10 Biggest Gaming Franchises With So Many Entries It's Just Offensive

8. Call Of Duty

Back when the Call of Duty franchise kicked off in 2003, nobody could have seen its future success coming. After three main titles of moderate success, Modern Warfare blew everyone away with its RPG-like online progression system, and soon enough every multiplayer FPS was borrowing pages from its book. Cut to 10 years after the original game, and it now has 10 main titles, as well as an expansion, and over 10 console-only and handheld-only variations. CoD is often cited as a modern example of video game franchise fever run amok. Though the main games routinely make billions of dollars for Activision, the last few efforts have struggled to really innovate the formula, and the fact that each title alternates between developers Infinity Ward and Treyarch gives the games a schizophrenic feel rather than one of constantly being changed up. Though it'll almost certainly never happen until the series' popularity is finally supplanted by the next big shooter, it'd be great to have a year without a CoD game.