Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Cover artwork used internationally for the various platforms
Developer(s)	Infinity Ward[a]
Publisher(s)	Activision
Director(s)	Jason West
Producer(s)	Mark Rubin
Designer(s)	Todd Alderman Steve Fukuda Mackey McCandlish Zied Rieke
Programmer(s)	Richard Baker Robert Field Francesco Gigliotti Earl Hammon Jr
Artist(s)	Richard Kriegler Chris Cherubini Joel Emslie Robert Gaines
Writer(s)	Jesse Stern
Composer(s)	Stephen Barton
Series	Call of Duty
Engine	IW 3.0
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Mac OS X Wii
Release	November 5, 2007 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 NA: November 5, 2007 AU: November 7, 2007 EU: November 9, 2007 Mac OS X NA: September 26, 2008 PAL: January 28, 2011 Wii WW: November 10, 2009
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the fourth main installment in the Call of Duty series. The game breaks away from the World War II setting of previous entries and is instead set in modern times. Developed over two years, Modern Warfare was released in November 2007 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows and was ported to the Wii as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare – Reflex Edition in 2009.

The story takes place in the year of 2011 when a radical leader has executed the president of an unnamed country in the Middle East, and an ultranationalist movement ignites a civil war in Russia. The conflicts are seen from the perspectives of a U.S. Marine Force Recon sergeant and a British SAS commando and are set in various locales, such as the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine. The multiplayer portion of the game features numerous game modes and contains a leveling system that allows the player to unlock additional weapons, weapon attachments, and camouflage schemes as they advance.

The game was praised by critics, especially for its gameplay and storyline, but there was criticism of its lack of innovation. Modern Warfare won numerous "Game of the Year" titles and two BAFTA Video Games Awards. The game is considered one of the greatest video games of all time.^[1][2] It was the top-selling game worldwide in 2007, selling around seven million copies by January 2008 and almost sixteen million by November 2013. It was followed by two sequels that continue the storyline: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011).

A remastered version of the game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, was released as part of special edition bundles of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in November 2016 and as a standalone game in June 2017. A reboot of the Modern Warfare game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, was released in October 2019.

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