Poll: Which Call of Duty game has the best multiplayer

[Blazing Steel]

Black Ops because it had a decent multiplayer and I love me some zombies.

In order:
Black Ops
MW2
MW3
WaW
CoD2
CoD3
MW

I just didn't find MW fun at all.

 

[josemlopes]

For me MW, it only had 3 killstreaks, and you could avoid the ones that kill easily, after that they started to have a shitload of killstreaks that were way overpowered. Guns and perks started to become overpowered too, I still remember people complainting about the overpowerness of Martyrdom and Juggernaut, after that we get Commando Pro shit and now that C4 suicide thing in MW3 as a deathstreak

 

[WaReloaded]

Call of Duty 3, by far. I spent well over 350 hours on the CoD 3 multiplayer, when the population started declining, my heart started dropping, figuratively speaking. The Conquest game type was incredibly fun, and the majority of the multiplayer maps had vehicles, so that was always a plus. Ah, how I miss it. Having said that, Modern Warfare (the first entry) would come a close second, speaking of which, I may reinstall it one day soon.

 

[SpAc3man]

I had the most fun with the wager matches in BlOps. I was at least double prestige in MW2 but in BlOps I got to level 20 something and played nothing but wager matches past that. The intensity was crazy.

 

[SovietX]

I would have voted for Call Of Duty 2 but for some reason it's not up there...

If I had to pick from those you selected I would choose World At War and then Call Of Duty 4 in a close second.

In my opinion, all the ones after those two were shockingly awful.

 

[Mariakko]

Where the heck is CoD 2?

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Where the hell is Call of Duty 2? That was a skill based game. Not this modern warfare crap.

 

[Sirron Kcuch]

MW2. I'm serious. I don't care about balance; sometimes I just want to run and gun.
Another great thing is that the game is full of idiots, which means you can try the most ridiculous strategies you can think of and they will still work at least 45% of the time.

Oh, and playing a stealth class, exactly as if you were playing a stealth game is priceless.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

While there are some differences, I was under the impression that they were all pretty much the same...

Well, they aren't. The only one's that have been similar are Modern Warfare 2 and 3.

OT: Hard to say. Black Ops had the most balance, but for some reason the connection always felt like it was a few seconds behind and I got into the habit of complaining about nearly every death.

I know it's a controversial opinion, but playing Search and Destroy in MW2 is probably the most fun I've had in a multiplayer game. The maps were excellent, and it takes a good amount of skill and situation awareness to play.

Unfortunately, Activision took away most of the PC perks. The thought of playing a Search and Destroy match with Dust2 from Counter Strike gets me hard.

Edit: CoD4 definitely earns a place in my heart, but I just simply can't go back to that game. I was decent at it in my prime, but the game does not play as smoothly as I remember it. It feels really shoddy, and it just doesn't flow as well as the recent installments. Except MW3. I'm literally mad 90% of the time I'm playing the game.

 

[starhaven]

cod:WAW was great but the tanks were a over powered pile of crap it took like 8 rockets to take out.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Black Ops, since it had the least amount of aggravating shit.

Basically this, but for me the Wager matches really take the cake. I haven't played Black Ops for that long, but the Wager matches really spiced up the gameplay.

Oh, and playing a stealth class, exactly as if you were playing a stealth game is priceless.

And bloody effective. It surprised me time and time again how far not playing CoD like the typical high-speed run&gun shooter got me.

 

[lRookiel]

2, I mean it was just fucking brilliant...

Oh wait, it's not available

 

[Zipa]

2 or 3 since it involved actual gun on gun skill between players and not camping for kill streaks or nukes ect. Plus there were no ***** perks like ghost/assassin/blindeye that gives campers the tools to never play the game properly and sit in a corner.

 

[laggyteabag]

MW, it was the only CoD with real game changing innovation for he series, the campaign was cool, the Multiplayer was awesome. No OP kill-streaks, no stupid perks like commando, and as far as I could remember, there were no OP guns that EVERYBODY would use.

 

[Henkie36]

Modern Warfare 1 had the best multiplayer. Modern warfare 2 at least tried something new (on pc that is) but miserably failed. Now I will say that when the matches finally got going, MW2 was a little bit more fun, everything offered more varity. But that IWNet was just so useless and so poorley put together that it just pissed me off. And when they made all the same fuckups with MW3, I didn't fall for it anymore ans went back to CoD 4.

 

[-Samurai-]

CoD 1 pre-UO.

SnD Rifle Only servers were where all the skill was.

 

[HerrBobo]

Which Call of Duty game has the best multiplayer. Note multiplayer, I don't care about Modern Warfare 1's campaign. Multiplayer can be online or offline, zombies or survival or co-op campaign, just not regular campaign.

Poll is a fail, clearly made by some punk kid!

Why no CoD 1 or 2?

CoD 2 had best single and multiplayer, by far.

I smiled as I read that.

I should clarify that I haven't played the other CoD games (*Gasp!* What sacrilege) and from what I've heard they were different with no or extremely limited customization which in my opinion is why I prefer (redundancy) CoD over Halo.

Statistics will also show that way more people have played the games I listed as opposed to 1 and 2, and UO and 3 which you didn't list.

Lastly, the whole multiplayer Halo vs CoD was started after the release of MW and CoD was more known for it's campaigns before that. I have been around for long enough to see this with my own eyes and I assure I'm no "Punk kid!"

The term was given with a measure of affection, and I'm glad you took it as such.

CoD 2 is the best game for the reasons you stated above. The was no customization, no unlocks, no lunge of death knifing. It was a level playing field from the start, there is your gun, there is the guy you gotta kill. Go do it. A simpler and better game.

 

[Psychedelic Spartan]

I greatly prefer Black Ops multiplayer to the others. It had something that the MW series doesn't that if you're out in the open you're not immediately killed.

 

[RJ 17]

CoD 4, easily. Back then things were simple and thus balanced. You get 1 UAV, 1 Airstrike, and 1 Chopper, back then getting kills was much more reliant on actual FPS skill rather than seeing who can get the most chit in the air to kill the other team. WaW was decent, but the tanks ruined it. Rarely would both teams use their tanks, and for water reason the team that isn't using tanks ignores the tanks all together and does nothing to stop them. This team is destined for failure...and the team that I seemed to be most likely to join when joining a random game. >.>

As for MW2, BOPs, and MW3, that's when they just completely jumped the shark with the killstreaks. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was pretty sweet to have a choice of killstreaks as well, but the novelty gets really old really fast. MW2 got to the point where you had to choose between using Cold Blooded so you don't get murdered by some form of Deus Ex Machina from the sky or Stopping Power so you could actually fucking kill someone. Well BOPs simplified things by getting rid of the stopping power perk. Ok, well now it became a choice of using the camo perk orrrr just straight up dying. And now there's MW3 in which if some kind of killstreak isn't wiping out half of your retard-squad every 4-7 seconds you must be in a room by yourself. Note that the above descriptions are based on generalities.