Poll: CoD Multiplayer Showdown

[Jonny The Kay]

I gotta say CoD4. The tank Ruined CoD5. The controls also seem a little clunkier to me in Cod5... Anyone else think that because my friends think I'm crazy.

 

[Kajt]

CoD4, World at War was just... meh.

 

[Zersy]

CoD 4 barely wins out. For me, tanks and MP40 sniping are the deal-breakers. However, CoD5 did address the issues of throwing back grenades by introducing Toss Back, and curbed grenade spamming with double frag instead of triple. Also it made noob-tubes something you earned instead of started with.

But CoD 4 has better weapons (not just because it's modern), better maps, and a smoother experience.

The MP40 is the offical most annoying gun in the whole game

if i could would hack the game and use a M4 carbine to kill EVERYONE who uses the MP40 !

This is true.

On the other hand, it's nice to not get raped by the P90+Stopping Power+Steady aim every time I step out of cover.

Also, is it just me, or has the grenade damage been significantly scaled back on WaW? I've noticed a huge drop off of random bullshit grenade kills (i.e. enemy stares straight up at random patch of sky, chucks grenade, kills you somehow) from CoD4 to WaW.

Nope grenades are even more annoying in COD5 online

 

[MercenaryCanary]

the storyline's original in no#4 so that's the tie breaker in my books

Its Russians, nukes, and the Middle-East. It wasn't exactly original, it just had the right momentum and timing. All though, that was the first game I've played where they actually kill off one of the main characters, and don't bring him back. So, yeah the story wasn't exactly the most original, but it was good.

 

[Flap Jack452]

I still have nightmares about the horrific abomination that is World at War's multiplayer. It tries to be the same at Cod 4 but it just isn't. The guns and atmosphere just don't translate.

 

[conceptual]

CoD 4 wins in my book. I've played the multiplayer on both, and they both have issues. CoD 4 has 2: the grenade launcher and the m16. WaW has LOTS more, the first and biggest one is that it is a clone of CoD 4. then it's the bouncing betties (you NEED bomb squad to spot them), the tanks, the scopes, the guns, etc.

 

[phar]

I think they are both good. Sure WaW had a few glitches and balancing but most of its been patched since. Most people hate on it because its the same as CoD4 I think people would have different opinions if they were released the other way around.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

I prefer COD4 because WAW has some really annoying glitches, coupled with inferior weaponry and the fact that my WAW disc is scratched so that multiplayer is inaccesable...

 

[Yoshimota]

CoD 4 was and is my favorite online game to date and CoD WaW just feels like a copy with downgraded graphics, worse weapons (most of which are useless), and a very very boring story

I agree with you, CoD:4 isn't my favorite game at the moment, but it would have to be my second. Treyarch knew they screwed up with CoD:3, so they decided to take CoD:4's engine, which doesn't impress me. The weapons are, to quote 'Arcade Fire' -

.....all flaming piles of ass.......

I don't know they decided to add vehicles, I'm still trying to figure that out.

I'm pretty sure they let their Art/Graphics Division down at Treyarch design the online multiplayer maps, because I mean, sure they look pretty, but they have no idea on how to make a balanced map. A lot of the maps have extremely weird lines of site and are just designed badly in general.

The amount of glitches people found was crazy. There were so many.

And yes, the story, in my opinion, was a lot worse than the CoD:4 story.

I think that 'cannot aim' summed it up pretty well, 'a copy of CoD:4, but worse in every way.

I'm sorry Treyach, but CoD:5 for me, was an Epic Face Palm.

 

[Avatar Roku]

You know, I liked W@W for a while. Got to around halfway through first prestige (and to all who say the starting weapons are bad, I point to the SVT and BAR as my counter examples), then a friend invited me to a game of CoD4, which I hadn't played in a while, and I thought "Why not?" I then played one match and my first thought was "why was I playing W@W again?"

 

[cannot_aim]

I think they are both good. Sure WaW had a few glitches and balancing but most of its been patched since. Most people hate on it because its the same as CoD4 I think people would have different opinions if they were released the other way around.

I really dont think the order had anything to do with it Treyarch just isnt as good at making games as infinity ward and they didn't get the clue after CoD3 they just took CoD 4 and said how can we make even more money with the least amount of work and that is how WaW was born

 

[ZP---Fanatic]

i Voted 5 Cos i just SOMEHOW Feels Better
But My Brain Is Digging A Pneumatic<--? Drill Into my head for Saying Terrible Things Are Good
Also TANKS!? GET THE OFF THE GAME AND THEN IT MIGHT BE GOOD!

 

[Kandon Arc]

For me I hate WaW because of what they did to one shot rifles. If you play CoD 2 those rifles were much more realistic and didn't do a pathetic amount of damage.

 

[wowcrendor]

CoD 4 by far.

 

[jimduckie]

i hated waw but cod mw was cool can't wait for mw2

 

[Insomniaku]

(especially the crazy bullshit helicopter with bionic cyber vision that can fire and kill you through three stories of cover).

In MY OWN personal preference I think dogs are far more annoying than Helicopters... I guess it depends on what you play, I myself play hardcore, and having to hide from an ominous copter is (Again, IMO) easier than running from a pack of dogs that can go in buildings and even if they don't get you all an enemy has to do is follow the dogs and they are lead right to you (but in that case, I think it's a bigger deal in Hardcore)

 

[bjj hero]

Im a hardcore player and have major issues with WaW.

1: The spawns. You regularly spawn infront of enemy soldiers only to be shot down straight away, Ive also spawned under artillery fire a few times. Then there are the times when enemies spawn close but out of your field of view ending your kill streak.

2: The weapons. Oh dear. There is very little variety. All of the bolt actions are identicle bar the last one. Why have so many? Also last stand ruins bolt action rifles unless its using a scope.

3: The secondary grenades are pants. I used stun and flash all the time in MW, only the smoke is any good in WaW.

4: Glitches, loads of them. Treyarch keep fixing them then they find more.

5: dogs. The amount of times Im shooting/stabbing a dog, I see the cross hair change to show I hit it but the dog kills me anyway, what are they made of?

The one thing I did like was (theyre gone now) tanks. It added to the sense of danger on big maps making you keep your head down. They were easy to blow up with charges/stickys but a bit different, adding variety to the maps. Since they went there is no reason to play Waw over MW.