118 Fun Facts About Call of Duty

Which company has published every Call of Duty game since the series began in 2003?

The franchise has sold more than 500 million copies and passed $30 billion in revenue by 2022.

The original 2003 Call of Duty was set during which war?

The 2003 original was set in World War II, following American, British and Soviet soldiers on a modified id Tech 3 engine with squad-based combat.

Which studio developed the first Call of Duty and later created Modern Warfare?

Its 22 founding staff had all worked on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault at a studio called 2015.

Which famous flashback mission sends a young Lieutenant Price sneaking through Pripyat as a sniper?

All Ghillied Up is set 15 years before the game's main story: Price and Captain MacMillan creep through the abandoned city, at one point lying flat in the grass while a whole platoon walks past.

Warzone, released in March 2020, is which type of game?

Warzone is a free-to-play battle royale that drops 150 players onto one map; its twist on the genre is cash, looted during the match and spent at Buy Stations on gear and custom loadouts.

The cooperative Zombies mode made its debut in which game?

Zombies debuted in World at War (2008) as the unlockable Nazi Zombies bonus mode and has returned in every Treyarch entry since.

Which Modern Warfare 2 mission caused an outcry for letting players take part in an airport massacre?

'No Russian' has the player walk with Makarov's gunmen as they massacre civilians at a Moscow airport; the game warns of disturbing content and lets players skip the mission without penalty.

Which actor took over as the voice of Captain Price in the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot?

Barry Sloane both voices and motion-captures Captain Price in the reboot series; Billy Murray had voiced the character throughout the original Modern Warfare trilogy.

Which SAS recruit joins Captain Price's team as a sergeant in Call of Duty 4?

John 'Soap' MacTavish starts Call of Duty 4 as the SAS squad's newest recruit, mocked by Price for his nickname; by Modern Warfare 2 he is the captain giving the orders.

Who is the Ultranationalist leader that Price hunts in Call of Duty 4?

Imran Zakhaev leads the Ultranationalists in Call of Duty 4, having built his movement on nuclear-material profits after Chernobyl and the Soviet collapse.

What multinational special forces unit does Soap command in Modern Warfare 2?

Task Force 141 is the multinational unit Captain Soap MacTavish leads in the field; after its own commanding general turns on it, the survivors are officially disavowed going into Modern Warfare 3.

Black Ops (2010) follows CIA operative Alex Mason as he tries to locate what?

Mason hunts a Soviet numbers station whose broadcast would trigger sleeper agents to release the nerve agent Nova 6 across the United States.

Which Hollywood actor voices Viktor Reznov in World at War and Black Ops?

Gary Oldman voices Viktor Reznov, who stays behind so Mason can escape the Vorkuta labour camp yet keeps turning up at his side; those later sightings prove to be hallucinations.

Which US president orders Mason to assassinate Dragovich in Black Ops?

John F. Kennedy personally orders Mason to kill Dragovich in a Pentagon briefing, while a brainwashed Mason sees visions of shooting the president.

Which 1960s band saw its record sales jump after its songs featured in the first Black Ops and its launch ad?

The Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter' drove the launch ad, and its weekly sales climbed from about 2,000 to nearly 11,000 by the game's release; 'Sympathy for the Devil' plays during the campaign.

Which small Black Ops multiplayer map has two brightly painted houses filled with mannequins?

Nuketown copies the mock suburbs the United States built in the 1950s to see what an atomic blast would do to houses and the mannequins inside; fittingly, a bomb levels the map when each match ends.

Black Ops II's future storyline pits the United States against which country in a second Cold War?

China squares off with the United States in the game's 2025 chapters after a cyberattack cripples its stock exchange and it answers by banning exports of rare earth elements.

Who is the arms-dealing main villain of Black Ops II?

Raul Menendez, a Nicaraguan arms dealer and later a terrorist, blames America for the death of his sister Josefina; in 2025 he hijacks the US drone fleet and turns it on its own cities.

Which comedy actor played 'The n00b' opposite Sam Worthington in Modern Warfare 3's live-action trailer?

Jonah Hill played The n00b to Sam Worthington's Vet, with NBA star Dwight Howard appearing as himself; Worthington already had a part in the series, having voiced the hero of Black Ops a year earlier.

Which dog can players control during the Call of Duty: Ghosts campaign?

A German Shepherd named Riley is a full member of the squad: he sniffs out explosives, attacks on command, and at certain points the player takes direct control of him.

