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Hi guys, I've never played either Modern Warfare game. Is the first still worth getting and do people still play it online? Which of the two games is better?
 
It is but it's showing it's age. I'd recommend Black Ops Euro Gamer gave it an 8/10 which is ****ing astonishing for a Modern Shooter Redux Review - Kotaku is positively glowing, etc.

IF MP is your game, grab Black Ops.

The original MW crowd is divided into odd gametypes and niche servers/clans - but can be great (if not unbalanced fun) - WaW is similar, but utilizes punk buster poorly, and is rather unoptimized on new PCs.

Grab Black Ops if you want to see the apex of the formula. Google is your friend on this one.

Kotaku said:
How does the multiplayer hold up? Multiplayer in Black Ops is largely the same as the core experience found in Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer. You still rank up, unlocking new abilities, weapons and looks. Instead of starting from scratch, Treyarch built on top of what came before it, giving you some new tweaks, modes and maps. The biggest change, though, is the addition of Wager Match, which allows you to bet the COD points you've earned. These points are what you use to unlock things in the game. Losing or winning them can be a pretty big deal and the added level of intensity is a welcome addition to multiplayer. There's enough here to render Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer obsolete.

The Bottom Line

Call of Duty: Black Ops is a powerful story. The game's missions explore a fascinating time in history, take us to places we've likely never been and put us in situations unusual and captivating, even for a video game. But what it does best, through both narrative and gameplay, is tell a story. As the game progressed I found myself anticipating the cut-scenes as much as I did the tightly crafted levels. Thinking back, I can easily forget whether the last absorbing moments of the game were played by me or for me. This is what video games should be, a confusion of interaction and story-telling, of graphics and camera movement, of play and parable.
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I was like :O certainly had no expectations for the SP...
 
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Call of Duty Black Ops - Multiplayer
Current online:30,770
Peak today: 30,770

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
Current online: 21,301
Peak today: 65,080

I've played the SP of both MW games, but only the MP in 2. Didn't really enjoy it but clearly a hell of a lot of people do. I can't really give much advice on this but I though the statistics might be useful.
 
Get Modern Warfare, it shits on MW2 and well Black Ops is essentially MW2 with added annoyance.
 
I'm pretty sure you'd find the same user base playing all three games at the moment. Despite the 3 being of the same series, the players can always debate their differences. CoD4 and Black ops are reigning champions.
 
CoD4 is really the best of them all because it was made when Infinity Ward still cared about its players.
 
you're adorable

I feel the same way about Kentucky Fried Chicken, when the colonel actually fried the chicken IN Kentucky - it was just so much more tender and seemed to please each and every down-home game player within the Kentucky Fried Food enthusiast crowd.

This just how we is in the South

I mean Wesport

The East Coast.

In Massachusetts.


The good ol' traditional buznuhnahsuhs, befo' they started chewin thangs up like a paeegs grub and spittin' it out in thuh name of "Cohn-vee-uuuhn-ee---ounce"
 
you people consider modern warfare as "showing its age?" it ran at lower than 30 fps on my pc :(
 
I still play CoD4 all the time. The mp community is still strong, from what I can tell. Even after three years.
 
thanks for the input guys. One slightly tangential question I must ask: How hardware-intensive is Battlefield: Bad Company 2 compared to Modern Warfare 2 and now, Black Ops?
 
Jerry_111 said:
thanks for the input guys. One slightly tangential question I must ask: How hardware-intensive is Battlefield: Bad Company 2 compared to Modern Warfare 2 and now, Black Ops?
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Bad Company 2 is a game I still have issues with even after the patches. Poor performance in everything but directX 9 mode and some shocking mouse input lag even AFTER it had supposedly been patched out.
 
Xevrex said:
I wish they would just stop, rename it Call of Duty 8 (which it really is) and then try to sell that to the players. I'm sure some people would get the idea.
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Call of Duty 25: Martian Warfare

But honestly I think even if they just called it straight up Call of Duty, plus the actual number, it would still sell. Some people just don't give a shit that it's mass produced garbage.
 
One a year?! Why are people still buying this garbage? Is the world just full of morons now?
 
Shift said:
One a year?! Why are people still buying this garbage? Is the world just full of morons now?
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Yep. Don't Activision have like 3 studios working on COD games so they can get one out every year?

And people buy them because Activision spend a lot of money on advertising and creating hype. People cave in and buy it.
 
Remus said:
Call of Duty 25: Martian Warfare

But honestly I think even if they just called it straight up Call of Duty, plus the actual number, it would still sell. Some people just don't give a shit that it's mass produced garbage.
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Call of Duty 25: Modern Warfare 17
 
Auto-Aiming knives and shitty 'powerups' in MW2 make me hate Black Ops also....
 
This just in: There's a chance that down the line there'll be a COD set in the future. (http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/c...a-20101109123012403030/g-20100430155437473001).

Now, Infinity Ward, we have had our quarrels in the past, but I will sign away my freedom for you if it has Captain Price IN SPACE. In fact, call it that. Call Of Duty x: Captain Price IN SPACE! Give us weapons that we can distinguish from 50% of other weapons (may I suggest one of my own devising: The Beard O'Bees. Your character has a sweet beard, and when you give the command, bees swarm out of it and attack your enemies to much mirth and giggles all around.). I don't care whether it is canon. Say it's fan-fiction or whatever. Make it turn out all to be a dream. I don't care, just give us Captain Price IN SPACE and all will be forgiven.

(Addendum: Apparently there was a cut level in MW2 which saw you fighting Russians in space, but it was cut for being unrealistic. Well done, IW. Hip hip freaking huzzah.)
 
Jerry_111 said:
thanks for the input guys. One slightly tangential question I must ask: How hardware-intensive is Battlefield: Bad Company 2 compared to Modern Warfare 2 and now, Black Ops?
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I'd suggest you get it on a console. I had a lot of issues with network lag on the PC version.
 
IronicBob said:
This just in: There's a chance that down the line there'll be a COD set in the future. (http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/c...a-20101109123012403030/g-20100430155437473001).

Now, Infinity Ward, we have had our quarrels in the past, but I will sign away my freedom for you if it has Captain Price IN SPACE. In fact, call it that. Call Of Duty x: Captain Price IN SPACE! Give us weapons that we can distinguish from 50% of other weapons (may I suggest one of my own devising: The Beard O'Bees. Your character has a sweet beard, and when you give the command, bees swarm out of it and attack your enemies to much mirth and giggles all around.). I don't care whether it is canon. Say it's fan-fiction or whatever. Make it turn out all to be a dream. I don't care, just give us Captain Price IN SPACE and all will be forgiven.

(Addendum: Apparently there was a cut level in MW2 which saw you fighting Russians in space, but it was cut for being unrealistic. Well done, IW. Hip hip freaking huzzah.)
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You know that IW as they previously existed are pretty much gone now because so many of them quit from Activision treating them like shit.
 
Not to mention, Modern Warfare 2 would have been their last Call of Duty game as required by contract, and they had expressed an interest in branching out to other genres after the completion of CoD 4. What an amazing coincidence Activision got rid of them at such an opportune moment etc
 
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