Call of Duty (2003) Retrospective

Listen up, recruits—2003, Infinity Ward deploys Call of Duty onto PC.

No console air support, just raw boots-on-the-ground action. You rotate through

American paratrooper, British SAS, Soviet grunt. Same WWII objectives, different accents yelling

in your ear. Campaign combat felt less like a one-man army more like you’re

just another expendable rifle in the killzone. Actual medkits scattered across the AO—regenerative

health hadn’t been invented. You get shot, patch yourself up with a Band-Aid

from a trench. Tactical realism, they called it. Multiplayer? Thirty-two operators max,

screaming down open mics on Search and Destroy like special ops comms. No perks,