Which actor plays Atlas boss Jonathan Irons in Advanced Warfare?

Kevin Spacey plays Jonathan Irons, who gives the hero a job after his own son dies fighting beside him in Seoul, and who is later unmasked as the story's villain.

Advanced Warfare's signature new movement came from what piece of equipment?

An exoskeleton powers the game's Exo moves: a boosted double jump, a mid-air dodge in any direction, and a slam back to earth that can kill anyone caught underneath.

In Black Ops III's 2065 setting, what kind of upgrade turns the player into a super-soldier?

Cybernetics rebuild the player after a combat robot leaves them critically wounded in the opening mission, including a direct neural interface that links soldiers to robots and networked weapons.

Which Game of Thrones actor plays villain Salen Kotch in Infinite Warfare?

Kit Harington plays Admiral Salen Kotch, leader of the Settlement Defense Front; the 2016 reveal trailer drew so many dislikes that it became YouTube's second-most-disliked video at the time, behind only Justin Bieber's 'Baby'.

Infinite Warfare's campaign takes the fight to which new setting?

Infinite Warfare takes the fight into outer space: players fly the transforming Jackal fighter to planets, moons and asteroids across the Solar System.

Special editions of Infinite Warfare bundled a remaster of which earlier game?

Call of Duty 4 returned as Modern Warfare Remastered, sold at first only inside Infinite Warfare's special editions; a standalone release did not follow until mid-2017.

Call of Duty: WWII follows a squad in which US Army division?

The 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed the Big Red One, is Private 'Red' Daniels's unit; in a throwback, the campaign drops regenerating health, so players lean on a squad medic for health packs.

Which was the first mainline Call of Duty to ship without a single-player campaign?

Black Ops 4 (2018) was the first main entry with no story campaign; a planned two-versus-two campaign was reportedly cancelled during development, leaving multiplayer and Zombies to carry the game.

What was the 100-player last-squad-standing mode in Treyarch's 2018 Call of Duty called?

Blackout drops 100 players onto what was then the largest map in the series, stitched together from locations of earlier Black Ops games.

Modern Warfare (2019) was the first Call of Duty game to support what?

Cross-platform play arrived with Modern Warfare (2019), linking PlayStation, Xbox and PC; to keep those players together, the game also dropped the paid season pass and released new maps to everyone at once.

The 2019 Modern Warfare campaign is set largely in which fictional country?

Urzikstan is the fictional country where Farah Karim's rebels team up with CIA officer Alex and Captain Price's SAS to hunt a stolen shipment of chlorine gas.

Black Ops Cold War, set in 1981, has CIA agent Russell Adler hunting which Soviet spy?

Perseus is the Soviet agent Adler's team chases across 1981; by the end the name proves to belong to a whole ring of spies, not just one man.

Which studio developed Vanguard, Advanced Warfare and WWII?

Sledgehammer was founded to make a third-person Call of Duty spin-off, but shelved it to help finish Modern Warfare 3 after that game's own studio lost about half its staff.

Which Call of Duty was, by press reports, first planned as an expansion?

Modern Warfare III was, by Bloomberg's reporting, conceived as an expansion to Modern Warfare II, with its campaign built in about 16 months; its studio head insists it was planned as a full game from the start.

Black Ops 6 is set during which real-world conflict?

The Gulf War of 1991 frames Black Ops 6: Woods and Marshall go rogue to hunt Pantheon, a paramilitary group hidden inside the CIA, and one mission unfolds beneath a Bill Clinton campaign event.

Which This Is Us star plays squad leader David Mason in Black Ops 7?

Milo Ventimiglia plays David Mason, kidnapped as a boy in Black Ops II's 1980s chapters and, by the sequel's 2035, leading a squad of his own; Michael Rooker returns as his teammate Harper.

Call of Duty: Mobile was developed by TiMi Studio Group, a division of which company?

Tencent owns TiMi, and its Call of Duty: Mobile folds maps, weapons and characters from across the earlier games into one free-to-play app.

The Call of Duty League launched in 2020 with city-based franchises, a model taken from which other esports league?

The Overwatch League supplied the template, since Activision Blizzard ran both; the Call of Duty League's twelve city teams each reportedly paid around $25 million to join.

Which two studio founders were fired in 2010 and went on to start Respawn Entertainment?

Jason West and Vince Zampella, heads of the studio behind Modern Warfare 2, were fired by Activision in March 2010 and went on to found Respawn Entertainment, maker of Titanfall and Apex Legends.

