So I loaded up the classic that is Call of Duty 4 on PS3 this morning and....

Adamantium

Lobbies full of players, 7 years later....... Team Death matches within seconds.

I handn't slipped the disc in years and found myself running the single player for a few hours.

I now remember why this was a classic, the relatively grounded story, and I'm not fond of FPS at all.

Icyseanfitz

yeah i really liked 4, the mp was still alive and well around a year ago on pc when i stopped playing

2smiggy

first game I played online when we finally got broadband at home.

the amount of hours i got playing S+D !!

is it not hacked to **** by now ?

SeantheMan

Easily the best COD game ever. COD2 would be 2nd for me.

akelly02

Played Modern Warfare 2 Sat with 3 mates...Multiplayer for about 5 hours straight!! way before its time....

dreamers75

My son stopped playing when an AC130 started walking down the street masscaring everyone.

cloud493

Has it not been very much hacked at this point?

super_furry

Yeah, I played it on Xbox last year and it was a mess. Every game hacked and seemingly abandoned by Activision.

Dayum

COD4 and MW2 were the best Call of Duty games.

The stuff they're making these days is a slap in the face to that heritage.

Whenever someone says they play COD these days, it's just cringe.

2Mad2BeMad

Cod4 remade for next gen. It would make alot of money.... ALOT

wandatowell

2Mad2BeMad wrote: »

Cod4 remade for next gen.

Id buy tbh

super_furry

2Mad2BeMad wrote: »

Cod4 remade for next gen. It would make alot of money.... ALOT

I'd be even happier with a 'best-of' map selection of the previous generation's CoD maps.

2smiggy

while MW2 was very good , and i got hours and hours out of it, MW1 was better. It would be grand if they went back to the 3 kill streaks. Too many perks and different load outs in recent COD games.

Kimbot

Am i the only person that liked World at War?

MW2 came in as second favourite until all the hacking started on it and stupid glitches.

madcabbage

World at war had cracking maps, best in all the series. That and those fecking bouncing betties!!! COD4 hands down the best of the lot.

super_furry

Not a popular choice but Black Ops II is my favourite of the bunch, which is why I'm really looking forward to the Advanced Warfare.

SharpCoder

I think COD4 was the last COD engine rewrite before IW was canned majorly by Activision also.

Explains why most looked identical to it but didn't play like it for several forks later in the genre.

CiDeRmAn

As a single player junkie I loved CoD 2, I got it with my launch 360 and loved the thing.
CoD 4 was brilliant as well but the trilogy of that with the MW titles was class and will probably make a great remastered boxset for the PS4/XB1 and PC in the not too distant future.

FlyingIrishMan

madcabbage wrote: »

World at war had cracking maps, best in all the series. That and those decking bouncing betties!!! COD4 hands down the best of the lot.

WaW was easily my favorite. Shooting someone with a PTRS and watch body parts explode in all directions..

um7y1h83ge06nx

I remember I got access to the COD4 Beta on the 360 at the time. I was blown away and preordered the full game straight away.

Brilliant game.

ASOT

Lost so many hours to Cod4 getting my gold cross 10th prestige, such a brilliant game. Not over complicated with unnecessary bull****. Just a simple game with great maps that played brilliantly!

Future1

all shooters have gone downhill since cod4, they kept adding things to the new ones that made them worse, huge maps, streaks etc.

wandatowell

I came across COD when watching the Gaming Tv channel on Sky (i think). They were showing the new DLC maps, Creek iirc. Was blown away so immediately purchased.

I was on a few weeks leave from work and I came across this fella in free for all, recognized the Irish accent and added him as a friend. When I went in to work there was a new guy who just started and as we got chatting we both said we played COD, as we traded gamertags we realized that we were already gaming buddies on xbox live. Small world and that.

HeathenWolf

I have fond memories of Modern Warfare 2, playing into the small hours of the night back in 2010 and ranking up. Unfortunately in early 2011, all the hacked lobbies started taking over the servers and I stopped playing around that time because fun-spoiling idiots thought it would be funny to make themselves invincible to get the upper hand on all the other players.

Kylo Ren

I think people are looking at MW2 through rose tinted glasses.

Commando along with One Man Army + Danger Close + Noob Tubes made the game unplayable at times.

HeathenWolf

It was a frustrating game because of those type of players, campers too, but ending their killstreaks was so satisfying because they sent you a message afterwards insulting or threatening you in some way.

