0p3rati0n said:
World at War.... I just find Modern Warfare a pathetic excuse to get away from WWII. I'll agree Modern Warfare looks cool (never played it yet). But WWII guns are cooler! Thirdly because I said so
Your arguemnt fell flat when you said you didn't play 4. You can't judge a game you didn't play.
OT: I'll compare the two games to find out:
Graphics: While CoD4 does look a tad bit worse (but only slightly. Only people with super high rez tvs can tell really), IE created the engine the beautiful game ran on. Treyarch just took it and improved it a little bit. So I'll give this one to CoD4.
Single Player: WaW had a pretty good campaign, with great set pieces and characters. But special recognition has to go the vastly superior Russian missions. I found Reznov to a much deeper and cooler character than Roebuck, the same goes for Chernov and Polonsky. Also, the Russian missions had better level design and actual choices that made me really decide if I wanted to give the men who destroyed my country a cruel, slow, fiery death, or a quick, clean shot to the head. Still, CoD4 shines bright for me, with a story that actually makes you want to kill that bastard Imran. From the political execution to the nuclear aftermath, CoD4 made you actually think if whether this war was truely necessery.
Multiplayer: This is a tough one for me. For actual multiplayer, I'd have to give it to (again) CoD4. Each map was the perfect size for the battle, from the frantic firefights on Shipment, to the cat-and-mouse antics on Overgrown. Perks were balanced, with certain perks canceling each other out, making getting that last kill a bit harder. For metagames, it has to go to WaW. Arcade and FNG were cool distractions, but WaW takes the cake with its Co-op and Nazi Zombies. The only problem? No one plays co-op, and NZ is impossible to do if guys try to be assholes. But that's how zombie games are, right?
So yea, I think, in my opinion, CoD4 is better.