COD Classic for PSN/XBLA "eventually"

By Oli Welsh Published 3 August, 2009

Pack-in to get separate release one day.

Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward has confirmed to IGN that Call of Duty Classic will be released as a standalone game on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade after it's made available with the Hardened and Prestige editions of Modern Warfare 2.

Call of Duty Classic is a port of the original Call of Duty, originally released for PC only in 2003. It will be offered as a free download with the limited editions of the new game.

"Prestige and Hardened Edition buyers will be getting access to Call of Duty: Classic first. It'll eventually be coming out for both Xbox Live Arcade and PSN as a stand-alone arcade game," said community manager Robert Bowling.

"However, price and release date are unknown at this point. It's the true original Call of Duty including full multiplayer," he added.

The £120 Prestige Edition of Modern Warfare 2 also comes with night vision goggles, a bust, an art book, and the metal-cased Harderend version of the game itself. 10th November is the date for all versions.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • thenastypasty #1 3 years ago

    To be honest this would make me buy the hardened game pack if the price is right,maybe £10 above the standard game sounds about right to me.

  • neilka #2 3 years ago

    Looking forward to the "Harderend" version...!

  • mashk #3 3 years ago

    Bah! It costs about 5p on the PC, and it'll run on PCs designed by Babbage himself.

  • LHH #4 3 years ago

    What's the price of the Hardened Edition? Has it gone up like the RRP of the vanilla version?

  • El-Dev #5 3 years ago

    The first Call of Duty was a great game, my favourite from the series. I still have it, but no PC to play it on.

  • VandelayIndustries #6 3 years ago

    So who's doing this port then, Infinity Ward? and does it include MP? I heard next to no information about this game.
    Edited by 1 at 03/08/09 @ 11:43

  • RedPanda #7 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 14:31:59 28-01-2012

  • metallicorphan #8 3 years ago

    hmm,maybe i will wait for this to appear on XBLA,of course i want Modern Warfare 2,and the original Call of duty made me want the Hardened edition,but i didn't really want to pay out £69.99 for it

    nearer to the date i will be more sure what i will do,i am not in any position right now to presume i will have 70 quid on me at that time

  • Wacko_AK #9 3 years ago

    Muppets! NO chance will I get this after MW2 has been released, I always thought they'd bring it out a good bit before releasing MW2. Who would honestly play it when you can play MW2 instead?

  • Royal Fool #10 3 years ago

    A lot of people would, I can assure you. Which is why it's painfully obvious that this was the plan from the start.

  • RedPanda #11 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 14:31:59 28-01-2012

  • Sharzam #12 3 years ago

    ok dumb question:

    Why dont people just play it on PC ? ok some older games i can understand it being handy to have on XBLA for example running Duke Nukem 3D can be painful on modern pcs. But CoD1 should have no problems on modern pcs and its not like you can say "my pc cant run it". The the main win point here is it means you dont give yet more money to activison whoop.

  • bad09 #13 3 years ago

    Sounds good I never played the original, signed up with 2 myself

    And as for this.....

    "Muppets! NO chance will I get this after MW2 has been released, I always thought they'd bring it out a good bit before releasing MW2. Who would honestly play it when you can play MW2 instead?"

    So sad how the youth of today piss on gaming history for the next bit of eye candy :(

    / goes back to Wizball
    Edited by 1 at 03/08/09 @ 19:54

  • frankfurter209 #14 3 years ago

    Too bad COD original sucks. Before you crap on me, I have no interest in MW2 either.
    Edited by 1 at 03/08/09 @ 21:39

  • Wacko_AK #15 3 years ago

    youth of today

    Hmmm, I'm hardly a youth. I was actually hoping this would come out over the summer to give me something to play before MW2. I got bored of COD WAW and went back to COD4.

  • clockworkzombie #16 3 years ago

    @ Sharzam

    Some of us don't do Windows.

  • kipper #17 3 years ago

    COD Old-Fashioned War - Yes Please.
    COD Modern Warfare - No Thanks.