Call of duty 4: MF overrated?

[Kukakkau]

ok i dont think cod4 is overrated it is probably the best fps i have played. the single player was good but short and made a strange attempt at rousing sympathy in the player at the end. multiplayer HAS taken elements from css and bf2 but they are probably much better. counter strike the few times ive played it there is people who headshot you with the pistol in half a second so it makes you want to tie a knife to a wall and smack your head on it. Although there are some things in the game that could be better id say its a great game.

Now in response to the halo 3 fanatics halo 3 is the SAME gameplay in multiplayer no matter the mode. the only weapon really used is the assault rifle- 6 bullets and melee your target or if they are further away a grenade. rinse repeat i sadly wasted my month free trial for xbox live on it. and frankly the singleplayer was just short and completely stupid.

 

[Bocca]

I like CoD4 because a lot of stuff explodes.

What the shit! Thats not true, only cars can explode.

And tanks, and helicopters. And statues.

And grenades and rocket launchers and buildings and nuclear weapons.

What the duck guys!? I never saw a statue explode, or a tank. Nades and nadelaunchers are nothing new in games. Play Black if you want to see stuff exploding. Ofcourse in singleplayer theres some shit exploding but in the multiplayer, the real game, stuff doesent explode at all. Okay what ever you won!

 

[hooliganyouth]

I'm with ya. While the story was gripping and online play is - when you can actually get on - a lot of fun the mechanics were the stumbling point for me. Personally I get bent out of shape when shooters have run and gun rail/ get to the checkpoint to cut of reinforcements controls.

"Halo 3" - I didn't like in the least but then again I never cared about the series. I was a PS2 player during the Halo days.

 

[shadow skill]

I didn't think COD4's story was gripping, what was gripping was the sense that you could die at any time on some levels. I don't feel that anything really goes on in COD4 none of the characters are fleshed out enough to be called human on any level. But then again I never really expected anything approaching a story from the dev team; it does irk me that people say it had a story though.

"Halo 3" - I didn't like in the least but then again I never cared about the series. I was a PS2 player during the Halo days.

Don't you know that if you have an opinion other than "Halo 3 rules" you summon throngs of morons who will ask you why you don't like the game and then have a fit when you tell them?

If you can actually ask that question and not throw a fit when it is answered then you are one of the many normal people who happen to like the game and more power to you.

 

[EittilDratsab]

Now in response to the halo 3 fanatics halo 3 is the SAME gameplay in multiplayer no matter the mode. the only weapon really used is the assault rifle- 6 bullets and melee your target or if they are further away a grenade. rinse repeat i sadly wasted my month free trial for xbox live on it. and frankly the singleplayer was just short and completely stupid.

I'm sorry, have you ever played halo 3? I don't think your 'tactics' apply to dodging a spartan laser, or fighting a battle rifle at medium range, or a warthog. I don't mind if you didn't like the game, but what you're saying basically implies that you never played Halo 3 before. What you're flinging at Halo 3 can be flung back at CoD4.

 

[neems]

Perhaps everybody needs to take a deep breath. And then realise, that in response to the question "Is Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare overrated?", the only reasonable responses are -

"Yes,"
"No," or
"Maybe."

I play a lot of COD4. I am in a clan, we have 2 servers plus sometimes a match server. I play it pretty much every night, and have a great laugh doing so - a lot of this is down to the fact that I am simultaneously in vent with my clan mates. I wouldn't bother so much if it was just me cruising around public servers.

It's interesting to note that of all of us in the clan playing Cod4 - maybe 15 of us, and we still have members buying it now - I believe I am the only one who has played through the whole of the single player game. Personally I thought it had some great moments, breaking up the generic shooter sections that are the hallmark of almost every fps. When I tried the demo, I didn't like it - I was convinced to buy it by my clan leader, purely on the strength of the multiplayer. It's got a fair few maps, various guns and perks, and a few different game modes that operate in both normal and hard core. To my mind it has more depth and better gameplay than CSS.

Ultimately, like everything else, Cod4 is what you make of it. I can understand how some people love it, some loath it, others just think it is competent. But for Christ's sake don't get so het up about it.

 

[laikenf]

Hey, Yahtzee liked it. If Yahtzee, hard-arse that he is, thinks a game is good, then that must mean that a game is great.

