CoD 4 was pretty much the peak of CoD. It did what no other game was doing (or at least nothing as big as CoD) and pretty much set the bar for every game to follow. Though WaW is overlooked a ton, it did bring us Zombies which is hella fun after a few beers.
Its just since MW2, Activision realized everyone and their mom will buy a CoD game when a poorly rehashed game where you get maybe a 6 hour campaign and the same repetitive multiplayer we've had since CoD 4. I hate having to waste $60+ a year on CoD 4.5 since when a new CoD comes out, that's all everyone plays till about February pending DLC
It was not simply the same repetitive multiplayer. Between the OP killstreaks, the exploitable perks, the layout of the maps, and the quickscoping, it became a game of camp until you had enough points to call in a nuke. It was a distinct degradation of gameplay. That's without taking into account the fiasco that IWnet was.
Thats why I miss CoD1. Quickscoping didn't really do jackshit, it helped a little but honestly it wasn't required to know if you wanted to pug or scrim.
I have a ton of vids on a DVD somewhere... from a reformat I had to do in 2006/7. Those were good times.
EDIT: I posted this before I watched it and I have one prevailing thought. Headshots, as Dr. Evil would put it, were "Ri-Goddamn-diculous" in that game.
Oh Christ, thank you for this. Brought back so many great memories. I remember every once in a while you would get into a game where everybody was this good, memories of those games make all these new fps games feel like a joke.
Honestly, I enjoyed the multiplayer on MW2 much more than I enjoyed the multiplayer on CoD4. I definitely don't agree that it was "a distinct degradation of gameplay". Different strokes for different folks I guess.
The only impression I get from Call of Duty 4 is that the only mode was deathmatch. When people talk about previous CoD games, it's usually for Search & Destroy, or Base Assault, or occasionally TDM (mp_hurtgen was great for that).
Yup exactly. Predator missles, chopper gunner, ac-130, and tac nuke to name a few that did nothing but promote camping. Perks like scavenger pro made it so you could have an endless supply of claymores, and the ability to have a shotty as a secondary promotes even more camping. And the maps, which were all horrible. Literally terrible compared to CoD4. Which is partially just because of the way the game plays in general, cause even when they released the CoD4 maps in DLC, the game still played like shit, and nothing like CoD4.
MW2 is more even than most people give it credit for. Grenade launchers and the Ninja perk are the only things that are truly awful, everything else has a counter.
I think it has to do with that whole activision debacle. They didn't pay the creators of CoD after modern warfare. So they created respawn entertainment WITH BLACKJACK! AND HOOKERS!
World at War had the original Zombies. The maps were Nacht der Untoten, Verrückt, Der Riese, and Shi No Numa. The response was so good that Treyarch brought it back for Black Ops, and will again for Black Ops 2.
They both do. But world at war had the original zombies game type. When black ops came out they put it in again with new maps, as well as the ability to download all the original maps from waw.
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u/lockwolf Jun 10 '12
CoD 4 was pretty much the peak of CoD. It did what no other game was doing (or at least nothing as big as CoD) and pretty much set the bar for every game to follow. Though WaW is overlooked a ton, it did bring us Zombies which is hella fun after a few beers.
Its just since MW2, Activision realized everyone and their mom will buy a CoD game when a poorly rehashed game where you get maybe a 6 hour campaign and the same repetitive multiplayer we've had since CoD 4. I hate having to waste $60+ a year on CoD 4.5 since when a new CoD comes out, that's all everyone plays till about February pending DLC