In just one year, the Call of Duty franchise will be celebrating its 20th birthday — the first game in the series was released back in 2003 and sequels have been coming thick and fast ever since — with a new version of Modern Warfare 2 just around the corner.
As the games span an impressive 20 years of releases, it's hard to remember which game came when. Fortunately for you, we've created this guide for you. We've got all the games in release date order and their story-based order (which is a little more complicated).
Of course, some Call of Duty games are still in progress, with the new CoD Modern Warfare 2 coming soon and Warzone 2 coming just a couple of weeks later, not to mention all the follow-up titles that are probably in progress behind the scenes as well.
If you want to play through all the existing CoD games in order, here is a guide for how to do it. It'll take you a serious amount of time to work through them all across several different platforms. For those who do, we salute you.
Of course, the story-following timeline order isn't the only way in which you could play through the Call of Duty games in order. If you want to play the CoD games in the order they came out, this is the order you'll want to follow:
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If you want to play the Call of Duty games in an order that makes some kind of sense, the most coherent timeline to follow is that of real-life history. This isn't a perfect science, because some games span more than one era, but it's still a great way to play through the franchise. With that in mind, check out
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