the Second World War and the Cold War were also developed.

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Modern Warfare(2019), Call of Duty Black Ops 2, Call of Duty Black Ops 3, Call of Duty Ghosts, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare games take place in modern time. The history of each game is 20-40 years ahead of today and covers the story of “Modern Warfare”.

Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3, Call of Duty World at War and Call of Duty WW II are about World War II. Often references are made to actual history.

In the Black Ops series, which consists of 4 games in total, the Cold War period is the subject. The Black Ops series consists of a total of 4 games.

Who is Call of Duty Producer? 

The first publisher of the Call of Duty series is Activision, which is also the publisher and producer of games such as Quake, Doom, Rome Total War, Prototype. The company, which is a distributor of computer and video games, was dissolved in 2008 and merged with Blizzard Entertainment and became Activison Blizzard.

CoD makers and developers have also changed over time. Infinity Ward is the main developer of the game. Based in California/USA, the company is solely responsible for developing Call of Duty games and is the most important factor in the success of the CoD series. Infinity Ward is owned by Activision.

Another producer company of the series is Treyarch. One of its partners is Turkish. The US company was founded in 1996 by Peter Akemann and Doğan Köslü. The most popular Treyarch games are;

• Spider Man
• Spider Man 2
• NHL 2K3
• Ultimate Spider Man
• Max Steel
• Draconus
• Die by the Sword

Treyarch is currently developing games developed for PC or PS for other consoles. For example, Tony Hawk produced Pro Skater and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 only for Xbox. In fact, Neversoft developed the game, which went bankrupt in 2014.

Another developer company of the game is Sledgehammer Games. Like other companies, Sledgehammer Games, which is based in the USA, was founded in 2009 by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey. The company is owned by Activision and has all the rights. Sledgehammer Games supports the development and distribution of Call of Duty games.

In What Year Was Call of Duty Released?

The Call of Duty release date is 2003. After this year, not long after, new games started to come out. Call of Duty 2 was released in 2005, followed by Call of Duty 3 in 2006. After 1-3 years, games that are the continuation of the series are coming out. The last game of the series, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, was released in the last quarter of 2020.

Since the Call of Duty series is primarily Single Player, there are no new updates to the game afterwards. Instead of the new update, games are coming out as a continuation of the story. For example, the Modern Warfare series consists of 3 games. However, updates are being made to CoD games that also have Multiplayer mode. Every few months, updates are made, such as new weapons or damage adjustments. However, updates for the Multiplayer mode are not very frequent.

Multiplayer modes of Call of Duty games are actively played until the new game of the series, but usually the servers are shut down within a few years.

The actively updated games of the Call of Duty series are CoD Mobile and Warzone. Both are free-to-play games. CoD Mobile is an MMOFPS game that can be played on the phone or PC with the help of an emulator. New events are coming weekly and features such as costumes and weapons are added. It was released in 2019 and became the most downloaded mobile game in the same year.

Call of Duty Warzone is a free-to-play Battle Royale game released in 2020 for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. In addition to being part of the Modern Warfare series, it is distributed free of charge and receives regular updates. The game, which received the latest "Season 4" update, has dozens of new weapons, events and gameplay arrangements.

How Many Players Did Call of Duty Reach In 2021?

Call of Duty's online games CoD Mobile and Warzone host more than 200 million players in total as of 2021.

Launched in 2020, Call of Duty Warzone is one of Twitch's most watched games and has passed the 100 million player mark as of the first quarter of 2021. We can attribute this success to the fact that it is a Battle Royale style game.

Call of Duty Mobile, which debuted for mobile devices in 2019, has 500 million downloads and 150 million active players.

The Call of Duty series, which has a total of 17 games, has sold 400 million units to date.

