
That’s the horrifying world portrayed in Call of Duty: Ghosts, a fairly meh entry in the series that commits the cardinal sin of being nearly completely unmemorable, with a single-player campaign that ends with a miserable cliffhanger that will never be resolved.


The United States is no longer a superpower. Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013)Ĭall of Duty Ghosts. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018)īest map: Contraband is one big bridge that holds a constant running firefight while flankers are funnelled into two wide-open areas to fight for dominance.īonus celebrity voice: This one is light on star power, but Black Ops mainstay James C. Platforms: PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii.īest map: Most of Call of Duty 3’s maps are reskins of CoD and CoD 2 maps, but Stalag 23 is all-new and lets players charge around a PoW camp while one tower overlooks it all.īonus celebrity voice: American TV mainstay Mark Deklin stars as Maj. Grim.Ĭall of Duty 3 was developed in just 8 months and was no doubt hurt for being wedged between Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – but it has some nice ideas that were incorporated into better, later, CoD games. The campaign has its moments, particularly by forcing you into hand-to-hand combat sequences that felt cinematic for the time, and could see players using the Sixaxis movement sensing on the PlayStation 3 controller to beat enemy soldiers to death.

Featuring class-based multiplayer, vehicles and even scorestreaks, it was a very mid-2000s Xbox 360 shooter that didn’t really compete with what Battlefieldand Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas were doing at the time. Call of Duty 3 (2006)Ĭonsole-only, Call of Duty 3 was a mess of ideas that was hugely overshadowed by what came next, Modern Warfare. Below, we’ve ranked the 19 “mainline” Call of Duty games -meaning no Warzone, sorry – to work out which is which and definitely not cause any arguments.įrom the very first Call of Duty to this year’s Modern Warfare 2, read on to find out where your favourite CoD sits on our ranking – and more importantly, which Call of Duty game we consider the all-time greatest. While some Call of Duty games are looked back on as classics, not all of them have lived up to the hype – in short, there have been a few stinkers (spoilers – one of them is Ghosts). READ MORE: Best FPS games: what’s the best shooter you can play in 2022?.Activision Blizzard‘s first-person shooters have become a mainstay in autumn’s busy release season, and now with a whopping 19 games in the series, most generations can point to their favourite CoD game with ease.
C all of Duty made its debut in 2003, and for every year since, we’ve dutifully picked up a new game in the series.
