70 Fun Facts About Call of Duty

Which company has published every Call of Duty game since the series began in 2003?

The franchise has sold more than 500 million copies and passed $30 billion in revenue by 2022.

The original 2003 Call of Duty was set during which war?

It ran on a modified id Tech 3 engine and pushed squad-based play instead of the 'lone wolf' shooter formula.

Which studio developed the first Call of Duty and later created Modern Warfare?

Its 22 founding staff had all worked on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault at a studio called 2015.

Which 2007 game moved the series out of World War II and became its breakthrough hit?

It introduced killstreak rewards and the Prestige system, which resets a player's rank in exchange for a new insignia.

Warzone, released in March 2020, is which type of game mode?

It launched inside Modern Warfare (2019) but has always been free to play without buying that game.

The cooperative Zombies mode made its debut in which game?

It began as a bonus minigame called Nazi Zombies and became a mainstay of every Treyarch entry.

Which Modern Warfare 2 mission caused an outcry for letting players take part in an airport massacre?

The game still sold about 4.7 million copies in North America and the UK in its first 24 hours.

Captain Price is voiced in the original Modern Warfare trilogy by Billy Murray and in the reboot by whom?

The character was reworked from a WWII Captain Price in the 2003 game, complete with thousand-yard stare and weathered boonie hat.

Which SAS recruit joins Captain Price's team as a sergeant in Call of Duty 4?

He goes on to command Task Force 141 in the sequels.

Who is the Ultranationalist leader that Price hunts in Call of Duty 4?

He built his movement on nuclear proliferation profits after Chernobyl and the Soviet collapse.

Which lieutenant general betrays Soap's unit and executes Roach and Ghost in Modern Warfare 2?

His motive: he lost his men to a nuke in 2011 and leaked a Ranger's identity to start a war and become a hero.

What multinational special forces unit does Soap command in Modern Warfare 2?

Its playable members include Sergeant Gary 'Roach' Sanderson, while Private Ramirez carries the US Army Rangers side.

Black Ops (2010) follows CIA operative Alex Mason as he tries to locate what?

The station is set to trigger sleeper agents to release the chemical weapon Nova 6 across the United States.

Which Hollywood actor voices Viktor Reznov in World at War and Black Ops?

Ed Harris plays Mason's handler Jason Hudson, and Ice Cube plays Joseph Bowman.

Which US president orders Mason to assassinate Dragovich in Black Ops?

The scene takes place at the Pentagon while Mason is plagued by murderous visions.

Black Ops sold how many copies in its first 24 hours, breaking Modern Warfare 2's record?

It went on to pass 25 million copies and was for a time the best-selling game ever in the United States.

The multiplayer map Nuketown is set in what kind of location?

At the end of every match a bomb drops and obliterates the map, a nod to real US test sites with fake neighbourhoods.

Black Ops II jumps between the 1980s and which future year?

It was the first game in the series with branching storylines and multiple endings driven by player choice.

Who is the Nicaraguan arms dealer and villain of Black Ops II?

A non-canon post-credits scene has him and Woods performing 'Carry On' with Avenged Sevenfold.

Modern Warfare 3 grossed how much in its first 24 hours, then the biggest entertainment launch ever?

It sold 6.5 million copies in the US and UK on day one and added a wave-based Survival mode to Spec Ops.

Ghosts introduced the series' first non-human playable character. What was it?

Its Extinction mode swapped zombies for aliens called Cryptids.

Which Oscar-winning actor plays Atlas boss Jonathan Irons in Advanced Warfare?

Troy Baker voices the hero Jack Mitchell, and the whole story runs from 2054 to 2061.

Advanced Warfare's signature new movement came from what piece of equipment?

Exo movements let players boost, dash and sky jump, a first for the boots-on-the-ground series.

Black Ops III is set in which year?

Its Nightmares mode replays the entire campaign with a new story and zombies swapped in for most enemies.

Which Game of Thrones actor plays villain Salen Kotch in Infinite Warfare?

The game's reveal trailer briefly became the second-most-disliked video on YouTube.

Infinite Warfare's campaign takes the fight to which new setting?

Players fly a transforming fighter called the Jackal and visit planets, moons and asteroids across the Solar System.

Special editions of Infinite Warfare bundled a remaster of which earlier game?

For many players the remaster was the real reason to buy the 2016 package.

Call of Duty: WWII follows a squad in which US Army division?

It was the first game since the original and Big Red One to drop health regeneration from the campaign.

Which was the first mainline Call of Duty to ship without a single-player campaign?

A planned story mode called Career was scrapped in early 2018 and the Blackout battle royale took its place.

Black Ops 4's 100-player last-squad-standing mode was called what?

It debuted two years before Warzone and replaced the scrapped Career story mode.

Modern Warfare (2019) was the first in the series to support what?

Its two-on-two Gunfight mode has rounds lasting just forty seconds.

The 2019 Modern Warfare campaign is set largely in which fictional country?

Rebels there team up with a CIA officer and the SAS to hunt a stolen shipment of chlorine gas.

Black Ops Cold War, set in 1981, has CIA agent Russell Adler hunting which Soviet spy?

Development began at Raven and Sledgehammer before disagreements saw Treyarch take the lead in May 2019.

Which studio developed Vanguard, Advanced Warfare and WWII?

It was founded in 2009 by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, the creators of Dead Space.

Modern Warfare II (2022) set which franchise record?

It also introduced Warzone 2.0 and the DMZ extraction mode through the shared Call of Duty HQ launcher.

Modern Warfare III (2023) started life as what before becoming a full game?

Sledgehammer was handed the project after Vanguard, which helps explain its open-world 'Open Combat Missions'.

Black Ops 6 is set during which real-world conflict?

It was also the first Call of Duty available on Xbox Game Pass on release day.

