All Call of Duty Games in Order (2026 Update)

Looking for a list of all Call of Duty games in order? Below, we’ve provided an overview of every major PC and console release in the series, from the original 2003 game to 2026’s Modern Warfare 4.

Call of Duty has been one of gaming’s biggest first-person shooter franchises for more than two decades. What began as a World War II shooter in 2003 has expanded into several connected subseries, including Modern Warfare and Black Ops, along with futuristic entries, historical campaigns, Zombies modes, and the free-to-play Warzone experience.

This guide lists the major Call of Duty games in release-date order and gives a brief overview of the story, gameplay, and notable features introduced in each one. It also includes the early standalone console and handheld games, as well as both versions of Warzone. Expansion packs, remasters, and mobile or platform-specific companion games are not listed separately.

Call of Duty

Release Date: October 29, 2003
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty introduced the series on Microsoft Windows in 2003. Instead of presenting World War II through a single soldier’s story, its campaign moves between American, British, and Soviet perspectives. AI-controlled squadmates also play a much larger role than they did in many other first-person shooters of the period, helping the battles feel like larger military operations rather than one-man missions.

The game includes separate American, British, and Soviet campaigns, as well as competitive multiplayer. Gray Matter Interactive later developed the United Offensive expansion, which added new campaigns, weapons, vehicles, and multiplayer content. The original game was also rereleased for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as Call of Duty Classic.

Call of Duty: Finest Hour

Release Date: November 16, 2004
Developer: Spark Unlimited
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Finest Hour was the franchise’s first console release, launching on PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. It is not a port of the original PC game; instead, it tells a separate World War II story built around six playable soldiers in the American, British, and Soviet armies.

The campaign takes players from the Battle of Stalingrad to North Africa and the Western Front. Finest Hour also includes local multiplayer on all three consoles, while the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions support online play. Although its gameplay is simpler than later Call of Duty titles, it helped establish the series on consoles.

Call of Duty 2

Release Date: October 25, 2005
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty 2 returned to World War II with four campaigns told through British, American, and Soviet soldiers. Its 27 missions cover battles in North Africa, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe, including the D-Day landings at Pointe du Hoc.

It was also one of the Xbox 360’s launch titles and introduced features that would become standard throughout the series. Most notably, it replaced the original game’s health kits with regenerating health and added a grenade-warning indicator. Activision later released the Call of Duty 2 Radiant tools, allowing PC players to build custom maps and other content.

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One

Release Date: November 1, 2005
Developer: Treyarch and Gray Matter Interactive
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One is a standalone console companion to Call of Duty 2 rather than an expansion. It was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube and follows the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division—the “Big Red One”—through North Africa, Sicily, and Western Europe.

By staying with one unit for most of the campaign, Big Red One gives its supporting characters more time to develop than the soldiers in earlier entries. The game also uses archival footage narrated by Mark Hamill to place its missions in historical context. It was later bundled with Finest Hour in the PlayStation 2 collection Call of Duty: Legacy.

Call of Duty 3

Release Date: November 7, 2006
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty 3 follows the Allied breakout from Normandy during the summer of 1944. Its campaign moves between American, British, Canadian, and Polish soldiers as they take part in the fighting that closed the Falaise Gap.

The game features 14 campaign missions and retains the cinematic, squad-based combat of its predecessors. It also adds the ability to throw enemy grenades back and includes short close-quarters action sequences. Call of Duty 3 launched on PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Wii, making it the only main Call of Duty entry that never received a PC version.

Call of Duty: Roads to Victory

Release Date: March 13, 2007
Developer: Amaze Entertainment
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Roads to Victory is a standalone PSP entry and the only Call of Duty game released for Sony’s original handheld. Its 14 campaign missions are divided among American, British, and Canadian forces fighting across Europe during World War II.

