Am I the only one who has somehow missed how this game is so God like. It seems everyone has it and worships it. I got it about a month after it came out, got to 55 within the week, played for maybe a month on and off and quit. Never have i met more nade spam, more spray-and-pray or just all round enjoyment. The game takes about half an hour to get used. It's not that i was crap either.. getting KD/R's of atleast 4 or 5 before level 30 was impressive to me. I just don't see what is so great about the game.
One high point, I will admit the game is visually stunning and does without needing a PC the size of a death star to run. As far as consoles go, it's even worse on the PS3 for me, the constant pre-pubescent screams of teens over the mic made me stop before level 20.
Depends on if your judging the game purely on its multi player side or taking into account the single player.
A great single player game can be rubbish in multi player due to the addition of pants of head retarded players for example and on the other hand the reverse can be true (a poor single player game can seem great due to its multi player side.)
I don't like COD4 for the multiplayer, I like COD4 for the gameplay and story. Any popular FPS you play online is going to be filled with pray-and-spray and grenade spamming, because that's how you get kills. You have to act like a dirty, talentless douchebag to kill the other talentless douchebags because in games where you can empty a 30-round clip in eight seconds when your same target will die when he's hit with one to three of them it's really too hard to employ worthwhile tactics.
I prefer Halo because it's harder to kill people - gives you both more to think about when approaching a target (though admittedly many conflicts to result in two people running towards each other with the AR and meleeing).
I've never played the multiplayer, so I can't comment on that. What I can comment on is the singleplayer, and I loved it. It was an awesome thrill-ride, and while the story isn't very complex, it's shown in a great way. The gameplay is the major draw, and I feel that it's an excellent shooter in gameplay. It doesn't do much new, but it polishes what it has. Too bad the singleplayer is too short.
I liked CoD4 before they made it damn impossible for me to get a game without lag. IW thought it would be a good guy to always give host to the person with the Best connection, unfortunately that means that people who live in LA are always given the host. This might be good for Americans but it means that if one American joins an Australian game we lose our host and end up with red ping.
Now no Australians play anymore and I can't find any lag free games, all the while IW is laughing to the bank. It pisses me off.
Dude, I've read your posts all over the place and admit I am a COD4 over Halo3 guy in general... without any of the oft displayed vehemence of the "fanboys" mind you... but that is one sick funny post. Much love bro, much love.
I feel as if the COD4 multiplayer is a cluster fuck. Between the air strikes, the random grenades and unless I'm playing drunk or something, I find myself getting angry at the chaos. But...it is fun. haha.
I like Halo too...Halo is good fun IMO. I have a bunch of friends I go on with and we just end up doing team matches and I gotta say...in the end, I do enjoy Halo more...but maybe because I am biased towards it since I started playing Halo before any COD game.
What I liked about Modern Warfare is the sense of realism ... as opposed to the fictional, futuristic setting in Halo. And boy do I love war-based (ANYTHING)! ^_^
So here's where I stand.
COD4's single player kicks ass (I don't care if it was short...it was still a quality storyline.
Halo 3's multiplayer kicks ass because rather than it seeming to be random kills and a cluster fuck of a game, there is more ..hmm I'm not sure what to call it, but I guess I'll say "order" and generally, in my experience, I just have more fun with the Halo multiplayer.
I really don't understand why all games are required to have great multiplayer to be awesome. I feel like the multiplayer is overrated, but you can't argue that the single player was probably the best in a war game. I always felt multiplayer was an extra in a game and nothing more. It can be fun, but it shouldn't be the one factor that makes a game good or bad.
I really don't understand why all games are required to have great multiplayer to be awesome. I feel like the multiplayer is overrated, but you can't argue that the single player was probably the best in a war game. I always felt multiplayer was an extra in a game and nothing more. It can be fun, but it shouldn't be the one factor that makes a game good or bad.
If you play it on PC, and are into a "Realistic" shooting style to the game...then you should check out some of the "Tactical Realism" mods that are out there. The clan I'm in has the best mod for CoD4, it's incredibly realistic, and a lot of fun to me.
Single player wasn't worth it for me, Finished it 100% just because I'm a completion freak.(only single player, which is what I use to judge how good a game is, and for the slow people here, no I don't use the same to judge multiplayer only games you idiots) Took me about 40 hours, finishing it from easiest to hardest difficulty. The only thing that got me killed were the horrible AI and how cheaply they used the respawning enemies. How I experienced the single player: Kill enemy, move to cover, kill the same enemy in the exact same spot, move to next cover, kill the same enemy again, go to enemy spawn, get ripped to pieces by respawned enemy because the trigger to disable enemy spawn was 5 pixels to the left.(especially in that mission escorting warpig through that street, I had enemies respawn right in front of me, killing an enemy with an LMG only to have another LMG enemy replace the recently killed one after 5 seconds) And then those damn grenades they throw... I get pinned down by an LMG enemy, I hide behind some cover and get 5 grenades thrown at me. I run to escape from the grenades and get killed by the LMG enemy, forcing me to restart from a checkpoint and listen to the same goddamn conversation for the 50th time.
My multiplayer experience sucked, the thing that ruined MP for me was punkbuster and some stupid(and common) error that got me kicked. Patching doesn't work and the morons that make/patch punkbuster refuse to help because they "want to prevent hackers from learning what punkbuster searches for", well, hackers have been able to ignore PB since CoD1, they're unaffected by PB bans and as always, the people that do nothing wrong are the only ones getting the problems. How I experienced Multiplayer: I join a server, get some kills and start a serious conversation about sexual fetishes.(yes serious, of course some jokes are made but nothing a 16/17 year old shouldn't hear and the conversations themselves are interesting, if only to hear other people's opinion about some of the weirder fetishes) Then, at any random moment during a conversation, or even before I get a chance to say anything I'm kicked by punkbuster for "disallowed program/driver", it's not a ban and it affects nothing except that I have to reconnect
Overall, poor single player and a multiplayer that for me doesn't even work 60% of the time.
The only thing that prevents this game from getting uninstalled is that I'm decent in multiplayer and end up in the top 5 of my regular servers(regular meaning the 5 hours playtime I have every month, those servers have PB but I don't get kicked in them).
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Barely above average overall, if it were two separate games both would get a low score(if I'm generous they'd both get a 3/10) but since they're combined using a 'normal' rating system I would give the game a 6,5/10
I did enjoy this game, I really did, but I was never able to get really into the multiplayer, I got up to 27 and then quit.
I think the problem for me was the rather similar maps, the rather bland weapon selection, and the low amount of gametype customizablilty. I also have a bit of a problem with the whole "prestige" thing since all it is a way to drastically increase gameplay with out actually providing any more entertainment and the community's hypocritcial stance on what makes you a noob and what doesn't (glitching out of maps is for some reason ok, but using things provided to you by the developers is cheating apparently)
But I don't want to hate on the game to much, I loved the campaign, it was intense, diverse, and the characters were great too.
It's a fine game, but not really my mug of coffee. I prefer a bit more tactical shooters, which is why I find I enjoyed Metal Gear Online, GRAW, and RSV online a bit more.
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