Before Call of Duty became a yearly modern-warfare juggernaut, it was a World War II shooter, and these games trace that founding era. The original Call of Duty (2003) and its sequels put players in the boots of American, British and Soviet soldiers across the European and Pacific fronts, leaning hard on the squad-based, cinematic set pieces that became the series signature.
World at War (2008) pushed the violence and tone darker, while the later Call of Duty: WWII (2017) and Vanguard (2021) returned to the setting after years away, trying to recapture it with modern production. It is a games-only run, and the throughline is spectacle: scripted, loud, and built around the feeling of being one soldier inside an overwhelming war.
The The World War II Games franchise spans 10 games in the CrossBinge catalog.
Part of Call of Duty.