Before it worked on Call of Duty, Treyarch made two movie tie-in games starring which superhero?

Spider-Man was Treyarch's hero: for Activision it made the 2002 film's tie-in game and its open-world 2004 sequel, then joined Call of Duty with 2005's Big Red One.

Call of Duty 3 was notable as the first mainline entry not developed by which studio?

It was also the first not released on PC, and a launch title for the PlayStation 3 and Wii.

Call of Duty 2 was a launch title for which console in November 2005?

Xbox 360 buyers made Call of Duty 2 the console's most popular launch game: 77% of the people who bought the machine also took home a copy.

World at War's campaign covers the Eastern Front and which other theatre?

The Pacific campaign opens with Private Miller a prisoner on Makin Island, forced to watch his squad executed before Marine Raiders burst in and rescue him.

Which 24 star voices Corporal Roebuck in World at War?

Kiefer Sutherland voices Roebuck, who takes over the squad when Sergeant Sullivan is killed; in the Marines' last mission the player can save only him or Private Polonsky.

What weapon do players start with in the original Zombies mode?

The M1911 pistol is all a player starts with; points earned from kills then buy better guns from chalk outlines on the walls, or a gamble on the mystery box.

In Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, which 25-kill streak reward ends the match with an instant win?

The Tactical Nuke took 25 kills without dying to earn; setting it off wiped out every player on the map and handed the user's team the win, whatever the score.

Which studio struck a 2025 deal to make a live-action Call of Duty feature film?

Paramount Pictures signed the deal in September 2025; a decade earlier Activision had set up its own film studio to build a Call of Duty cinematic universe, a plan that was on hold by 2020.

The Call of Duty Endowment, a charity started in 2009, helps whom?

Military veterans seeking jobs are its whole mission: it funds the charities that place them in work, passed 100,000 placements in 2022, and raises money through in-game packs.

Which create-a-class system did Black Ops II introduce, giving every loadout a fixed budget of slots?

Pick 10 gave each class ten slots to spend however the player liked, so a soldier could give up grenades or a perk to pile extra attachments onto one gun.

Which map was the very first in Call of Duty's Zombies mode, unlocked by finishing a campaign?

Nacht der Untoten ('Night of the Undead') began as a bonus, unlocked once World at War's campaign was finished; a small team's side project, the mode grew into a mainstay of the series.

Which World at War map introduced Zombies characters Dempsey, Nikolai, Richtofen and Takeo?

Shi No Numa, the 'Swamp of Death', gave Zombies its first named heroes; before it, players were anonymous Marines, and the four went on to anchor the mode's long-running story.

Which World at War DLC map first had a power generator to switch on and Perk-a-Cola machines?

'Verrückt' means 'crazy', fitting for a map set in an asylum whose two halves are separated until the power is on.

Which of these Zombies maps shipped in the base version of the original Black Ops alongside 'Five'?

'Kino der Toten' means 'Cinema of the Dead'; the third base offering, Dead Ops Arcade, was a twin-stick shooter unlocked via a hidden terminal.

Which horror director appears as a zombie boss in the Black Ops map 'Call of the Dead'?

George A. Romero becomes a zombie himself while shooting a film at the outpost, leaving its stars, Danny Trejo, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund and Michael Rooker, to fight him as themselves.

Players on the Black Ops Zombies map Moon begin the match at which real-world site before teleporting away?

Area 51 is where the crew starts, before a teleporter carries them to a lunar base; there Richtofen seizes control of the zombies, and the others answer by firing rockets that shatter the Earth.

Which metal band recorded original songs for the Black Ops games and plays a concert in Black Ops II's credits?

Avenged Sevenfold wrote 'Not Ready to Die' for the map Call of the Dead; in Black Ops II's non-canon credits scene the villain and a hero join the band on stage for 'Carry On'.

Which Black Ops II Zombies mode let players become the zombies and hunt a lone human?

Turned flips the usual roles: one player is the last human and three are zombies, and whichever zombie makes the kill takes the human's place.

Black Ops 4 split Zombies into two storylines: the Aether story and which other?

Chaos was the new storyline, sending Scarlett Rhodes and her crew into a Roman gladiator arena and aboard the Titanic, while the long-running Aether saga reached its end in the same game.

Which Black Ops Cold War Zombies map is set in 1980s East Berlin?

