Call of Duty 3

"Call of Duty 3" is a first-person shooter developed by Treyarch and published by Activision, released in 2006. This installment in the acclaimed series focuses on the Normandy breakout, one of the most…

74 7 November 2006

Shooter Action Historical Warfare

Call of Duty 3 is a shooter developed by Exact Entertainment, released 7 November 2006 on PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2. The main story takes about 7 hrs to finish.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Call of Duty 3 is

Call of Duty 3 is a shooter game developed by Exact Entertainment and released in 2006. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on Treyarch NGL.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Call of Duty 3 is a historic first-person shooter that takes place during World War II. The single player campaign is modeled after the Normandy breakout, where the British, Canadian, American, Polish, and French Resistance forces pushed into the village of Chambois, France, also known as the Falaise Gap.

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Call of Duty series

Call of Duty 3 is the 13th of 204 entries we hold in the Call of Duty series. The next entry was Call of Duty: Warchest in 2006. Its critic score of 74 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Collection 1 at 90.

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How it was received

Call of Duty 3 holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 52% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 332 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 7 hrs.

What it launched against

Call of Duty 3 launched on 7 November 2006, within three weeks of Bully, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War and Guitar Hero II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Bully, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II.

Cheats and codes

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