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Call of Duty 4 Tops 7 Million Units Worldwide, Labeled Best Selling Game of 2007
by Chris Faylor, Jan 25, 2008 8:15am PSTAfter tallying figures from sales tracking firms across the world, publisher Activision now claims that Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, X360) was 2007's best selling game worldwide.
In all, the game sold in excess of 7 million units, according to data compiled from the NPD Group, Chart Track, and the GFK Group. Incredibly, that figure represents less than two whole months of sales, as the game deployed to stores in early November.
Of the overall figure, North American sales of the Xbox 360 version accounted for 3.04 million. The PC version, meanwhile, only sold 383,000 units at North American retailers, though that number does not include sales made through digital distribution platforms such as Steam.
Still, it's obvious that Infinity Ward is upset with the sales performance of the PC version, having already expressed amazement at the unexpectedly high level of piracy.
"This ground-breaking game and franchise continue to establish new standards by which all other action games will be judged," said Activision senior VP Will Kassoy. "Consumer and critics agree that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the best games ever created and further establishes Call of Duty as one of the premier brands in the industry."
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Also, I'm ready to pay for DLC maps. Where are they?
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Just another example of how real modern wars should be fought on the gaming field.
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More maps plz.
I guess it's just me, but I heard the single player campaign was only 5 hours long. Meh. I've played so much deathmatch/ctf/kill the other guy game modes that I just don't care about multiplayer in an FPS game, unless it's something absolutely exceptional like TF2. Again, meh.
But after a while, I figured what the hell, and rented it. The single player game was absolutely atrocious. Endless enemy spawns? Didn't they stop doing that in the 90s? Enemies that always know where you are, even if they can't see you? Grenades falling on your head from impossible angles? No cover system? Can't even lean out from behind corners? Horrible autosave system, too. I played this game on the hardest difficulty level because the SP campaign was so short. Hardest difficulty level should mean more challenging tactically, strategically. This game was neither ... this game's single player campaign was, dare I say it? Annoying. Meh.
So yeah I suppose if all you wanted was to play multiplayer I guess it's a good buy, but if I'd purchased this game I would have felt ripped off. I can't believe it sold as many copies as it did.
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What about on the 360 alone?
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Holy. Fucking. Shit.
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