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Call of Duty. The first one got a lot of great reviews and a good reception from the PC gaming community and professional critics and gamers and is now sold on Xbox Live I think and all the expansion packs and add-ons got good reviews and were quickly sold.
The second had multiplayer that is still being played by many PC gamers and there are probably still thousands of copies in circulation. This game also got great reviews and remains one of the highest rated Call of Duty games to this day.
The third one, produced by Treyarch, did not gross as much money but still got ample praise from multiple game critics and the players enjoyed it.
Modern Warfare was one of the biggest selling games on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, was a huge hit on PC, received some of the highest ratings from many critics, was loved by everyone who played it on every platform and its map-packs remains the in the top most downloaded add-ons on the consoles.
Call of Duty 5, once again produced by Treyarch was bought by many people on all major 3rd generation platforms, received good reviews and players enjoyed the minigames and campaign.
Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 then became the quickest and biggest selling game of all time, winning Infinity Ward, the developers, over a billion US dollars, the game got excellent reviews from various repetitious and profession game reviewers and critics - continuing to impress the large majority of the community, and then the two map packs released afterwards grossed a few millions dollars each.
You see why Call of Duty is the best selling series ever without debate? Yes, other series have sold a Hell of a lot, and quite a number of series (specifically first person/third person shooters) are better but considering Modern Warfare 2 was the best selling game ever, its map packs produced millions of US dollars, all games previously produced in the Call of Duty franchise were also massive hits, some of them completely revolutionising things, and all their map packs being hits there's not much argument left in this thread.
Yes agreed but Halo 3 as well as CoD MW2 managed to get in the Guinness Book Of Records for best selling games of the Decade!
I think CoD and Halo 3 are the best selling game series.
Have a look at the Xbox 360 best selling games list I found on Wiki.
The top selling Xbox 360 games.
-Halo 3 (8.1 million)
-Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (7.479 million approximately; 6.471 million in US,85,411 in Japan,at least 1 million in UK)
-Gears of War (5 million,may include PC version)
-Gears of War 2 (5 million)
-Grand Theft Auto IV (4.356 million approximately: 3.29 million in US,at least 1 million in UK,59.893 and 6.210 Platinum in Japan)
-Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (4.226 million approximately: 3.04 million in US, 78,000 in Canada, 54.742 and 53.722 Platinum Collection/The Best in Japan, at least 1 million in UK)[30]
-Call of Duty: World at War (3.35 million approximately: 2.75 million in US, 600,000 in UK)
-Halo 3: ODST (3 million)
-Forza Motorsport 2 (2.674 million approximately: 2.23 million in US, 31,255 and 100,500 Platinum Collection in Japan, 12,600 in Canada, 300,000 in UK)
-Fable II (2.6 million)
Most of them are CoD games . MW2 and Halo 3 got on the top.
MW2 and Halo 3 are the best selling games so I would say The CoD series and Halo Series are the best selling game series.
