Game Engine

The Game Engine is what controls many aspects of the game such as physics and graphics.

id Tech 3 EngineEdit

The id Tech 3 Engine is the first engine used by the series. Both the IW Engine and Treyarch NGL are based on it.

• Call of Duty (2003)
• Call of Duty: United Offensive (2004)
• Call of Duty: Classic (2009)

IW EngineEdit

The IW Engine is the game engine powering most of the Call of Duty series.

It is used by many games, including:

• Call of Duty 2 (2005) - IW 2.0
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) IW 3.0
• Call of Duty: World at War (2008) - IW 3.0 (Modified)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) - IW 4.0
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) - IW 3.0 (Heavily Modified)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) - MW3 engine (Modified IW 4.0, unofficially IW 5.0)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012) - Black Ops II engine (Heavily Modified IW 3.0)
• Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013) - IW 6.0 (Updated MW3 engine)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015) - Black Ops III engine (heavily modified Black Ops II engine)
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016) - IW 7.0 (Modified IW 6.0 engine)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018) - Black Ops 4 engine (heavily modified Black Ops III engine)

Treyarch NGLEdit

The Treyarch NGL engine was only used in two games before it was replaced by IW 3.0.

• Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005)
• Call of Duty 3 (2006)

Asura EngineEdit

The Asura Engine is the engine used by THQ for only one game.

• Call of Duty: World At War: Final Fronts (2008)

Unity EngineEdit

• Call of Duty: Heroes (2014)
• Call of Duty: Mobile (2019)

In-house engineEdit

• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare^[1] (2014), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (2016) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (2020) run on the same custom in-house engine developed by Sledgehammer Games.
• Call of Duty: WWII (2017) runs on a modified version of the engine used in Advanced Warfare.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) runs on a custom in-house engine built by Infinity Ward LA and Infinity Ward Poland, with assistance from NVIDIA.

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