Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Developer(s)	Infinity Ward Aspyr (Mac conversion) Treyarch (Wii conversion)[1]
Publisher(s)	Activision Square Enix (2009 Japanese release)
Distributor(s)	Activision (retail) Steam (online)
Director(s)	Jason West
Producer(s)	Mark Rubin
Designer(s)	Todd Alderman Steve Fukuda Mackey McCandlish Zied Rieke
Artist(s)	Richard Kriegler
Writer(s)	Jesse Stern
Composer(s)	Harry Gregson-Williams Stephen Barton
Series	Call of Duty
Engine	IW 3.0[2]
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 OS X Wii
Release date(s)	Xbox 360, PS3, Windows NA November 5, 2007 AUS November 7, 2007 EU November 9, 2007 JP December 27, 2007 JP September 10, 2009(Square Enix) Mac NA September 26, 2008 AUS January 28, 2011 Wii November 10, 2009[1]
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer,online co-op
Distribution	Optical disc, digital download

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a 2007 first-person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows,Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. A handheld game was made for the Nintendo DS. The game was released in North America, Australia, and Europe in November 2007 for video game consoles and Microsoft Windows. It was released for the Mac in September 2008, then released for the Wii in November 2009, given the subtitle Reflex Edition. It is the fourth installment in the Call of Duty video game series, excluding expansion packs, and is the first in the Modern Warfare line of the franchise, followed by a direct sequel, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as well as the first game in the series to have a Mature rating. The game breaks away from the World War II setting of previous games in the series and is instead set in modern times. Developed for over two years, the game uses a proprietary game engine. On September 10, 2009, it was re-released in Japan by Square Enix.

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

Critically acclaimed, the game received an aggregated score of 94% from bothGameRankings and Metacritic, and is considered by many to be the best Call of Duty in the series. The gameplay and story received particular praise, while criticism targeted the failure of the game to substantially innovate the first-person shooter genre. The game won numerous awards from gaming websites, including IGN's Best Xbox 360 Game. It was the top-selling game worldwide for 2007, selling around seven million copies by January 2008 and almost sixteen million by November 2013.