This holiday season’s biggest entertainment blockbuster likely will be a sequel to a popular franchise, with jarring depictions of war and an intricate story of good versus evil. It could easily rake in more than last year’s record $155 million opening weekend for “The Dark Knight.”

But that blockbuster is not a movie.

It is “Call of Duty: contemporary Warfare 2,” a video game that Activision Blizzard Inc. is releasing Tuesday. Fans worldwide are expected to spend at least

half a billion dollars on the game in the first week.

That would at least match last year’s “Grand Theft Auto IV,” which was the most successful video game release in history and might have been the top entertainment launch ever.

Justin Criswell, 31, plans to line up at a GameStop store in Brooklyn on Monday night so he can buy the new “Call of Duty” when it goes on sale after midnight, […]

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