C'mon man, Yahtzee is a human being, not a demigod, why the patronizing? I find that A LOT of people disagree with him... My point is that he is no more of a gamer than any of us here on this board. And as a matter of fact different opinions from different gamers around the world are far more important and meaningful than the one from an unhappy ranting reviewer.

 

[Bocca]

I like CoD4 because a lot of stuff explodes.

What the shit! Thats not true, only cars can explode.

And tanks, and helicopters. And statues.

And grenades and rocket launchers and buildings and nuclear weapons.

What the duck guys!? I never saw a statue explode, or a tank. Nades and nadelaunchers are nothing new in games. Play Black if you want to see stuff exploding. Ofcourse in singleplayer theres some shit exploding but in the multiplayer, the real game, stuff doesent explode at all. Okay what ever you won!

If you haven't ever seen a statue or a tank explode than you obviously have not played the game. War Pig destorys a tank and in that one mission in the helicopter you blow up a lot of tanks.
And what the hell does that mean "multiplayer, the real game". Call of Duty gets most of its praise from the singleplayer campaign.
What I don't get is the "Nades arn't anything new in games". So what? Old things that explodes don't count?

CoD 4 has by far one of the biggest explosions for a modern day set wargame, so the "no explosion" argument isn't in the box. (They even have a level dedicated to it!)

I said he won, so what are you whining, and btw i have cod, if you need evidences i can give you. END OF THREAD 8)

 

[Lanowar]

Call Of Duty 4 is an amazing experience but the first person mode is short the story is gripping and the characters are well defined but still the ending is criminally short. Halo 3 on the other hand is also short and lacks a story and well defined characters.

Halo 3 Multiplayer is actually quite basic it's a good starting place for those who are only just going online and think Team Fortress 2 and Call Of Duty 4 might "overwhelm them" not to say it's enjoyable but as far as multiplayers go it's fun but only lasts so long. Call Of Duty 4's multiplayer mode is very enjoyable, unlocking more weapons as you go adds to this on top of gaining improved add-ons and camoflague (Unless corrected the camo seems to have no real benefit).

To answer the topic's question is Call of Duty 4 Overrated? I would'nt say so there's a difference between a game being popular and thinking it's overrated because you personally did't like it. I did'nt get on with Oblivion but I don't think it's overrated I can see why it won all the awards it did. In short Popularity doesnt necessarily mean it's Overrated.

 

[Zyxie]

It's a little overrated to me. I still think Halo 3 is wayyy better.

I stopped reading.

So did I
Halo 3 is just.. stupid. My favourite thing from CoD4 is the Hardcore mode, because in that when you shoot someone in the head they actually die(unlike in Halo 3, unless it's with a f***ing rocket launcher). There are quite a few things wrong with the game, but then, are there any perfect games?

All games have their faults, and sure, CoD 4 may have more than some, but what they've not screwed up, they've done really well. I think that's what's so appealing... the graphics are lovely, the gameplay is pretty good and intuitive, to an extent, and the little touches like the 'tink' sound you get when you get a headshot. I think that CoD 4 is like a beautiful old car... it's a great thing overall, but there are loads of little problems with it.

 

[Baliame]

Can you people finally shut the fuck up about CoD4 vs Halo 3 fight? They're both just as good.Almost all shit that you're throwing at Halo 3 can be easily flinged back at CoD4.

Ok, ok, mr. Anger Control.




...you utter Halo 3 fanboi...

 

[MaDsPLoiTz]

CoD4 is a different type of game from Halo 3, they shouldn't be compared. (I know they're both FPSes but different types of FPSes)

How over-rated a game is should not be regarded as a property of the game, judge how good it is, not how disapointed you were because you thought it would be better/different, that's not the games fault, sure you can talk about how it was over-rated in your opinion but just don't say another game was better voerall because it did what you expected to.

The SP does have multiple paths, sure, multiple paths to one objective at once but still, if you need to take out the radio tower, you need to take out the damn radio tower, not take out the radio tower OR complete a different objective.

I'm all for realism in games but when it comes to multiplayer, you just have to accept that balance is more important; sure, you COULD have a silencer and a sight, but then there would esentially be no customisability, everyone would carry the max ammount of genades, frag and special, and have a silencer, scope and grip and whatever else on every gun, making it into simply, sniper vs machine gun vs shotgun, and no uniqueness beyond that.

