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Call of Duty
Activision's annual first-person shooter franchise — the defining commercial FPS of the last two decades, and one of the most-argued-about series in gaming.
Call of Duty is two different franchises in a trench coat: a campaign series that occasionally produces something genuinely great (MW1, Black Ops 1, MW2019's opening hours), and a live multiplayer ecosystem that operates on a completely different time scale, design logic, and economic model.
The hub treats those as separate subjects. The campaigns are worth reviewing properly — some are landmark shooters, some are forgettable connective tissue, some are interesting failures. The multiplayer side is better covered as a rolling conversation: Warzone eras, meta shifts, the annualisation question, the place of a yearly blockbuster FPS in a genre that has clearly moved on around it.
Reviews, retrospectives, and the broader question of what Call of Duty is still for.
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