Activision’s newest blockbuster within the Call of Duty franchise has been introduced to have introduced in one thing to the tune of $600 million to the corporate’s coffers. That’s an entire lot of cash – however keep in mind we’re speaking about an precise completed Call of Duty recreation that features a single-player marketing campaign. Yearly installments have confirmed to not do any hurt to Call of Duty – it stays one of many greatest leisure launches yearly, which is a part of the rationale why Activision has three improvement studios continuously engaged on the franchise, with three-year improvement cycles for every title (this explicit launch was created by Infinity Ward). That’s a giant degree of dedication, and it often reveals within the completed high quality of the video games.
The recreation has overtaken all earlier releases within the franchise for this present era of consoles (and PC). Reasons for that certainly embrace the reference to one of many franchises most beloved entries, the homonymous Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the return of Captain Price, however certainly the presence of a single-player marketing campaign and the absence of any microtransactions pulled their weight on this launch success. If there have been any doubts on Call of Duty conserving its momentum, they should be postponed to subsequent 12 months’s launch.