FlyingIrishMan

I remember hating it with a passion at the time, and maybe it is just rose tinted glasses, but I can only really remember the fun I had with the game now and how addictive it was.

pablomakaveli

COD 2 is still probably my favourite SP shooter though COD4 is probably a close second.

I do remember COD 4 came out at a time when WW2 had been the usual setting for shooters and had been done to death so COD 4 felt like a breath of fresh air. It was the first multiplayer shooter i played as well and i was hooked.

MW2 though was a massive let down. It was just the same thing with a load of bells and whistles on.

salamanca22

Cod2 is my favorite by miles.I loved carentan. Second would be united offensive, had some crazy fun times playing that at lan parties.

Of the non world war games I would say that modern warfare 1 was my favorite tied with WaW and black ops 1 being second / third.

duffman13

Keno wrote: »

I think people are looking at MW2 through rose tinted glasses.

Commando along with One Man Army + Danger Close + Noob Tubes made the game unplayable at times.

I have to say this was why I loved it! Nothing more satisfying than destroying one of these tools on 23/24 killstreak.

Headshot

What I do for a next generation ww2 COD game

None of this ****ing ****ty futuristic crap

HeathenWolf

Headshot wrote: »

What I do for a next generation ww2 COD game

None of this ****ing ****ty futuristic crap

WWII shooters no longer sell well because the market was littered with them at one stage. If you look at the majority of console and PC shooters that were released between 1998 and 2007, nine times out of ten they were WWII-based.

krudler

Headshot wrote: »

What I do for a next generation ww2 COD game

None of this ****ing ****ty futuristic crap

I've no doubt another WW2 set COD game will come out, but people were complaining there were too many similar titles at one stage, before COD4 every other fps game was a WW2 shooter it seemed.

COD4 is still fantastic, because its simple. I got to play Advanced Warfare for a bit recently and it's more like Unreal or Quake, double jumping? in a COD game?

2smiggy

krudler wrote: »

I've no doubt another WW2 set COD game will come out, but people were complaining there were too many similar titles at one stage, before COD4 every other fps game was a WW2 shooter it seemed.

COD4 is still fantastic, because its simple. I got to play Advanced Warfare for a bit recently and it's more like Unreal or Quake, double jumping? in a COD game?

Double jumping? Boooooo

I have bought the last few and have gotten very little play time out of them. This time I will wait till all the first reactions have finished and see if it is really any good before buying

krudler

2smiggy wrote: »

Double jumping? Boooooo

I have bought the last few and have gotten very little play time out of them. This time I will wait till all the first reactions have finished and see if it is really any good before buying

Sure does, it also has homing mines, and danger close is back. You can also slam yourself into the ground like fcuking Superman to damage enemies. COD as a series takes one step forward and three back with each new game.

bur

Dayum wrote: »

COD4 and MW2 were the best Call of Duty games.

The stuff they're making these days is a slap in the face to that heritage.

Whenever someone says they play COD these days, it's just cringe.

Heritage lol, and you didn't even mention COD2, by FAR the best COD.

SeantheMan

COD MW2 ?
The spawn of IWNet ?
One of the worst matchmaking systems I ever came across at the time.
Dedicated servers being removed, no options for mods or community created maps....which HUGELY extended the life of both COD2 and COD4

Something wrong if you're putting MW2 up there with COD4 and omitting COD2 like Bur says

jacksie66

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Retr0gamer

HeathenWolf wrote: »

WWII shooters no longer sell well because the market was littered with them at one stage. If you look at the majority of console and PC shooters that were released between 1998 and 2007, nine times out of ten they were WWII-based.

The market was littered with ****ty WW2 games. When COD came out it was at the height of that saturation and stood out for being a quality game.

Charlie19

Great maps in cod4 but not enough.

Cod died after mw3.

cloud493

Modern Warfare 2 is gold compared to ghosts.

um7y1h83ge06nx

Thread makes me want a decent COD game. The recent games have turned me completely off FPSs.

It's definitely one of my top 10 games of the last generation.

And double jumping? Sounds like I won't be buying that.

Dayum

bur wrote: »

Heritage lol, and you didn't even mention COD2, by FAR the best COD.

Heritage as in the 1-4. And I played 2 to death back in the day.

