Poll: Did you skip COD's Single Player?

[Cowabungaa]

I usually get Call of Duty games for their bombastic, adrenaline-fueled singleplayer campaigns and actually drop the multi-player.

So far my experiences with CoD's multiplayer hasn't been good enough for me to care much about it. Too random, too chaotic, too much filled with idiots, too much game-breaking balance fuck-ups, etc etc. I'll stick with my clan's TF2 servers.

The singleplayer though has never let me down, despite the stupidity of their stories. They could do with an AI update though, I like them still but heavens sake the AI is getting repetitive.

 

[JWRosser]

I think I must be one of the few people that actually enjoy the single player on Call of Duty...sometimes moreso than online. Ok, it's not amazing, but it's alright. I've done 4, WaW and MW2 on veteran - I'm in the middle of completing Bl'Ops on this difficulty.

 

[Jamash]

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the only CoD game I have, and the single player is the only mode I've played.

I've played a bit of the multiplayer, but I didn't really like it. Compared to the campaign I found it quite repetitive and boring after a while and have never felt inclined to pick it up again.
I like to play games at my own pace in my own style and I find the multiplier side of it too rushed and chaotic. You're no longer playing the role of a soldier, you're a player in a time-limited competition where every conceivable exploit is use to win, no matter how unrealistic and un-soldier like they may be.

That being said, I did like the campaign of CoD4 and I can easily envisage myself playing through it again it the future.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I played through COD4's single player and rather enjoyed the experience, although after a short time playing I skipped MW2 story campaign. It didn't seem very interesting and I only really got that game for the online multiplayer.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I played and liked all the CoD singleplayer except Black Ops, fuck when you're going around firing a long range shotgun with Dragon's Breath and you're bored out of your mind. You know that several people along the line fucked up.

It's like they decided to go for 50% more explosions and threw all semblance of pacing off several cliffs and into a sea with an oil coating which was then set alight by several carpet bombings.

 

[El_Chubba_Chubba]

I go CRAZY when people don't play the singleplayer, even at all! For any game I have to play the singleplayer before the multiplayer.

Perhaps its because of the console generation I grew up in, mainly without multiplayer, with it mostly on PC, but I see most video games (obviously some are adapted best to the interaction of others) as a singleplayer experience.

But more specifically with COD games, even though the singleplayers are horribly short, if I have paid £40 or $60 (depending on where you live), then I sure as hell will play all of it.

 

[skywalkerlion]

Call of Duty singleplayer is always great, why would anyone want to skip it?

 

[Amishdemon]

I thought that the SP in Black Ops was one of the best in the series. I even played about three quarters of it in one sitting.

 

[StBishop]

Other. Played single player, ignored multi.

 

[Dark1Elder]

i actually didn't play the multi-palyer for a LONG time, i had COD solely for the single player, so i guess u could actually pick other in the poll, that being i skipped the multi-player

 

[SoranMBane]

Call of Duty 4 is the only CoD game I own and I haven't even touched the multiplayer. The game has an interesting story with great characters and complex themes, and that's enough to keep me interested. Plus, I'm just not into multiplayer, especially with people that I won't be able to walk up to in real life at some point to smack in the face.

 

[mental_looney]

Played single players blops only then gave it to my brother to do multi
not as good as 4's single players but was ok

 

[Dalisclock]

Infinity Ward Single Player campaigns tend to be pretty good if not a bit over the top at times. Treyach Single Player Campaigns tend to variet between awesome and annoying. In WaW, the Battle of Berlin section of the game was far better then pretty much everything else, and the Pacific parts were rather repetative.

Black Ops had some really cool missions, notably the Gulag escape mission and the Tet Offensive mission(though the mission with the SR-71 gets points for originality, even if it ends up being little more then a gimmick), while most of the rest of the game felt like it was ripping off all the previous COD games. I can't be the only one who groaned when I saw yet another "Stop the Rocket Launch" mission in CoD:Black Ops(after having one in MW and then MW2), or thought the Kowloon mission is basically the Favela missions from MW2 at night and going downhill instead of uphill.

Well, I take it back. CoD2 had quite a few missions that were rather underwhelming. For every cool mission, there were at least two that just weren't that interesting or fun. Maybe that's why I think I prefer the new format of "Short but packed full of Awesome", because what's the point of having a long game if all that means is having several long, tedious missions before you get to the good ones?

MW3 I'm somewhat wary about. I don't know what else Sledgehammer has done, but I'm pretty sure they weren't let in on what IW planned to do with the 3rd game(assuming IW itself knew) and it looks like they may be going way over the top. The series has always had a love affair with spectacle over substance and most of the time you don't notice because the spectacle is done so well, but lately, starting with MW2 and a bit too much in Black Ops, the Spectacle is starting to overwhelm everything else, completely to the point that the plots are making less and less sense.

 

[Thaius]

The single player is the best part of Infinity Ward's Call of Duty games. Modern Warfare 1 and 2 didn't have great stories, necessarily, but as war stories go they weren't bad, and the main thing is their use of interactivity. Great moments like the nuke in Modern Warfare and the betrayal in Modern Warfare 2, all played out from the first-person perspective, shows that perhaps the story writers at Infinity Ward aren't great, but the storytellers are fantastic.

Black Ops, on the other hand, had an interesting but very sloppily-presented story, and the campaign was just lazily designed to the point where the base mechanics worked fine, but the campaign was just mediocre at best. It was worth it to play as President Kennedy shooting zombies, but still. Just not as good.

The multiplayer of the series is good in general, but I'm more of a Halo and Gears of War man myself. I like being able to actually have battles with people instead of just seeing who notices the other person first; you die too quickly in CoD to actually make for any interesting one-on-one-battles.

 

[MorsePacific]

I only played the single-player. I'm not a fan of multiplayer because I'm absolutely horrible at it.

 

[Jonny49]

I love the campaigns in Call of Duty (with the exception of Black Ops, although it did have a very interesting story).

Epic, fun, thrilling, ludicrous and awesome.

 

[Casual Shinji]

If I buy a game with single-player, then I buy it for the single-player.

Multi-player is always an afterthought for me, unless both go hand in hand like with Little Big Planet or Demon's Souls.

 

[Dalisclock]

Single player is really good in COD games. Modern Warfare and Black Ops had good stories. WaW didn't really, but it doesn't matter because everyone plays zombies instead.

I'm seriously wondering how long it's going to be before they make a COD that's just zombies and how much longer after that before people start to ask "Remember when COD was a World War 2 game?"