{"id":84159,"date":"2026-06-08T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84159"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:36:27","slug":"how-to-play-the-call-of-duty-games-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84159","title":{"rendered":"How to Play the Call of Duty Games in Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>To say Call of Duty is an important piece of video game history would be an understatement. It\u2019s hard to think of first-person shooters (or action games in general) without mentioning this series, which has become one of the most successful franchises ever after revolutionizing single-player campaigns and online battles.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, CoD has dominated the multiplayer scene. Apart from creating iconic characters like Captain Price and Alex Mason, the series has also introduced unexpected figures to their ranks, like Spawn, Snoop Dogg, and Lionel Messi. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-revealed-with-dmz-release-date-and-nintendo-switch-2-version-confirmed\">Modern Warfare 4<\/a> on the horizon, you might want to look back on over 20 years of Call of Duty history. <\/p>\n<p>With entries exploring conflicts from both our past and our possible future, here&#8217;s every Call of Duty game in chronological order. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Jump to<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#chronological-order\">How to play in chronological order<\/a><a href=\"#release-order\">How to play by release date<\/a><\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"every-ign-call-of-duty-review\" data-value=\"every-ign-call-of-duty-review\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Call of Duty Games in Release OrderCall of Duty (2003)Call of Duty 2 (2005)Call of Duty 3 (2006)Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)Call of Duty: World at War (2008)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012)Call of Duty:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To say Call of Duty is an important piece of video game history would be an understatement. It\u2019s hard to think of first-person shooters (or action games in general) without mentioning this series, which has become one of the most successful franchises ever after revolutionizing single-player campaigns and online battles. For decades, CoD has dominated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":84161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84163,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84159\/revisions\/84163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}