Adamantium

For years I remember games magazines had nothing but deluge of reviews for WW2 FPS every issue it seemed, it was pretty radical for a major-ish series that had made its name on nothing but one historical war to go to a modern day setting, what conflict would they depict and our current world

I think the resonant beliveable nature of it and its maps make it hit home in a big way. It's iconic. I remember the mission with AC130 black and white vision mode and could feel a bit unsettled like it wasn't too far from what the somebody was doing right then; The methodical feeling, no music or sounds, just intermitternt radio chatter to confirm the kills.

Far more unsettling than MW2 hyped airport mission.

bus map/long street map/washing machine map (can't think of the proper name) was a classic map.
There seemed to places to go and destinations to defend. It was well thought out simplicity.



Shipment might be the greatest, most chaotic, hilarious game to ever grace four player split screen player.

http://mp1st.com/2014/02/10/5-things-made-call-duty-4-modern-warfare-iconic/#.VBleVfldXYk

Cuddlesworth

Keno wrote: »

I think people are looking at MW2 through rose tinted glasses.

Commando along with One Man Army + Danger Close + Noob Tubes made the game unplayable at times.

It was annoying. But there is a lot to be said when people moan about a 2 second reload time single shot weapon.

I thought the commando perk in MW2, coupled with the faster running perk was the worst. One click insta death from medium range in a game with lots of tight areas, where IW had just introduced serious lag for the pc platform.

Oafley Jones

Just threw it on there. Only had one game, but it wasn't hacked. There was a 2mb update first, so maybe they've patched things up. Although I doubt it, last time I played it was nigh on unplayable. I used to be decent enough, but I just went 4-22 and I lucky to get those kills. Even the movements feels wrong/off/floaty to me now. Such a great game, it was what finally made me embrace multiplayer gaming.

Skylinehead

Keno wrote: »

I think people are looking at MW2 through rose tinted glasses.

Commando along with One Man Army + Danger Close + Noob Tubes made the game unplayable at times.

Yeah but One Man Army + Danger Close + Riot Shield + C4 was absolutely hilarious :pac:

I loved MW2 to be honest, but it's not a patch on COD4. The maps (Crash, Strike), the weapons, the sound, everything was just perfect.

Dayum

Adamantium wrote: »

For years I remember games magazines had nothing but deluge of reviews for WW2 FPS every issue it seemed, it was pretty radical for a major-ish series that had made its name on nothing but one historical war to go to a modern day setting, what conflict would they depict and our current world

Battlefield made it's name with WW2 shooters and transitioned to the modern day FPS setting before COD. It wasn't so much that COD4 was revolutionary in that sense, it was just that Zampella and West created a fun game.

Now that they're gone - Treyarch, Rubin and now Sledgehammer are left to stumble over themselves in trying to re-create it but thus far with little success. In fact COD has innovated in no areas at all. I asked a COD player a couple of weeks ago what new idea or concept COD created and he replied "Zombies". :rolleyes:

Zombies is a rip-off of the 2004 Unreal Tournament mod "Killing Floor". In fact, everything Zombies does, Killing Floor did ten times better. It's an almost carbon copy right down to the wonder weapons, perk system and wave based rounds. Why should we be paying multi-billion dollar companies to steal ideas from the community that were once completely free of charge?

God, how I miss mods....

Sarky

Adamantium wrote: »

That map. That wonderful, beautiful map. F*cking glorious days I spent running around that map trying to arm/defuse bombs...

Shiminay

Years ago my routine used to consist of coming home from work and firing up COD4 for an hour to shake off the last of work. It was the last good COD game I played tbh. The yearly release schedule and switch to consoles as priority (to say nothing of the removal of dedicated servers) turned it into whatever the equivalent of a decent band that get tired of not being superstars and change direction to a more radio friendly sound - think Feeder - I saw them as a metal band in 99 playing support to Reef and a few years later they decided to become a pop band. Then their drummer died and of course West and Lampella left IW to start Respawn and Titanfall is the best and most fun FPS I've played since Quake 3 (and IW's offering of Ghosts was the most broken and rubbish COD game to date - I couldn't play it because it was so broken).

krudler

4 had it's annoyances as well, every other person dropping grenades at death etc. But it was brilliantly simple. I love MW2 for all it's bad points because it was fun, which is what the later games werent, there were some absolutely brilliant boardsie nights on MW2 back in the day, some great laughs.
Plus it's smooth as hell and sounds absolutely brilliant. Yeah the graphics have aged a bit but it's still slick as hell. I'd take 60fps over 30fps with higher res textures any day.