Mauer der Toten, German for 'Wall of the Dead', is set in February 1985, when an outbreak orchestrated by Aleksandra Valentina overruns East Berlin; the title nods to the Berlin Wall.

Which composer wrote most of the hidden Easter-egg songs in Treyarch's Zombies maps?

Kevin Sherwood wrote the secret songs, most often sung by Elena Siegman; each one plays only after players track down a map's hidden objects or finish a quest.

In Black Ops 6 Zombies, which currency is spent on Pack-a-Punch upgrades and Perk-a-Cola cans?

Essence, earned from kills, pays for Pack-a-Punch upgrades and Perk-a-Cola cans; Salvage, the second currency, is spent at the Crafting Table and the Arsenal on equipment and ammo mods.

The cancelled spin-off Call of Duty: Roman Wars would have followed the legions of which general?

Julius Caesar and his Tenth Legion were the planned stars: Vicarious Visions built a prototype around 2008, but Activision was wary of putting the Call of Duty name on ancient Rome and dropped it.

Which studio, the original makers of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, built a cancelled futuristic Call of Duty codenamed NX1?

Neversoft had finished two or three campaign missions and much of the multiplayer when NX1 was scrapped; it went on to make the alien-hunting Extinction mode for Ghosts, and footage of the lost game leaked in 2024.

Which Modern Warfare 2 character's backstory was told in a WildStorm comic mini-series in 2009?

Simon 'Ghost' Riley got Modern Warfare 2: Ghost, a six-issue series set before the game that traces his skull mask to a mission against a Mexican drug lord that ends in betrayal and torture.

A federal judge ruled in 2020 that Call of Duty could show which real military vehicle without its maker's licence?

The Humvee's maker, AM General, sued in 2017 over the vehicle's appearances in the games; the judge threw the case out, finding that showing it served military realism rather than trading on the brand.

In October 2025, which director was attached to the live-action Call of Duty film, with Taylor Sheridan co-writing?

Peter Berg signed on to direct in October 2025 with Taylor Sheridan co-writing and co-producing; an earlier version with Stefano Sollima attached had been shelved in 2020.

Which game introduced Specialists with unique abilities to Call of Duty multiplayer?

Black Ops III (2015) introduced nine Specialists such as Ruin and Outrider; before each match a player picks one, taking either that character's signature weapon or their special ability.

Raven Software's cancelled free-to-play Zombies game of 2012–13 drew inspiration from which film series?

Raven dropped it once Treyarch returned to making Black Ops Zombies, to avoid internal competition.

Which film composer wrote the main theme of Modern Warfare 2, with Lorne Balfe scoring the rest?

Hans Zimmer was not the game's only star hire: rapper 50 Cent voiced a squad member in its Special Ops and multiplayer modes.

The founders of the first Call of Duty studio had just made a hit entry in which rival series?

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault was their 2002 hit for Electronic Arts, and the new project was nicknamed the "Medal of Honor Killer" while it was in development.

Black Ops opens in 1961 with CIA operative Alex Mason on a mission to assassinate which leader?

Fidel Castro survives because Mason shoots a body double, and the real one hands his would-be killer over to a Soviet general.

Which UFC fighter has a cameo in Infinite Warfare as Bradley Fillion, an enemy fleet captain?

Conor McGregor shares the cameo list with Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, who plays a technical officer aboard the player's own warship.

Where do eliminated Call of Duty: Warzone players fight one-on-one for a chance to rejoin the match?

The Gulag hands both fighters the same weapons, and a player only gets the trip after their first death in a match.

Which company announced a $68.7 billion deal in 2022 to buy the publisher of Call of Duty?

Microsoft closed the purchase in October 2023, after promising regulators ten-year deals to keep Call of Duty on rival consoles.

Which rapper and actor voices Joseph Bowman, a CIA teammate of Alex Mason, in Black Ops?

Ice Cube is also the multiplayer announcer for the SOG faction, so players hear him well beyond the campaign.

Which fictional location was the first Call of Duty: Warzone map, later rebuilt as a 1984 version?

Verdansk hosted Warzone from its March 2020 launch; the 1984 version arrived in April 2021, after the modern-day map was destroyed in-game.

Which Call of Duty mode lets a max-level player reset their rank in exchange for a new insignia?

Prestige mode debuted on the console versions of the first Modern Warfare, where the reset could be repeated up to ten times.

Which US president appears in Black Ops Cold War to authorise a covert hunt for a spy?

