Xbox is adding classic Call Of Duty games to the Microsoft Store

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Classic Call of Duty games have started appearing on Microsoft's PC store.
You can now purchase Call of Duty: United Offensive, Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare through the storefront.
This could continue the pattern of Activision games being added to this store before eventually being included in Game Pass.

One of the biggest questions hanging over Activision Blizzard's Xbox acquisition has been what will happen to Call Of Duty after it goes through. The launch of Black Ops 6 showed that Xbox intends to keep the series cross-platform, however the wait continues for the classic Call Of Duty titles to arrive on Game Pass. We may have just gotten a hint that the end of that wait is in sight, at least for a few of the older games in the series.

Knoebel, who shared his discovery on Twitter, first spotted three classic Call Of Duty games recently added to the Microsoft PC Store – Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call Of Duty 2, and the original Call Of Duty expansion United Offensive. package. The latter is particularly interesting not only because it still holds a special place in some people's hearts more than 20 years later, but also because it never came out on console.

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This will be why United Offensive is still only available on PC, at least for now. You can buy the bundle right now for $24.99. However, as Knoebel notes, it and two other older Call Of Duty games appearing out of nowhere on the Microsoft Store could indicate that Game Pass' decline is imminent. The arrival of the remastered Crash Bandicoot and Spyro trilogies on the Microsoft Store ended before their eventual arrivals on Game Pass.

Older Call Of Duty games have been quietly added to the Microsoft Store

It previously hinted at coming soon to Game Pass

More than a year since Activision's acquisition of Xbox was completed, there are still only two Call Of Duty games available to play on Game Pass – Modern Warfare 3 and the latest entry in the series, Black Ops 6. There are many older games. Call of Duty games currently available on Xbox include Call Of Duty 2 and Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare through backwards compatibility, but none other than those two are on Game Pass.

Xbox is taking a little longer than expected to make Activision's library available on Game Pass, filling the subscription service with the studio's latest titles instead of adding them all at once. There are now a few Crash and Spyro games, but almost the entire Call of Duty library is missing, and there's still no sign of any Tony Hawk games coming to Game Pass. There was also no mention of a Guitar Hero revival, despite Fortnite Festival injecting new life into the genre.