You can't complain about using the same multiplayer modes as other games, those are THE modes, they are clearly the best, most popular and most balanced game modes, they work so they are used time and time again.

I'm sorry, but CS:S doesn't have a trademark on the realistic, modern day, FPS genre, they just did it the best so far. It not like they were massivly intuitive, making a game no one ever thought of, its got realistic gunsand player models (as in humans and real guns), its modern, it's a shooter, not exactly ground-breaking... (not that CS:S is bad or anything, I'm just saying it's such a general genre you can't say CS:S own it or anything.)

"They released the Orange Box as a whole package for a reason: no one in their right mind would pay $50 for any single part of the whole package. Portal and TF2 are great games but they aren't well rounded (Portal is low on content and all offline while TF2 is all online without a campaign), Ep. 1 sucked patootie and should even have been part of the package, and Ep. 2 is, once again, short, all offline, and nothing special.

The whole box, taken as a single achievement, is better than CoD4. Portal is more innovative than CoD4, Ep. 2 is more polished, TF2's online play is as good or better than CoD4's but as a single game mediocrity with the minimal amount of innovation to keep a series alive wins this year..."

So what if no one would buy a single part of the package, that would be why valve released it as a package, it doesn't matter that no one would buy them if they were individual games, they're not... They're sold in a package as you said so your point is completely invalid as your esentially critisising a situation that doesn't exist. If you ask me if bears can fly to the moon and I say no, you'd have to be an idiot you then yell at me, "LOL! of course they can't, why the hell do you think bears can fly to the moon?!"

 

[a big stupid idiot]

The only thing that dissipointed me was the graphics.


Everywhere I looked everyone was saying "OH TEH GRAPHICS ARE TEH GRETEST EVARAH!!!!!"

I mean really, there are games that looked WAY better than COD4.

 

[EittilDratsab]

Call Of Duty 4 is an amazing experience but the first person mode is short the story is gripping and the characters are well defined but still the ending is criminally short. Halo 3 on the other hand is also short and lacks a story and well defined characters.

Halo 3 Multiplayer is actually quite basic it's a good starting place for those who are only just going online and think Team Fortress 2 and Call Of Duty 4 might "overwhelm them" not to say it's enjoyable but as far as multiplayers go it's fun but only lasts so long. Call Of Duty 4's multiplayer mode is very enjoyable, unlocking more weapons as you go adds to this on top of gaining improved add-ons and camoflague (Unless corrected the camo seems to have no real benefit).

I have to disagree with you there. CoD4's storyline was very black and white. The characters weren't fleshed out in any way. Captain Price was just that badass with a weird mustache who helped you throughout the storyline. The terrorists were inherently bad, they all had to die.

Thats a pretty wide generalization of the people who play Halo 3. Personally, I don't think that CoD4 offers up much in the way of choice. Yeah yeah, there are equips and weapons to unlock, I know. Its fun for a while (10 days for me), and then it just gets dull. After you reach rank 55, there really isn't anything else to do. Yeah, there's prestige but I wouldn't trade all my hard-earned equips for a shiny medal. I think that too much prestige would just make the game annoying. Little kids screaming that,"OMG GuYS I KILLED A GUY WITH 9 SHINY MEDALZ!!1!1."
Overall, I think Halo 3 is more complex. After you're tired of ranked matches, you can go online and download some Forge maps or look at your friend's saved film of him jumping off a hornet and landing on a banshee. Better yet, gather your friends and work on your own Forge map. And after that, create your own gametype with 200% speed and low gravity (with Hammers). The wealth of options in Halo 3 is much greater in my opinion. While there are problems with the community and the way you can only play Forge with those from your friends list, I think that Halo 3 is a great game, and not the innovation-destroying, mediocre, stupid game that so many people make it out to be.

 

[shadow skill]

Meh Rainbow Six offered a bit more in the way of customization than COD4, and Unreal Tournament has troucd every other shooter on consoles in terms of complexity when it comes to the online component. It would have been nice for Infinity Ward to allow console players to download maps.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Can I ask, what is CoD 4 MF. Was that just a typo?