Call of Duty (released on October 19, 2003) is a first-person shooter video game based on the Quake III engine. This war game simulates the infantry and combined arms warfare of World War II. The game was produced by Activision and developed by Infinity Ward.
In September 2004 an expansion pack to Call of Duty was released titled Call of Duty: United Offensive. It was produced by Activision, and developed by Gray Matter Interactive, with contributions from Pi Studios. The Apple Macintosh version was ported by Aspyr Media, Inc. In Late 2004, the N-Gage version was developed by Nokia and published by Activision. Other versions were released for PC, including Collector's Edition (with soundtrack and strategy guide), Game of the Year Edition (includes game updates), and the Deluxe Edition (which contains United Offensive expansion and soundtrack).
A sequel, Call of Duty 2, was developed by Infinity Ward and was released in October 2005. There are also Call of Duty games developed for consoles, but with separate storylines, such as Call of Duty: Finest Hour by Spark Unlimited and Call of Duty 2: Big Red One by Gray Matter Interactive and Treyarch.
The next game from the series is entitled Call of Duty 3 and it will be released
Fall 2006.