Ronald Reagan, voiced by Jeff Bergman, signs off on the black operation himself, one of several real Cold War leaders written into the series.

Which mode, new in Modern Warfare 3, scores only when a player collects a fallen enemy's dog tags?

Kill Confirmed lets teammates deny the score too, by grabbing a fallen ally's tags before the enemy reaches them.

Which feature, now standard across the genre, did Call of Duty 2 introduce alongside a grenade warning icon?

Regenerating health replaced the health bar of the 2003 original, and reviewers at GameSpot and GamePro called it an improvement.

Which main villain of the original Modern Warfare trilogy is finally killed by Captain Price in Dubai?

Vladimir Makarov is cornered in a Dubai hotel at the end of Modern Warfare 3, and a victorious Price lights a cigar as first responders arrive.

Which Australian actor voices CIA operative Alex Mason, the lead character of the original Black Ops?

Sam Worthington leads a starry voice cast: Ed Harris plays Mason's CIA handler, Hudson.

Which four-player co-op mode in Call of Duty: Ghosts pits a squad against aliens known as Cryptids?

Extinction was the game's spiritual successor to Zombies, played as base defence on survival-style maps with story intel hidden for squads to find.

Which Transformers actor plays the abrasive Technical Sergeant William Pierson in Call of Duty: WWII?

Josh Duhamel's hard-drinking Pierson carries a demotion from the Battle of Kasserine Pass, where men under his command died.

Warzone's Rebirth Island reimagines an earlier Call of Duty map named after which real island prison?

Alcatraz was already a map in an earlier Call of Duty, and the smaller Warzone remake holds only 40 players a match.

Which weathered piece of headgear did designers give Captain Price for the first Modern Warfare?

Boonie hat: the team deformed its brim to cast a shadow over his eyes, giving Price a thousand-yard stare.

Typing a short code into the main-menu terminal of Black Ops unlocks which hidden co-op mode?

Dead Ops Arcade opens when a player types its initials at the data terminal, and up to four people can play it together online or in split screen.

Which virtual currency, introduced in Black Ops, lets players buy weapons, attachments and cosmetic items?

COD Points could also be gambled away: the Wager Match playlist staked them across four free-for-all modes.

Call of Duty 2's American campaign opens with US Rangers assaulting which D-Day objective?

Pointe du Hoc housed a German artillery battery, which the player's 2nd Ranger Battalion must destroy and then hold against a counter-offensive.

Which 2004 spin-off was the first Call of Duty game made for consoles, a year after the PC original?

Finest Hour also has a rock cameo: AC/DC singer Brian Johnson voices Sergeant Starkey, one of its British commandos.

Alex Mason and Viktor Reznov spark an uprising to break out of which Soviet prison camp in Black Ops?

Vorkuta was a real labour camp built around coal mining, and the game's breakout echoes a strike by its inmates in 1953.

Which chemical weapon, created by ex-Nazi scientist Friedrich Steiner, is at the centre of the Black Ops plot?

Nova 6 is recovered from a Nazi outpost on Baffin Island in 1945, where Reznov watches it kill his comrade Dimitri Petrenko.

In Call of Duty: Ghosts, the Federation hijacks which American orbital weapon to wreck southwestern cities?

ODIN is short for Orbital Defense Initiative, a satellite network built for kinetic bombardment; the Walker family barely escapes its strike on San Diego.

The engine behind the 2003 original Call of Duty, later heavily modified, was first built for which game?

Quake III Arena's id Tech 3 engine was paired with an in-house animation system called Ares to stage bigger squad battles.

Which future Oscar-winning film composer wrote the music for the 2003 original Call of Duty?

Michael Giacchino's score first reached listeners as a soundtrack sampler CD, handed out with European pre-orders of the game.

On its release day, Black Ops 6 was made available to subscribers of which gaming service?

Game Pass also unlocked early access to the multiplayer beta, a perk otherwise kept for players who pre-ordered.

Call of Duty 3 puts players in American, British and Canadian boots, and in a tank crew from which nation?

Poland's 1st Armored Division supplies the crew: players drive a Sherman Firefly, hunt a King Tiger ace called the Black Baron, then defend Hill 262.

Which mode, new in Modern Warfare (2019), pits two teams of two against each other in forty-second rounds?

Gunfight later earned its own theme music in Modern Warfare II, co-written by pop producer Finneas O'Connell.

Which assault rifle, offered with a gold finish in multiplayer, do most enemies carry in the first Modern Warfare?