The sales figures of the other games in the series are as follows;

• Call of Duty (2004): 4.5M
• Call of Duty 2 (2005): 5.9M
• Call of Duty 3 (2006): 7.2M
• Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (2007): 15.7M
• Call of Duty World at War (2008): 15.7M
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2009): 22.7M
• Call of Duty Black Ops (2010): 30M
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare III (2011): 30M
• Call of Duty Black Ops II (2012): 31M
• Call of Duty Ghosts  (2013): 28.8M
• Call of Duty Advanced Warfare (2014): 21.13M
• Call of Duty Black Ops III (2015): 22.46M
• Call of Duty Infinite Warfare (2016): 13.27M
• Call of Duty WWII (2017): 19.6M
• Call of Duty Black Ops IIII (2018): 3.5M
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019): 30M

Is Call of Duty Paid?

Call of Duty is a paid game series, but 3 games have been offered for free so far. These; The MMOFPS game released in 2012 is Call of Duty Online, the battle royale game Call of Duty Warzone and the mobile game Call of Duty Mobile. These games are completely free to play.

It is mandatory to purchase the game in order to play the other games in the series. Extra payments can be made in multiplayer mode.

As the new games of the series are released, there are serious discounts on old games and the prices of the games may vary for PC, Xbox One and PS.

Can You Earn Money Playing Call of Duty?

It is not possible to earn real money by playing Call of Duty. No cosmetic items, items, weapons, etc. that you obtain by playing in Call of Duty games or purchased with real money. Items cannot be sold/traded for real money.

E-sports tournaments of Call of Duty games are held regularly. If you think you are playing the game well, you can earn money by participating in these tournaments. Or you can earn money by broadcasting your game on platforms such as Youtube & Twitch.

For Which Age Ranges Is Call Of Duty Suitable?

The most important factor that determines the player base in the games is the age limit. The age limit varies according to each game and category. The limits set for action and violent games are generally 13+, 16+, 18+. For an action game like Call Of Duty, this limit is between 16+ and 18+.

One of the biggest reasons for age limits in games is related to the player's disconnection from reality. Players who are under the specified age limit are very quickly disconnected from reality and immerse themselves in the colorful or violent world of the game.

Call Of Duty game also attracts players to its own world with its smart artificial intelligence or realistic environmental interactions. The makers of Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault also focused on this issue when they could not agree with their company and left when they founded the Infinity Ward company. In the first years of Call Of Duty, it followed a different path, artificial intelligence, which did not react to the players until that time, started to react to the players with the Call of Duty game. This led the players to strategize. Developing itself and its reality with each new game, Call Of Duty has created a big difference between the players of years ago and today's players with its multiplayer systems. Call Of Duty, which is story-based in its first series, focused on the intelligence and strategies of the players in the next series. Today's players both spend time and enjoy themselves with games such as Call Of Duty: Warzone and Call Of Duty: Mobile and try to implement their own plans against other players. The players, who are caught in the world of the game against their own will, start to use the strategy development and reasoning system they learned from the game in their daily lives with the impulse coming from their subconscious. Calling it "just a game" is psychologically incorrect.

How to Download Call Of Duty?

It will be enough to use the official sites or digital distribution companies to download the Call Of Duty game. The distribution company that hosts the majority of the Call of Duty series is Steam.

So, how to download a Call Of Duty game or a different game from here? To explain with visual examples;

First, the eTail.Market PC Games category page opens. Go to the purchasing part of the game and click the "Add to Cart" button. After the payment phase is completed successfully, you can see your game code in the orders section. You can then activate the game on your Steam account with this code.

After this process, the Steam program will open and the library will be entered. The purchased game will be added to the steam library.

When the name of the game added to the library is clicked, the download button appears. When the button is pressed, the loading panel appears on the screen.

In the panel that opens, the storage space the game needs, the available storage space and the time it will download depending on the internet speed are seen. The folder where the game will be installed (usually the main folder of steam) is selected and the "Next" button is clicked and the game starts to load.

When the "downloads" button at the bottom of the program is pressed, the program is directed to the download manager panel. The game being downloaded appears here. The Call Of Duty game is also downloaded and made ready to play as indicated in these images.

What are the System Requirements for Playing Call of Duty?

There are certain system requirements to play the games of the Call Of Duty series. Instead of examining the requirements of each game one by one, it will be sufficient to know the system requirements of the first and last game.

