Duty Calls downloaded over 1.25 million times

by David Hinkle on Feb 7th 2011 6:20PM

Last week, a free game called Duty Calls was launched as part of a promotion for People Can Fly's latest, Bulletstorm. The free game is a spoof on the Call of Duty series and is meant to point out the tired mechanics of most first-person shooters, thus hyping the buck-trending qualities of Bulletstorm.

The campaign seems to be going surprisingly well -- the @Bulletstorm Twitter account reveals over 1.25 million have picked up the phone and spoken with duty directly. In fact, if you'd like us to conference you in on the call, you can grab Duty Calls free of charge from our sister site Big Download right now.

Via: Big Download
Source: @Bulletstorm

Tags: Bulletstorm, duty-calls, epic-games, microsoft, pc, people-can-fly, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (50)

More units then Bulletstorm will sell.

@edoglost

With early access to the Gears 3 beta bundled with it? Are you high?!

@II The Guido II
Not everyone will be getting it on 360 or maybe not everyone on 360 will buy a 60 dollar game for early access to a beta for a game (although it is popular)

@II The Guido II

Yes I am.

@WhiteShield
Tell that to Crackdown.

@Jamp
I was one of the few people that actually bought crackdown because I liked it. Actually didn't even get to play the beta since the disc got damaged.

@WhiteShield I realize what you were trying to get at... but when you said 'not everyone will get it on the 360' you failed to acknowledge that it is a bonus for some buyers, and the buyers who get in on the other console clearly didn't mind the lack of incentive... so the people who get it on something other than the 360 (ps3) are, in a sense, additional

@benjaminhc
Well... I don't own a 360 so I guess I never gave it much thought. If I did own one I guess I can see the incentive then to buy it for that console.

I wonder how many people thought they were downloading a new Call of Duty game?

@Uncle Jesse

1.24 million

@Uncle Jesse

Zero...unless of course they were downloading it off the Pirate Bay. ZING!

@Uncle Jesse Say, I saw you in a Super Bowl commercial yesterday!

BLOODY SCREEN!!!.....So REEAAAL!

Is it worth downloading? I'm at work right now and can't try it out. I already got caught after clicking on an uncloseable BeiberRoll by accident and I think my boss is pissed at me.

@tenacioustoaster
Wow... that's what I get for not reading the original comment. I was like oooooh shiny blue link! And I was treated to such a frighting horror. Is it supposed to be uncloseable though? It wasn't for me

@tenacioustoaster

I've actually never heard a justin beiber song.

@WhiteShield
Well it was for me. It bounced around the window and wouldn't stop. The IT department here has disabled task manager so that was not an option so I was left trying to time it right so I could hit the red X.

@tenacioustoaster If you have the option you should use Google Chrome.

Not only did the window not resize and move for me, but on the second dialog window I got an option to check a box and prevent it from opening any more windows.

@TJF

Or NoScript.

@TJF Like I said, work computer. You know how long it took to get them to let me use Firefox? They thought it could break it..
Also, in regards to my being downvoted, I did give you guys fair warning. Serves you right for clicking it. ;)

Master Sergeant Shooter Person Sergeant Sergeant

Bloody screen....so real!

I want a full retail release of this demo

I love Bulletstorm already. I feel like they're doing a good job blah blah blah and eventually people will blah blah blah and hopefully it will be the best game of blah blah blah until eventually another game will blah blah blah

It works with the Steam beta's new screenshot feature. I just took about twenty screenshots with it.

I downloaded it. Haven't played it yet.

@wunwunx

Same here.

"If you could make god bleed, people would seize to believe in him."

-Whiplash, Iron Man 2

@OzCueball

?

@Iron Man YOUR USERNAME.
it's perfect.

@OzCueball

Are we just quoting completely irrelevant things now?

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth." - Friedrich von Schiller

@Shig

The relevance is that epic and people can fly took a shot at Call of Duty and it worked. It was funny and made people realize that COD isn't all it's cracked up to be anymore.

I apologize that you weren't smart enough to put two and two together.

Though by the looks of it, you weren't the only one . . .

@OzCueball

I think the only thing that really confused people is the misspelling of "cease".
Seize means something completely different and was jarring the first time I read it.

@DV8ing1

It's funny because you're making fun of my intelligence when you don't know the proper definitions of simple words.

@Shig

@OzCueball

@Shig
Snap

@Shig
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -Ozymandias

I have to say that this has really made me a lot more excited about Bulletstorm. I hope that it doesn't end up being just a generic FPS with a bad boy coat of paint over it. The way it looks to me is kinda like Vanquish in that it is just over the top action fun. And I mean that Duty Calls thing was absolutely hilarious. So many parts had me just laughing pretty hard

I guess this demo has proven that war never changes. Or does it? The war has changed. Did it? Of course not, it's war. Yes. No. Yes?

@UnnDunn
I am an enemy.

@UnnDunn o hai Unndunn.
And of course, war never changes. Hasn't Pearlman taught you anything?

Yeah, imma lol if Bulletstorm doesnt sell above this now.

SERGEANT OF THE MASTER SERGEANTS MOST IMPORTANT PERSON OF EXTREME SERGEANTS TO THE MAX.

A lot of people are saying that this was only made to cover up Bulletstorm being crap.
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It's not, the actual demo on PS3 is really fun (although they should also release it on PC cause thats where I'm getting the game.) The really fun demo + this = I'm getting this game.

Says the guy who keeps Iron Man 2 quotes in the holster.

Buck-trending?

@Chareth Cutestory Yeah, this game's totally gonna trend TONS of bucks. Didn't you hear?

@kgoo867
Yeah it's worth a few laughs but I don't think they can really call it a "game"

@DarkNightRJ I was actually kind of pissed thats all it was. Not only did I have to download it but the install took almost as long as the "game".

Duty calls is the best free parody game ever, "boring boring" "bloody screen...so realistic" HAHA such a great way to take a jab at how the call of duty story never really changes they use the same format every year, while i don't think bulletstorm is gonna be all that great, this was pretty funny.

Demo for bulletstorm never really got me interested in the game, I'm pretty sure that it's gonna be a lot like mad world for the wii in that it's just about getting a high score on the leader boards with some story thrown in here and there.

Does anyone remember the GFW podcast where shawn elliot did a similar bit out on the streets of Berkeley? I think the fake game they came up with was Duty Calls... Greatest Podcast EVAR

Won't sell as many units total as MW2 or black ops sold on launch day.

But a fun game if you call your friends things like "brah" and "dawg" and have posters of girls in bikini's in your bedroom.

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Duty Calls downloaded over 1.25 million times

Reader Comments (50)

Posted: Feb 7th 2011 6:25PM edoglost said

Posted: Feb 7th 2011 6:33PM II The Guido II said

Posted: Feb 7th 2011 6:43PM WhiteShield said

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