The AK-47 is carried even by the game's Russian soldiers, whose real counterparts had long since moved on to the AK-74.

Which word does Modern Warfare 2 use for its new ability to dual-wield pistols, machine pistols and some shotguns?

Akimbo originally had nothing to do with guns; in the game each weapon fires independently and draws on its own magazine pool.

Which under-barrel attachment for assault rifles did Modern Warfare players mockingly nickname the noob tube?

Grenade launcher rounds killed instantly with a direct hit or a nearby blast, which is how the attachment earned its derogatory nickname.

Which weapon-customisation system, seen in Modern Warfare (2019), lets players fit barrels, foregrips and optics?

Gunsmith carried over into Black Ops Cold War and Vanguard, and Modern Warfare II reworked it so that individual attachments could be fine-tuned.

Which American service rifle in Call of Duty 2 holds eight rounds and cannot be reloaded until it is empty?

M1 Garand ammunition loads as a single eight-round clip, so the game makes players fire off the rest first; in multiplayer British troops carry the rifle too.

In the first Modern Warfare mission One Shot, One Kill, which heavy sniper rifle does Lieutenant Price fire?

The Barrett M82 appears only once in the campaign, fixed in place for that shot with a variable zoom; multiplayer lists the gun as the Barrett .50cal.

Which integrally suppressed rifle is the standard weapon of the Ghost unit in Call of Duty: Ghosts?

Honey Badger rifles need no suppressor attachment, and the gun was one of the first weapons shown in previews of the game.

Which Modern Warfare 2 sniper rifle, a Cheyenne Tactical design, became a staple of quick-scoping montage videos?

Intervention is the only bolt-action sniper rifle players can use in the game, and its fame brought it back in later Call of Duty titles.

Which anti-tank missile system in the first Modern Warfare needs a lock-on and strikes tanks from above?

Javelin missiles climb almost vertically before diving, and players turn them on enemy armour in the missions War Pig and Heat.

What name does Black Ops give its handheld minigun, a killstreak reward and a 30-second Zombies power-up?

Death Machine is a handheld M134 Minigun, and as a Zombies power-up it comes with unlimited ammunition before vanishing.

Which lever-action shotgun in Modern Warfare 2 copies the one Arnold Schwarzenegger carries in Terminator 2?

The Model 1887 could be dual-wielded and flip-cocked just like the film's, a pairing so strong that a patch had to cut its range.

Which powerful pistol comes in a gold finish for reaching level 55 in the first Modern Warfare's multiplayer?

Desert Eagle shots hit hardest of any pistol in the game but kick fiercely, with only seven rounds a magazine; other gold guns took challenges to earn.

Which submachine gun appears in Call of Duty 2 with a 71-round drum magazine and a blistering rate of fire?

The PPSh-41 is the standard Soviet submachine gun in the game, and that capacity made it a favourite on multiplayer servers.

In Black Ops multiplayer, the special secondary weapon slot holds either a crossbow or which other weapon?

Ballistic knife blades can be fired at range or used to stab, and the weapon shares its special secondary slot with the crossbow.

In Black Ops, Frank Woods hands Alex Mason which shotgun loaded with incendiary Dragon's Breath rounds?

SPAS-12 production only began in 1979, so the shotgun is out of place in a mission set in 1968.

Which British service rifle in Call of Duty 2 holds ten rounds, double the capacity of the German Kar98k?

Lee-Enfield reloads use two five-round stripper clips, as on the real rifle, so a half-full magazine cannot always be topped up.

Which revolver, Alex Mason's sidearm in several Black Ops missions, is the gun used in the Russian roulette scene?

Python is the game's name for the Colt Python, and Viet Cong captors force Mason and Woods to play the deadly game with a snub-nosed one.

Which 1940s German rifle appears in the first Modern Warfare's multiplayer as a nod to earlier Call of Duty games?

MP44 is the game's label for the Sturmgewehr 44, which reuses the Call of Duty 2 model and cannot take any of the other rifles' attachments.

Which American-made shotgun in Modern Warfare 2 feeds from an eight-round box magazine, or 16 with Extended Mags?

AA-12 fire in the campaign runs at an absurd 650 to 700 rounds a minute, toned down to about 400 for multiplayer.

Which Black Ops assault rifle fires rapid bursts with almost no recoil and is carried by Dr Daniel Clarke?

G11 prototypes were not working until the early 1970s, and the version shown dates from 1989, two decades after the mission is set.