Call of Duty®: Ghosts

Call of Duty: Ghosts is a 2013 first-person shooter game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the tenth major installment in the Call of Duty series and the sixth developed by Infinity Ward. It was released for PlayStation 3, Wii U, Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in November 2013. The game acts as a standalone installment in the wider Call of Duty franchise in lieu of the World War II, Black Ops and Modern Warfare series that preceded it. Ghosts inherits much of the core gameplay and structure of previous titles, with a mission-based campaign and an open-ended multiplayer, but introduces a near-future setting to the series as well as an increased focus on tactical gameplay, including the addition of new "Squads" modes and orbital strike superweapons to the multiplayer. The single-player campaign follows a protracted high-tech war against a dictatorial united South America. Ghosts also features an alternative co-operative shooter mode titled Extinction, acting as a spiritual successor to the Zombies co-operative PvE game modes introduced to the franchise in Call of Duty: World at War. The science fiction elements of the game's campaign and setting would be further explored in Advanced Warfare and Infinite Warfare. Ghosts received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its multiplayer gameplay and the Extinction mode, and criticism for its single-player campaign, rehashing of familiar concepts, and general lack of innovation. Retrospective reviews have been generally negative, with the game placing low in lists ranking the series' games. Because of its reception, and coinciding with the launch of eighth generation consoles, it failed to meet Activision's expectations. Ghosts was the last Call of Duty game to be released on a Nintendo system until Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026.