Roads to Victory adapts the series’ controls and cinematic battles to the PSP’s limited hardware. It also supports local wireless multiplayer for up to six players, with modes such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Hold the Flag, and King of the Hill.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Release Date: November 5, 2007
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare moved the franchise away from World War II and into a fictional contemporary conflict. The campaign follows U.S. Marines and members of the British SAS as they fight a Middle Eastern coup and an ultranationalist movement in Russia.

Modern Warfare also established the basic multiplayer formula that shaped the series for years. Players earn experience, unlock weapons and perks, create custom classes, and receive rewards for building killstreaks. Its progression system, fast matches, and memorable campaign made it one of the most influential games in the franchise. A remastered version was released in 2016.

Call of Duty: World at War

Release Date: November 11, 2008
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: World at War returned to World War II and took the series to the Pacific Theater and the Eastern Front. Its campaign follows a U.S. Marine fighting the Japanese and a Soviet soldier advancing from Stalingrad to Berlin. Several characters and story elements would later connect World at War to the Black Ops series.

World at War uses a modified version of the Call of Duty 4 engine but presents a darker and more violent depiction of the war. It was the first Call of Duty game to support campaign co-op, and it introduced Nazi Zombies as a bonus mode unlocked after completing the campaign. That experimental mode eventually grew into one of the franchise’s biggest attractions.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Release Date: November 10, 2009
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues the story of Call of Duty 4. Task Force 141 hunts Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Makarov while the United States is pulled into a devastating war. The campaign is remembered for its large set pieces, multiple playable characters, and several controversial story moments.

Along with Campaign and Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2 introduced Special Ops, a collection of short missions designed for solo or two-player co-op. Multiplayer expanded the original game’s progression system with customizable killstreak rewards, weapon attachments, titles, emblems, and a much larger selection of perks. The campaign was remastered and rereleased in 2020.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Release Date: November 9, 2010
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Black Ops is a Cold War thriller and a narrative follow-up to World at War. Most of the campaign is told through the memories of CIA operative Alex Mason, who is interrogated about a mysterious numbers broadcast and his encounters with Soviet officer Nikita Dragovich.

Black Ops introduced COD Points as an in-game multiplayer currency used to unlock weapons, attachments, equipment, and cosmetic options. It also expanded Zombies with a larger cast, more elaborate maps, and hidden storylines. The game’s distinctive campaign, Nuketown multiplayer map, and Zombies content helped turn Black Ops into one of Call of Duty’s defining subseries.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Release Date: November 8, 2011
Developer: Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 concludes the original Modern Warfare trilogy. The campaign begins immediately after Modern Warfare 2 and follows Task Force 141 as the group tries to stop Makarov and bring an escalating global war to an end.

Modern Warfare 3 replaces traditional killstreaks with Pointstreaks, allowing certain objective-based actions to count toward rewards. Its Strike Packages separate rewards into Assault, Support, and Specialist paths for different play styles. The game also introduced a wave-based Survival mode within Special Ops, where one or two players fight increasingly difficult groups of enemies and purchase weapons, equipment, and support between rounds.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Release Date: November 13, 2012
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Black Ops II divides its campaign between Alex Mason’s Cold War missions in the 1980s and his son David’s pursuit of terrorist Raul Menendez in 2025. It was the first Call of Duty campaign to include branching storylines, optional Strike Force missions, and multiple endings shaped by the player’s decisions.

Multiplayer introduced the Pick 10 system, which lets players distribute ten allocation points among weapons, attachments, equipment, perks, and Wildcards. Black Ops II also added League Play for ranked competition. Zombies grew into a broader experience with several modes, including the open-ended Tranzit mode and the more traditional Survival format.

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Release Date: November 5, 2013
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Ghosts begins a separate storyline in which a powerful South American Federation cripples the United States with a captured orbital weapon. The campaign follows brothers Logan and Hesh Walker as they join the Ghosts, an elite special-operations unit fighting behind enemy lines.