Call of Duty (2003);

• Operating System: Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP
• Processor: Pentium III 700 MHz or Athlon 700 MHz
• Ram: 128MB
• Video Card: DirectX 9.0b compatible 32 MB video card and latest software
• DirectX: Version 9.0b
• Storage: 1.4 GB free space
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card and latest software

Call of Duty 2 (2005);

• Operating System: Windows 2000/XP
• Processor: Pentium 4 or Athlon XP
• Ram: 256MB
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce3+ /ATI Radeon 8500+
• DirectX: Version 9.0b
• Storage: 4.0 GB free space
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card and latest software

Call of Duty 3 (2006);

• Operetating System: Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP
• Processor: Intel Pentium III 1400 @ 1400MHz
• Ram: 512 MB
• Video Card: ATI FireGL T2-128
• DirectX: 9

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (2007);

• Opereting System:Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz/ Athlon 64 2800+
• Ram: 512 MB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6600+ / ATI Radeon 9800 Pro+

Call of Duty World at War (2008);

• Operating System: Windows XP / Windows Vista
• Processor:Intel Pentium 4 / AMD 64 3200+
• Ram: 512MB RAM (XP)/1GB RAM (Vista)
• Graphics Card : Nvidia GeForce 6600GT/ATI Radeon 1600XT+

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2009);

• Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista ve Windows 7
• Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+
• Ram: 1 GB
• Graphics Card: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT ya da ATI Radeon 1600 XT+

Call of Duty Black Ops (2010);

• Operating System: Windows® Vista / XP / 7
• Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo E6600 ya da AMD Phenom™ X3 8750+
• Ram: 2 GB
• Graphics Card: 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GT / ATI Radeon® X1950Pro

Call of Duty Modern Warfare III (2011);

• Operating System: Windows® Vista / XP / 7
• Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 ya da AMD Phenom™ X3 8750
• Ram: 2 GB
• Graphics Card: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT / ATI® Radeon X1950

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 (2012);

• Operating System: Windows Vista SP2 ya da Windows 7
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHz / AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHz
• Ram: 32 Bit İçin 2GB/64 Bit İçin 4 GB
• Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512 MB / ATI Radeon HD 3870 512 MB

Call of Duty Ghosts (2013);

• Operating System: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHZ / AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHZ
• Ram: 6 GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 / ATI Radeon HD 5870

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare (2014);

• Operating System: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-530 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 810 2.60 GHz
• Ram: 6 GB
• Graphics Card:: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 / ATI Radeon HD 5870

Call of Duty Black Ops 3 (2015);

• Operating System: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-530 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 810 2.60 GHz
• Ram: 6 GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1GB / ATI Radeon HD 6970

Call of Duty Infinity Warfare (2016);

• Operating System: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-3225 @ 3.30GHz
• Ram: 8 GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850

Call of Duty WW2 (2017);

• Operating System: Windows 10 64-Bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-6300 ya da AMD FX-8300
• Ram: 8 GB
• Graphics Card:: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 Ti / AMD Radeon HD 7950

Call of Duty Black Ops IIII (2018);

• Operating System: Windows 7 64-Bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300
• Ram: 8 GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2 GB or Radeon HD 7950 2 GB

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020);

• Operating System: Windows 7 64-Bit (SP1) ya da Windows 10 64-Bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 ya da AMD FX-6300
• RAM: 8 GB
• Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 / GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon HD 7950, 2048 VRam
• PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
• VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
• Storage: 35 GB

The old dates of the first games of the Call of Duty series will not cause a problem in terms of operating system or hardware in the current order. However, if there is hardware close to the system requirements of the last game, other series of the game or series close to the current period will be played comfortably. Some of the consequences of historical differences will be seen when the two requirements are looked at carefully. Thanks to the advanced hardware in the current period, a sound card is no longer necessary for games. Instead, features such as "Pixel Shader" and "Vertex Shader" on video cards have been introduced.

Is Call Of Duty Playable On The Phone?

Among the games belonging to the Call Of Duty series, as we mentioned above, only Call Of Duty: Mobile game is played on the phone. Other games in the series cannot be played on the phone.

The requirements for Call Of Duty: Mobile are also as follows.

