/r/Games Series Discussion - Call Of Duty

I had great fun with the Call of Duty series. My first was United Offensive for the Xbox, which kicked my ass sometimes, but was great fun. After that was Big Red One, one of my favorites in the series. It was fun, diverse locations and a squad I really cared about.

While three was much disliked, I loved it, and it was the first one I got into Multiplayer with. The tanks, the big, open maps and everything was great fun, and it really kicked off my love for bolt action rifles.

After that was Call of Duty Four, with a campaign that was a wonderful mix of open combat and spec ops sneakiness, and jumped between several perspectives that were all interesting to me. The conclusion to Jackson's saga was unexpected, sudden, and heartwrenching, and the cliffhanger ending brought closure and lost it at the same time. The online was fun, Silent MP5 was wicked(but not as much as the RPD), and the prestige system kept me playing.

World at War was a fun revisit to the WW2 setting, with interesting characters, again multiple perspectives, and a satisfyingly visceral mulitplayer with an abundance of bolt action rifles for me to use. Plus, Zombies mode, which I didn't do a ton of, but was pretty neat.

Modern Warfare 2 was where it really kicked off, as I started playing with friends. I loved the weapon selection, if not how broken the game could be at times, and this was where my love of the SCAR-H came into its own. The Campaign was great fun, and a worthy follow-up to the first Modern Warfare, although I'm disappointed Shadow Company went away after this game. They were pretty wicked.

Black Ops is probably where the series peaked for me. Still playing with friends, but with more zombies we played constantly, cool weapons, interesting killstreaks, bot matches, etc. The campaign was great, hit an era that isn't that frequently explored, and brought some closure up from World at War, for better or worse.

MW3 and BlOps 2 were both pretty fun, but they weren't as good as MW2 and BlOps, wrapping up the ongoing stories and delivering pretty satisfying multiplayer, the former more than the latter. The shift to scorestreaks and the departure of the strict create-a-class formula was a relief, but either the games changed, or I did, as post MW3 I kinda lost interest. I did a fair amount of Black Ops 2, but never as much as previous games, probably compounded by me moving and kinda losing my console setup. Tragically, one of the friends I played with took his own life, and that was really the end of that group gaming together.

I don't know what it is that isn't great about the recent games, or what to change about them, but I'm hoping that Treyarch's next one can pull me in, though I'm not overly optimistic.

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