Ghosts introduced a more detailed Create-a-Soldier system, allowing players to customize the appearance and loadouts of an entire squad. Its multiplayer maps include interactive and destructible elements that can change during a match. The game also replaced Zombies with Extinction, a cooperative mode in which up to four players complete objectives while fighting waves of alien creatures.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Release Date: November 4, 2014
Developer: Sledgehammer Games
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare takes place in a future where private military corporations have become global powers. The campaign follows Jack Mitchell, a former U.S. Marine who joins the Atlas Corporation and gradually uncovers the ambitions of its leader, Jonathan Irons.

The game’s exoskeleton gives players abilities such as boosted jumps, air dashes, cloaking, and enhanced strength. These mechanics create much faster and more vertical combat than earlier Call of Duty games. Multiplayer adds customizable exo abilities, weapon variants, supply drops, and Pick 13, an expanded version of Black Ops II’s loadout system. Exo Survival provides a four-player wave-based co-op mode.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Release Date: November 6, 2015
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Black Ops III is set in 2065, 40 years after the future storyline in Black Ops II. Soldiers use cybernetic enhancements and Direct Neural Interfaces, while governments and corporations struggle for control in a world destabilized by climate change and advanced technology.

The campaign supports up to four-player co-op on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One and features larger areas designed around cybernetic abilities. Multiplayer combines wall-running, thrust jumps, and power slides with a new Specialist system that gives each character a unique weapon or ability. Zombies returns with Shadows of Evil, while the unlockable Nightmares mode remixes campaign missions with a new story and zombie enemies. The limited PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions omit the campaign.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Release Date: November 4, 2016
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes the series into space as the United Nations Space Alliance battles the Settlement Defense Front for control of the solar system. Players take command of Captain Nick Reyes and can travel between story missions, optional ship assaults, and dogfights using the Retribution warship as a central hub.

Multiplayer uses six Combat Rigs, each built around different payloads, traits, and play styles. The game also includes Zombies in Spaceland, a cooperative mode set inside an exaggerated 1980s theme park. Completing the campaign unlocks the more demanding Specialist and YOLO difficulty settings. Modern Warfare Remastered was initially bundled with select editions of Infinite Warfare before receiving a standalone release.

Infinite Warfare’s minimum PC requirements call for an Intel Core i3-3225 processor, 8GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7850 graphics card. The game also requires at least 80GB of space on your hard drive or SSD.

Call of Duty: WWII

Release Date: November 3, 2017
Developer: Sledgehammer Games
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: WWII brought the series back to its historical roots after several futuristic releases. The campaign follows Ronald “Red” Daniels and the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division from the D-Day landings through the Allied advance into Germany.

The campaign removes automatic health regeneration, requiring Daniels to rely on his squad for health packs, ammunition, grenades, and other support. Multiplayer initially replaced Create-a-Class with a Divisions system and introduced Headquarters, a shared social space where players could interact between matches. The game also includes the cooperative Nazi Zombies mode, which leans more heavily into horror than many earlier Zombies maps.

For PC, WWII recommends at least an Intel Core i5-2400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X processor, 12GB of memory, and an NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 390 graphics card.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Release Date: October 12, 2018
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is the first main entry in the series without a traditional campaign. In its place, the game includes short Specialist HQ missions that introduce its multiplayer characters and provide limited story material set between Black Ops II and Black Ops III.

Multiplayer puts greater emphasis on team composition and Specialist abilities. It also removes automatic health regeneration, requiring players to heal manually. Black Ops 4 launched with three full Zombies maps, plus the bonus Classified map for Black Ops Pass owners. Its biggest addition was Blackout, Call of Duty’s first battle royale mode, which combines weapons, vehicles, locations, and characters from across the Black Ops series.

Black Ops 4 recommends an NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 390 GPU, 12GB of RAM, and an Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X processor.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Release Date: October 25, 2019
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a reboot of the subseries rather than a continuation of the original trilogy. Its campaign follows CIA officer Alex, SAS operators Kyle Garrick and Captain Price, and rebel leader Farah Karim as they respond to a chemical-weapons attack connected to the fictional country of Urzikstan.