Call Of Duty: Mobile (For Android);

• Operating System: Android 5.1 and above
• Ram: 2 GB (Minimum) , 3 GB (Reccomended)
• Storage: 1,5 GB

Call Of Duty: Mobile (iOS);

• Operating System: iOS 9.0 and above
• Ram: 2 GB (Minimum) 
• Storage: 3,5 GB

How to play CoD?

There are 24 Call Of Duty expansion packs in total, and each game has its own gameplay style and method. To make a general definition, Call Of Duty can be called a team game. The general aim of the game is to act as a "team", even if the characters we manage in the campaign mode often have to move forward alone.

This is how the recently popular "Battle Royale" logic works, and Call Of Duty: Mobile and Call Of Duty: Warzone are built on this basis. In both of these games, they are left in a certain area and struggle to survive. The overall strategy of the game is not person-based but general oriented. It will be helpful for you to keep others alive while you try to survive.

Call Of Duty: Mobile and Call Of Duty: Warzone can be played solo or as a team. In solo mode, the goal is to stand alone until the end of the episode. In team mode, it is to stand as a team.

In Call Of Duty: Mobile and Warzone games, it is necessary to get good grades from the games in order to reach a certain level, to improve the visual and the character of the character. Being the last in every game or falling below the other players in terms of points will have difficulty in raising the level.

In order to improve in Call Of Duty: Mobile and Warzone games and to rank more among the players, previously played games should be watched, new strategies should be developed, teams or solo players that come first in tournaments that exist every season should be followed. Other players should be watched instead of constantly playing the game for changing maps, weapons and power balances.

What is the theme of Call Of Duty Game?

The Call Of Duty series has included many different topics and stories. Most II. He talks about the time of the World War. While some of them talk about the "Cold War" period and the "Modern World", some of them talk about the "Next Period" wars. To mention in a list;

Games on the Second World War;

• Call Of Duty
• Call Of Duty 2
• Call Of Duty 3
• Call Of Duty WWII
• Call Of Duty World At War

Modern World Games;

• Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Call Of Duty : Modern Warfare 2
• Call Of Duty : Modern Warfare 3
• Call Of Duty : Modern Warfare Remastered
• Call Of Duty : Modern Warfare (2019)
• Call Of Duty : Black Ops 4
• Call Of Duty : Ghosts
• Call Of Duty : Warzone

Cold War Themed Games;

• Call Of Duty : Black Ops
• Call Of Duty : Black Ops 2
• Call Of Duty : Black Ops 3
• Call Of Duty : Black Ops Cold War

Games on the Future Period;

• Call Of Duty : Advanced Warfare
• Call Of Duty : Infinite Warfare

Let's take a quick look at their stories.

