Call of Duty - Call of Duty via Medal of Honor

To this day, exactly sixteen years ago, the first Call of Duty landed on Europe and began a very successful campaign.

Call of Duty recently celebrated its fifteenth birthday, but we will be celebrating this anniversary today, as Call of Duty first appeared on the European market today. Looking back 16 years, it is a little strange how different then Call of Duty was from what the series represents today. It was a single-player game that was primarily played in the shooter's cradle - on PC.

The origin of Call of Duty is credited with Infinity Ward, a studio founded just one year before the game's release, made up mostly of the team that made Electronic Arts an excellent Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for Electronic Arts. The makers of Call of Duty set out to make a shooter in which the player was part of a team instead of solving all the battles of WWII on his own.




To this end, they had to work on the artificial intelligence of fellow soldiers who guided the player through the game with their commands, and by their behavior contributed to a realistic depiction of war by hiding behind cover, saving each other and the like. In most missions, the game had a "replenishment" system that constantly sent new comrades when existing ones were killed, so that there would always be other soldiers next to the player. However, in the early version of the game this was not so yet, so if you played the demo version then you could kill your own team without penalty and be left almost alone on the battlefield.

Given that it was a PC exclusive that used the then-Tech Tech 3 launcher from the Quake III Arena, Call of Duty could portray World War II conflicts at an unprecedented level. For example, effects were added to the game to respond to nearby shell explosions (tinnitus, blurred vision, slow motion), the environment was devastating in some missions (tanks were treading trees), and dozens of characters could be found on screen all of a sudden.




The story of the first Call of Duty was divided into three campaigns: American, British and Soviet. Each had missions to remember, but the grand finale was reserved for the Soviet part where we participated in the Battle of Stalingrad (largely inspired by the movie Enemy at the Gates) and later marched to Berlin and cleared the Reichstag.

Call of Duty was one of the most notable games of 2003 and has won numerous awards. Next year, an expansion called United Offensive followed with new missions and expanded multiplayer. The original Call of Duty remained a PC exclusive for a good six years before Call of Duty: Classic appeared on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles.

Certainly, the Call of Duty series later became extremely popular and changed year after year with new ideas. However, what remained, and here we think of the very foundation, was present in most CoD titles.






Check some of the older Call of Duty posts ->>

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