Call of Duty 4 multiplayer boasts 'monstrously huge' numbers

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Mar 31st 2008 4:00PM

When Infinity Ward producer, Mark Rubin, told Eurogamer that the number of online users for the PS3 version of Call of Duty 4 was "monstrously huge," we can only assume he was referring to a beast of significant size and infinite terror -- which pretty much rules out those Pokemon things. Indeed, the multiplayer monster appears to be of the house-trampling, child-eating variety, with Rubin having declared, "No other game has come close, either online current, or total unique users in a day."

The battle between Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 for Xbox Live supremacy was also mentioned, with the former shooter's "between 1.2 and 1.3 million users every day" trumping Bungie's slightly more spartan servers. As for the percentage of total game owners (over seven million at last count) that have taken their tactics online, Rubin describes the number as "startling." Who knew statistics could be so scary?

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Tags: Bungie, call-of-duty, call-of-duty-4, COD4, FPS, Halo-3, Halo3, Infinity-Ward, InfinityWard, PC, PS3, PSN, Xbox-360, Xbox-Live, XboxLive

Reader Comments (53)

I'm with Frank. Online shooters are really all the same, other than the scenery the core gameplay never changes. Run around, shoot people, capture a flag, repeat.

I bought CoD4 and was appalled as to how short the single player game is. After 13 hours of online gameplay I am at Level 37 and really am just playing to justify spending $55 on the game. I really think a lot of the multiplayer maps are poorly designed and there are a lot better levels in the single player game that could have made better multiplayer maps. Every time I play now I want to just skip every map until the three decent ones come up again. I really don't want to pay for extra maps either. As I see it there are quite a few levels in the game that could be added to multiplayer without needing a huge download to modify.

Thats your opinion, however, its feeble... COD4 is #1 online for a reason. I'm sure you and frank make up the minority. I for one enjoyed the story mode.. enough to beat it twice.. on Veteran. As for online, lol.. We don't even need to go there..

truthfully; i stopped playing call of duty last december... i always just found it to be to random and not requiring much skill... dont get me wrong its still a fun game; its just not competative enough for me.

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