There are a number of different multiplayer maps and modes to play. The core modes are Frontline, Team Deathmatch, Domination, Search & Destroy, Domination, Gunfight, Kill Confirmed, Hardpoint, Free for All. Then there are features special modes - for example - Standoff - Halloween, Sniper Only, Gun Game, Prop Hunt.

As a first-person shooter, Call of Duty places the player in control of an infantry soldier who makes use of various authentic World War II firearms in combat.