Steven Spielberg Apparently 'Loves' Call of Duty Games

Legendary movie director Steven Spielberg is a huge fan of the Call of Duty series, according to his son, Max Spielberg. A recent interview confirmed that the director of Saving Private Ryan “loves” the Call of Duty games, with PC being his platform of choice.

Call of Duty is one of gaming’s juggernauts. The series last missed an annual release back in 2004, which is a staggering amount of consistency considering the high level of quality across the board. Players might debate the best Call of Duty games forever, but broadly, the series has set a high bar that it continues to match every year thanks to its rotating developers of Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer Games. Each year, the annual Call of Duty game continues to sell like hotcakes, with the Black Ops and Modern Warfare series’ remaining the franchise’s main attractions.

In an interview with MinnMax, Steven Spielberg’s son, Max Spielberg, confirmed that the legendary director is a huge gamer, saying, “He plays games, he’s a big PC gamer… He’s like, ‘hey what’s good, what new Call of Duty should I be playing, send me a list of the top five shooters, I’ll get ’em downloaded and we can play ’em together when you come over to the house.’” Spielberg also claimed that “It’s always a Call of Duty. He loves Call of Duty; he enjoys the campaign… I’m always trying to get him to play Uncharted, y’know, ‘it’s Indiana Jones, you’d appreciate this’, and he’s always ‘I can’t do controllers, I only do keyboard and mouse.’” It’s cool knowing that Hollywood’s greatest can appreciate some of the best FPS games when he sees them.

Steven Spielberg is a PC Gamer and Call of Duty Player

Spielberg’s interest in the Call of Duty franchise, and gaming in general, makes a ton of sense. After directing Saving Private Ryan back in 1998, Spielberg went on to create the Medal of Honor series alongside developer DreamWorks Interactive and publisher EA. For a short period in the early-to-mid 2000s, Medal of Honor and Call of Duty went head to head, with the latter eventually winning out. That’s not to mention Ready Player One, either. Spielberg’s 2018 film was almost a love letter to the video game medium, adapting Ernest Cline’s novel of the same name.

It isn’t long now until the 2024 Call of Duty title, Black Ops 6, is finally released. Treyarch is back in the driving seat, with its last game in the series being 2020’s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Just recently, Black Ops 6 confirmed some multiplayer changes based on Beta feedback, with weapon damage and spawn logic being changed for the upcoming release. Let’s hope Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has a cinematic campaign that lives up to its predecessors; Steven Spielberg is counting on it.