Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: Reflex Brings in the Players

After Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was released to XBOX360 and PS3 back in 2007, the Wii has since seen the release of the 'Reflex' edition two years later. Even if the game itself is two years old, punters who have snapped it up have been playing it on average for 17 hours, 22 minutes. Since January 1 however, that average is now nearer the 25 hour mark per player.

Comparative to this, Call of Duty: World at War has an average play time of 51 hours, the only games to top this are Super Smash Bros Brawl (74 hours), Animal Crossing City Folk (68 hours) and Guitar Hero III (58 hours). With the increase in play time, it seems that Modern Warfare Reflex may soon catch up to the top played Wii games as players stay fixated on the on-line multi-player.

Though it seems Reflex has a long way to go in the grand scheme of things. So far, players have logged (cumulatively) 237,615 hours of game-play time, compare this to World at War which has more than 7 million hours. Considering the time these two titles have been on the market, World at War has a large head start.

However, all times are tallied by the Nintendo Channel, so only users who have the channel and/or log on frequently to it are included in the data. It's highly likely that game-play time is much higher than the figures stated.

Reflex also sold an impressive 81,000 copies in its first month at retail in North America - proving there is some life still for third party mature games.

Do you think Modern Warfare: Reflex will become one of the top played Wii games and will the on-line keep players coming back for more?