Call of Duty Franchise, an Analysis

Synonyms

Esports; First-person shooter

Definitions

First-person shooter (FPS) = a genre of games where the camera is in a first-person viewpoint. Players make use of guns to eliminate targets and/or secure other objectives.

Esports = A sports competition with video games as the focus rather than traditional sports.

History of Call of Duty

As of 2016, the Call of Duty series as a whole has sold 250 million copies and five of the games have made the top 50 best-selling video games of all-time list (McWhertor 2016). The first title released in the first-person shooter Call of Duty series was Call of Duty: Finest Hour. Finest Hour was released on October 29, 2003. The series started as a Microsoft exclusive and it ran on the IW game engine. Today, one can find Call of Dutyon any console or handheld device. Activision-Blizzard currently owns the series. From 2006 until 2014, there was a rotation every year between two different developers, Infinity Ward and Treyarch. In that time span,...