"Each player starts with the same basic pistol. Every time you kill an enemy with your gun, you're upgraded to the next weapon. Anyone killed with a melee attack is demoted to the previous weapon, so watch your flank. Suicides also set you back to the previous tier, most often occurring when using explosive weapons. The match ends when someone cycles through all twenty weapons. Success in Gun Game requires aggressive tactics and familiarity with each weapon in the rotation. Don't worry about dying - just go for a lot of successive kills. "

— Call of Duty ELITE description.

Gun Game is a Wager Match game mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops, a private match custom game mode, and as a game mode in FFA Gunplay, in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as well as a game mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance. The game consists of six players competing in a free-for-all-style game. Each player starts with a pistol; As players get more kills, the player will receive different weapons. Upon death by knife or suicide, the player goes down one weapon tier, but knife kills do not advance the killer to a new weapon. The first person to achieve a kill with all twenty (or 18 in MW3) weapon tiers wins. However, if the match ends without anyone getting a kill with all the weapons, the player on the highest weapon tier wins the match. Due to the fact that only 20 or 18 kills are needed to win, and the game is a Free For All, games are usually fairly short.

Weapon Tiers

Call of Duty: Black Ops

1. Python Speed Reloader
2. Makarov Dual Wield (formerly ASP Dual Wield)
3. SPAS-12
4. Stakeout
5. MP5K
6. Skorpion Dual Wield
7. AK74u
8. M14
9. M16
10. Famas
11. AUG
12. HK21
13. M60
14. L96A1
15. WA2000
16. Grim Reaper (formerly RPG-7)
17. M72 LAW
18. China Lake
19. Crossbow Explosive Tip
20. Ballistic Knife

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Multiplayer (18 Guns in FFA Gunplay)

1. M4A1 Red Dot Sight
2. ACR 6.8 Red Dot Sight
3. PP90M1 Red Dot Sight
4. Type 95 Red Dot Sight
5. MK46 Foregrip
6. UMP45 Red Dot Sight
7. MP7 Red Dot Sight
8. Striker Foregrip
9. Barrett .50cal
10. L86 LSW Foregrip
11. P90 Red Dot Sight
12. AK-47 Red Dot Sight
13. RSASS
14. SPAS-12 Foregrip
15. MP9 Red Dot Sight
16. G18 Red Dot Sight
17. .44 Magnum Tactical Knife
18. P99

Private Matches (Default Setup)

This is the default setup for Gun Game on private matches. The weapons and order they are used can be changed, but the attachments are randomly assigned in a fashion similar to how the defaults are.

1. Desert Eagle Tactical Knife
2. G18 Red Dot Sight
3. MP9 Red Dot Sight
4. MP5 Red Dot Sight
5. P90 Red Dot Sight
6. MP7 Red Dot Sight
7. AK-47 Red Dot Sight
8. SCAR-L Red Dot Sight
9. PKP Pecheneg Foregrip
10. MG36 Foregrip
11. SPAS-12 Foregrip
12. Model 1887
13. Type 95 Red Dot Sight
14. MK14 Red Dot Sight
15. Barrett .50cal
16. MSR
17. XM25
18. Javelin

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance

1. M9
2. Desert Eagle
3. M4
4. SPAS-12
5. SKS
6. M10
7. Scoped M4
8. RPD
9. MP7
10. M4 Red Dot Sight
11. AA-12
12. M249 SAW
13. M14 Scoped
14. P90
15. M79
16. G36C
17. Skorpion
18. MG4
19. SCAR-L
20. M72 LAW

Gallery

Gun Game in the mode selection screen.

A Gun Game match.

The message shown after killing another player.

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Trivia

• Like all other Wager game modes, killstreak rewards are disabled.
• Direct suicides with a weapon will result in a demotion. By definition, this means being caught in the blast of an explosive weapon's splash damage. Suicides by car bombs or red barrels will also demote the player, but suicide by fall damage will not.
• If the player kills someone else by blowing up a car with a launcher, they don't advance to the next tier.
• Double kills with a weapon doesn't advance the player two tiers.
• If the player kills someone with a launcher and then kills themself, they will go back one tier. However, if the enemy damaged the player before he/she killed themself, the other player will get an "Assisted Suicide" kill, but will not advance.
• Kills from the grave (Afterlife kills) will advance the player a tier. This frequently happens when using the Crossbow.
• The Grim Reaper was removed from Gun Game in late December 2010 and was replaced with the RPG-7, due to it being glitched. It was not changed on the Wii, which did not have the glitched Grim Reaper. Due to a patch in late April 2011, the glitch on PS3, PC and Xbox was removed and the Grim Reaper is used again as Tier 16 on every system.
• The console codename for Gun Game is "gun"
  • If the player wants to play a "fake" Gun Game, then all that has to be done is that the player needs to have a map loaded followed by opening the console (PC version only) and type in \g_gametype gun followed by \map_restart. Then the game will change to a "fake" Gun Game (a regular Gun Game that isn't related to CODpoints in any way)

• David Vonderhaar, the design director for Treyarch, states that the idea for this game mode came "straight from the community," which was a thread created on their own Community Forums. Gun Game had an overwhelming demand from the majority of the community.
• Gun Game was originally a modded game type for Counter-Strike, an immensely popular PC game.
• In Black Ops, the only guns with attachments are the Python with Speed Reloader, the Dual Wield Makarovs and the Dual Wield Skorpions. This is opposite in Modern Warfare 3, where almost all of the weapons have attachments.
• Even though the icon for Gun Game is a Commando, it is not featured in the game mode.
• In Defiance there is an in-game glitch that occurs when the player kills an opponent with their gun, then knifes them. The player will go a tier up, but they will retain the current gun they had in their previous tier. This is probably due to the fact that the successful kill is acknowledged as a gun kill, but since the knife also deals a blow, the gun that is to be given is cancelled out.

Video

 Black Ops Gun Game on Grid 

Black Ops Gun Game on Grid(04:41)
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