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Call of Duty for the iPhone will track your World at War kills
Activision has released Call of Duty for the iPhone... but don't get too excited, it's not exactly what you think. The first-person shooter hasn't quite been ported yet. Instead, they've released a "Call of Duty: World at War companion," which instead lets you track the activity on the popular World War II shooter game. You can track all of your ingame stats, and even follow your friends in the game and what they've done with their characters as well. And the app also comes with a news browser, to keep you up to date on the latest map releases and updates with the game. It's completely free, though you of course need a Call of Duty: World of War game for Xbox 360 or Playstation to actually get anything out of it.In that sense, this app isn't quite so notable for what it is (World at War wasn't nearly as popular as Call of Duty 4, and this app is specifically about Treyarch's game), as what it portends: with Blizzard releasing their Armory app and a few other game companies releasing "companion" apps like this, we could be in for a very interesting holiday videogame season this year. Ports or translations of games don't do much to sell copies of the real games (as they tend to be either too similar or too different to the parent games), but "companions" like this can represent added functionality, and thus can do a lot to help and promote games on other platforms (imagine a Halo ODST app that sent you a push notification when your friend was playing or got a higher XP score than you did). This is far from the last we'll see of "companion" apps like this.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ryan Morano said 3:06AM on 8-06-2009
BOOOO!!! I want a ported COD game for the iPhone. Preferably not COD5 though.
I don't care about viewing my kill counts while I'm not on my Xbox. Showing someone this App isn't going to give me street cred, nor will it impress anyone worth impressing...
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Aerospeed said 11:17PM on 8-06-2009
If you're okay with playing a knockoff, there's always the upcoming "Modern Combat"
http://toucharcade.com/2009/08/04/gameloft-announces-first-person-shooter-modern-combat-sandstorm/
Heimbachae said 5:55AM on 8-06-2009
cod5 never caught on as much as they wanted it to... you can thank me later.
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pardthemonster said 9:41AM on 8-06-2009
Never catching on meaning that it only has over 100,000 users online (PS3) at a time? Or never catching on meaning that there releasing its 3rd Map Pack today (8/6/09)? Or never catching on meaning you don't own it or a system that can run it? Just curious because that statement is the exact opposite of everyone else's I've heard regarding the game.
Heimbachae said 9:57AM on 8-06-2009
by "not catching on" i was just refering to how MW is consistantly out performing it on major nelson's top charts every week.
also, when MW2 comes out we'll see it drop off the face of the earth. i don't know what's wrong with me today, i'm just not in a good place today, and world war 2 games don't help my mood.
goboColossus (LIVE, PSN - gobopop) said 12:30PM on 8-06-2009
It won't completely disappear from the charts. The original Modern Warfare will for sure, but W@W will stay around for the few hardcore fans that love the bolt action single shots. That's what happens when you fork your user base every year.
Anyways, this is a pretty cool idea. I don't bother with stats in this game though, I'd be much more interested in a Bungie.net app with screenshot access and non-wmv video encoding.
Heimbachae said 2:14PM on 8-06-2009
don't you hardcore people down vote me... actually DO it, cause i know i'm right and here's the chart from major nelson to prove it. WAW is going to go bye bye as soon as MW2 comes up, you heard it here first kiddies.
LIVE Activity for the week of July 27th
Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 3
2 Call of Duty 4
3 Call of Duty: WaW
4 Gears of War 2
5 GTA IV
6 Battlefield 1943
7 Marvel vs. Capcom 2
8 1 vs 100
9 FIFA 09
10 Left 4 Dead
don synstelien said 10:51AM on 8-06-2009
I'm sorry, but I'd love something like this for left 4 dead. :-)
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balls said 2:59PM on 8-06-2009
No love for the PC version of COD5?
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Eric D. said 4:42PM on 8-06-2009
Why isn't this for Modern Warfare?
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reddyroc said 7:50PM on 8-07-2009
Cod4 ftmfw
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Nik said 9:41PM on 8-09-2009
Modern Warfare 2 should come out with a companion app too. I'll actually use that one. Haven't played WAW in months and never bothered with the map packs there either.
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