Paris is the capital city of France. The city was featured prominently in the campaign of Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: WWII. In Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops it is featured within the Zombies mode, and it is also featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in Campaign, Multiplayer and Special Ops modes.
Call of Duty 3
Paris was captured by the Germans on June 14, 1940. In July–August 1944, a major Allied operation was executed to break out of Normandy and recapture the city. The Allies took back Paris on August 25, 1944. This forms the storyline for the singleplayer campaign in Call of Duty 3. Allied forces are seen parading in liberated Paris at the end of the game.
Call of Duty: World at War
Paris is briefly seen in Call of Duty: World at War in the Zombies map Der Riese. A picture of a zombie in front of the Eiffel Tower is seen on a noticeboard. This was a teaser for a map set in Paris that was set to release as part of a 4th map pack but was later scrapped.
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Treyarch once again planned to release a Paris zombies map, this time as part of Rezurrection, but was completely reworked into the map Moon. Remnants of this map still remain in Moon, as the file name for the map is still "zombie_paris". Also, the game contains the image of the zombie, present in Der Riese, that was used originally in World at War.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Campaign
In 2016, the invasion of Paris by the Ultranationalists is one of the key events of World War III depicted in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and is one of many of Vladimir Makarov's strikes against the allies. Part of his strike was a massive chemical attack, followed by much of the Russian Army rolling in through the streets. Paris is the location of two missions of the Delta Force section of the campaign: Bag and Drag and Iron Lady, where Derek "Frost" Westbrook and briefly an AC-130 Gunner are the playable characters. Team Metal is sent to Paris with the objective of finding and capturing Viktor "Volk" Khristenko (based on the intelligence provided by Captain Price and Task Force 141). The Delta squad is supported by a GIGN squad under the command of Sabre during the search and additional US soldiers during the extraction, with an AC-130 providing additional fire support throughout the "Iron Lady" mission.
Team Metal land in on the roof's of Paris and try to make their way to Volk. During the battle, Paris remains heavily contaminated by the chemical attacks orchestrated by Vladimir Makarov and Volk, forcing all soldiers to wear gas masks. Much of the French Army is decimated after being exposed even minimally, as seen when a transmission is sent to the team, showing Commander Morel with a mask on and constantly coughing, stating he was struggling as was his unit. All civilians that can be seen had been killed by the fumes and many of the buildings are severely damaged, creating a terrifying and extremely gloomy war zone. The French Army is unable to provide support for Team Metal besides Sabre's squad, as it is mentioned that not many soldiers had survived the chemical attacks.
Most of the fighting takes place on the streets with occasional indoor combat and a short battle inside the catacombs, which are Volk's base of operations after Team Metal infiltrates it. The city suffers even more damage during the battle between the American troops and the Ultranationalists - the AC-130 supporting Team Metal receives permission to fire upon buildings that are used as cover by the enemy, and the Russian army uses a considerable amount of heavy weapons, including tanks. The biggest disaster takes place at the end of the battle, when the area around the Eiffel Tower is bombed in order to rescue the Delta troops escorting Volk in an attempt to destroy the massive opposition the American troops faced, resulting in the Eiffel Tower's collapse.
Special Ops
The Special Ops missions Toxic Paradise and Server Crash both take place in Paris and are based on the mission Bag and Drag. "Toxic Paradise" is based on the street fighting part of the mission, where the player takes on the task of collecting chemical agent samples, while in Juggernaut armor. "Server Crash" is based on the car chase and the fighting in the catacombs, where the player must download data. Like many Spec Ops missions, they reuse sections of the campaign mission, but are played in the opposite direction with different objectives.
Multiplayer
The map Resistance is available for multiplayer and Survival Mode, which is heavily based on the mission Bag and Drag, with GIGN and Spetsnaz as the opposing factions. This is the only multiplayer map taking place in Paris, and the only one where GIGN is a playable faction. The Eiffel Tower can be seen the distance and on the loading screen, regardless of being destroyed previously in the campaign.
Call of Duty: WWII
Campaign
In the level Liberation, Camille "Rousseau" Denis, a leader of the French Forces of the Interior, infiltrated the Gestapo headquarters in Paris with the British Special Operations Executive agent Arthur Crowley. She first met the spy Karl Fischer, a German officer hired by the SOE to plan a bomb exchange in order to launch an assault. Shortly after, Rousseau assassinated SS-und Polizeiführer Heinrich, the commander of the Gestapo forces in Paris who was responsible for the murder of her whole family. After planting the bomb provided by Fischer, an uprising is staged right outside the garrison by the French Resistance and the 1st Infantry Division. Then French and American forces assaulted the Gestapo HQ to clear remaining survivors inside. The French 2nd Armored Division and US 4th Infantry Division arrived in the city at dawn and France is liberated from Nazi Germany.
Multiplayer
In multiplayer, the map Occupation featured in the first DLC pack The Resistance is set in occupied Paris. which is a WW2 version of the popular Modern Warfare 3 map Resistance.
Call of Duty: Mobile
La Sous Terre is headquartered in Paris.
Call of Duty: Vanguard
Multiplayer
Paris appears in the multiplayer map, Hotel Royal.
Zombies
Paris appears in the Zombies map Der Anfang when the player teleports to Hotel Royal.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
Paris returns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III as a multiplayer map of the same name.