Modern Warfare introduced a new engine, a more grounded visual style, and Gunsmith, which allows extensive weapon customization. It was also the first Call of Duty game to support cross-platform multiplayer between PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. Its seasonal content model removed the traditional paid map-pack structure, while the free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone launched from its technology and content in March 2020.

The minimum PC requirements call for an Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300 processor, an NVIDIA GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU, and 8GB of RAM. Activision recommended substantially faster hardware for high-refresh-rate competitive play and 4K settings.

Call of Duty: Warzone

Release Date: March 10, 2020
Developer: Infinity Ward and Raven Software
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Warzone was a free-to-play battle royale game built from Modern Warfare’s weapons, Operators, movement, and technology. It launched with Verdansk, where up to 150 players fought to become the final surviving player or squad. Warzone also introduced the Gulag, which gave eliminated players a chance to win a one-on-one fight and return to the match.

Along with Battle Royale, the original Warzone included Plunder, a respawn-enabled mode built around collecting the most cash. The game later integrated content from Black Ops Cold War and Vanguard and replaced Verdansk with the Pacific island of Caldera. After Warzone 2.0 launched, the original was renamed Warzone Caldera before its servers were shut down in September 2023.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Release Date: November 13, 2020
Developer: Treyarch and Raven Software
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is a direct sequel to the original Black Ops. Set primarily in 1981, its campaign brings back Alex Mason, Frank Woods, and Jason Hudson as they join a team hunting the Soviet spy Perseus. Players create their own operative, choose dialogue responses, complete optional missions, and can reach different endings.

Multiplayer returned to a more traditional pace after Modern Warfare, while maintaining cross-platform play and shared progression with Warzone. Zombies begins a new storyline called the Dark Aether Saga and introduces features such as weapon loadouts, field upgrades, and an extraction option.

Black Ops Cold War received generally favorable reviews, including an 8.75/10 from Game Informer, a 76 Metascore for the PC version, and a 7/10 from IGN.

The minimum requirements are similar to Modern Warfare’s, calling for an Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300 processor, 8GB of memory, and a GTX 1650 or Radeon HD 7950 graphics card. Playing with ray tracing and high-resolution settings requires a much more powerful high-end gaming PC.

Call of Duty: Vanguard

Release Date: November 5, 2021
Developer: Sledgehammer Games
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Vanguard returns to World War II, but its campaign is framed around the formation of an early multinational special-operations team. Through flashbacks, players control several characters fighting across the Western and Eastern Fronts, North Africa, and the Pacific.

Multiplayer builds on the Modern Warfare engine and introduces destructible environmental elements and Combat Pacing options that change the number of players in a match. Treyarch developed Vanguard’s Zombies mode, which continues the Dark Aether storyline from Black Ops Cold War. Vanguard also powered Warzone’s move from Verdansk to the Pacific-themed Caldera map.

The minimum PC requirements call for an Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300 processor, 8GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470 graphics card. For competitive play, Activision recommended 16GB of RAM, a newer Intel Core i7 or Ryzen 7 processor, and an NVIDIA RTX 2070 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT.

For 4K play, the recommended hardware included an NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics card or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, along with an Intel Core i9 or Ryzen 9 processor.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

Release Date: October 28, 2022
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is the sequel to the 2019 reboot. Its campaign reunites Captain Price, Gaz, Ghost, and Soap as Task Force 141 pursues stolen American missiles and the Iranian Quds Force officer connected to them.

The game introduced swimming and underwater combat, ledge hanging, more detailed vehicle interactions, and a redesigned Gunsmith system built around weapon platforms and shared attachments. Multiplayer added modes such as Prisoner Rescue and Knock Out, while the cooperative Special Ops mode continued parts of the campaign’s story. Modern Warfare II also served as the foundation for Warzone 2.0 and DMZ.

The minimum PC requirements call for an NVIDIA GTX 960 or AMD RX 470 GPU, an Intel Core i3-6100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 CPU, and 8GB of memory. Recommended hardware includes an NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD RX 580 GPU, an Intel Core i5-6600K or AMD Ryzen 5 1400 CPU, and 12GB of memory.