• Call Of Duty (2003) : The game takes place around three different countries and three different characters. These are divided into American Story, British Story, and Soviet Story.In the first part of the story, the game starts on August 10, 1942, and after a few small tutorials it switches to June 6, 1944. Here, the game begins with Private Martin. After Martin's story, England Story is introduced. The date is again June 6, 1944. This time it is played with Sergeant Jack Evans. When Jack Evans' story ends, the transition to the Soviet Story is made. Here he is played with Corporal Alexei Ivanovich Voronin. With three different countries and three different characters, Call Of Duty has a single story. II. The wars against Germany in World War II are mentioned. For example, the final part of American Story takes place in a real historical battle called “Battle of the Bulge”. While the British Story dealt with a subject like “Operation Chastise”, the Soviet Story dealt with the subject of the Soviet Flag planted in the historically famous Reichstag Building.
• Call Of Duty 2 (2005): II between the years 1941-1945. This series of Call Of Duty deals with the subject of World War II. Like the first game, this series tells three separate stories and fronts. The first front of the story begins with the Soviet front, where we lead Private Vasily Koslov. The story at the front deals with stopping the advance of the German soldiers. The second front is the British front and Sergeant John Davis is the character played. One of the longest stories in the game is rendered on this front. It starts in Africa, extends to Normandy and lastly deals with the Battle of Caen. On the American front, which is the last front, Corporal Bill Taylor is the main character. It deals with the subject of stopping the advance of Germany and helping the landing of Normandy.
• Call Of Duty 3 (2006): The story of the third game of Call of Duty, which consists of 14 missions, takes place in several fronts like the other two games. Unlike other games, Canadian and Polish characters have also been added to this game. Call of Duty 3, like other games, focuses on a story based on stopping the advance of the Germans. Unlike the others, II. It allows us to look at World War II.
• Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007): The game is about the aftermath of a civil war in Russia in 2011. The war between the ultra-nationalists and the Russian Government and the coup attempt by a group in the Middle East form the basis of the story. Three characters are managed in this game. These; John "Soap" MacTavish is Paul Jackson, Captain John Price.
• Call Of Duty: World At War (2008): The game takes place in 1942 and talks about two different wars of two different countries. The first of these is the American Front, in which C. Miller from the Marine Corps is the main character, and it is about their war with Japan. The other is the Soviet Front, which gave life to Private Dmitry Petrenko, and talks about stopping the German advance there.
• Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009): The sequel to the 2007 Modern Warfare game. As a story, it deals with the issue of stopping the people who started the civil war. It has been revealed that both people in the Middle East and ultra-nationalists in Russia are connected. The play is about five years later, 2016.Gary "Roach" Sanderson, Joseph Allen, James Ramirez, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish are among the playable characters in the game.
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops (2010): Call Of Duty Black ops deals with the America-Russia cold war and Vietnam war between 1961-1968. The play begins with the assassination of the main character named Alex Mason and his comrades Bowman and Woods and Fidel Castro on April 17, 1961. The overall story of the game is based on the Vietnam War and revealing and destroying their supporters. There are two playable and important characters in the game. The first of these is Alex Mason and the other is Viktor Reznov. A single episode can be played with Viktor Reznov.
• Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011): It is the sequel to Modern Warfare 2, which was released in 2009. In the second game, the military personnel who helped the terrorists and their leader were destroyed. Makarov, who led terrorist operations as a leader, is pursued. Yuri, Sergeant Derek "Frost" Westbrook, Marcus Burns, Andrei Kharkov are among the playable characters in the game.
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012) : It is the sequel to the Black Ops game released in 2010. Alex Mason and David Mason are the main characters in the game. Between 1986 and 1989, Alex Mason pursues Raul Menendez, the head of an organization called Cordis Die. Raul Menendez is Alex Mason's old nemesis. The other story, set in 2025, deals with the story of David Mason, the son of Alex Mason. At that time, Raul Menendez became David Mason's archenemy. Playable characters in the game are Alex Mason and David Mason.
• Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013): South American countries united and formed a federation and this federation
• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014): The game starts with a war in South Korea in 2054. North Korea attacked South Korea. The USA goes to help. Here, the main character, Jack Mitchell, has his arm cut off and his friend Will Irons dies. Will's father invites Mitchell to his company and has him fitted with a mechanical arm. Mitchell goes after a terrorist organization called the KVA. The only playable character in the game is Jack Mitchell.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015): The game takes place in 2065, 40 years after the second game. It is shaken by internal conflicts, climate change and new technologies. In 2065, several countries united and formed federations. These are the federations Winslow Accord and Common Defense Pact. The Winslow Accord covers part of the Americas, Europe and Asia, while the Common Defense Pact covers Russia and around Africa. Civil wars begin between these two federations. The only playable character in the game is the player, whose visual elements and name can be changed. He is a member of the team in the Player Winslow Accord.
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016): In the distant future, a UNSA special forces team is sent to a secret UNSA weapons research facility on Europa to investigate an SDF attack and recover a UNSA weapon prototype before the facility initiates its self-destruct. This is how the story of the game begins.The only playable character in the game is Nick Reyes.
• Call of Duty: WWII (2017): It tells the experiences of a team of 12 in the 1st Infantry Division between 1944-1945. The story also includes occupied France, Belgium and the war with Germany along the Rhine. The only playable character in the game is Ronald Daniels.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) : The game tells the story of a CIA officer and their struggle against British SAS forces, rebels and occupying Russian forces in a fictional country called Urzikistan.

There are three characters that can be played in the game. These are John Price, Kyle Garrick and Alex.