Gun Game

For the similar gamemode, see Arms Race.

"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 part of FFA Gunplay in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as well as a game mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance, a party game mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and a standard playlist in Call of Duty: Ghosts. The game consists of six players competing in a free-for-all-style game. As players get more kills, the player will receive different weapons. However, knife kills do not advance the killer to a new weapon, but demote players to their previous weapon tier instead. The first person to achieve a kill with all twenty (or 18 in MW3 and Ghosts) 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)
17. M72 LAW
18. China Lake
19. Crossbow
20. Ballistic Knife

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

1. B23R Tactical Knife
2. KAP-40 Dual Wield
3. Executioner Laser
4. KSG Quickdraw Handle
5. M1216 Extended Clip
6. MSMC Grip
7. Skorpion EVO Laser
8. Chicom CQB Reflex
9. M27 MMS
10. M8A1 EOTech
11. SMR ACOG Scope
12. QBB LSW Target Finder
13. MK 48 Hybrid Optic
14. SVU-AS Dual Band
15. DSR 50 Variable Zoom
16. Ballista Iron Sight
17. SMAW
18. RPG
19. Crossbow
20. Ballistic Knife

Call of Duty: Ghosts

1. Random Handgun
2. Random Shotgun
3. Random Submachine Gun
4. Random Assault Rifle
5. Minigun or Random Light Machine Gun
6. Random Marksman Rifle
7. Random Submachine Gun
8. Random Assault Rifle
9. Minigun or Random Light Machine Gun
10. Random Launcher
11. Random Sniper Rifle
12. Random Submachine Gun
13. Random Assault Rifle
14. Random Shotgun /w Slug Rounds & Red Dot Sight
15. Random Marksman Rifle
16. Random Sniper Rifle
17. .44 Magnum Akimbo ACOG
18. Combat Knife + Throwing Knife (Kill must be with Throwing Knife to end game)

Gallery

Gun Game in the mode selection screen.

A Gun Game match.

The message shown after killing another player.

Trivia

General

• 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.
  • Fall damage suicides do demote players in Black Ops II.
• 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 don't advance the player two tiers.
• If the player kills someone with a launcher and then kills themselves, they will go back one tier. However, if the enemy damaged the player before they killed themselves, 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.
• The console codename for Gun Game is gun.
• 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.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

• Even though the icon for Gun Game is a Commando, it is not featured in the game mode.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

• Gun Game was removed from FFA Gunplay along with One in the Chamber on September 1st 2012 due to a petition made by the fans asking for an All or Nothing only playlist.

Call of Duty: Ghosts

• In Ghosts, the first sixteen weapons are randomized within their class, with random attachments. The player can view their current weapon and attachments by selecting Change Class in the menu. However, the assault rifle at thirteen will always have no attachments and the shotgun at fourteen will always have the Slug Rounds attachment in conjunction with a Red Dot Sight.
• In Ghosts, the player has two perks, Marathon and Reflex.
  • However, Reflex is almost useless in this game mode, as weapon swaps are not faster when players advance to the next gun. It is only useful when in the final tier, as it affects the Throwing Knife.

Video

 Black Ops Gun Game on Grid