Call of Duty: Warzone (2020) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Call of Duty: Warzone

Call of Duty: Warzone is a free-to-play battle royale first-person shooter set in the Call of Duty universe. Up to 150 players parachute onto a large map, scavenge weapons and equipment, and fight to be the…

85 10 March 2020 ESRB M

What Call of Duty: Warzone is

Call of Duty: Warzone is a shooter game developed by Infinity Ward and released in 2020. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on IW Engine. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In 2020, the city of Verdansk falls under siege after terrorists Khaled Al-Asad and Victor Zakhaev orchestrate a devastating attack that floods the region with toxic gas. The Armistice, a joint coalition of Russian and NATO operators formed to maintain order, fractures under the chaos, leaving former allies to fight one another for survival amid the spreading contamination. Task Force 141, led by Captain John Price, takes up the mission of tracking down Zakhaev before he can carry out his ultimate plan: the launch of a nuclear missile.

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. Available modes: Battle Royale and Multiplayer.

Where it sits in the Call of Duty series

Call of Duty: Warzone is the 186th of 204 entries we hold in the Call of Duty series. The next entry was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered in 2020. Its critic score of 85 is 12 points above 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: Warzone holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Players rate it 79, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Call of Duty: Warzone launched on 10 March 2020, within three weeks of Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Persona 5 Royal. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Persona 5 Royal.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Call of Duty: Warzone yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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