<Tr> <Th> Mode (s) </Th> <Td> Single - player, multiplayer </Td> </Tr> <P> Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first - person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision . An installment in the Call of Duty series, it was released in November 2007 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows . The game breaks away from the World War II setting of previous entries in the series and is instead set in modern times . Developed for over two years, the game uses a proprietary game engine . </P> <P> The story takes place in the year 2011, where a radical leader has executed the president of an unnamed country in the Middle East, and an ultranationalist movement ignites a civil war in Russia . The conflicts are seen from the perspectives of a U.S. Force Reconnaissance Marine and a British SAS commando, and are set in various locales, such as the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine . The multiplayer portion of the game features various game modes, and contains a leveling system that allows the player to unlock additional weapons, weapon attachments, and camouflage schemes as they advance . </P> <P> The game received universal acclaim from critics, with the gameplay and story receiving particular praise, while criticism targeted the failure of the game to substantially innovate the first - person shooter genre . The game won numerous awards from gaming websites, including IGN's Best Xbox 360 Game . It was the top - selling game worldwide for 2007, selling around seven million copies by January 2008 and almost sixteen million by November 2013 . It was followed by two sequels that continue the storyline: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 . A remastered version of the game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, was released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC alongside special editions of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in November 2016 . A standalone version was released in June 2017 . </P>

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