8 Video Games Built To Kill The Competition (That WON)

8. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare

It's fair to say that the Call of Duty franchise didn't merely eat Medal of Honor's lunch - it took breakfast and dinner too, leaving the once-peerless FPS franchise emaciated and begging for scraps.

Throughout the early to mid 2000s, Medal of Honor was the military shooter franchise, driven to enormous success by the popularity of 2002's iconic Medal of Honor: Allied Assault in particular.

But soon enough key personnel from the Allied Assault team left to make their own company, Infinity Ward, and launched Call of Duty the very next year, which they internally nicknamed "MOH Killer" during development.

And even though the first three Call of Duty games were well-received, they didn't seem to put a serious dent in Medal of Honor's market share.

But hoo boy, that all changed in 2007, when Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare came out. Beyond its refreshing contemporary setting, Modern Warfare boasted a thrillingly cinematic campaign unlike any the military FPS had seen before, and a brilliant multiplayer suite bolstered by a fiendishly addictive progression system.

Granted, Medal of Honor had already diluted its brand by this point with a number of so-so releases, but by the time 2010's gritty reboot flopped critically and commercially, it was painfully clear that the franchise had basically become irrelevant.

The last mainline, non-VR Medal of Honor game came out way back in 2012, while Call of Duty has remained a commercial juggernaut ever since Modern Warfare's release.