The worst Call of Duty games, ranked

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Any series as large as Call of Duty is bound to have a few entries that fall below par. Unfortunately for fans of the franchise, there have been more than a few. The worst entries in the series are some of the worst in the FPS genre overall. Whether it’s the poor map design, poor writing, performance issues, or aggressive and frankly insulting monetization, today we’re cataloging the best of the worst when it comes to Call of Duty.

None of the games on this list are good, but the earlier entries have at least a couple redeeming qualities. They don’t reach the heights of the likes of the original Call of Duty 4, Black Ops 2, or even Modern Warfare 2 from 2009, but they’re the least offensive of the lot. By this list’s end, we’ll reach the real stinkers. Games so bad Activision itself seems to want to forget them altogether.

Call of Duty is no stranger to science fiction, with Black Ops 2 pushing its narrative over a decade into the future. Infinite Warfare went even farther, taking the franchise to space for the first and, so far, final time. Its campaign was filled with cliches, Kit Harrington did his best to bring a bad villain to life, and the game gave off a sense of chasing trends rather than setting them. Its multiplayer was something of a saving grace, being fast, relatively fun, and trying out new twists on the SPecialist mechanic introduced in Black Ops 3. Too bad the maps were some of the worst in the series.

The third entry in the Call of Duty franchise from Sledgehammer Games and the more experimental of their two World War 2 outings, Vanguard was nonetheless a bog-standard, by the numbers take on the Call of Duty formula. The campaign had