CoD 4: Over 10 million served, 2.8% survive 'Airplane' on veteran

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jan 8th 2009 at 11:10AM }

Infinity Ward Community Manager ~~Robert Bowling~~ Fourzerotwo has released some player statisticalz from a little game called Call of Duty 4. The data, pulled on Jan. 3, reveals that 10 million unique users have played CoD 4 on Xbox 360 and connected to Live "at least once" after playing.

Going deeper down the fox hole (yes, it's called a mixed metaphor), Infinity Ward checked specific data on certain levels:

71.1%, or 7,111,508 people have completed F.N.G.

68.8%, or 6,886,509 people have completed Cargo Ship.

46.5%, or 5,654,643 people have beaten the game on any difficulty.

2.8%, or 283,632 people have completed Airplane on Veteran difficulty.

Comparatively, pulling the multiplayer numbers from PSN revealed 4,381,276 unique users. Now we just want to know how many tries it took that 2.8% to complete Airplane on Veteran.

Tags: call-of-duty-4, call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare, cod-4, fourzerotwo, xbox-live

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Deck @ Jan 8th 2009 11:19AM

Those are some really interesting statistics. Didn't even know they kept track of such things. Be nice if some other companies gave out statistics like that for some other games.

I never tried airplane on veteran..it was bad enough on regular.

Dirty @ Jan 8th 2009 11:30AM

Interesting side effect of cheevos.

Duke @ Jan 8th 2009 11:38AM

Oh it frustrated me right away on vet. I am not one of those 200k. :(

The Dark Wayne @ Jan 8th 2009 11:46AM

I am, but it cost me a couple of nights and a good deal of sanity

AwesomeTown @ Jan 8th 2009 11:53AM

Same here, Duke. After only a couple tries on the first level on veteran, I just got frustrated and moved on to another game.

Haggard @ Jan 8th 2009 12:14PM

Valve give out similar stats

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

click the game links at the bottom. This is PC version only, by the way.

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Jan 8th 2009 1:27PM

"I am, but it cost me a couple of nights and a good deal of sanity".

For me it was a controller and a unhealthy dose of Rage but I got it.

Funny that achievement was impossible the first time I try to get it but after getting Portal Rocket Science achievement it was totally easy.

john paul @ Jan 8th 2009 3:08PM

bungie did

amart @ Jan 8th 2009 11:21AM

Just wondering why your calling "Mile High Club" 'airplane'...
and it took me about 2 solid hours of trying over and over (30-50 seconds per try). And then another 20 mins to do it again on my friends account. (on veteran of course)

amart @ Jan 8th 2009 11:22AM

hmm maybe mile high club is just the achievement name, oh well :P

toastix @ Jan 8th 2009 11:24AM

The level is the Epilogue but you are right the achievement is Mile High Club. The last one I got in that game with the intel. Mile High Club was much more fun to get.

WiredKnight @ Jan 8th 2009 2:03PM

Surely you must be joking.

amart @ Jan 8th 2009 2:05PM

wired knight: who's joking?

DBuck_Eye @ Jan 8th 2009 3:40PM

That's a fail amart. You should have said: "I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirley."

amart @ Jan 8th 2009 3:42PM

lol my bad, I'll remember that next time.

toastix @ Jan 8th 2009 11:21AM

Took me a good hour to do it on veteran.

Readme @ Jan 8th 2009 11:45AM

I am proud to be a part of that 2.8%. I went through periods of deep frustration and despondency, sure that I would never complete it. Very difficult mission, indeed.

xeleion @ Jan 8th 2009 12:50PM

You're better than me. I still can't get past the end of that sniper mission on Veteran. I can't snipe fast enough or put down enough claymores to survive the onslaught. ~__~

toastix @ Jan 8th 2009 1:02PM

The trick to the sniper level is to go stand by their spawn point on the right side of the level so they cant spawn. The side with the doors with the intel in it; then you just need to stay alive and wait for the choppa!

Strategy_Panda (The Sandwich Poisoning Crew) @ Jan 8th 2009 2:10PM

I ended up hiding in the ticket booth thingy on the left. It protects you from bullets and most grenades.

The Sniper mission is probably the hardest to finish on vet. difficulty.

jxcgunrunna @ Jan 8th 2009 11:24AM

Love this game. Its better than WaW IMO. I cant wait for IW's next game.

Godstine @ Jan 8th 2009 11:26AM

Still trying to do that level on hard, damnit.
Also, only 46% have beaten the game? You'd think it'd be higher.

The Dark Wayne @ Jan 8th 2009 11:50AM

that's a big part of why games are getting shorter and shorter. People are getting lazier and lazier. I remember one podcast where I think Justin said he doubted that 20 percent of the people who played GTA IV beat it.

