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Games like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10 games similar to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a Simulator, Shooter game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
01Shares ShooterBoth games are first-person shooters built around military campaigns with multiple playable soldiers and perspectives. Call of Duty 2 precedes Modern Warfare with its own multi-character structure across distinct theaters, establishing the formula that Modern Warfare refines with its interlaced narrative. Both feature artificial intelligence-driven combat, destructible buildings, and multiplayer modes anchored by bomb defusal and deathmatch gameplay.
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02Shares ShooterBlack Ops maintains Modern Warfare's first-person shooter foundation with the same 60 fps console performance, auto-aim, and multiplayer modes including bomb defusal. Both games weave together campaigns told from multiple perspectives, though Black Ops shifts to Cold War espionage with flashback storytelling centered on CIA operative Alex Mason. The stealth and action-warfare gameplay remains consistent across both titles.
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03Shares ShooterModern Warfare 3 continues the first-person military campaign structure of Modern Warfare 4, following soldiers across multiple perspectives as they fight terrorism and geopolitical threats. Both games emphasize aggressive close-quarters combat with door-breaching mechanics, feature British accents and international settings, and deliver 60 fps console performance. The series' signature multiplayer modes and cooperative play return intact.
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04Shares ShooterWorld at War mirrors Modern Warfare's dual-perspective campaign structure, splitting the story between a U.S. Marine and an allied soldier fighting toward a shared objective across multiple theaters. Both games emphasize stealth and warfare through first-person combat, feature achievements and anti-cheat systems, and carry over Modern Warfare's multiplayer foundation with killstreaks and perks alongside competitive modes like bomb defusal.
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05Shares ShooterCall of Duty shares the first-person shooter foundation and campaign structure of Modern Warfare, splitting its single-player story across multiple military perspectives, including a British SAS soldier. Both games emphasize squad-based combat with AI allies, feature bomb defusal modes in multiplayer, and earned BAFTA recognition. The original establishes the series' formula of authentic weaponry and tactical action across distinct theaters of war.
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06Shares ShooterBattlefield 3 shares Call of Duty 4's first-person military shooter structure, putting you in the boots of elite soldiers across globe-spanning campaigns with aggressive close-quarters combat and stealth sections. Both games emphasize destructible environments and checkpoint-based progression through warfare scenarios. Multiplayer modes in each reward tactical teamwork alongside individual achievement hunting, grounding the action in modern military authenticity.
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07Shares ShooterCall of Duty: Ghosts continues Modern Warfare's formula of first-person military action with stealth and warfare themes across single-player and multiplayer modes. Both run at 60 fps on consoles and feature artificial intelligence, auto-saving, and destructible environments. Ghosts escalates the scale with a near-future setting and introduces cooperative alien-fighting modes, expanding on the tactical squad gameplay Modern Warfare established.
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08Shares ShooterBoth games deliver first-person action centered on warfare against organized enemies, with stealth and cover mechanics woven into combat. Wolfenstein: The New Order shares Call of Duty 4's focus on a single protagonist fighting through a linear campaign, though it trades modern terrorism for alternate-history Nazis. The cover system and lean mechanics give tactical depth similar to Modern Warfare's aggressive approach to level design.
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09Shares ShooterBoth games center on first-person tactical warfare with bomb defusal as a core mode. Counter-Strike strips away Modern Warfare's cinematic campaign to focus purely on competitive multiplayer rounds where teams clash over objectives. Where Modern Warfare layers stealth and air strikes into its missions, Counter-Strike emphasizes economy management and map control, but shares the same focus on precise gunplay and coordinated team tactics.
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10Shares ShooterBoth games pit modern military forces against each other in first-person combat across large-scale warfare scenarios. Battlefield 2 shares Call of Duty 4's focus on contemporary weaponry and tactical gameplay, with anti-cheat systems protecting ranked progression in both titles. Where Call of Duty 4 emphasizes narrative-driven single-player missions, Battlefield 2 channels its warfare theme into massive multiplayer battles with class-based squad mechanics and vehicle combat.
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Most of these games share Warfare, Action, Shooter and Stealth with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.