Call of Duty is now 20 years old.
Activision’s Call of Duty series is a commercial monster. Since its inception twenty years ago (it launched on October 29th, 2003), it has sold more than 425 million copies worldwide and is comfortably the best-selling FPS franchise of all time. Its astonishing and prolonged sales success over the past decade or so has established Activision as one of the leading forces in the games industry, and, despite the passage of time, it shows little sign of losing its grip on the consciousness of millions of players all over the globe.
This cash cow has a direct relationship with a series that, at one point, was its closest rival: Medal of Honor. That series began life in 1999 when director Steven Spielberg became infatuated with the idea of creating a ‘historical’ shooter in the wake of his success with the movie Saving Private Ryan. The resultant PlayStation titles Medal Of Honor and Medal of Honor: Underground were unique in that they attempted to frame the action in as sensitive a way as possible, highlighting the human struggles that were at the core of one of the planet’s most significant conflicts.
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Call of Duty is now 20 years old.
Activision’s Call of Duty series is a commercial monster. Since its inception twenty years ago (it launched on October 29th, 2003), it has sold more than 425 million copies worldwide and is comfortably the best-selling FPS franchise of all time. Its astonishing and prolonged sales success over the past decade or so has established Activision as one of the leading forces in the games industry, and, despite the passage of time, it shows little sign of losing its grip on the consciousness of millions of players all over the globe.
This cash cow has a direct relationship with a series that, at one point, was its closest rival: Medal of Honor. That series began life in 1999 when director Steven Spielberg became infatuated with the idea of creating a ‘historical’ shooter in the wake of his success with the movie Saving Private Ryan. The resultant PlayStation titles Medal Of Honor and Medal of Honor: Underground were unique in that they attempted to frame the action in as sensitive a way as possible, highlighting the human struggles that were at the core of one of the planet’s most significant conflicts.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