For 4K play, Activision recommended an NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics card, an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, or better.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 and DMZ

Release Date: November 16, 2022
Developer: Infinity Ward and Raven Software
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 succeeded the original Warzone with a new free-to-play experience built alongside Modern Warfare II. It launched with Al Mazrah, a large desert map with urban areas, waterways, Strongholds, AI-controlled enemies, and new aquatic-combat mechanics.

The release also introduced DMZ, an extraction-based mode in which squads enter Al Mazrah to complete missions, gather weapons and valuables, and escape before they are eliminated. In 2023, Activision dropped “2.0” from the name, and the game has continued simply as Call of Duty: Warzone. Since launch, it has been updated with weapons, Operators, maps, and progression tied to each new premium Call of Duty release.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III

Release Date: November 10, 2023
Developer: Sledgehammer Games
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III picks up directly after Modern Warfare II and brings Vladimir Makarov into the rebooted storyline. Its campaign mixes traditional linear missions with Open Combat Missions, which give players larger areas, equipment to find, and more freedom in how they approach an objective.

At launch, multiplayer included modernized versions of all 16 maps from the original Modern Warfare 2 (2009), along with carry-forward support for many weapons and cosmetics from Modern Warfare II. The game also introduced Modern Warfare Zombies, an open-world PvE mode developed with Treyarch that combines Zombies enemies and progression with an extraction-style map.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Release Date: October 25, 2024
Developer: Treyarch and Raven Software
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is a spy thriller set in 1991, shortly after the end of the Cold War. The campaign follows rogue operatives, including Frank Woods and Russell Adler, as they investigate a secretive organization that has infiltrated the CIA. Its missions mix traditional firefights with stealth, investigation, dialogue, and open-ended objectives.

Black Ops 6 introduced Omnimovement, which lets players sprint, slide, and dive in any direction. Multiplayer brought back Classic Prestige, and Zombies returned to the traditional round-based format at launch. It was also the first Call of Duty game released on Game Pass on day one. An internet connection is required for every mode, including the campaign, because the game continuously streams some of its visual assets.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

Release Date: November 14, 2025
Developer: Treyarch and Raven Software
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 moves the series to 2035 and continues the story of David Mason and his team as they confront Raul Menendez and a weapon designed to turn fear against its victims. The campaign can be played solo or cooperatively and leads into Endgame, a replayable social PvE experience with new abilities and progression.

Multiplayer builds on Black Ops 6’s Omnimovement and adds the Overclock system, which lets players improve equipment, Field Upgrades, and Scorestreaks. Zombies continues the Dark Aether storyline, while Dead Ops Arcade 4 returns as another cooperative option. Black Ops 7 also supports shared progression across Campaign, Multiplayer, Zombies, Dead Ops Arcade 4, and Warzone.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

Scheduled Release Date: October 23, 2026
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the next entry in the rebooted Modern Warfare series. Its campaign begins with a North Korean invasion of South Korea and follows Private Park through the conflict. Captain Price also returns, operating outside the system as he searches for a powerful weapon capable of shifting the balance of the wider war.

Infinity Ward is emphasizing grounded movement and more precise weapon handling in multiplayer. The game is scheduled to launch with 12 core maps, dedicated Gunfight maps, large-scale Big War maps, and Kill Block, a training facility that can rearrange its layout between rounds. DMZ also returns with changing weather, dynamic objectives, hostile forces, and extraction-based progression.

Modern Warfare 4 is scheduled for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2. It will be the first premium Call of Duty game released for a Nintendo system in more than a decade, and it will not launch on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One.

Which Game in the Call of Duty Series Is Your Favorite?

The Call of Duty series has changed dramatically since its World War II beginnings. Some players prefer the grounded campaigns of the early games, while others return for Modern Warfare multiplayer, Black Ops Zombies, or Warzone.

Which Call of Duty game is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below.