Kodros @ Jan 8th 2009 2:08PM

It has nothing to do with being lazy. Most of us probably started playing video games when we were in school and are now doing the family thing. A good chunk of the player base just doesn't have time to put in 20+ hours to beat a game.

Godstine @ Jan 8th 2009 2:26PM

I always figured it had more to do with the single player versus multiplayer people. While I don't have a lot of time myself (them papers don't write themselves), I still make a commitment to finish any and every game that I've decided to own. Also, except for Team Fortress 2, I've yet to buy games solely for the online component.

marauder800 @ Jan 8th 2009 3:23PM

NOT playing a video game is laziness? That's a new one on me. I'll update my dictionary.

I don't like single player shooters, so I didn't play the COD4 campaign, but I've completed W@W in co-op mode. The "laziness" of sitting on my ass, controller in hand, in front of a TV had nothing to do with it.

=Lord Negatron of the XBots= @ Jan 8th 2009 3:40PM

Im with Kodros on that note. After work i am beat, so it depends on my mood as to what to play. It might be a shooter, it might be an MMO on the PC, or a movie before bedtime.

*Also, i didn't beat GTA4 yet with no reason particular. I will, one day, if im not going out to a bar etc..

RichChap @ Jan 8th 2009 11:29AM

2.8% surviving on airplane on veteran is actually higher than I would have thought. that's about 1 out of every 35 people who own the game.

Dralthi @ Jan 8th 2009 11:33AM

Mile High Club was really hard. I kept trying on and off for about 2 months before I finally got it. I'm actually shocked that only 2.8% have beaten that.

The Dark Wayne @ Jan 8th 2009 11:51AM

I'm not, that shit is unbelievably hard, easily one of the hardest things ive ever done in a game

baby sea tuna @ Jan 8th 2009 11:36AM

Haha, I was literally just talking to one of my coworkers about this. It's one of the few Achievements I still haven't gotten on this game. The others were the scavenger-hunt bullshit.

The Dark Wayne @ Jan 8th 2009 11:53AM

those were surprisingly difficult, the one on the second "All ghilled up" mission was behind doors that would only open under real specific criteria, on a certain difficulty, at a certain time, if you're at a certain location, all kinds of BS

StarCasm, formerly known as Rastafario, formerly known as HB96st @ Jan 8th 2009 11:35AM

I can proudly say I'm one of that 200 thousand..

Gamertag: HUNCHBAK

I loved COD 2 and 4, with a 100% completion on both.

Infinity Ward is the Shit. Can't wait for 5.

xFenixKnightx (In Memory of Ben Carmine RIP) @ Jan 8th 2009 11:39AM

Nice, I got 100% completion on COD2, COD4 AND COD:WaW! Love these games.

Heart of Reich on Veteran (COD:WaW) is insanely difficult.

The Dark Wayne @ Jan 8th 2009 11:47AM

Uggh, awful memories. If the Germans had that many grenades in real life they would have won easily.

xFenixKnightx (In Memory of Ben Carmine RIP) @ Jan 8th 2009 12:16PM

lol!

=Lord Negatron of the XBots= @ Jan 8th 2009 12:27PM

Bah!

=Lord Negatron of the XBots= @ Jan 8th 2009 3:53PM

Sooo whaaat...

LOL ;P

DrNicodemus @ Jan 8th 2009 11:36AM

Mile High Club was ridiculous. Took me playing the level on and off for a day or so to get through. I probably attempted it 50-75 times.

xFenixKnightx (In Memory of Ben Carmine RIP) @ Jan 8th 2009 11:37AM

2.8% member here! :)

Agreed that really WAS difficult, Dralthi. Took me about 3 hours of constant dying until I could recognize the exact position and pattern in which I needed to beat it.

The Dark Wayne @ Jan 8th 2009 11:48AM

I'm still not sure how I did it.

Cheesecake Jones @ Jan 8th 2009 11:40AM

Those numbers don't work, either the percentage or the number of people is wrong.

46.5% of 10,000,000 is 4,654,643.

Just saying...

Snake @ Jan 8th 2009 11:41AM

So they are spying on our game habits/sessions… Great! Gamming nowadays is turning into a stupid mixture of neediness and weird spying. Old games were pure fun, simple and original. Today games are a strange déjà vu best of made of things that “we” enjoy playing over and over. Well at least there’s some hope in real genius and inventive people like Ueda or Kojima, fuck this shitty sequels, is because of these crap that original stuff like Mirro’s Edge are public and critically rejected. Wake up “gamers”, because most of you are playing clone games and enjoying that twilight fact.