It's been a couple weeks since the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and it is already the biggest selling digital launch in Activision's history. Despite having released a new game nearly every single year, Call of Duty fans continue to buy each new installment, raking in tons of money for the🔴 publisher. Even back in its humble World War II days on the PC, the series was able to stand apart and ultimately outlast𓆉 most of its competition.

It's no wonder then that there have been so many developers looking to cash in on the trends Call of Duty popularized. While World War II games have existed since the days of the Wolfenstein series on MS-DOS, Call of Duty really popularized the setting for first-person shooters, bringing the genre to🐻 consoles and even handh🏅eld systems.

Call of Duty was also the first series to take the bold step into current conflicts with Modern Warfare, and soon hundreds of imitators started making modern military shooters, including former World War II competitors Battlefield and Medal of Honor.

These Call of Duty clones vary in terms of quality. There are, however, those that are so notably terrible, they've become infamous for being some of the worst first person shooters ever made. On the other end of the spectrum, we'll also be looking at those that are not only great, but may actually do a better job than the standard Call of Duty has set forth.

So lock and load and find some cover, here are 15 Games That Ripped Off Call Of Duty (And 15 That Do It Better).

29 Bad: Call Of Sniper Shooter For Co🅷ntract Duty On Crime

You can't talk about rip off games without bringing up the mobile app market, so let's get that out of the way right now. There are plenty of Call of Duty rip-offs on the App Store, but one of the most ridiculous is Call of Sniper shooter for Contract Duty on Crime.

You play as a cop who either pursues criminals by car (ripped from either GTA or Need for Speed) or snipe them from a distance. You only get a few seconds to find and 🐼shoot them, guaranteeing you'll always fail the mission the first few times.

28 𝔍 Better: Duty Calls

While some may not consider this a real game, Duty Calls is the funniest parody of the Call of Duty franchise, as well as other military shooters like Battlefield: Bad Company. In just five minutes this parody pokes fun at all the clichés🧜, including the "horrors of war" and the monotony of shooting the same soldiers over and over again.

Though this game was made by People Can Fly to advertise Bulletstorm (a game that no one would ever call a CoD rip off), this short parody seems to be more well-known than that forgottꦡen shooter.

27 Ba♔d: UberSoldier 🌺

Not many World War II games have you playing as the bad guys, let alone a supernaturally powerful one, so UberSoldier drew quite a bit of attention in 2006. This game from Russia follows Karl Stolz, a resurrected soldier given supernatural powers🧔 by the radicals who is rescued by and helps the resistance.

That almost sounds like fun, but the poorly optimized engine made the game run badly on even the recommended specs. And once you actually get it running, the re🍨petitive action and unfair accuracy of enemies makes you want to uninstall it immediately. This one's better left forgotten.

26 ▨ Better: Day Of Infamy

Set during the events of World War II in the European Theater, Day of Infamy was originally a multiplayer mod for New World Interactive's Insurgency.

While not quite as great as the game it was based on, the change to a World War II setting made for an interesting game.

Day of Infamy was well-liked by critics for its limited HUD creating a sense of realism. It also featured balanced gameplay and a fairly low price at launch, and was a much better game than Call of Duty: WWII which released later that same year.

25 ♛ Bad: Mortyr II

While the first Mortyr felt more like a rip-off of Doom and Quake, Mortyr II was easily trying to imitate the Call of Duty games. This sequel drops the time travel gimmick of its predecessor and fo♈cuses solely on its WW2 setting and even adds some helpful mechanics that the first game was sorely lacking.

Unfortunately, all that did was change this game from being "hilariously aജwful" to "simply mediocre." This one still has plenty of problems, though, like soldiers running in silent slow motion and artillery shells that instantly eliminate you with no warning.

24 Better: Day Of 🌸Defeat: Source

Originally a remake of an old Half-Life mod, Day of Defeat: Source has since surpassed that original game. The gameplay is classic Call of Duty, ♔with players being split up into either the U.S. Army or Wehrmacht teams.

Critics praised the game not only for its atmosphere but for the graphics and audio work, which were among the best at the time. And though there may have been a lack of content at the time of its release, further updates have🍌 added more game modes and levels to this stellar online sho🐻oter.

23 Bad: Enem⭕y Front

When Enemy Front was released in 2014 (three years after it was first announced), developer and publisher CI Games said that it would include real historical events and feature stunning visuals. They even went so far as to call it "...the first truly modern WW2 FPS." Unfortunately, all that hype built up to disappointmeꦿnt when the final product was released.

In a way, CI Games was right about this game breaking out of the standard mold set by Call of Duty. Most other military shooters don't have the poor AI and flawed stealth sections that Enemy Front has.

22 B♎etter🌟: Battlefield 3

Once the Battlefield series made the turn to modern warfare, they released a ton of titles. Though there are too many to keep track of, Battlefield 3 is considered one of the best. The campaign clearly takes many cues from Modern Warfare, however, the classic Battlefield inclusion of operating tanks does put it a step above thatᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤🍃⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ game.

Though the story isn't great and there are the occasional glitches, the game had great graphics and a world-class multiplayer suite.

If you were looking for a great online military shooter in 2011, then Battlefield 3 was unmatched.

21 🅷 🍨 Bad: Navy SEALs

Hoping to ride on the coattails of Modern Warfare's success, many developers started making more modern military shooters. One budget title to attempt this was Navy SEALs: Weapons of Mass Destruction, which boas🃏ted "9 explosive levels around the world" and "an arsenal of 8 high powered weapons and accessories" on its box.

What they should've said was that this game had possibly the dumbest AI, as enemies tend to just stand around, waiting for you to pick them off. It also features some truly awful aiming, and the "realism" of the game 𝓀is nothing but a joke.

20 ✃ Better: Op🐽eration Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

The realism in military shooters is usually hit or miss, so when British game developer Codemasters advertised Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising a༒s a realistic modern infantry combat simulation, some gamers were intrigued.

Unfortunately, not many people actually played this game, which is a shame because the campaign was great. You were in charge of a squad with three other soldiers, which could either be controlled by AI or your🥂 friends in multiplayer. The inclusion of realistic weapon physics and over 50 different vehicles make this one of the better military simulators.