Black Ops 7 is set in which year?

Its campaign can be played in four-player co-op and takes place in the fictional Mediterranean city of Avalon.

Call of Duty: Mobile was developed by TiMi Studio Group, a division of which company?

It pulled 270 million downloads and $480 million in its first year, one of the biggest mobile launches ever.

The Call of Duty League launched in 2020 with how many city-based franchise teams?

It copied the Overwatch League structure and offered a $6 million prize pool in its first season.

Which two studio founders were fired by the publisher in 2010 and went on to start Respawn Entertainment?

Respawn went on to make Titanfall and Apex Legends.

Treyarch, developer of the Black Ops series, was founded in which year?

Activision bought the Santa Monica studio in 2001; Call of Duty 3 was its first mainline entry.

Call of Duty 3 was notable as the first mainline entry not developed by which studio?

It was also the first not released on PC, and a launch title for the PlayStation 3 and Wii.

Call of Duty 2 was a launch title for which console in November 2005?

It sold more than 250,000 copies on the console in its first week and is regularly listed among the 360's best games.

World at War's campaign covers the Eastern Front and which other theatre?

US Marine Private Miller and Soviet Private Dimitri Petrenko carry the two storylines.

Which 24 star voices Corporal Roebuck in World at War?

He leads the Marine Raiders who rescue Miller on Makin Island in the opening mission.

What weapon do players start with in the original Zombies mode?

One to four players hold out against endless waves; Black Ops added a Pentagon map called 'Five'.

Guinness World Records recognises Call of Duty as the best-selling series in which genre?

It is the most successful video game franchise ever created in the United States and the fourth best-selling of all time.

Which studio struck a 2025 deal to make a live-action Call of Duty feature film?

Earlier spin-offs included Mega Bloks sets, an Upper Deck card game and a WildStorm comic miniseries.

The Call of Duty Endowment, co-founded by then-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, helps whom?

General James L. Jones co-created it, and its partners include Hire Heroes USA and AMVETS.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is scheduled for release on which date?

It would be the fourth entry in the rebooted sub-series that began in 2019.

What is the first Zombies map, launched after finishing the World at War campaign?

The name means 'Night of the Undead'; the mode was originally a hidden bonus rather than a headline feature.

Which World at War map introduced Zombies characters Dempsey, Nikolai, Richtofen and Takeo?

The swamp map's enemies were undead Imperial Japanese soldiers rather than the usual Nazi zombies.

Which World at War DLC map first had a power generator to switch on and Perk-a-Cola machines?

'Verrückt' means 'crazy', fitting for a map set in an asylum whose two halves are separated until the power is on.

Which of these Zombies maps shipped in the base version of the original Black Ops alongside 'Five'?

'Kino der Toten' means 'Cinema of the Dead'; the third base offering, Dead Ops Arcade, was a twin-stick shooter unlocked via a hidden terminal.

Which four celebrities were the playable characters in the Black Ops map 'Call of the Dead'?

The map's boss is a zombified George A. Romero, the director whose Dead films the title salutes.

Which Black Ops map lets players and zombies fight in zero gravity?

It arrived in the Rezurrection pack, which also bundled the four World at War maps for the first time on Black Ops.

Which Avenged Sevenfold song is hidden as an Easter egg on the Black Ops II map 'Origins'?

The band's relationship with Treyarch goes back to 'Not Ready to Die' on Call of the Dead and 'Carry On' over the Black Ops II credits.

In Black Ops II, the 'Turned' mode pitted one human against how many player-controlled zombies?

Whoever killed the human took over as the survivor, so the roles kept flipping all match.

Black Ops 4 split Zombies into two storylines: the Aether story and which other?

The Chaos crew's Perseus is a zombie warlord, not to be confused with the Soviet spy of the same name hunted in Cold War's campaign.

Which Black Ops Cold War Zombies map's German name means 'Wall of the Dead'?

Cold War also broke a long tradition by letting players bring a custom loadout instead of starting every match with a pistol.

Which composer writes the hidden Easter-egg songs for Treyarch's Zombies maps?

Sherwood composed the Zombies music as far back as the original Black Ops, while Sean Murray scored that game's campaign.

In Black Ops 6 Zombies, which currency is spent on Pack-a-Punch upgrades and Perk-a-Cola cans?

Salvage, the second currency, buys ammo mods and other tweaks; the mode's six maps continue the story from Cold War.

Which studio developed the cancelled Call of Duty: Roman Wars, which would have starred Julius Caesar?

Activision pulled the plug because it was unsure about branding an ancient-Rome game as Call of Duty.

Neversoft's cancelled sci-fi spin-off, leaked in 2024, was known internally by what code name?

Former developer Brian Bright said it was meant to ship in 2013 in place of Ghosts; its assets ended up in Ghosts and Infinite Warfare.

The Modern Warfare 2: Ghost comic mini-series exploring Simon Riley's backstory was published by whom?

Its first issue arrived on 10 November 2009, the same day as the game.

Which company sued Activision in 2017 over the appearance of Humvees in Call of Duty games?

A federal judge dismissed the case in 2020, ruling the vehicles served military realism, not trademark confusion.

Which director was attached in October 2025 to the live-action Call of Duty film, with Taylor Sheridan co-writing?

An earlier attempt with Sollima directing was shelved in 2020; Berg said the film will sit in the Modern Warfare continuity.

Which Call of Duty was the most competitively played game of 2014, with about 15,000 teams per season?

The biggest single tournament remains Call of Duty: Experience 2011, held at Modern Warfare 3's launch.

Raven Software's cancelled free-to-play Zombies game of 2012–13 drew inspiration from which film series?

Raven dropped it once Treyarch returned to making Black Ops Zombies, to avoid internal competition.