Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Japan)

Overview

This is the Japanese release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a 2007 first-person shooter by Infinity Ward. It is the fourth main game in the Call of Duty series and the first to move away from World War II to a modern setting.

The game plays the same as the North American and European discs. The campaign follows British SAS recruit John "Soap" MacTavish and a United States Marine, Paul Jackson, through a Russian civil war and a coup in the Middle East, and it ends with the hunt for the Russian Ultranationalist leader Imran Zakhaev. Multiplayer uses experience points, custom classes, perks, Prestige mode and killstreak rewards.

The Japanese PS3 disc has its own ID, BLJS10013. Sony's patch server lists one update for it, version 01.40, which is slightly larger than the North American one. A Japan Game Awards listing gives the Japanese PS3 release as December 27, 2007, at 7,140 yen with tax, with Activision as the publisher.

The game was critically acclaimed worldwide, won several Game of the Year awards, and was the top selling game in the world in 2007. A remaster followed in 2016 and 2017.

Game details

Genres

First-person shooter

Developer

Infinity Ward

Publisher

Activision

Series

Call of Duty

Engine

IW 3.0

Composers

Stephen Barton, Harry Gregson-Williams (main theme)

Designers

Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke

Writers

Jesse Stern

Producers

Mark Rubin

Directors

Jason West

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

18

Release dates

Editions

Buy this game

Trophies

Platinum

0

Gold

0

Silver

0

Bronze

0

Total

0

Points

0

Space and patches

Update patch01.40

These are the patches Sony still hosts for this disc ID. The game's real history can be longer.

Playable today

Reception

Aggregates

Outlet	Platform	Score	Scale
Metacritic	PS3	94	100

Critics

Outlet	Score	Scale
IGN	9.4	10
GameSpot	9	10
Game Informer	10	10
Eurogamer	9	10
Official Xbox Magazine	10	10
GamePro	5	5
GameSpy	5	5
X-Play	5	5

Staff and cast

Staff

Role	Name
Developer	Infinity Ward
Publisher	Activision
Director	Jason West
Producer	Mark Rubin
Writer	Jesse Stern
Composer	Stephen Barton
Main theme	Harry Gregson-Williams

Notes for collectors

• Like the other regions, the Japanese PS3 version has no trophies.
• The Japanese disc ID is BLJS10013. The North American disc is BLUS30072 and the Korean one is BLKS20048.
• Sony's patch for the Japanese disc is 13,214,416 bytes, about a megabyte larger than the North American patch.
• Later Call of Duty games in Japan were published by Square Enix with separate subtitled and dubbed discs. This earlier game was listed under Activision.

Credits

Region

US

Time to beat

about 7 hours